Meet Your Mentors

CECIL BATTISTE

Education

  • Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Accounting

Courses Taught

Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, and a class that covers using QuickBooks in accounting

Professional Experience

  • Certified Public Accountant from 1990 to 2001
  • Worked in public and private accounting
  • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance participant
  • Areas of expertise include accounting, taxation and stock markets

BONNIE OLIVER

Education 

  • Bachelor’s degree in management, marketing, anthropology & international affairs
  • Master’s degree in Applied Economics, Business Administration and Sociology
  • Doctorate Degree in International Business

Courses Taught

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Introduction to the African American Experience

Professional Experience

  • Worked for government for 6 years prior to working for Valencia College
  • Conducted international research
  • Areas of expertise include international business, economic integration & development, socioeconomic inequality & poverty

LEE H. MCCAIN

Professor, Business; Co-Program Chair

Education 

  • Bachelor of Science in Business
  • MBA in Management

Courses Taught

Currently teaching Introduction to Business, Principles of Management, Principles of Marketing and AS Business Capstone

Professional Experience

  • Over 20 years of business marketing, management and advertising experience including stints in account service at advertising agencies in New York, Boston and Orlando along with direct sales experience at AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya
  • Areas of expertise include marketing, advertising and management.

STORM RUSSO

Professor, Business; Co-Program Chair

Education 

  • Bachelor of Science in Business
  • Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
  • MBA – Management

Courses Taught

Currently teaching Introduction to Business, Principles of Management and Business Problems Analysis 

Professional Experience

  • Over 10 years of small business management experience including the creation, formation and management of a sole-proprietorship and two LLC’s in the construction and entertainment industries.  Over 24 years of teaching experience at Valencia College. 
  • Areas of expertise are small business management, entrepreneurship and management. 

TOM BASELICE

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration
  • Master’s degree in Taxation

Courses Taught

Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, and Cost Accounting

Professional Experience

  • Florida Certified Public Accountant since 2011.
  • Over 12 years of Business Consulting, Finance, and Accounting experience with PeopleSoft, Oracle, Intertek Caleb Brett, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
  • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance participant.
  • Areas of expertise include accounting, taxation, and personal finance.