Educational Background

• Doctor of Science, Information Systems and Communication, Robert Morris University , 2015
• Master of Science, Criminal Justice Administration, Point Park University , 2009
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Technology, Duquesne University , 2002

Professional Background

• Interim Dean
• Associate Dean
• Assistant Dean
• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor
• Department of Homeland Security/ Federal Air Marshal Service/ Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement (Retired)
• Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Police Officer/Detective Criminal Intelligence
• US Army Infantryman

Area of Expertise/Research

• Cybercrime, cyber-intelligence, Web3, artificial intelligence, distributed finance investigations, and augmented reality, cybersecurity.

Publications

• Hartle, F., Wydra, C., Kohun, F., & Rota, D. (2013). Mobile Technology as an ICT Solution for Crisis Management: An ABET IS Knowledge. Issues in Information Systems, 14(2), 429-437.

• Hartle, F., Parker, M., & Wydra, C. (2014). The Digital Case File: The Future of Fighting Crime with Big Data. Issues in Information Systems, 15, (I), 257-266, 2014.

• Hartle, F. X. (2015). Technology Innovation: A Study of Wireless, Visual Information Communication Technology on Situational Awareness for Tactical Police Commanders (Doctoral dissertation, ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY).

• Wydra, C., Hartle, F. (2015). Educating the Technology Officer of the Future: A Needs Analysis. Issues in Information Systems, Accepted for Publication

• Fruehauf, J. D., Hartle, F. X., & Al-Khalifa, F. (2016). 3D Printing: The Future Crime of the Present. In Proceedings of the Conference on Information Systems Applied Research ISSN (Vol. 2167, p. 1508).

• Hartle, F., Wydra, C., (2019) Cyber Investigations: A Law Enforcement Needs Assessment. International Journal of Cyber Research and Education (Vol. 1 Nr. 2). 

• Hartle, F., Kohun, F., Skovira, R., & Fruehauf, J. (2019) A Discussion of Innovation and Knowledge Management in the Context of Law Enforcement. MakeLearn & TIIM 2019 Conference Proceedings and EconPapers

• Janchenko, G., Hartle, F., Paullet, K., (2020) Introducing the Deep and Dark Web into Higher Education Pedagogy: An Exploratory Study. Volume 21 of Issues in Information Systems (IIS) Journal.

• Mancini, S., Iacono, L., Hartle, F., Garfinkel, M., Horn, D., & Sullivan, A. (2021). Introducing the Common Attack Process Framework for Incident Mapping. International Journal of Cyber Research and Education (IJCRE), 3(2), 20-27.

• Hartle, F. X., Garfinkel, M., O'Neil, D., Scalise, G., Sauer, N., & Willard, C. (2022). The impact of social media geolocation on national security and law enforcement. Issues in Information Systems, 23(1).
  
• Bernauer, J. A., & Hartle, F. (2022). Detectives and The Legal System: A Paradigm to Support Scholarly Inquiry and Mixed Methods Research in the Social Sciences. Qualitative Report, 27(11).