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Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for developing new and existing standard and custom assessment solutions, performing job analysis and competency modeling, and conducting criterion and other validation studies. Lead efforts in conducting data modeling on talent management topics and establishing research models that integrate social sourcing through assessment and selection.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for leading and carrying out research and development objectives pertaining to test development goals and priorities, to include: conducting psychometric reviews of assessments; revising existing assessments; managing development of new assessments; editing and/or producing technical materials; conducting basic and advanced psychometric and.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Executed twelve-month detail to SSA as a Title 5 U.S.C. Special Government Employee under Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) mobility agreement with Northwestern University. Traveled to SSA headquarters on average one week per month and telecommuted remainder (up to 90%). In general, assisted project team engaged in developing an Occupational.

Moved with most of the Center on Outcomes Research and Education to become the Department of Medical Social Sciences in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Duties remain mostly the same and continue to focus on serving as Cognition Domain Team Manager and developing and validating new cognitive measures for the NIH Toolbox for.

Project Manager (one of six) for 5-year, $20MM NIH Toolbox project. Area of responsibility: Neurocognition. Duties include: coordinating and participating in development of major cognition battery (including psychometrics); team facilitation/process coaching; managing team communication; time and task planning for key deliverables, to include breaking.

Statistical, measurement, and methodological consultant to students in the Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program

Instructor (M.A. program in Industrial/Organizational psychology)

Associate Consultant at the Center for Sustainable Solutions at CSOPP (focus: small, non-profit organizations; business development)

Instructor of Psychology (undergraduate program)

Computerized testing and measurement and client program management; worked with proprietary state-of-the-art internet-based item banking, test development, test delivery, and test reporting system and perfomed psychometric consulting responsibilities for testing programs. (CAT Inc. was a Houghton Mifflin subsidiary; corporate name changed to Promissor.

Performed organizational consulting duties within Rewards and Research for Management practices.

Served in various roles within the Motorola Human Resources function (compensation, HR generalist, etc.) in Chicago-area (Northbrook, IL) and Bay Area (San Jose, CA) facilities.

Ph.D., Industrial And Organizational Psychology

M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology

B.S., Finance

Education record