I am a social scientist, researcher, and management consultant on the one hand; a professional musician and teacher on the other hand.
You can read more about my work in all three of these areas on this site.
Overview and reviews
Social Scientist
PhD Univ of South Australia: International Graduate Program in Management; MBPA Southeastern University: Bus-Public Admin; MM, BM Juilliard School (Viola Performance); B.Sc., Portland State Univ: Psychology/Music. Currently Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Canberra, Faculty of Business and Government.
Specializations: NGO organizational effectiveness research; NGO/NPO institutional strengthening; management training; capacity-building; small business development; microenterprise and craft export programs; women in development
Academic Praise
“The larger significance of (Sharon Eng’s) findings has to do with the way in which external donors relate to NGOs in Indonesia and other developing countries… The main providers of that assistance until now have been foreign donors… If they are to be effective in providing assistance, donors need to have a sensitive and nuanced understanding of the NGO world, including its radical as well as moderate elements that this dissertation (provides).” -R. William Liddle, Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
Development Consultant
Management and development consultant, Sharon Eng, worked in Washington, DC for 20 years, many of these with Pragma Corporation, a USAID consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. Sharon lived abroad from 1990 to 2010, working mostly in developing areas of the world, primarily in the countries of Southeast Asia. However, consulting projects took her from coast to coast in the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica, China, India, Singapore and Australia.
Currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra’s (Australia) Faculty of Business, Government and Law, her areas of expertise include NGO and nonprofit organizational effectiveness; institution strengthening, capacity-building, small business development; microenterprise programs; and women in development. She has also collaborated with noted scholar, David Horton Smith on the “dark side” of white-collar crime in associations.
She holds certifications and specialized training in project management and project monitoring/evaluation (MSA Institute); good manufacturing practices (GMP Institute); USAID professional managers training; nonprofit fund raising (American Management Association); and she spent two years in-situ field research in rural and urban locations in Java, Indonesia on her doctoral dissertation on organizational effectiveness of Indonesian grassroots associations. She also earned a certificate in China on bamboo cultivation and utilization in a month-long program offered by the Chinese Sub-Tropical Forestry Research Department.
Musician
Dr. Sharon Eng is a seasoned international strings educator, clinician, chamber recitalist and conductor who has performed world premieres of solo viola works written for her and has appeared as guest soloist, chamber musician and master class clinician in many countries.
Her long career as a violist has encompassed opera, orchestra, recordings, contemporary music, chamber music, and solo engagements, including contracts with the American Ballet Theatre, New York City Opera, Kennedy Center Orchestra, Washington 20th Century consort, and the Bennington Vermont Contemporary Music Forum.
Eng resides in Portland, Oregon where she maintains violin/viola teaching studios in Portland and Vancouver; performs with the Raphael Spiro String Quartet and Madrona Viola Duo; and freelances. From 2015 through 2017, Eng was Music Director and Conductor of the Oregon Pro Arte Youth Chamber Orchestra. She is President of the Oregon Viola Society (since 2016).
Musical Praise
“I am proud to be associated with Sharon Eng, who is an outstanding school educator. I have seen the quality of her work with individual students and with her string orchestras and I can say without hesitation that the enthusiasm and love for music which she stimulates in the students are unparalleled by anything I have seen in my 30 years of teaching in the United States and in Europe.” - Cecylia Barczyk, Professor of Cello, Towson University, Maryland