Work History

Private Consultant
Dallas Metropolitan Area; 1996-present
Expert testimony, consulting; statistical analysis.

Research Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Instructor
Southern Methodist University; intermittently 1975-2009

Principal Research Scientist; Project Director
The American Institutes for Research, Palo Alto, CA; 1994-1996
(Similar to current position).

Manager; Survey Statistician
Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD (survey research firm); 1986-1994
Managed proposals and contracts. Designed, managed and analyzed complex sample surveys. Taught quality management to diverse clients in North America.

President
DataProbe, Inc., Dallas, Texas; 1980-1985 (Similar to current position).

Member of Technical Staff
Bell Telephone Labs, Holmdel, New Jersey; 1977-1980
Research and consulting in the area of product quality and reliability.

Intelligence Officer
United States Air Force: Omaha, NB; Taipei Taiwan; 1967-1972
Briefed senior civilian and military officers on strategic threats to the U.S.

Selected Technical Reports

Michael, J.R. (1995). AIR Report. The programming process to analyze selection events at the American Institutes for Research. 

Michael, J.R. (1993). A qualitative evaluation of the personnel processes at the U.S. EPA.  Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1993). A model for predicting 1993 salary. Chapter 4 of IEEE Salary and fringe benefit survey for 1993. Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1992). Ten years in America: a report on the aliens legalized by the immigration and reform and control act of 1986. Westat Report.

Michael, J.R., Rogers, J., Clickner, R., & Wright, D. (1991). Theoretical issues in the estimation of effluent limitations for pesticide manufacturers. Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1991). Factors associated with 1991 annual salary.  Chapter 5 of IEEE salary and fringe benefit survey for 1991.  Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1991). The New Jersey Energy Survey.  Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1990).  Evaluation of HUD's rural Rental Rehabilitation Demonstration Program: A report of focus groups and individual interviews.  Westat Report.

Michael, J.R. (1988). National survey of municipal solid waste landfills.  Westat Report.

Houston, A. G. & Michael, J.R. (1982). Development of a cost–effective mailing strategy.  DataProbe Report.

Development of cutoff scores for physical fitness testing for the Dallas Police Department.  Michael, J.R. (1982).  DataProbe Report.

Michael, J.R. (1980). Circuit pack replacements in heat stressed and non-heat stressed #1 ESS central offices. Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1979). The stabilized probability plot with accompanying graphical goodness-of-fit test.  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1979). Statistical considerations in the non-conformance plan for cable capacitance unbalance to ground.  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1979). Statistical considerations in office communications systems pilot studies. Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1979). Fundamentals of probability plotting with application to censored data.  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. & Lesser, N. (1978). Presenting quality data on directory paper purchased by Western Electric. Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. & Lesser, N. (1978). Data collection for the 400H KTU line circuit using the automatic remote test system.  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1978). Improving the audit reports  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum.

Michael, J.R. (1977). Estimation of the percentage of Dimension PBX's with outgoing trunk queuing feature applied to two-way CO or FX trunks.  Bell Labs Technical Memorandum