Team - Landy Litigation Support Group

Dr. Frank Landy	Dr. Frank Landy CEO / Senior Testifying Expert Dr. Landy has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology. He began his consulting career in 1965 and has been working with organizations ever since. He has been serving as an expert witness in employment discrimination and Human Factors cases for over 25 years. Dr. Landy's credentials for Employment Litigation and Human Factors testimony include hundreds of published professional and scientific journal articles, more than 20 book chapters, and 15 books, including recent texts on I-O Psychology and Employment Discrimination Litigation. His publications most relevant to Employment Litigation and Human Factors are listed here. Dr. Landy has received numerous scientific and professional awards and has served as President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). In his leadership capacities in various scientific organizations, Dr. Landy was involved in the development of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. He has been admitted as an expert witness for both defendants and plaintiffs and has been retained as an expert by numerous federal agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, OFCCP, the IRS and the Secret Service. Dr. Landy has testified in hundreds of federal and state actions over his 25 years of expert witness practice. He remains an active researcher through affiliations with several domestic and foreign universities. His strong international background provides a unique foundation for advising multinational corporations on issues related to global HR practices. See Dr. Landy's Curriculum Vitae for a full description of his professional and scientific accomplishments, as well as a listing of Employment Litigation and Human Factors cases in which he has been involved . Email Dr. Landy for further information about his accomplishments and LLSG at frank.landy@landylsg.com.
	Kevin R. Murphy Senior Testifying Expert/Senior Consultant Kevin Murphy is a Professor of Psychology and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University He earned his PhD from Penn State in 1979, has served on the faculties of Rice University, New York University, and Colorado State University, and has had visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Limerick. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Stockholm, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Society. He is the recipient of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's 2004 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Dr. Murphy served as President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (1997-98), and as Associate Editor, then Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology (1991-2002), as well as a member of the editorial boards of Human Performance, Personnel Psychology. Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal of Industrial Psychology and International Journal of Selection and Assessment. He served as a Member and Chair of the Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing, and has also served on four National Academy of Sciences committees, most recently the Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph. He is the author of over one hundred and fifty articles and book chapters, and author or editor of eleven books, in areas ranging from psychometrics and statistical analysis to individual differences, performance assessment, gender, and honesty in the workplace. Dr. Murphy has testified in numerous cases and has served as an expert for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has served as an expert for several government agencies, and over the last 25 years has served as a consultant to private and public-sector organizations. Please see Dr. Murphy's Curriculum Vitae for additional information.
	Kylie Harper Senior Consultant / Administrative Director Kylie Harper received her Masters Degree from Massey University in New Zealand where she conducted research into shift-worker performance. Upon emigrating to Sydney, Australia, she joined SHL Australia and later SHL India as a consultant. She has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region on projects involving assessment and selection, safety, management development, competency profiling, performance appraisal, and rater and interviewer training. Most recently Kylie worked as a contractor to Australian HR Companies such as CompAssess and Worthwhile Recruiting, specializing in psychometric assessment and interpretation for selection purposes. Email Kylie for further information about LLSG, Dr. Frank Landy or LLSG's team at info@landylsg.com.
	Dr. Jeff Conte Senior Consultant / Testifying Expert Jeff Conte received his Ph.D. degree in I-O psychology at Penn State University. He has taught and conducted research in personnel selection, test validation, psychological testing, time management, and stress in the workplace. His stress research has been funded by the National Institute for Mental health. He regularly publishes in scientific journals and is the co-author (with Dr. Frank Landy) of a leading text in I-O psychology. He has consulted with many organizations representing a wide range of occupations on issues related to human resource management, selection and promotion, safety, performance appraisal, and stress.
	Dr. Michelle Dean Senior Consultant / Testifying Expert Michelle Dean received both an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a specialty in human resource management, from Louisiana State University. Her research and teaching interests have been in human resource management, staffing, compensation, labor relations, job analysis, bio-data, and research methods. She regularly publishes in scholarly scientific journals on these topics and has received numerous awards and appointments from professional and scientific organizations. She has been a consultant to organizations on issues related to human resource management, selection system validation, and biodata scoring key development.
	Angie Rosenbaum Senior Consultant Angie Rosenbaum received her Ph.D. in I-O psychology from Texas A&M University. She has over 16 years of internal and external consulting experience in both private and public sector organizations. Her areas of expertise focus primarily on the development and validation of selection systems, human resources practices, and compliance with federal guidelines. She recently co-authored a chapter in Employment Discrimination Litigation on the establishment of cutoff scores.
	Dr. Scott Baggett Senior Consultant / Statistician / Testifying Expert Scott Baggett received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Rice University in 2000 and has since served as Senior Statistician in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Rice. His areas of expertise include computational statistics, data visualization and optimal analysis of large datasets. He has recently taught courses in time series analysis, and statistical programming. His professional consulting experience includes work in organizational behavior, strategy, marketing, finance, human resources management and wage and hour issues. He is a co-author of over 20 refereed journal articles across a variety of disciplines.
	Erik Olson Senior Consultant Erik Olson received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational psychology from Texas A & M University and his J.D. from the University of Denver. Erik has over ten years experience researching workplace issues for municipalities at the Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University and as an in-house consultant for a large telecommunications company where his primary activities involved developing, validating, and implementing selection and performance management systems for both management and union employees. Erik’s areas of expertise include job analysis, development and validation of selection instruments, performance measurement, and survey design and analysis. Erik also has over five years experience in criminal prosecution and defense.
	Dr. Kathleen Ringenbach Senior Consultant Kathleen Ringenbach received her Ph.D. in I-O psychology from Penn State University. She has taught classes in statistics, human resources, I-O psychology, organizational behavior, and assessment. Over a period of 20 years, Kathleen has conducted research and done consulting on topics such as motivation, training, assessment, validation, personality, measurement, and aging. She also has extensive experience in public sector settings, including public safety, military, nuclear power, and federal agency human resource management. She was the author of the technical manual for the Golden Personality Profiler currently marketed by the Psychological Corporation.
	Dr. Matthew Walter Senior Consultant Matt Walter received his PH.D. from Colorado State University in I-O psychology. In addition to his academic credentials, he has extensive experience in consulting both within an organization, and as an external consultant. Matt has experience in both entry level and promotional assessment, with a deep background in assessment center methodology and leadership development. In his research and consulting experiences, Matt has addressed issues such as test construction, psychometrics, competency frameworks, validation, assessor training, training, and survey design.
	Barbara Nett Consultant Barbara Nett has an M.S. in I-O psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver. She has worked in a variety of consulting practices, particularly those specializing in litigation support. She has experience working on cases involving allegations of race, gender, age, and disability discrimination. She frequently conducts interviews with corporate executives and company personnel to gain case-relevant information for evaluating the organization’s HR systems for compliance with federal and state EEO laws, professional standards, and industry best practice. She also has training and experience in the areas of selection and assessment, large scale data collection and coding, job analysis, performance evaluation, and test development and validation.
	Geoff Burcaw Consultant Geoff Burcaw received his M.S. in I-O psychology from Colorado State University. He has a variety of litigation support experience that includes investigating personnel practices, data collection and analysis, and conducting extensive literature searches on topics such as hiring, interviewing, promotion, discipline, and downsizing. Geoff is also experienced in job analysis and selection test development and validation.
	Jacob Seybert Junior Consultant Jacob Seybert has a B.S. in psychology from Colorado State University. He is experienced in research administration, electronic and non-electronic data, and literature searches. He is skilled in statistical analysis, including meta-analysis, and has experience in psychological assessment. Jacob has responsibilities for data collection and data management as well as electronic literature searches.
	Tim Crean Information Technology Director Tim Crean has a B.S. in psychology from Fairfield University. For 7 years he was a pubic policy researcher responsible for data management and statistical analysis. In the past 8 years, he has been both an internal IT Director and an external consultant to many firms like LLSG. As LLSG's IT Director, Tim is responsible for internal information systems as well as the interface between LLSG and client organizations for purposes of data transfer, data management, and electronic communications. Tim is also responsible for data base design and warehousing. His credentials include expertise in Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, 2003 server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Routers and firewalls, SQL Server, and SPSS data analysis statistical package. Tim's knowledge of psychology and public policy combined with his expertise in IT makes him an extremely valuable member of LLSG's team.