Background

Currently Director for Assessment and Assistant Vice Provost in the Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, State University of New York at Buffalo. Former Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, and before that, evaluation assistant for the School of Management.. Before coming to SUNY-Buffalo, served as program evaluator for the Family Network Project, a cooperative program between Erie County Department of Social Services and Parents Anonymous of Buffalo and Erie County. The program, one of only a few national demonstration projects funded by Office of Child Abuse and Neglect (OCAN; formerly NCCAN), provides innovative interventions targeted to families who have a history of chronic child neglect. Formerly Associate Director of Research and Evaluation with the Center for Development of Human Services, State University College at Buffalo, responsible for evaluation of $20 million in training activities and special research projects to assess effectiveness of a variety of social intervention programs. Formerly director the Middle Adolescent Vulnerability Study, a multiyear, longitudinal study of high school students and their primary caregivers (funded by NIAAA), with responsibility for administering all aspects of the research project, including development of newsletter to participants and reports to school officials. Former editor of SystemsLetter, the newsletter of the Information Systems group of the International Communication Association. Former instructor at several colleges/universities, teaching courses in Communication, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics & Research Methods.