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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES (and Photo)
WORK EXPERIENCE---Fallis & Associates
-----CDMRC - Univ. of Washington
-----The Boeing Company
-----Wittenberg University
-----AT&T - Personnel Research Dept.
-----Ohio State University - Research Assistant Positions
-----G.M. of Canada
EDUCATION
LICENSES, MEMBERSHIPS, PUBLICATIONS, ETC.
SPECIAL INTERESTS, REFERENCES
INFORMATION ON FALLIS & ASSOCIATES, INC. SERVICE DELIVERY OPTIONS
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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVES

  To continue to work as an external, or internal, I/O
  Psychological consultant aiding with improvements in 
  corporate/organizational climate and/or competitiveness 
  that enhance employee participation, involvement, mutual 
  cooperation and respect.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

	President, Principal Industrial/Organizational Psychological 
	Consultant, Fallis & Assoc., Inc., Seattle, Washington-9/72-Present.

	 - Expedited Organizational Climate Change and team/Org. performance 
	   improvement. (Critical path-based mission/goals setting, team 
	   building, Org. climate/restructuring, job re-invention, empowerment, self-
	   directed teams,  gains-sharing programs, etc.)

	 - Developed, validated and implemented better Hiring/Assessment
	   Systems. (Several highly predictive selection batteries for 
	   sales, technical, clerical and managerial positions; 
	   job-content-valid procedures for many individual positions;
	   job-related performance appraisals and several turnover 
	   reduction systems.)

	 - Developed Incentive/Compensation Systems for public and private
	   sectors (job analysis/classification, salary surveys, regression
	   analyses, etc.)

	 - Assisted in upgrading policies, standards and practices in 
	   these and most other human resource management areas (including 
	   ADA/EEO/AA), organizational climate/energy conservation, etc.

	 - Developed PeopleFinder(TM) weighted-skills-searching database 
	   system.

 	 - Computer literate. Uses statistical, programming and database 
	   management packages.  Has also set up networks and designed 
	   information systems.

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        Head of Research Office and Research Coordinator/Consultant
	Child Development & Mental Retardation Center (CDMRC),
	University of Washington, Seattle, Washington - 2/70 - 7/72.

	 - Radically improved and upgraded statistical consulting and 
	   computer/math. support, database/reporting functions of office.

	 - Directly provided extensive research design and statistical 
	   analysis assistance to many of the 300+ multi-disciplinary 
	   researchers at the center.

	 - Designed, developed and implemented three database systems.

	 - Hired and managed Research Office's staff and effectively 
	   coordinated and negotiated to get the resources necessary to 
	   carry out the office's mission.

	 - Taught 2nd level Inferential Stat. class for the Psych. Dept..

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	Project Leader and Research Coordinator/Consultant

	Military Aircraft, New Product Development ; Management 
	Development ; Operations Research ; The Boeing Company, 
	Seattle, Washington    -    6/66 - 2/70.

	 - Provided statistical and project management skills for 
	   successful completion of a wide variety of important projects
	   in three divisions of the company (eg. 727 night VFR crash 
	   landing research, management progress predictions, passenger 
	   preference prediction, etc.)

	 - Assisted in rapid development of a management skills database 
	   system.

	 - Introduced use of psychometric techniques in Operations 
	   Research Dept.


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	Assistant Professor in Psychology and Management Development
	Psychology and Management Development Departments, 
	Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio -  9/63 - 6/66.

	 - Taught Intro., Applied, and Industrial Psychology in the 
	   Psychology Department's day and evening programs plus a wide 
	   variety of Human Relations/Development subjects in the 
	   university's Management Development (M.D.) Corporate Training 
	   Program. (This was concurrent with finishing the Ohio State 
	   University doctoral program in Industrial/Org. Psychology.)

	 - Prepared all course work, set and marked exams, counselled 
	   students and participated in a weekly evening dinner/training 
	   session with the M.D. program participants.

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	Interviewer/Consultant (Summer Position - IMDT Project)
	AT&T, Personnel Research Dept., New York, NY - 6/63 - 9/63.

	 - Interviewed upper levels of management in three of the Bell 
	   System companies to obtain data about variations in the 
	   employment environment in which management trainees were 
	   performing. 

	 - Wrote/Dictated reports and traveled extensively in the West, 
	   Southwest, Midwest and Northeast.

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	Research Assistant (Student)
	Personnel Research Board (PRB); Bureau of Educ. Research & 
	Services (BERS), Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio - 9/61 - 6/63.

	 - (BERS)  9/61 - 6/62.  Did extensive library research and
	   some experimental design consulting in support of their study of 
	   the effects of Airborne Educational T.V. instruction.

	 - Personnel Res. Board (PRB)  6/62 - 6/63.  Assisted PRB in 
	   designing and conducting of a large USAF research study to assess
	   how a wide range of personnel evaluation variables affected the 
	   personnel performance evaluations of Air Force Non-commissioned
	   officers in several USAF career fields.

	 - Wrote, and used, several assembly language programs for an IBM 
	   mini-computer (including a reverse factor analysis program that 
	   produced realistically intercorrelated sets of data). Also, ran 
	   various IBM mainframe statistical programs and oversaw 
	   development and use of a Fortran based program for another 
	   mainframe that was specifically designed for the project.

	 - Did liaison work with the USAF and helped gather data from USAF
	   personnel.


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           Industrial/Organizational Psychologist Trainee (Summer Position)
	Manpower Planning, Eval. & Research Dept., GM of Canada, Oshawa, 
	Ont., Canada   -   6/91 - 9/91.

	 - Successfully completed three multiple-correlation-based 
	   selection testing validation studies for GM apprentices, quality
	   control supervisors and foremen.  The results of these studies 
	   dramatically improved the success of the selection testing for 
	   these positions (e.g. from 50% to 96% successful).

	 - Administered, scored and interpreted test results plus 
	   interviewed & reviewed test results with many of the candidates 
	   for the various positions.

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EDUCATION

	Ph.D., Industrial/Org. Psychology (Statistics Minor), 
	Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio   -   1966.
		(Advisor - Robert J. Wherry, Sr., Ph.D.)

	M.Sc,(Applied), Industrial Psychology (Included Internship), 
	McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada   -   1961.
		(Advisor - Edward Webster, Ph.D.)

	B.A.(Honors), Honors Program in Psychology, 
	University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada - 1959.

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LICENSES, MEMBERSHIPS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, ETC.

	 - Licensed Psychologist (Lic. # 299), Washington State.

	 - Registered Psychologist (Reg. # 370), British Columbia.

	 - Memberships in:

	 	American Psychological Association

		APA Division 5, Evaluation and Statistics

		APA Division 13, Consulting Psychologists

		Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology
 

        - Thirty-eight significant publications plus several other 

        important reports to clients.

	 - Presented two papers, conducted three workshops and chaired a 
	   symposium at professional meetings.

	 - Testified as an expert witness and/or provided critical expert 
	   legal input on four occasions.

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SPECIAL INTERESTS

	 - Encouraging fairness, innovation, involvement and team spirit 
	   to improve org. climate, productivity and competitiveness.

	 - Developing accurate, fair, cost-effective employee selection, 
	   compensation, incentive and other important HR programs.

	 - Using, or developing, the best possible computer system-based, 
	   I/O Psychological and Human Resource Management technology.

REFERENCES

	Available upon request.

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