Like many psychometricians, I came into the field through a side door. Pivoting from clinical psychology, I obtained a position in the personnel department at a teacher licensure and certification testing organization. After branching out into test development, editorial production, and project management, my renewed fascination with validity and statistics inspired me to obtain my graduate degrees in educational psychology and psychometric methods.

During my 23-year tenure at ETS, I led the audit program that evaluated testing programs against standards for best practices. My experience also includes two decades working on the gold standard of assessments, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). I have conducted training and capacity-building efforts in all areas of assessment across multiple countries. I have extensive experience in all aspects of standard setting and co-wrote the chapter on this topic in the fourth edition of Educational Measurement with Dr. Ronald Hambleton. I co-edited the fifth edition of Educational Measurement, for which Linda Cook and I won the 2026 Annual Award for Exceptional Achievement in Educational Measurement from the National Council on Measurement in Education.

I am skilled at meeting organizations where they are, building trust, and working together to make their assessments the best they can be. What separates me from other psychometricians is my operational experience in diverse aspects of assessment from the ground up, and my ability to troubleshoot practical challenges while helping to ensure quality.