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dr.
freda porter, President and ceo
 Dr.
Porter is President and CEO of PSI. She is one of the few American
Indian women who have earned a doctorate in Mathematical and Computational
Sciences. Dr. Porter has been featured in a PBS documentary film
and has been honored by the North Carolina Equity Commission.
Dr. Porter focused her research on the problem of natural biodegradation
of contaminants, specifically in gasoline spills. She has an outstanding
academic record that supports her work in Environmental and Information
Technology related services.
Dr. Porter serves at the pleasure of the Governor on the UNC-Pembroke
Board of Trustees. She has also served on several community boards
including an Advisory committee for COMtech Park in Pembroke, the
North Carolina, the NC Department of Transportation Minority Expansion
Council in Raleigh, the Lumbee Revitalization and Community Development
Corporation loan committee in Pembroke, the Pembroke Area Chamber
of Commerce, and is a founding member of the NC American Indian Chamber
of Commerce. Dr. Porter has been recently nominated to the Advisory
Board for the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities,
an appointment made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Porter’s academic record and honors include:
- Member, North Carolina Advisory Commission on Military Affairs,
Quality of Life Chairman
- Board Member, ASCENT – Leading Multicultural Women to
the Top, Inc.
- Member, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Board
of Trustees
- 2003 – University of North Carolina at Pembroke Board
of Trustees appointee
- 2000 - GIS Mapping Professional Training at Trimble in Mount
Pleasant, SC
- 1998 - The Water Pollution Control System Operators Certification
at North Carolina State University
- 1995 – Taught the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research
Laboratory Subsurface Modeling Training Course - United States
Environmental Protection Agency
- 1994 - Member of the North Carolina Commission on Testing -
Appointed by Governor Hunt
- 1994 – Completed Post Doctoral Studies at University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research in Groundwater Contamination
- 1991 - Graduate of Duke University with a Doctorate in Applied
Mathematical and Computational Sciences
- 1989 – Student researcher in Circuit Verification with
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle
Park, NC
- 1981 - Graduate of North Carolina State University with a Masters
in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science minor
- 1979 – Completed IBM’s Graduate Internship Program
- 1978 - Graduate of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics
Dr. Porter has an outstanding record of service in the public interest
including:
- Faculty and Professor at UNC Pembroke, and UNC Chapel
Hill
- Consultant to NASA-Langley Research Center, ASEE Faculty Fellow
(1994 - 1995)
- Consultant to United States Environmental Protection
Agency Ecosystems Research Division in Athens, Georgia
- Consultant
to North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University,
Greensboro and UNC-Pembroke, Engineering Summer
Internship Program (Program Director – 3 years)
- Consultant to National
Science Foundation (Proposal Reviewer)
- Consultant to American College Testing
(Mathematics Test Developer)
- Consultant to American Indian Science
and Engineering Society (AISES) (Comprehensive Enrichment Program
Director – 5 years)
- Founded the UNC-Pembroke AISES Chapter
in 1991 (Advisor)
- Consultant to Battelle, National Defense Science
and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program Reviewer (1993 – 1995)
- Consultant
to the National Institutes of Health (Proposal Reviewer)
- Consultant
to IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC (outreach)
Dr. Porter is an Information Technology professional with proven
business acumen in project development, management and operations
and has more than twenty years of teaching, research, consulting
and management experience in Information Technology, Environmental
consulting, and related fields.
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