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Kathleen Carr, Ph.D. President/CEO Kristen Heimdal, Ph.D. Tina Kassebaum, Ph.D. Melissa Beers, Ph.D. |
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Aran Carr, B.A. Tom Kassebaum, M.S. Darby Schaaf Mike Wilson
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Kathleen Carr, Ph.D. Since earning her doctorate in Sociology at Indiana University in 1987, Dr. Carr has accumulated nearly 25 years of experience conducting public opinion research on a local, state, and national level. Her research skills have been honed in academic settings at both the University of California and The Ohio State University where she directed research centers before founding the Strategic Research Group. Thus, it is not surprising that at the foundation of SRG is its scientifically based procedures and methods. Dr. Carr is an expert on methodology including research design, sampling, issues of non-response, and survey questionnaire design. She continues to teach research methodology courses for the OSU Department of Sociology. 
Kristen Heimdal, Ph.D. Dr. Heimdal is an innovative, self-directed professional with a broad range of experience in both academic and applied research. Dr. Heimdal brings to every project a commitment to accuracy as well as client satisfaction, and under her management some of SRG’s largest-scale projects have been completed on time, to our clients’ specifications, and with the greatest attention to detail possible. Dr. Heimdal has a proven track record of managing multiple projects as well as multiple tasks within individual projects effectively. An engaging public speaker and writer, Dr. Heimdal routinely presents research results to clients and their constituents. She has also presented at several professional meetings and her research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals. In addition, she is an award-winning instructor with extensive experience teaching Research Methods to Sociology majors at the Ohio State University, as well as several other sociology courses. return to top
Tina Kassebaum, M.A. With advanced degrees in both the physical and social sciences, Dr. Kassebaum offers 15 years of experience in mathematics, computing, statistical analysis, and social science research. Her academic research involved cross-national comparative analysis focusing on inequality, ethnicity and ethnic conflict, and political democracy. Much of her work focuses on modeling and proper methodological techniques. Dr. Kassebaum has experience working on various aspects of a wide array of projects. She has managed program evaluations, survey projects, and focus group projects. Dr. Kassebaum also has extensive expertise in data management that includes data cleaning and merging, analysis of missing data issues, data weighting, and data recoding for comparability. She provides unparalleled data quality assurance. Additionally, Dr. Kassebaum has extensive experience with data analysis and multi-stage weighting techniques. She is currently responsible for data management and data quality control for several surveys. Prior to taking full-time employment at SRG, Dr. Kassebaum taught Research Methods and Introductory Statistical Methods to Sociology majors at The Ohio State University. return to top
Melissa Beers, Ph.D.
Dr. Beers is trained in social psychology, with an emphasis on research design and analysis. Over the past 12 years, Dr. Beers has gained extensive experience in designing, implementing, and analyzing academic and applied social cognitive research. With research experience in a wide range of social issues, including health care, education, transportation, safety, and public policy, she is adept at determining appropriate research techniques and statistical analyses required to answer critical research questions, and in formulating actionable, research-based recommendations. 
Aran Carr, B.A.
Ms. Carr is responsible for a wide range of administrative and financial tasks as well as the smooth operation of the day-to-day business of the company. With superior planning and organizational skills, Ms. Carr manages payroll, accounts receivable, human resources and inventory, and has the crucial responsibility of project financial tracking. She coordinates SRG office operations, enabling our survey, research, and communication units to organize and execute project work efficiently and effectively. Ms. Carr also provides support in multiple aspects of the research process, including assisting with project logistics and scheduling, telephone surveying, focus group moderation, site visits, data entry, coding, and other tasks as needed. Ms. Carr received her B.A. from Otterbein College. 
Tom Kassebaum, M.S. Mr. Kassebaum has over ten years of experience designing and maintaining Web Sites. He is proficient with HTML, PHP, PERL, and Javascript and use of Java. In addition to these Web programming and scripting languages, Mr. Kassebaum is proficient with AWK, C/C++ and FORTRAN. Mr. Kassebaum has over fifteen years of general programming experience, including two years working for Electronic Arts - Texas and two years programming for the San Diego State University CCD Lab. For the past five years he has been the computer systems manager for the Byrd Polar Research Center at the Ohio State University. His duties in this position include designing and maintaining the Center's Web Site as well as maintaining the security and integrity of the operating systems. Mr. Kassebaum’s recent Web projects have involved using server-side scripting for the creation of the HTML Web pages, primarily for interacting with a database. In the past year, he was involved with the design and implementation of several web surveys, hosted in-house, for SRG. He is also an experienced college instructor and public speaker. return to top 
Darby Schaaf Mr. Darby Schaaf recently joined SRG with glowing recommendations from his former employers. His bio will be updated shortly. 
Mike Wilson Mr. Mike Wilson recently joined SRG with glowing recommendations from his former employers. His bio will be updated shortly. Research Aides SRG employs 30 - 50 Research Aides at any one time, depending on project demands. Research Aides are trained to conduct telephone interviews in our in-house CATI facility, or to conduct scanning and verification of mail survey data. Research Aides are closely supervised at all times. They are drawn from The Ohio State University and the surrounding Columbus metropolitan area. Several of our long-term Research Aides have been promoted to Senior Research Aides and assist in supervision and administrative tasks.
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