Michael J. Cuellar is an assistant professor in the Information Systems department at Georgia Southern University. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Summa Cum Laude from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University.

His research interests center around the question of what makes projects and other change efforts successful. He investigates this question largely at the social level. To answer the question, he considers the nature of the IT artifact, its relationship with human actors, how the configuration of artifact use arises during implementation and the various risks and success factors for artifact development and implementation. He is also interested in methods for evaluation of scholarly output.

Philosophically, he adopts a critical realist approach as defined by Bhaskar and others. This approach addresses the criticisms of positivistic realism while not adopting the agnostic stance of extreme interpretivism. He believes that critical realism, holds the potential to be the philosophy of science with the most capability to provide explanatory power.

Mike has published papers at conferences and journals such as the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the European Journal of Operations Research, and the ICIS, AMCIS, the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Conferences.

He has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. He has taught such courses as Business Computer Applications, Fundamentals of IS, Introductory Programming, Outsourcing, Systems Analysis and Design and Operations and Project Management. His student ratings score consistently above the departmental average for all courses. He has also taught a doctoral seminar in Critical Realism at MidSweden University.

He has substantial experience in industry having held management positions for EDS and American Software. His experience includes managing software product development and infrastructure services, as well as systems management sales. His industry experience is in high technology manufacturing companies as well as automotive, and aerospace manufacturing.

He serves on the boards of Database, the Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and the AIS IT Project Management SIG and the Southern Association for Information Systems. He is the Managing Editor for the Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems.