Experience

PointLeader Predictive Analytics

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  CEO and co-founder of PointLeader Predictive Analytics, Inc., my work focuses on improving the fairness and validity of employee selection practices. PointLeader is a publisher of applied psychological assessments for use in employee selection, workplace talent management systems, leadership development and career development. We are devoted to the mission of providing fair and valid metrics of high utility to decision makers for the success of persons, groups, and organizations. PointLeader takes a systems approach to these efforts by measuring jobs, persons, performance and training using psychometrically sound, valid set of job analysis, person assessment, and performance measurement tools aligned to a robust competency performance model and benchmarked to national and international data archives and norms.



Native American Management Consulting (NAMC)

• Chief Science Officer

  • Jul 2008 - Present

  Direct scientific research for the NAMC; developing fair and valid talent management tools for use in Native American tribal governments and businesses. I have had the great honor of helping my own Choctaw people with their talent management systems, as well as the people of the Iowa, Muskogee Creek, Pottawatomie, Cherokee, Pawnee, Sac & Fox, Tohono O’odham, Bishop Paiute, Big Pine Paiute, Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone, Cold Springs, Tachi Yokut, and Tule Indian Tribes; Big Sandy Rancheria and Kialegee Tribal Town.



American Institutes for Research

• United States
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Research Scientist

  • Nov 2011 - Oct 2013

  Responsible for leading a team of scientists and technology experts in the R&D efforts necessary to establish, implement, and maintain a set of research-based culture-fair talent management tools and systems for use by AIR's government and corporate clients in HR decision making, career development, and predictive analytics for business. Lead psychometrician for MCAT and SHRM AOL. Responsible for leading a team of scientists and technology experts in the R&D efforts necessary to establish, implement, and maintain a set of research-based culture-fair talent management tools and systems for use by AIR's government and corporate clients in HR decision making, career development, and predictive analytics for business. Lead psychometrician for MCAT and SHRM AOL.



Walden University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chair of Industrial/Organizational Psychology PhD Program

  • 2008 - 2011

  Coordinator/Chair of the 20+ faculty and 300+ students who teach/learn together in the online Walden University I/O Ph.D. program. My role requires that I coordinate I/O faculty with courses, faculty with Ph.D. students, students with research opportunities, students with industry, courses with the program, and residencies with the program. As a faculty member, I mentor students through their dissertation work, teach I/O courses, mentor junior faculty members, oversee the I/O curriculum, serve as an SME for developing new courses, and I conduct applied research in psychometrics, talent management, and leadership.



NCS Pearson

• India
• Consumer Services

• Manager Assessment Information Group

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2008

  Managed seven researchers working out of the Tulsa Psychometric Services Office for Pearson and served as the Lead Psychometrician on a number of large scale, high stakes assessment programs Managed seven researchers working out of the Tulsa Psychometric Services Office for Pearson and served as the Lead Psychometrician on a number of large scale, high stakes assessment programs



• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Workfor