Curriculum Vitae Highlights

University of Texas, Austin Government B.A., 1984

University of Texas, Austin  Government M.A., 1986

University of Chicago Political Science  Ph.D., 1992

2014-Present President and Owner, JMDSTAT Consulting Inc.

2015-2025 Senior Vice President, NORC

2012-2014 Managing Director, GfK Custom Research LLC (GfK acquired Knowledge Networks) 

in January 2012)

2009-2011 Executive Vice President, Knowledge Networks

2007- 2008 Senior Vice President, Knowledge Networks, Inc

2001-2006 Vice President and Managing Director, Knowledge Networks, Inc

2000-2001 Vice President of Operations and Survey Research, Knowledge Networks, Inc.

1999-2000 Senior Scientist, Abt Associates Inc.

1998-1999 Senior Survey Director, Abt Associates Inc.

1992-1998 Survey Director, Abt Associates Inc

 Research Assistant, Political Science Department, University of Chicago 

• 2020 Facebook Election  Research Project, 2020-2021, NORC Director. Funded by Facebook Technologies, NORC’s study director a national study examining the impact  of social media on U.S. politics, democratic institutions, and elections.
• America in One Room  (A1R), 2019, NORC Director. Funded by Helena Project and conducted under the supervision of Professors James Fishkin and Larry Diamond from the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University.
• Time-Sharing  Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), 2016-2020, Co-Investigator,  Funded by the National Science Foundation (Award No. 1628057). NORC’s study director for  social science experiments funded by the TESS program.
• America in One Room  (A1R), 2019, NORC Director. Funded by Helena Project and conducted under the supervision of Professors James Fishkin and Larry Diamond from the Cen ter for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University.A), (Grant No. F041712). NORC’s director of the five-year survey project funded by NASA in collaboration with researchers from the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
• GenForward Panel,  2016-2020. NORC Director, funded  by John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. NORC’s study director for the University of Chicago polling panel of young adults in collaboration with the Black  Youth Project and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs  Research.
• Connecting Health and  Technology, 2013-2014, GfK Director, Funded by the American Legacy Foundation. GfK’s Study Director  responsible for the survey design and management of a custom panel study of 10,000 U.S. teens and young adults measuring the effectiveness of the  Legacy “Truth” smoking prevention media campaign.
• Google Screenwise Research Panel 2011-2014, Director. Knowledge Networks’ and later GfK’s study director responsible for the design and implementation of a new custom panel of broadband  households measuring how consumers use the internet.
• Time-Sharing  Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), 2012-2016, Co-Investigator, Funded by the National Science Foundation (Award No. 1227179). Knowledge Networks / GfK’s study director  for more than two hundred social science experiments funded by the TESS program.
• American National Elections Studies 2007-2009 Panel Study, Knowledge Networks Principal Investigator, Funded by the National Science      Foundation. The Knowledge Networks study director responsible for sampling, data collection methodology, and project management for a longitudinal study of approximately 2,500 households during the historic 2008 Presidential election.
• National Annenberg Election Survey 2007-2009, Knowledge Networks Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. The Knowledge Networks study director responsible for project management for large-scale tracking study (20K interviews per wave) of the U.S. electorate during the historic 2008 Presidential election.
• National Immunization Survey, Abt Associates Data Collection Director, 1997-2000, Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and      Prevention. Responsible for the data collection for the U.S. Federal government’s largest random digit  dialing telephone survey with approximately 1M households contacted each year.
• Project Network (First Followup), Abt Associates Project Director, Funded by the U.S. Social Security Administration. Led the project management team for this in-person field study.
• Estimation of the Number of Hard Core Drug Users in the U.S.,   Office of National Drug Control Policy.
• Access to Kidney Transplantation, Agency for Health Care Policy  and Research. Led the survey project management team for this in-person field study testing an experimental method for estimating hard core drug use.
• A Case Control Study of Stomach Cancer in Poland and Polish Americans, National Cancer Institute.
• The Prevalence of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Dependence in Short Term General Hospitals and the Impact of Abuse and Dependence on Hospital Utilization, Charges and Costs, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.