SUMMARY
Broadly trained social scientist with eight years experience in lecturing, survey design, psychometric testing, and budgeting. Skilled at integrating social networks, rewarding achievement, and utilizing differentiated learning techniques to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Communicative and analytical mind dedicated to publication and presentation of results to scientific and general audiences. Areas of research interests include quantitative research methodology, political culture, human motivation theory, social psychology, and economics.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Lecture internationally to graduate and undergraduate political scientists, social psychologists, economists, quantitative researchers, and business students.
- Founded statistical consulting company www.statsbusters.com to help researchers with methodology development, database creation software (SPSS, SAS, Systat, and Statview), and data analysis.
- Analyze clients’ complex research hypotheses using statistical procedures such as Hypothesis Testing (t-testing, paired t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA), Correlation, Regression (linear and logistic), Nonparametric Testing (Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis), Reliability Testing (Cronbach’s alpha), and Factor Analysis.
- Developed new human motivation and political culture paradigms.
- Conduct large scale international surveys to examine terrorism’s impact on college students’ stress levels and coping mechanisms.
- Evaluate and score psychometric tests including post-traumatic stress disorder, political values, and pro-social motivation inventories.
