BILL LUKER JR, PhD

Curriculum Vita

Email Address: drblukerjr@gmail.com

Home Address: Denton, TX 76205

Mobile and Home: 571-271-2184

Web Sites: www.linkedin.com/in/billlukerjrphd Clearances: Top Secret, DoD (Current)

SCI/ODNI (Administratively de-briefed 06/19/2012, without

prejudice.)

ECONOMIC RESEARCH and WRITING

STATISTICAL MODELING and PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS (Data Mining)

PhD economist with 20+ years in public and private companies, government (DoD

and other agencies), academia, and non-profits. Published expertise is in labor

economics (e.g., workforce development, occupational and internal labor market

change in high-tech industries), regional economic development, economic

geography, organizational transformation, and applied econometrics. I have strong

credentials in statistical modeling, simulation, forecasting, exploratory data analysis

(data mining), and predictive analytics. I am an expert in all aspects of survey

research. And I've recently developed new statistical approaches to cyber security

and systems design and testing.

I have exceptional verbal and analytical skills, and a rare ability to reach across

disciplines and apply salient elements of alternative problem-solving approaches. I

lead with purpose, passion, clarity, good humor, an emphasis on outcomes, and a

deep compassion for human diversity.

SPECIAL TECHNICAL SKILLS

Specialties: Research Economics Predictive Analytics Data Mining Statistical

Simulation Modeling Forecasting. Recent training (certification pending) in MS SQL

Server 2008. LSS Greenbelt Trained. Current DoD TS clearance, SCI-eligible. Fluency

in SAS, SPSS (AMOS), NLOGIT, Stata, MS Access, and Excel. More than 15 years of

teaching, research, and writing experience in economics and statistics. PhD-level

training and 20 years of experience in a wide range of statistical analysis techniques.

Deep proficiency in survey research design and execution; limited dependent

variable modeling; cross-section and longitudinal (panel) data analysis; survival

analysis; program performance measurement and modeling; exploratory data mining

techniques (e.g., factor and principal components analysis, asymmetric log

regression, regression trees), structural equation modeling (causal modeling and

path analysis), partial least squares, case studies.

EDUCATION

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Major: Economics (Examined Fields: Spatial—Urban, Rural and Regional—and Development

Economics)

Institution: University of Texas-Austin Degree: Ph.D.

Major: Labor and Industrial Relations

Institution: University of North Texas, Denton Degree: M.Sc.

Major: 18th and 19th Century European Political Philosophy and Literature

Institution: New College of Florida, Sarasota Degree: B.A.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Title: Principal and Sole Proprietor

Company Name: terrranovumSolutions

Location: Dallas-Ft. Worth and Metro DC

Timeframe: July 2012-present

See previous listing (below). Current engagements are with Copy Talk, Inc., in

Sarasota, FL, a privately held company specializing in secure digital-to-analog

communications in the financial sector; and AnalystFirst.com. a Sydney, Australia-

based consultancy

Title: Principal, Management Information Services

Company Name: MITRE Corporation

Location: McLean VA

Timeframe: August 2010 to June 2012

Proposal development and associated consulting for the Census Bureau’s Research

and Statistical Methods Directorate to adopt program performance methods based

principally on multinomial regression techniques. Other engagements included

analyzing Treasury Department data (FINCEN) for evidence of financial fraud; data

collection and analysis for workforce and personnel model of US Army (Ft. Drum)

Network Enterprise Centers; and anomaly detection in computer log files for an

experimental cyber security project. Security Clearances: ODNI TS/SCI; DoD Secret.

Title: Senior Principal

Company Name: SRA International

Location: Fairfax VA

Timeframe: August 2008 to July 2010

Conducted internal statistical analyses, market research, and customer analytics for

CEO, VPs, and Directors, in SRA Health, Civil, and National Security Sectors. Guided

Senior Management on US and global labor market and macroeconomic conditions.

Carried out data collection, selection, and validation of new performance metrics for

Management and Administration Teams at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Founded “The Monday Group,” a Myrhvold-diverse (See M. Gladwell, 2008) 10-

member team that continues to survey and make focused recommendations about

the emerging technological needs of customers and ways in which SRA could

respond. Clearances: DoD Top Secret.

Title: Chief, Statistical Analysis and Research Group;

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Chief Technologist, Advanced Technologies Group

Company Name: Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions

Location: Fairfax VA, Bethesda MD, Suffolk VA, King of Prussia PA

Timeframe: April 2004 to August 2008

Supervised a staff of seven in the Statistical Analysis Research Group; under the

direction of Executive VP, supported the Human Resources VP with survey research

and analyses of employee attitudes, labor market analyses, and statistical advice

about attrition and retention problems. Devised retention strategy that was

implemented company-wide. Developed pioneering statistical approach now used by

the US Army for data reduction and concise reporting of war game simulation output.

For the LMCO Corporate Office, led path-breaking internal statistical studies of

program status and performance measures (still underway). At behest of US JFCOM

in Portsmouth VA, and in Arlington VA, conducted statistical prediction analysis of

IED attacks on US Forces. Clearances: TS/SCI with CI Poly; DOD Secret.

Title: Principal and Sole Proprietor

Company Name: terrranovumsolutions.com

Location: Dallas-Ft. Worth TX

Timeframe: April 2002-March 2004

Founded in 2002, and was fully engaged through March of 2004. Provided forecasts

of economic and public health effects of bio-terror attacks on American cities for the

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and Innovative Emergency Management

(IEM) In Baton Rouge, LA; technical sales and marketing for an input-output,

computable general equilibrium, and econometric national and regional forecasting

and simulation model for REMI, Inc., in Amherst MA; and proposals for new citizen

participatory processes and mechanisms for managing climate change for the

Interactivity Foundation (IF) in Parkersburg WV.

Title: Regional Grant Officer and Contracting Officer’s

Technical Representative (COTR)

Company Name: Employment and Training Administration (ETA),

US Department of Labor (USDOL)

Location: Dallas TX

Timeframe: May 2000 to March 2002

Administered the implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and TANF

(Temporary Aid to Needy Families) in the USDOL-ETA Southwest Region,

headquartered in Dallas, TX. Primary duties were to monitor the work and progress

of individual grantees in Texas and New Mexico as they instantiated work programs

for TANF recipients. With other COTRs in the Dallas Office, also assisted New Mexico

and Texas labor departments in their implementation of WIA block grants.

Title: Staff Manager and Senior Economist

Company Name: GTE-Customer Service Quality Measures Group

Location: Irving TX

Timeframe: August 1998 to March 2000

Staff Manager in the Analysis Unit of GTE’s (now Verizon’s) Customer Service Quality

Measures Group. Led team of four economists and statisticians using LISREL

procedures to link service performance metrics (e.g., customer satisfaction with

repair) to measures of company financial performance. Managed and executed large

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bi-weekly customer satisfaction surveys, analyzed and reported data, and used

quasi-experimental research approaches to analyze impact on customer satisfaction

of different service delivery packages and service add-ons. Conducted studies of

impacts of different media mixes in advertising campaigns.

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Institution: University of North Texas

Location: Denton, TX

Timeframe: Fall 1999 to Spring 2004

Visiting Assistant Professor of Industrial Relations (IR): taught applied statistical

analysis, regional modes of measurement and analysis, and IR research.

Title: Ford Foundation Senior Associate

Institution: Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), University

of Wisconsin

Location: Madison WI

Timeframe: January 1997 to July 1998

Senior Associate on a Ford Foundation grant. Researched and documented strategies

for workplace reform, alternative labor market institutions, and urban poverty

reduction. Lead consultant with a non-profit group of employers and unions working

cooperatively for workplace modernization (Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership).

Published three case studies (1998) of successful joint labor management

modernization efforts that have been closely studied by senior managers, union

leaders, and rank and file workers at John Deere Corporation, Waukesha Engine, and

Navistar Industries.

Title: Chief, Economic Analysis and Information Unit,

and Regional Economist, Southwest Region

Company Name: Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor

Location: Dallas, TX

Timeframe: July 1994-December 1996

Supervised 4-person team that handled thousands of annual inquiries from the public

and the academic and business communities about BLS economic data. Principal

Investigator and lead author on a 2-year high-technology employment research

effort subsequently published in Monthly Labor Review (1996, 1997, and 2003) and

re-printed in the Daily Labor Report, reaching thousands of practitioners and

professionals in labor-related fields.

Title: Principal Investigator, Associate Research

Scientist

Institution: Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M

University

Location: College Station, TX

Timeframe: September 1990-June 1994

Supervised 14 researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute, completing $1.25

million in contract research grants in 3 and a half years as a Principal Investigator

(PI) for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Among these was a landmark study of the

changing fiscal health of urban and rural cities and towns in Texas from 1967 to

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2000, and the impact of NAFTA on the Texas highway system. As a major element of

these efforts, carried out extensive survey-based research of drivers, truckers, and

Texas Department of Transportation personnel.

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Institution: Department of Economics, Texas A&M University

Location: College Station, TX

Timeframe: September 1990-June 1994

Taught spatial (urban and regional) economics and introductory statistical analysis to

upper division economics majors.

PUBLICATIONS

(2013) “Big Data is Dead. Long Live Big Data.” Analytics Cluster.com

http://analyticscluster.com/big-data/big-data-is-dead-long-live-big-data/

(2013) Information From Data: Statistical Analysis for the Organizational Middle

Class. Forthcoming. Co-authored with Dr. William Luker, Sr. Ex Libris Press.

(2013) “Strategic Workforce Development Through Employee-Centered Workplace

Learning in a Union Setting: The Case of Navistar Foundry,” Forthcoming, HR:

Strategy and People.

(2011) “Using binomial, multinomial, and discrete choice logistic regression to

analyze categorical data on decision-making and organizational performance.” Paper

prepared and presented to the US Bureau of the Census, Research and Statistical

Methodology Directorate, and to the MITRE CCG Decision Analysis Functional Group,

March 11.

(2007) “Statistical Analysis of IED Attacks in Central Baghdad: Econometric

Forecasting Approaches from Economic Geography and Labor Economics.”

Presentation to the Joint Improvised Explosive Devise Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)

on behalf of the Lockheed Martin Counter IED Task Force, Reston VA. August 24.

(2004) “Immigration, Globalism, and the New American Empire,” International

Journal of Economic Development, Special Symposium Issue on Immigration and

Economic Development, Marcela Tribble and Terry F. Buss (School of Policy and

Management, Florida International University), eds. Summer. Journal of Economic

Literature (JEL) Codes: J61, J68.

(2003a) “Capability to Respond to a Large-Scale Biological Strike at the Homeland,”

with Michael Boechler, Innovative Emergency Management, Baton Rouge, LA; and

Roberto Cavazos, Florida International University. Proceedings of BTR 2003, Unified

Science and Technology for Reducing Biological Threats and Countering Terrorism.

(University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM) March.

(2003b) “The Regional and National Economic Impact of a Terrorist Attack With

Biological Weapons on a Midwestern US Metropolitan Area,” (with Roberto Cavazos,

Florida International University) Report prepared for Innovative Emergency

Management, Baton Rouge, LA and Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

(Mimeo, terra novum Solutions group; available from the author.) January.

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(2003c) “Privatization and Economic Development.” Encyclopedia of Public

Administration and Public Policy. Vol. 2. (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.) JEL Codes:

R51, R58

(2003d) “Occupational Restructuring in US High-Tech Manufacturing, 1983-1995.”

International Journal of Technology Policy and Management, vol. 3 (1). (With Donald

Lyons, Department of Geography, University of North Texas) JEL codes: J21, J31,

J44, J62, L62-65, L69, O33.

(2001a) “Welfare Economics, Idealist Positivism, and Quasi-Experimental Methods.”

Unpublished manuscript, Department of Economics, University of North Texas,

Denton. Available from the author. JEL codes: B41, B49

(2001b) “Teaching Your Children Well: Discrimination, Inequality, and the

Competitive Model of American Education.” International Journal of Social Economics

28 (nos. 10-11-12), pp. 987-1002. (Access on-line at www.emerald-library.com.)

JEL codes: D31, D63, I21, I28, J15, J23-24, J31, J78

(2000) “The Vise: Occupational restructuring and earnings inequality in high-tech

manufacturing industries,” Texas Business Review, April. College of Business

Administration, University of Texas-Austin (pdf file downloadable at

http://www.utexas.edu/depts/bbr/tbr/back.html) JEL codes: D31, D63, J21, J31,

J44, J62, L62-65, L69, O33.

(1999) Review of From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America’s Future

by Stanley Aronowitz (New York: Houghton-Mifflin) Challenge, September-October

(L60, L62-65, L80, L84)

(1998a) “Postmodernism, Institutionalism, and Statistics: Considerations for an

Institutionalist Statistical Method.” (Lead author, with Bill Luker Sr., Steven L. Cobb,

and Robert Brown.) Journal of Economic Issues (www.jstor.org/stable/4227321)

(1998b) “From School to Work: The Making of a Youth Apprenticeship Program at

Waukesha Engine,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Ford Foundation Briefing

Paper, July. (L60, L62-65, L80, L84, L86)

(1998c) “Labor-Management Collaboration for Workplace Modernization: The Deere

& Co. Works in Horicon, WI,” Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Ford Foundation

Briefing Paper, July. (J21, L62-65, L80, L86)

(1998d) “Workplace Education and Workplace Modernization at Navistar Foundry,”

Center on Wisconsin Strategy and Ford Foundation Briefing Paper, July. (L62-65,

L80, L86)

(1998e) “Explaining the Contemporary Spatial Structure of High-Technology

Development in Texas.“ Urban Geography, (19) 5. (With Donald Lyons, University of

North Texas Department of Geography) http://www.bellpub.com/ug/1998/d98tc.htm

JEL codes: L61-65, L71, L86, R11-12, and R58.

(1998f)”Foreign Manufacturing Investment in the Nonmetropolitan US South and

Midwest: A Case of Mimetic Location Behavior?” International Regional Science

Review, June. JEL codes: F21, F23, L60, R11-12, R30, and R58.

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(1997a) “Employment Shifts in US High-Technology Industries, 1988-1996” (with

Donald Lyons.) Monthly Labor Review, June. JEL codes: J21, J40, L61-65, L71, L84,

L86, O33. Pdf file at http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1997/06/contents.htm.

(1997b) “The Public Sector and Sunbelt Development.” Challenge, July-August. JEL

codes: H11, H25, H41, H50-56, H70, L33, O18, O21, R11-12, and R58.

(1996a) “Employment in R&D-Intensive High Tech Industries in Texas” (with Donald

Lyons.) Monthly Labor Review, November. JEL codes: J21, J40, L61-65, L71, L84,

L86, O33, R11-12. Pdf file at http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1996/11/contents.htm.

(1996b) The Impact of a US-Mexico Free Trade Agreement on the Texas Highway

Network (Principal Investigator, with Chandler Stolp, LBJ School of Public Affairs.)

Report prepared for the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal

Highway Administration, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University

System. Available at http://tti.tamu.edu/product/product_details.asp?book_id=238)

JEL codes: R41, R42, and R48.

(1996c) An Assessment of the Fiscal Capacity of Texas Cities, 1967-2000 (Principal

Investigator, with Raj Danave and Jeff Edwardson). Report prepared for the Texas

Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. Available at

http://tti.tamu.edu/product/product_details.asp?book_id=418) JEL codes: H41, H71-

73, H77, R11, R41, R51, R53, and R58.

(1993) Review of Transport, the Environment, and Economic Policy, by Kenneth

Button. 1993. (Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar) Journal of Regional Science (33)

4. JEL codes: Q20, Q28, Q30, Q38, R41, R42, and R48.

(1992a) “Public Investment and US Productivity Change: An Evaluation of Recent

Research”, Monograph #1, Mobility for Regional Development Monograph Series,

Southwest Region University Transportation Center, Texas A&M University (August).

Available at http://swutc.tamu.edu/Reports/71241-1Abstract.htm) JEL codes: D24,

H41, H50-54, R40-42, and O47.

(1992b) Foreign Direct Manufacturing Investment in the Nonmetropolitan US South

and Midwest. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Economics, Graduate School of

Arts and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin. JEL codes: C25, F21, F23, L60,

O18, R11-12, R30, and R58.

(1992c) Future Roles for the Mexican Institute for Technology and Applied Sciences

(MITAS) in Public Infrastructure Development in Saltillo, Mexico. Report prepared for

The World Bank and the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology

(CONOCIT), Mexico, D.F., December. JEL codes: R40, R41, and R42.

(1992d) Review of Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development

Policies? By Timothy Bartik. 1991. (Kalamazoo, Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for

Employment Research) Journal of Regional Science (32) 3. JEL codes: H23, H71-73,

J30, J40, L33, and R51.

(1992e) Review of Technology and Economic Development, by Edward J. Malecki.

1991. (New York: Longman Scientific and Technical) Journal of Regional Science (32)

4. JEL codes: F20, O18, O20, O30, L60, L80, and R58.

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(1991) Comparing WASHTO State Transportation Systems and Agencies, Research

Report 1217-1F. (with D.D. Burke) Project No. 1217. Texas Transportation Institute,

College Station, TX. 1991.

(1991) “‘Buying Payroll’: Industrial Development Incentives and the Privatization of

Economic Development”, Western Tax Review, (9) 1: 17-40. JEL codes: H71-72,

L33, O10, R11, R30, R51, and R58.

(1991) Ferry Operations Feasibility Study. Report prepared for the Texas Department

of Transportation. JEL codes: R40, R41, and R42.

(1989) Made in America? Foreign Direct Investment and Rural Development in the

US (with Norman Glickman, Principal Investigator, Amy Glasmeier, and Geoffrey

Bannister) Report to the Economic Development Administration-US. Department of

Commerce and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Ford Foundation. JEL

codes: F21, F23, L60, L62-63, O18, R11-12, R30, and R58.

(1984) Measuring Trade Union Satisfaction Among Black Trade Unionists. Masters

thesis, Labor and Industrial Relations Institute, University of North Texas, Denton,

TX. JEL codes: J50-51.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Economic Association (1992-present)

Association for Social Economics (2000-present)

Industrial Relations Research Association (1999-2005)

Academy of Management (1998-2001)

Western Regional Science Association (1993-1999)

Regional Science Association International (1992-1996)

Analytic Cluster, LinkedIn Professional Group (2012-present)

Data Science Central, LinkedIn Professional Group (2012-present)

Business Analytics Group, LinkedIn Professional Group (2012-present)

Economic Outlook Group, LinkedIn Professional Group (2012-present)

PHILANTHROPY, COMMUNITY SERVICE AND AVOCATIONS

Contributor and Member, National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Member, F.E.A.T (Families for Early Autism Treatment)

Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 70, Austin TX, Boy Scouts of America

Member and Participant, National Model Rocketry Association

AWARDS AND HONORS

Ford Foundation Senior Associate, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of

Wisconsin-Madison, 1997-98

National Finalist, Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Aspen Institute, Dissertation

Fellowship in Rural Economic Development Studies, 1989

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Winner, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Western Social Science Association

(WSSA), 1988

Winner, Noyes Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Studies and Humanities

(supporting Baccalaureate thesis research), New College of Florida, 1974-75

National Winner, National Council of Teachers of English Writing Competition,

Expository Writing, 1972

"800 Club." Members scored 800 on verbal or quantitative (or both) sections of SAT,

Denton High School, Denton, TX and University of North Texas, Denton, 1972

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST