With nearly two decades of professional and intercollegiate athletic experience to his credit, Duane Bailey has continued to build upon the long-standing tradition of excellence at Seton Hall University as the Deputy Director of Athletics.

Bailey is currently responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of many aspects of the athletic department. This includes the overall management of the department's budget operations encompassing financial reporting, long-term and capital planning, forecasting, contract administration, internal controls, and business operations systems.  In addition to financial management responsibilities, Bailey oversees the department's human resources, facilities operations, equipment services, information technology, summer camp programs, and merchandise licensing as well as serves as sports administrator to the women's volleyball, and the women's and men's golf programs.

A long-time supporter of the US Olympic and National team efforts Bailey serves on the board of directors for US Lacrosse, and USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, the national governing bodies for men's and women's lacrosse, bobsled and skeleton in the United States. He is also a member of the US Tennis Associations' Collegiate Varsity Committee.  All three of these organizations ultimately decide policy and make decisions regarding the overall operations and strategy of their respective sports within the United States. 

In 2011 Bailey served as the tournament manager for the NCAA men's basketball east regional's hosted by Seton Hall at the Newark Prudential Center. Bailey oversaw all logistical operations of this successful event which brought in nearly 37 thousand fans over a two day period.

Prior to his arrival at Seton Hall, Bailey served as associate commissioner and chief financial officer for the Atlantic 10 Conference where he was responsible for overseeing all of the conference's budget operations, financial reporting, information technology, and human resources activities, as well as the coordination of licensing, merchandising, marketing and branding of both the conference and the Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament.

Bailey began his professional career in the National Football League offices, where he was a management council - labor operations analyst.  With the NFL, his work dealt primarily with compliance management of the league's salary cap, tracking, forecasting, and analysis of rookie pool and free agency movement, as well as analysis and valuation of player contracts. Many of the relational databases designed by Bailey to monitor individual team's salary cap activities are still in use by the league office today. 

After four years with the NFL, he moved on to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he served as manager of player compensation. In his five years with the Chiefs his primary duties included salary cap management, contract negotiations, forecasting, strategic planning, and coordinating the clubs compliance with the NFL's collective bargaining agreement.  Throughout his tenure in Kansas City the Chiefs were routinely among best teams in managing the nuances of the NFL's salary cap.

During the span of his career Bailey has served as an adjunct professor of sports management at Adelphi University and has also held various finance, public relations, and marketing positions with the United States Tennis Association, the New York Mets, Cablevision Systems Corporation, and CA Technologies.

A 1994 graduate of St. John's University with a degree in finance, Bailey also received a master's degree in athletic administration from Adelphi University, and a MBA in management and administration from C.W. Post, Long Island University.