{"id":11038,"date":"2025-02-23T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=11038"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:21:08","slug":"2025ambassador-silverman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/ambassadors\/2025ambassador-silverman\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2025: Stony Brook &#8211; Doug Silverman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11034\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11034\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSilverman_Stony-Brook_photo_350.png\" alt=\"Doug Silverman headshot\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSilverman_Stony-Brook_photo_350.png 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSilverman_Stony-Brook_photo_350-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DSilverman_Stony-Brook_photo_350-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Silverman<br \/>Stony Brook University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Doug Silverman<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been an instructor at Stony Brook University in the School for Professional Development Human Resources Program for the past 18 years. A<\/span> life-long Long Island resident, Doug <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is currently the Vice President of Human Resources &amp; Operations for Nikon located in Melville, NY. He has been working for Nikon for the past 27 years overseeing all areas of human resources and labor relations. He also serves as Chair of the Global HR Committee. In addition to working for Nikon, he is a past two-time President for SHRM\u2019s Long Island Chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doug graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelor\u2019s of Science majoring in Political Science. His academic endeavors continued as he earned his Masters of Science in Human Resources and Labor Relations from New York Institute of Technology where he graduated with honors and earned the prestigious John J. Theobald Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His favorite quote is from Mark Twain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\u2019t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Silverman has been an instructor at Stony Brook University in the School for Professional Development Human Resources Program for the past 18 years. A life-long Long Island resident, Doug is currently the Vice President of Human Resources &amp; Operations for Nikon located in Melville, NY. He has been working for Nikon for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":10809,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11038","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11113,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11038\/revisions\/11113"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}