·        Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Beginning September 2004

            I help develop projects and perform analysis in support of the company’ s energy advisory consulting business (as my academic schedule permits) 

·   Assistant Professor, Information and Telecommunication Systems, Ohio University,    Beginning September 2003

            I teach courses in research methods, public policy and regulation, and market structure of the telecommunications industry; and continue research in telecommunications.  Current research includes domestic and global telecommunications access and Universal Service. 

·      Visiting Faculty, Communication Systems Management, Ohio University, September 2002 – June 2003 

·        Economist with Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, Carson City, NV, September, 2001-August 2002

            I worked on a variety of telecommunications, electric and gas regulatory issues, including depreciation, cost efficiency, rate design and power market analysis. 

·      Senior Economist with Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC, Intermittent Assignments, June 2001-January 2002

      I produced reports on the impact of utility restructuring on customers and on wholesale and retail markets. 

·   Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UNC-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, August 2000-July 2001

            I taught Managerial Economics and Money and Banking courses and continue research in a number of areas, including the economics of health care, telecommunications economics and electric utility restructuring.  

·        Director, Integrated Resource Planning Division, Maryland Public Service Commission, March 1998-July 2000

I contributed to policy recommendations and decisions on a variety of electricity subjects of Commission interest, and serve as a lead witness in key cases.  I participated on the planning committee for the first Inter-ISO conference.  I attended industry and academic conferences, presented papers, and performed supervisory functions as division director. 

·        Senior Economist, Christensen Associates, Madison, WI, 1993-1998

I led teams that developed databases of utility services, developed productivity measures for incentive regulation plans, and designed and performed benchmarking analysis on electric and gas utilities, and telecommunications firms.  I performed econometric studies and policy review for several of my own client contacts. 

·   Director, Division of Economics and Planning, Public Utilities Staff, Mississippi Public Service Commission, 1991-1993

I directed task forces on integrated resource planning and clean air act implications, evaluated incentive regulation plans, performed general economic analysis for the Commission, and developed cost of capital testimony for telecommunications, gas, and electric companies. 

·    Former Teaching Positions – 1977 to 2000: University of Georgia, Ashland University, University of Akron,   Millsaps College, University of North Alabama, University of Missouri-Rolla; and University of North Carolina-Charlotte

I served as Assistant Professor and Visiting Associate Professor at several institutions of higher learning.  I taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate level, primarily in the applied microeconomics area and conducted research.  Courses included Price Theory, Managerial Economics, Money and Banking, Labor Economics, and Principles of Economics.

 Working Papers:

 ·        “Telecommunications Services, Economic Freedom, and Global Production Efficiency,”  (with Christopher Garbacz), working paper

 ·        “Telephone Competition and Substitution in Africa,” (with Christopher Garbacz), working paper

 Publications:

 ·        “The Effect of Privatization and Competition on the Demand for Telecommunication Services in Developing Countries,” (with Chris Garbacz), under review at Telecommunications Policy.

 ·        “Universal Telecommunications Service: A World Perspective,” (with Chris Garbacz), Infomration Economics and Policy ,Vol. 17, 4, October 2005 

·        “The Impact of Litigation on Nursing Home Quality,” (with Jennifer Troyer), Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 29, 1, February 2004 

·        “Economic Freedom, Telecommunications and Productivity: East and West,” in Asia And The West, The Body The Gods, Lina Unali (ed.), Roma, Sun Moon Lake publishers, 2004, (with Christopher Garbacz) 

·         “Estimating Telephone Demand with State Decennial Census Data From 1970-1990: Update with 2000 Data,” (with Christopher Garbacz), Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2003 

·        “Estimating Telephone Demand with State Decennial Census Data From 1970-1990,” (with Christopher Garbacz), Journal of Regulatory Economics, May 2002 

·        “Universal Service Versus Universal Competition, A Review Article of Crandall and Waverman,” (with Christopher Garbacz), Journal of Regulatory Economics, January 2001 

·        “FCC Telephone Penetration Rate Data: A Caveat.” (with Christopher Garbacz), Telecommunication Policy, Vol. 3, November 2000 

·        “Public Infrastructure and Private Production: A Stochastic Frontier Approach,” (with Charles DeLorme and Ron Warren), The Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 21, No. 3, Summer 1999 

·         “Cost Efficiency in Power Procurement and Delivery Service in the Electric Utility Industry,” Land Economics, Vol. 73, 3, August, 1997 

·        "Assessing the Impact of FCC and State Lifeline and Link-Up Programs on Telephone Penetration” (with Christopher Garbacz), Journal of Regulatory Economics, January 1997 

·        "Money and Production: A Stochastic Frontier Approach" (with R. Warren and C. D. DeLorme), Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 6 , (4), 1995 

·        "Rate Structures in Nuclear and Non-Nuclear US Electric Utility Jurisdictions" (with D. R. Kamerschen), Applied Economics, Vol. 27, 1995 

·        "Regional Differences in Economies of Scale of Nuclear and Fossil-Fuel Steam Generation of Electricity" (with L. L. Wolf), Land Economics, Vol. 69, No. 3, August 1993 

·        "Nuclear and Fossil Fuel Generation of Electricity:  Differences and Similarities" (with D. R. Kamerschen), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, July 1993 

·        "Scale Economies in Electric Transmission: Additional Evidence," International Journal of Energy Systems., 1992 

·        "Pricing in the Nuclear Power Industry: Public or Private Interest?" (with C. D. DeLorme and D. R. Kamerschen), Public Choice, Vol. 73, 1992 

·        "Myths and Realities of Nuclear Power: An Economic Perspective," International Journal of Energy Systems, Vol. 11, #2, 1991 

·        "Efficiency in Nuclear Power Pricing: A Reply" (with A. L. Danielsen and D. R. Kamerschen), Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 6, #3, 1991 

·        "Efficiency in Nuclear Power Pricing" (with D. R. Kamerschen and A. L. Danielsen), Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 5, #2, Summer 1990

 Industry Journals, Proceedings, etc.:

 ·        “Buying Wires: The Market Value of Transmission Assets” (with Nainish Gupta), The Electricity Journal, April 2000 

·        “The Market Value of Nuclear Power,” (with Nainish Gupta), The Electricity Journal, October 1999

·        “Do Lifeline an Linkup Programs Effectively and Efficiently Promote Universal Telephone Service for the Poor?” (with Christopher Garbacz), Public Utilities Fortnightly, March 15, 1997 

·        "Restructuring for Cost Efficiency in the Electric Utility Industry: A Survey of Empirical Evidence" Proceedings, NARUC 10th BRIC Conference, September 1996 

·        "Merge, Consolidate, Grow, or Spin Off? The Costs and Synergies of Vertical Integration" (with Ken Rose), Public Utilities Fortnightly, September 15, 1996 

·        Economies of Scale and Vertical Integration in the Investor-Owned Electric Utility Industry, National Regulatory Research Institute Report, NRRI 96-05, January 1996, (158 pages) 

·        "Performance-Based Regulation for Electric Utilities," Proceedings, Institute of Public Utilities, 26th Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA; December 1994 

·        "Total Factor Productivity in the Investor-Owned Electric Utility Industry: 1975-1992" (with Mark Lowry and David Hovde),  Proceedings, NARUC 9th BRIC Conference, September 1994 

·        "The Economics of Registered Holding Companies," Proceedings, NARUC 8th BRIC Conference, Vol. III, September 1992

 Book Reviews and Review Articles:

 ·        “Universal Service Versus Universal Competition, A Review Article of Crandall and Waverman,” (with Christopher Garbacz), Journal of Regulatory Economics, January 2001. [Who Pays for Universal Service? When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent” by Robert W. and Leonard, Brookings Institution Press, Washinton, DC, 2000] 

·        “Power Structure: Ownership, Integration, and Competition in the U.S. Electricity Industry,” by John Kwoka, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996, for the Energy Journal, September, 1997 

·        “Fundamentals of Managerial Economics,” by J. L. Pappas and M. Hirschey, Dryden Press; 1988

Journal Referee:

·        Journal of Regulatory Economics

·        Southern Economic Journal

·        Applied Economics

·        Public Choice

·        International Journal of Energy Systems

·        Review of Industrial Organization