Manage, mentor and motivate a team of 16 Field Representatives conducting Census household sample surveys throughout the North and Northwest sides of Chicago, ensuring the collection of high quality data on time and within budget. Surveys include the Current Population Survey (CPS), the American Community Survey (ACS), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE), and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

Independent consultant applying best practices of survey research and evaluation design. On referral, provided survey research and evaluation study design and analysis advice on and independent review of current and proposed education studies, including proposals, reports, journal manuscripts, theses, and dissertations, to university faculty, graduate students, education agencies, and not- and for-profit organizations. Areas of special focus were: • Ensuring alignment of research and sample design, data collection protocols, and analysis techniques, both quantitative and qualitative, to study purpose and research questions,• Developing logic models, theories of change or conceptual frameworks,• Using best practices in survey research following the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) Statistical Standards and the American Association of Public Opinion Research’s (AAPOR) recommendations, • Designing rigorous evaluation studies in accordance with the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance’s (NCEE) What Works Clearinghouse Standards, • Measuring implementation fidelity,• Presenting statistical data in tables and figures that are audience-accessible and engaging, • Designing and conducting longitudinal research studies and longitudinal data analyses, and • Measuring social-psychological influences of student achievement and success.

As a Senior Research Scientist at CNA Education, conceptualized, operationalized, implemented, and directed large- and small-scale analysis, evaluation, survey research, technical assistance, and training proposals and projects for federal, state, local, and non-government education clients. CNA dissolved its Education unit in October 2018.

Provided comprehensive survey research and evaluation design, data collection, analysis, and technical assistance services to federal, state and local education agencies, schools, and practitioners, covering proposal writing, study design, project management, logic model/theory of change development, questionnaire design, data analysis, data reporting, and technical assistance. Member of AIR's Institutional Review Board (IRB) for over eight years, specializing in interpreting and applying Family Educational Privacy Rights Acts (FERPA) regulations. Recruited to Washington DC by the National Center for Education (NCES), U.S. Department of Education to provide same research and survey consulting services as provided while on staff at NORC at the University of Chicago.