In his first season as Faculty Athletic Representative and his fifth year overall at the University of New Orleans, Dr. Matthew Zingoni serves as a liaison between the University and the Department of Athletics as well as serving as a representative of the institution in Southland Conference and NCAA affairs.
Zingoni joined the UNO faculty in Fall 2012 as an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration and was hand-picked by University President John Nicklow as the FAR in July 2016. During his time on the Lakefront, Zingoni has taught courses at the undergrad, graduate and executive levels in human resource management, compensation systems, organizational behavior, organizational behavior and health care, and strategic staffing.
He is a member of the UNO Faculty Senate, the University Athletic Council and the subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility, and the management department committee on course and curriculum. Zingoni was an elected member of the Senate Executive Committee and served as the secretary from 2012-13 and is a reviewer for both the Academy of Management Conference’s Organizational Behavior Division and Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
In addition to his duties in the classroom, Zingoni also conducts research in the areas of performance management and employee development, with a focus on employee's persistence and resiliency after failure. His research has been published by the Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research, Ethics and Critical Thinking Journal, and Cambridge University Press, and he has presented research at various conferences, including the Academy of Management and Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Zingoni's professional experience lies in the wealth management industry. Before entering academia, he worked as a banker, investment analyst, and as a corporate training consultant. From 2007-08, he was a lecturer and consultant at Curry College where he worked with senior management of a regional bank to design and implement corporate-wide training programs and instructed an undergrad course in financial management. He also worked as investment analyst for Eastern Investment Advisors from 2005-07 and as a branch manager of Eastern Bank from 2001-05. With EIA, Zingoni worked on an investment team of eight professionals that had $2 billion under management, and managed all aspects of different retail bank branches in a diverse array of socio-economic conditions while analyzing financial statements of business to determine financial solutions with Eastern Bank.
A native of Warwick, Rhode Island, Zingoni received his bachelor of science in investment management from Duquesne University in 2000, his masters of business administration in corporate finance from Bentley University in 2007 and his doctorate of philosophy in organizational behavior from Syracuse University in 2012. At Syracuse, he was received a graduate fellowship from 2008-12 and the summer research grant from 2009-11, and received the Future Professoriate University Teaching Award in 2010.
He is a member of the Academy of Management (Organizational Behavior Division/Human Resource Division/Research Methods Division), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Society of Human Resource Management. Zingoni attended the Organizational Behavior Doctoral Consortium’s Academy of Management Annual Meeting in 2011, was a member of the Academy’s financial committee in 2010 and chaired the committee in 2011 and 2012. In addition, he served as the Board of Directors of the John M. Barry Boys and Girls Club in Newton, Massachusetts, and was the organization’s finance and public relations committee.
