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Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

Teaching Analytics, Data Science, and Data-Driven Decision-Making to early and mid-career learners in Federal and State Government agencies, and in companies and organizations in the private and non-profit sectors. Find out more at ManagementConcepts.com!

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Senior Analytics Research Lead for synergistic “New School” and “Old School” data science efforts in small-to-medium sized businesses and organizations. Specialty in composing, writing, collating, and editing of concise and technically rigorous but highly readable scientific and research reports, and of model documentation in advanced analytics projects. Leads teams of writers and PhD Data Scientists in these large scale documentation efforts. Involved in Synergy’s effort in Maryvale AZ at effective labor market intermediation for poor communities, in partnership with CPLC (Chicanos por la Causa), a community services organization founded in the early 1970s by Cesar Chavez.

Irving Tx

Directed writing, editing, composition, internal consistency (scientifically, and in formatting, usage, grammar), and processual and procedural documentation, for Citibank CCAR-FRB submissions for the International Unsecured Account-Level Modeling Portfolio. This was a supervisory position that built upon previous CCAR Modeling and Documentation experience at other major money-center banks in Chicago and New York.

United States

Managed and conducted statistical-analytic projects of all types, for a variety of clients. Recent and intensive experience in CCAR and DFAST modeling submissions for top five banks and bank holding companies. Included writing, editing, and coordinating suites of stress-test model documentation for submission to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Federal Reserve Board. Clients included Hong Kong Singapore Bank of China (HSBC--Chicago IL). Bank of America (Teeterboro, NJ). State Farm Insurance--Bank (Bloomington, IL). Conducted "stress-test" model development, review, and challenge. Conducted proposal development; included white papers, .ppt decks, and accompanying marketing and presentation materials.

North Texas And The Usa

Founded firm in 2001, reengaged from June 2012 to April 2014. Clients included REMI, Inc. (Amherst MA socio-economic and demographic regional transportation simulation, forecasting, and modeling firm); Innovative Emergency Management, Baton Rouge LA, USA; US Departments of Defense, Labor, and Bureau of the Census, Washington DC; Interactivity Foundation (IF), Parkersburg, WV, USA; The Mindfulness Center of Bethesda, MD; HR.com, specializing in HR Analytics; White Bison Association, Bend, OR; Alliance Data, Plano, TX; Frisco Unleaded, an environmental action organization in Frisco, TX; The Urban Mutual Benefits Society, A Community Organization in Ft. Worth, TX (Co-Founder and Trustee); Management Concepts, Vienna, VA.

Mclean, Va

Efforts completed: proposal and associated consulting for the Census Bureau’s Research and Statistical Methods Directorate to adopt program performance methods based principally on multinomial regression techniques. Other engagements included analyzing Treasury Department data (FINCEN) for evidence of financial fraud; data collection and analysis for workforce and personnel model of US Army (Ft. Drum) Network Enterprise Centers; and anomaly detection in computer log files for an experimental cyber security project. Security Clearances: ODNI TS/SCI; DoD Secret.

Chantilly Va

Led staff of 4 statisticians/econometricians in projects that:(1) Optimized competing system architectures per customer needs, analyzing data from executable system architectures (multiple simulation runs). (2) Analyzed data on program performance, generating models (with accompanying dashboards) for monitoring/predicting/forecasting program performance, i.e., identifying leading indicators for program performance, i.e., "Program X is more or less likely to fail (to go from green to non-green status) in the next 3 months."

Fairfax Va

Created a statistical/econometrics practice applying managerial and social-scientific statistical techniques to all issues of systems and business process engineering problems for Executive VP, VP, and Director-level clients in all Lockheed Martin Business Areas. In another pioneering role, provided rigorous statistical support (internal survey research analysis) and labor market analysis to the Human Resources VP on diversity issues and related issues of recruitment, attrition, and retention. In an unusual role for a non-engineer, as Chief Technologist identified three Concept Evaluation Teams in the Advanced Technologies Organization of the IS&GS VP Office for Technology whose contributions led to patent applications. For the LMCO Corporate Office, conceived and led pioneering internal statistical studies of program status and performance measures (still underway). At the behest of the US JFCOM in Portsmouth VA, established the baseline methods to statistically analyze and forecast the geographic location of IED attacks on Coalition Forces in the Baghdad area. Clearances held: TS/SCI; DOD Secret

Denton

Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations (IR): taught introductory statistical analysis, and the IR graduate seminar.

Senior Associate on a Ford Foundation grant. Researched and documented strategies for workplace reform, alternative labor market institutions, and urban poverty reduction. Lead consultant with a non-profit group of employers and unions working cooperatively for workplace modernization. Published three case studies (1998) of successful joint labor management modernization efforts that have been closely studied by senior managers, union leaders, and rank and file workers at John Deere Corporation, Waukesha Engine, and Navistar Industries.

Supervised 4-person team handling thousands of annual inquiries from the public, academic, and business communities, about BLS economic data. Principal Investigator and lead author on a 2-year high-technology employment research effort subsequently published in Monthly Labor Review (1996, 1997, and 2003) and re-printed in the Daily Labor Report, reaching thousands of practitioners and professionals in labor-related fields. Study cited on the floor of the U.S. House amid lawmakers’ concerns about supplies of high-tech workers in US defense industries.

Supervised 14 researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute, completing $1.25 million in contract research grants in 3 and a half years as a Principal Investigator (PI) for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Among these was a landmark study of the changing fiscal health of urban and rural cities and towns in Texas from 1967 to 2000, and the impact of NAFTA on the Texas highway system.

College Station, Tx

Taught spatial (urban and regional) economics, introductory statistical analysis, and economic methodology to upper division economics majors.

B.A., 18Th And 19Th Century European Political Philosophy And Literature

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Economics

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Economics

M.Sc, Labor And Industrial Relations