I am an economist and statistician with 10 years academic experience (PhD, CMU, faculty U Chicago and Purdue) and 20+ years business consulting experience, using economic, financial, customer/user data as well as survey information.

I have worked in strategy consulting, public affairs research and communications, and survey research. For 5 years I led research methods and decision sciences globally at Opinion Research Corporation, and for 5 years I led the research group at FTI Consulting. In these settings, I've worked with clients as diverse as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in postsecondary education, to one of the parties involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, in crisis management.

I was one of the first faculty members in the University of Chicago's MS in Analytics program, where I taught a course in finding and structuring strategic analytics, and in building a business case for analytics projects in corporate settings.

Currently I am working on a start-up developing means to apply social listening tools to strategic business issues which rise to the level of senior business decision makers. Typically these involve novel means to identify higher level patterns in the political / economic / social / technological domains, and/or to place insights and patterns from fast moving or high volume sources in context against expert opinion, government rime series, etc.

I am an expert in R (coding with S well before R), SPSS, and SAS. Additionally, I am expert in survey research, supervised and unsupervised learning models of various types, econometrics, time series models, etc.