Ms. Rosalinda Vasquez

Industrial/Organizational psychometric Professional

 

EDUCATION:

M.S., Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio (May 2003).

B.A., Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio (Dec 1999).

 

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

            TS (Interim)

 

EXPERIENCE:

Metrica, Inc.; San Antonio, Texas (2000 – present); General Scientific Professional.

Consultant  Assistant – Private Practice, San Antonio, Texas, 2003 to present

University of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio, Texas (August 2002 – December 2002);  Student Assistant

Institute for Job & Occupational Analysis (a subcontractor of Metrica, Inc.); San Antonio, Texas (1999 – 2000); Junior Occupational Analyst.

 

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

 

As an General Scientific Professional and Junior Occupational Analyst: provided research support to senior scientist for studies/projects that identified factors impacting on-the-job performance (factors such as personal ability, attitude, and training effectiveness) as well as the effects of personal financial mismanagement behaviors on readiness of Air Force personnel. Other research has included training needs applications, workload assessment, organizational restructuring, job and occupational analysis, and equal pay for equal work-studies. 

 

Experienced in survey development and worldwide data collection.  Typical duties include creating, maintaining, extracting, analyzing, and reporting Internet-based surveys.  Also, has provided maintenance for disk-based surveys (virus scanning and uploading disk into a master database).  Converted client’s draft questionnaires (for example, training needs) into Internet-based surveys. Worked with clients in monitoring survey progress, exported data into a targeted data analysis tool, and performed final analysis of datasets using statistical data analysis tools – such as Microsoft Excel, atCODAP (Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Program), SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), and STATA Statistical Software.  Also provides research support for senior scientists working on Small Business Innovation Research grants and helped the senior analyst in organizing, locating, writing, and retrieving relevant past research for projects

 

As a Consultant  Assistant: provides research support to Dr. Brice Stone who has been a litigation consultant  as well as provided expert testimony on large antitrust cases, civil suits, and personal injury cases for over 20 years.  Her background in Statisitics and Psychology has provided support work for lawsuits against the tobacco industry.  She also provides supports on a series of research projects focusing on aberrant behavior (smoking, drinking, drugs, promiscuity, etc.) by teenagers.

 

As a Student Assistant: worked as a research assistant to Dr. Richard M. Wenzlaff, Department Chair and Associate Professor for the Psychology Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio.  Research area includes the influence of cognitive and social factors in depressive moods.  Typical duties included retrieving relevant articles, collecting data from participants and storing data into SPSS format.  Also provided support in editing articles and chapters for APA style and format.

 

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS:

 

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

Training Impact Decision System for the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Career Field

U.S. Air Force Night Vision Goggles Training Survey

U.S. Air Force Family Matters Branch development of the Air Force Financial Assessment Tool (AFFAT)

Air Force Research Laboratory Development of Tactics, Training and Procedures for the Warfighter Reacting to Crowd Dynamics. 

U.S. Air Force AETC Pilot Training Survey

Training Impact Decision System for the U.S. Air Force Space Systems Operations Career Field

 

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD

U.S. Coast Guard Gunner’s Mate Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Investigators/ Special Agents Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Food Service Specialist Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Yeoman Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Health Services Technician Occupational Survey

U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technicians and Avionics Technicians

 

UNITED STATES ARMY

U.S. Army Information Technology Specialist Survey

U.S. Army Branch 21 Engineer Officer training analysis Survey 

U.S. Army Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE) Specialist/Officer Training Analysis Survey

U.S. Army Branch 21 Engineer Officer Training Analysis Survey 

U.S. Army Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE) Specialist/Officer Training Analysis Survey

U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major/Master Sergeant Training Analysis Survey

U.S. Army Branch 11 Infantry Officer Training Analysis Survey

U.S. Army First Sergeants Job Analysis Survey

U.S. Army First Sergeant Training Emphasis Survey 

U.S. Army Battle Staff Job Analysis Survey 

U.S. Army Battle Staff Training Emphasis Survey

U.S. Army Administrative Specialist Training Analysis Survey

 U.S. Army Medical Specialist Training Analysis Survey

 

OTHER SECTORS

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

U. S. Air Force/U. S. Navy/U. S. Marine Corps/Royal Air Force/Royal Navy - Joint Strike Fighter Program

 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

·        International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) (since 2002)

·        American Psychological Society (APS) (since 2003)

·        Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association – the association for communications, electronics, Intellignece and Information Systems (since 2004)

 

LANGUAGE:

Bilingual (English/Spanish)

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Stone, B., Vasquez, R., Price, L. & Fast, J. (2003). Effects of Personal Financial Mismanagement Behaviors on Readiness of Air Force Personnel (Contract No. F49642-02-F-A283). AFPC/DPPTF, Randolph AFB, TX.

Beard, R., Agee, R., Vasquez, R. & Fast, J. (2003). The application and extension of competency definition for information operations. Proceedings of the 13th International Occupational Analysts Workshop,  {CD-ROM}, San Antonio, TX: AFOMS Occupational Analysis Flight (OMY).

Weissmuller, J.J., Borden, K., Vasquez, R. & Agee, R. (2003).  Successful strategies for global surveys.  Proceedings of the 13th International Occupational Analysts Workshop, {CD-ROM}, San Antonio, TX: AFOMS Occupational Analysis Flight (OMY).

Vasquez, R., & Baird, R. (2003, May). Gender differences in the perceptions of poetic justice.  Poster session presented at the 15th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.

Vasquez, R. (2003).  Poetic justice as a determinant of perceptions of sentencing equity.  Master thesis, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2003.

Tartell, D. Stone, B., Vasquez, R., & Grimes, G. (2002). Tactics, Training and Procedures for the Warfighter Reacting to Crowd Dynamics (Contract No. F33615-02-M-6013). Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH: AFRL/ HECA.

Stone, B.M., Tartell, D., Vasquez, R., & Borden, K. (2002).  Space Operations Decision-Making Training and Rehearsal (Final Report for Contract F-41624-97-D-5000).  Air Force Research Laboratory: Mesa, Arizona.