Performance Criteria, Inc. is a consulting firm with over 30 years experience in Human Factors Engineering research and development for major clients in the private and public sectors. - Serve as Senior Research Associate and Human Factors expert on multidisciplinary and technology development teams for organizations in the criminal justice, healthcare, financial services, software development, and telecommunications industries.- Advise and lead virtual teams and research panels in the development of advanced technologies.- Conduct operational evaluations to measure and improve human and system performance, and public safety.- Conduct engineering reviews of advanced technology systems involving artificial intelligence, decision-making, global positioning systems, robotics, speech recognition, and video surveillance.- Conduct needs analysis, cognitive task analysis, human factors audits, and work flow analysis.- Conduct research to validate performance claims of technology vendors.- Develop best practices, guiding principles, standards, and workshops.- Develop protocols and metrics to capture and minimize human error and manage risk.- Develop recommendations for reducing system maintenance costs, user training time, policy development, and strategic planning.- Develop user requirements, prototypes, test cases/scenarios, and usability test plans.- Introduce human factors and user-centered design into organizations; mentor junior team members; develop selection criteria for vendors and personnel. ACADEMIC SERVICE:Grant Reviewer, National Institute of Justice. Washington, DC.Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institute of Health.Grant Reviewer, U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF). Grant Reviewer, National Institute of Health and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.Reviewer, American Medical Informatics Association.Reviewer, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare.

Taught classes in Applied Statistics, Human Factors Engineering, Organizational Behavior, Project Management, Leadership, Job Analysis & Performance Appraisal, and Task Analysis; Supervise student research projects; responsible for set-up and operation of Human Factors lab.Selected PresentationsJeremy Carter, J. G., Grommon, E., Piza, E. & Salvemini, A. (2015). Broadband Radio Programming and Implications for Public Safety, Panel: Innovations in Law Enforcement. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL. Salvemini, A.V. (2014). Guiding Principles for Technology Evaluations. Workshop for Advanced RF Communications Technology for Public Safety/Homeland Security. IEEE Globecom Conference. Austin, TX. Grommon, E., Carter, J. G., Scheer, C., Piza, E., & Salvemini, A.V. (2014). Assessing the Size of Contraband Cell Phone Use in Prison: Evidence and Implications from a Managed Access System. American Society of Criminology. Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA.