Researcher, Analyst & Educator
Timothy D. Spivey is a doctoral candidate in Business Administration with a Business Analytics emphasis at the University of South Alabama, where his dissertation examines what mandatory breach disclosure timing actually does — to markets, to organizations, and to boards.
The question is not whether disclosure matters. It is whether mandating when a firm discloses produces the benefit regulators assumed it would. Across three empirical channels, his work finds real costs and little of the intended benefit. The empirical backbone is a natural experiment built on the FCC's 2007 mandatory disclosure rule (47 CFR § 64.2011), applied to 1,054 breach events from 2006 to 2025.
Outside the dissertation, he supervises management information systems at Mediacom Communications and teaches entrepreneurship and small business accounting as an adjunct at Pensacola State College. Nearly twenty years of telecom operations sits underneath the research: he has built the reporting pipelines, sat in the escalation calls, and watched compliance decisions get made under real pressure. That is why the empirical questions he chases are the ones practitioners recognize.
He holds an MBA in Business Analytics from the University of West Florida and a BAS in Organizational Administration from Pensacola State College — where he now teaches.
