Our Key Staff

Charles A. Hubay, Jr., Ph.D., President and Principal

Dr. Hubay holds a Ph.D. in Demography and Urban Sociology. His experience includes work with the U.S. Census Bureau and The Rand Corporation on research database structures to support policy studies. He served as instructor for a number of courses pertaining to computer applications and statistical research applications. Dr. Hubay designed the program of customer satisfaction studies for American Honda Motor Company including studies of new vehicle owners, warranty service customers, and customer relations contacts.

Kathleen Shields, Ph.D., Vice-President and Principal

Dr. Shields holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. She worked on survey research the Social Science Research Institute of the USC, Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, and the Veterans Administration. She taught Research Methods and Statistics at Occidental College and USC. At DSRA, Dr. Shields is responsible for project administration, research development, survey design, and research implementation.

Lawrence Helbers, M.A., Consulting Economist and Analyst

Mr. Helbers holds an M.A. in Economics from Washington University . He provides statistical and programming services. He worked with Georgia Power, Southern California Edison, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Southern California Gas Company, and Ontario Hydro developing complex, multi-objective sample designs. His recent assignments in the healthcare field include providing research assistance to Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

Virginia Fitzpatrick, M.A., Statistical Analyst

Ms. Fitzpatrick holds a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the University of Washington. She has 15 years of experience as a Statistician and Programmer. Ms. Fitzpatrick's statistical experience includes producing analytical reports for HMO claims data and writing statistical methods sections for over 24 clinical trial protocols. She developed procedures for nonparametric and binomial confidence intervals.

Beth Olsen, Ph.D., Consulting Analyst

Dr. Olsen holds a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the USC . Her experience includes work with the US Census Bureau and USC's Social Science Research developing research methodologies and geographically-based analysis. She was Vice-President of Research for Demographic Research Company. For Acxiom, Dr. Olsen developed database warehousing and research services for the European market, and served as Group Director: Information Services for the UK office. She has extensive experience in the Middle East as Information Systems Advisor to government Ministries.

Alex Currie, Senior Programmer/Analyst

Mr. Currie holds a B.A. from Occidental College and has extensive data processing experience developing applications for research purposes. He has five years of experience in SAS programming utilizing Unix, VMS, and MVS platforms. At DSRA, Mr. Currie is responsible for the creation of automated data processing procedures and the design of customized survey data reports.

Jocelyn Pantano, Research Project Administrator

Ms. Pantano manages and coordinates client services for DSRA survey research projects. She provides administrative support for data collection and reporting. Ms. Pantano has comprehensive experience with the organization of health and medical related research studies. Her duties include design of survey instruments and supervision of project documentation activities.

Jim Angerman, Survey Operations Manager

Mr. Angerman manages DSRA's survey processing facilities. He is responsible for the efficient processing of all outbound and incoming survey mailings, address imprinting, mail and response accounting, open-end item coding, and distribution of monthly reports.

Pat Fletchetero, Web Technology Programmer

Mr. Fletchetero provides the web designs for Decision Sciences' various on-line surveys, research projects and healthcare studies. Mr. Fletchetero has worked as a Designer for How2TV.com, Office Pavilion and the Hawaii Medical Service Association.

Andrea Lain, Network Administrator

Ms. Lain is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer who handles Decision Sciences' network management and systems troubleshooting. Her other responsibilities include implementing system security, providing end user support, and administration of Exchange, SQL and Citrix servers.