• 2005 - Present, Deputy Director of Academic Assessment, US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. Duties include the academic climate survey and course critiques. I am very involved with the "learning-focused" initiative at the academy.
• 2003 - 2004, Director, Integrated Competency Assessment Network (ICAN), Health Care Integrated Educational System, Maricopa Community Colleges, 2411 W. 14th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281-6942. Coordinated and standardized competency assessments for ten campuses.
• 1974-2002, Psychology Department Southwest Missouri State University Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate level Statistics courses (both traditional and on-line), Tests and Measurements, and Problem-solving in Men and Machines. Advised dissertations in the Education department. Introduced thousands of students to a computer experience.

Consulting Experience

• National Center for Competency Testing
• Springfield Public Schools
• Springfield Police Department
• Coordinator for Web Courseware, Atomic Dog Publishing
• Assisted hundreds of individuals with the statistical analysis of their research projects and dissertations.

Special Skills

• Statistical packages, mainly SPSS, but includes SAS.
• Programming languages, primarily Visual Basic but including Java and others.
• Web formats, including XML, XSLT, DHTML, and HTML.
• Item Response Theory (IRT)
• Experienced and knowledgeable in e-learning, instructional system design, and curriculum and courseware
• I have the patience, persistence, and attention to detail needed to program well and the sense to look for an alternative solution when necessary.

Accomplishments

• Developed an award-winning web page (http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu ) that features both an on-line introductory statistics text and a multivariate text. This site had 723,000 hits and 15,706 unique visitors for the month of May, 2001.
• Wrote an Introductory Statistics text which is currently published by Atomic Dog Publishing (http://www.atomicdogpublishing.com/home.asp ) in both an on-line and hardcopy format.
• Developed a prototype text for Atomic Dog Publishing using XML and XSLT as the format (http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/introbook2/sbk.htm ). Much of what I demonstrated is included in their current product design.
• Developed a system to automatically generate and score homework assignments and tests for my classes. I have presented this system at national conventions and described it in publications.
• Wrote a Java Applet called the Probability Calculator (http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/pdf/pdfj.htm ) that finds exact probabilities for various probability models and includes graphical displays of the distributions.
• Developed/Advised a student-run bulletin board system in the 1980's that introduced many students to the world of networked computers.

Education

• Ph.D. 1974, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, major area - Mathematical Psychology, minor area - Statistics, Doctoral thesis work on the human understanding of structured strings.
• MA 1971, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, major area - Mathematical Psychology, minor area - Statistics, Masters thesis work on probability learning in humans.
• AB 1969, Ohio University, Athens, OH, major area - Psychology, minor area - Sociology,

References

• Dr. Steven Jones, Director of Academic Assessment, US Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO, Steven.Jones@USAFA.AF.MIL
• Dr. Fred Maxwell Department Head, Psychology Department, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65804, (417) 836-5797, frm650f@missouristate.edu
• Mr Alex Von Rosenberg CEO and Founder, Atomic Dog Publishing, 1203 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Cincinnati, Ohio 45210, (513) 841-9975, alex@atomicdogpub.com