UB's Center for Industrial Effectiveness Names Dosser Business Development Officer

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo's Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) has named Shawna R. Dosser as business development officer, focusing on selling to local companies and organizations business solutions that include reengineering, professional development and product development.

Dosser has 20 years of experience in health education and exercise physiology, helping individuals make behavior and lifestyle changes within corporate, school and community settings.

She is president of BWI Health Promotions, a worksite and school health-promotion corporation that she founded in 1998, which provides creative wellness solutions through onsite health, nutrition and fitness programs. BWI has provided internship opportunities to UB exercise science students for the past 12 years.

Dosser was previously site and health promotion/marketing director at Prism Health Networks, a faculty member in the Health and Wellness Department of Buffalo State College, senior exercise physiologist at the Work Injury Recovery Center in Buffalo and program/physical director at the Warren County YMCA.

"Shawna Dosser has wonderful creativity and energy," said Tim Leyh, executive director of TCIE. "Her background and experience fit very well with our goals."

Dosser earned her bachelor's degree in health science from Lock Haven University and a master's degree in exercise science and health education from West Chester University.

She attained her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification from TCIE in 2008.

Through the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in UB's School of Management, she also completed the Core Business Management Program, Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program and Micro-MBA Certification Program.

TCIE forges a link between the University at Buffalo's technical resources and the region's business community. A program of the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, TCIE specializes in fostering business process improvements and partnerships, as well as product testing and development. For more information on how TCIE can assist Western New York businesses, go to http://www.tcie.buffalo.edu.

The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB's more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.