J. Peter Leeds, Ph.D.
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Jack Peter Leeds
11517 Olde Tiverton Circle #306
Reston, VA 22304
(202) 653-4514
(202) 321-8938
USA
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Eligible – Highest grade held: GS-14 Series 0180
from April, 2008-Present
Secret - granted by Access National Agency
Check and Inquiries (ANACI) on 6/29/2005
ANACI investigation dated 5/17/2005
Registered
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W.
University Blvd. Melbourne, FL 32901. May 2007.
M.S., Personnel Psychology, Florida Institute of Technology, 1993.
B.A., Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando,
Florida, 32816, 1990. G.P.A.in major, 4.0.
B.S., Exceptional Student Education, University of Central Florida, 1989.
A.A., Criminal Justice, Daytona Beach Community College, 1200 West International
Speedway Blvd. Daytona Beach, Florida 32114, 1986.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Research Psychologist United States Merit Systems Protection Board,
1615 M Street N.W., Washington DC, April, 2008-Present. (Supervisor: James
Tsugawa , 202-254-4506. Hours per week: 40, Salary: $115,000 (plus bonus). You
may contact my supervisor.
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Project manager for the Merit Principles Survey 2010. Developed and field tested
items, conducted focus groups, and coordinated survey administration. Coordinated a
project team of researchers and contract personnel in item development, sampling
plan development, conduct of focus groups, monitoring response rates and collection
of data. Worked within budget constraints and negotiated additional cost neutral
services. Analyzed 40K data set developing a research report to the President and
Congress. Resulted in report: Federal Employee Engagement: The Motivating
Potential of Job Characteristics and Rewards (2013).
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Statistical project analyst for studies including:
1) Sexual Orientation and the Federal Workplace: Policy & Perception (2014).
2) Managing Public Employees in the Public Interest (2013)
3) Employee Perceptions of Federal Workplace Violence. (2012)
4) Telework: Weighting the information (2011)
5) Prohibited personnel practices: Employee Perceptions (2011).
6) As Supervisors Retire: An Opportunity to Reshape Organizations. (2009)
7) Addressing Poor Performers and Law (2009)
8) Fair and Equitable Treatment: Progress Made (2009)
9) The Federal Government: A Model Employer or a Work In Progress? (2008)
Affiliate Professor, University of Baltimore, State University System of Maryland,
Applied Psychology, I-O Track, 1420 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201, Jan 2011
to Present. Supervisor: Thomas Mitchell 410- 837- 5348. Hours per week: 3, Salary:
$3,000 (per class). You may contact my supervisor.
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Used direct classroom instruction and lecture discussion method. Graduate courses:
APPL 642 Motivation, Satisfaction, and Leadership
APPL 645 Personnel Assessment
APPL 644 Personnel Psychology
APPL 779 Directed Study in Applied Psychology
Appointed to the doctoral dissertation supervisory committee of a student at Ghent
University, Belgium. Title: “A closer look in situational judgments tests”
Personnel Psychologist United States Army, Office of the Assistant G-1 for
Personnel Policy, U.S. Army Civilian Personnel Evaluation Agency, 1941 Jefferson
Davis Highway, Arlington, VA 22202-4508. June, 2004-April 2008. (Supervisor:
Murray Mack- retired, 571-228-4465). Hours per week: 40, Salary: $96,000 (plus
bonus). You may contact my supervisor.
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Analyzed the Army-wide Civilian Personnel Survey, ISR (pulse) Survey, and Exit
Survey using SPSS software. Prepared results of analyses for distribution throughout
Army. Used AMOS software to generate structural equation models of turnover
examining both liner and curvilinear relations.
Served as statistical consultant on the DoD-wide program evaluation of the National
Security Personnel System. I identified and recommended research methodologies
and analysis procedures. Performed statistical analysis of Army pay and performance
data
Psychologist United States Postal Service, 475 L'Enfant Plaza SW Rm 9671
Washington, DC 20260-5659, May, 2002-June 2004. (Supervisor: Laurie Hayden,
202-268-5949). Hours per week: about 50, Salary: $53,000. You may contact my
supervisor.
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Served as the USPS national employee survey data miner. Conducted statistical
analysis of large survey data sets and routinely presented results to executive
management across the U.S.
Developed linear and non-linear projections of postal attrition trends.
Conducted test item analysis as part of nation-wide test validation effort.
Special Editor, Security Journal, Elsevier Science Inc. New York, NY. Jan, 1995May, 1997. Hours per week: about 5, Salary: royalty arrangement. Completed work
under the editorship of Robert McCrie, Ph.D. Chair, Dpt. of Law, Police Science,
and Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 166 East 96th St., New
York, NY 10128. You may contact Dr. McCrie: 212-237-8386 or 212-348-1553.
Conceived and planned this special edition journal on industry specific psychological
tests.
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Researched all test instruments used for selecting police/security officers.
Edited copy for scientific accuracy and resolved conflicts in data interpretation.
Developed contributor's guidelines earning approval of chief editor.
Recruited scholars from around the world via internet to review tests contributed.
COMPUTER AND STATISTICAL EXPERIENCE
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Thorough knowledge of various statistical applications; SPSS, NCSS (Number
Cruncher Statistical System), PASS (Power Analysis package), and AMOS
(Structural Equation Modeling).
Used SEM to establish mediation effect for acuity theory. Used logarithmic
model fitting to estimate acuity scores as indirect effects. (See Leeds , 2012
below).
Used SEM to examine the relationship of latent constructs of U.S. Army and U.S.
MSPB survey responses fitting various models to the data and generating path
coefficients indicative of endogenous causal relations including that of
performance appraisal scores and employee engagement.
Used a bootstrap method to estimate confidence intervals for indirect effects of a
SEM mediation effect model for an analysis recently published in an APA journal.
PUBLICATIONS
Leeds, J.P. & Feltere, V (2014).Applying acuity theory to estimate and validate
measures of extroversion and customer service orientation in a Spanish
retail environment. Paper presented at the European Network of Selection
Researchers Small Group Meeting in Ghent Belgium.
Mitchell, T., Leeds, J. P., & Grimes, K (May, 2014). JCM, VIE and Engagement in
Predicting Federal Workers’ Performance. Paper presented at the 29th
Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational
Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Leeds, J.P. (2012). The theory of cognitive acuity: Extending psychophysics to the
measurement of situational judgment, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology,
and Economics, 5, 3, 106-181.
Merrit,S.M.,Ryan,A.M,.Mack,J.M.,Leeds,J.P.Schmitt,N. (2010). Perceived ingroup
and outgroup preference: A longitudinal causal study. Personnel
Psychology, 63, 4, 845-879.
Full list of 42 publications and presentations available on request.