Project Manager Development

Curriculum Vitae

Wayland G. Roberts, Ph.D. M.S. C.E.C.

NewHope PsycHab, LLP

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Little Rock, Cammack Village, Arkansas 72212, 72207

501-***-**** hm. 501.224.4982office

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Professional Experience

NewHope PsycHab, L.L.P.(NHPH). Co-Founder and managing partner of NHPH.

Arkansas provider of emergency and crises intervention and respite services

for persons with dual diagnosis (MR/DD and mental illness). 2001 began

obtaining specific small grants reporting service results. NHPH expanded

its mission to provide services as a last resort, regardless of disability.

Clients have ranged from 11- year- old male with social disability (father

incarcerated) to provision of a chemical free home for 2 - 4 males needing

long-term support, recovering from meth-amphetamine use. Until 2010 was

responsible for day-to-day management of 3 to 12 staff, and the majority

of grant writing / fund raising activities. Due to need to continue income

NHPH has worked in the private sector using internet knowledge to locate

individuals seeking health insurance options for private agencies. During

this time I obtained my Certified E-Commerce Consultant credential (CEC).

Currently I am seeking an opportunity in the academic field, or medical

sales, representatives..

(1996 - present)

University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Research Assistant, Department of

Rehabilitation Education and Research, University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville). Responsibilities and experiences: manage, conduct and

facilitate on-going research projects with the faculty/staff of the

Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, including project

design, instrument development and psychometric evaluation, data gathering,

data base management, statistical analysis (prefer SAS), research report

(refereed journal) writing; develop, obtain required funding for and

conduct own original research projects; coordination and supervision of

graduate student practicum; provide weekly research design and statistics

tutoring classes for Masters program Rehabilitation Counseling students.

University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Teaching Assistant, Department of

Rehabilitation Education and Research, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

as needed) teach graduate course sections and facilitate labs for Masters

program courses. Specifically: Independent Living, Research Design,

Supported Employment, Intro to Statistics, Fiscal Management in a Public

Agency or Private Non-Profit Setting, Vocational Evaluation, The Meaning

and implications of Empowerment for Rehabilitation.

United Underwriters Agency, Little Rock, AR. & Traverse City, MI.. Owner,

manager, recruiter, trainer of life and heath insurance agency with 150+

brokers, 15 - 30 captive agents, and 7 - 10 agency operations staff.

Produced $12+ million API. Started 8/86, sold 5/90.

Bought and sold as Sole Proprietor and manager several small businesses as

development partner in a "strip mall" off of Chenal Parkway ; 2 - 6

employees. Bought 4/89, relocated, upgraded and sold at 250% profit, 4/90.

Economizer, Inc., Little Rock, AR. Vice President then President, small,

closely held investment holding company. Real estate development and small

to mid-size business acquisitions, renovations and liquidations. Included

opportunity to be sole proprietor and manager of a business with 2 - 6

employees. Bought 4/89, relocated, upgraded and sold at 250% profit, 4/90.

Co-founded Economizer 3/81, sold 3/92.

Paramount Life Ins. Co., Little Rock, AR. Started as agent, ended as

Assistant Agency Director. As assistant agency director, was immediate

manager of 6 general agents / state managers (1 Arkansas, 1 Oklahoma, 1

Mississippi, 1 Louisiana, 2 Alabama), managing a sales force of over 150

full-time career agents as well as 200+ independent brokers spread over a 5

state territory. Started 9/73, company was sold in 8/86.

Research Project Management Experience

Twenty-Year Longitudinal Follow-up of Former Arkansas Rehabilitation

Services Spinal Cord Injured Clients. The purpose of this 5 - year study

was to conceptualize and measure key facets of Quality of Life (QOL) as

reported by Arkansas Spinal Cord Commission (ASCC) clients with spinal cord

injuries (SCI), twenty-five years after clients' first contact with

Arkansas Rehabilitation Services (ARS), and consequent participation in

earlier Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (ARRTC)

studies (Cook, 1978). This was accomplished by: developing an instrument,

the Rehabilitation QOL Inventory (RQOLI), measuring six facets of QOL

relevant to rehabilitation (rehabilitation QOL); cross referencing files

from the original ARRTC study with Arkansas Spinal Cord Commission (ASCC)

(branch of ARS specifically serving clients with SCI) data bases to

determine surviving ARS clients with SCI, and obtaining current addresses

for those clients; mailing the RQOLI instrument to those clients using mail

survey methods; compiling the data obtained from the mail survey for

statistical analysis.

(Lead Investigator, literature reviewer, and Project Manager, Wayland

Roberts)

Impact Study on Journal Article Publications and Citations for

Rehabilitation Education Faculty Members: 1974-1997. Used PsycLit and

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), electronic data bases, to determine

publication frequency for 381 rehabilitation faculty members over a 23 year

period. Identified the 22 most prolific authors and calculated their

citation rates identifying their most cited article (lead investigator, Dr.

Dan Cook, literature reviewer, and Project Manager, Wayland Roberts).

Participatory Action Research Empowerment Group Study, Phase 1. Qualitative

study on effects of teaching and utilizing power with principles. Used a

participatory action research model with a group that consisted of staff &

administrators of a service provider organization and persons with

developmental disabilities that are recipients of those services. Group

determined that it would develop a program to explore ways of enabling self-

employment. Research team then developed some basic concepts of Supported

Self-Employment (SSE). (Lead investigator, Jeanne Neath; Project Manger,

literature reviewer, Wayland Roberts)

Empowerment Group Study report on development of the Self Employment

Advisory group (SEAG) Phase 2. Participatory Action Research project

studied group dynamics when utilizing power with principles (continuation

of same group from Phase 1) while developing a program to enable self-

employment for persons with developmental disabilities. (Co-investigators,

Jeanne Neath; Project Manger, literature reviewer, Wayland Roberts)

Empowerment Group Study report on the Community Self-Employment Loan Fund

(C SELF) Phase 3. A continuing qualitative study of a micro-loan

organization that is primarily to be run by and for persons with

developmental disabilities (lead investigator, Wayland Roberts).

Evaluation of Academically Distressed Schools in Arkansas. Using 1995-1998

Arkansas Dept. of Education data to study the effects of an intervention

being used to raise student performance in schools performing below the

25th percentile on SAT-9. Utilized a doubly multivariate, repeated measures

design with a cohort of students from the 26th - 35th percentile that are

not receiving the intervention. (Investigators, Wayland Roberts and Kristy

Wilson).

Economic Impact of Supported Employment Services in N.W. Arkansas.

Evaluated the effects of Supported Employment services on income and public

assistance utilizing data obtained from a sample of N.W. Arkansas supported

employment service recipients (statistical analysis and paper development

under the direction of Dr. Sean Mulvenon; project manager and lead

investigator, Wayland Roberts).

University Teaching

Vocational Evaluation (graduate, masters). In addition to teaching, held

weekly labs for the students demonstrating, hands on, various commercial

evaluation equipment and commercially available test, such as the Valpar

series. (1998)

Rehabilitation Foundations (graduate, masters) taught section on supported

employment and gave a brief introduction to factors involved when working

with persons with MR/DD. Presented classroom lectures and facilitated

interaction on Supported Employment. (1997)

Independent Living (graduate, masters), taught section on Empowerment and

its various issues and including the use of Quality of Life as an outcome

measure. Covered issues, importance and measurement of empowerment and QOL.

(1999 and 2000)

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Management and Supervision in Rehabilitation Settings (graduate, doctoral)

Course (Fiscal Management in a Public Agency or Private Non-Profit Setting,

1/3 of course, ),. Taught as a distance education course, utilizing

distance education methods, incorporating use of the internet/web. Became

familiar with "Web in a Box" online course program, then the University of

Arkansas switched to WebCT program for teaching courses on the internet.

(1999)

Research Design (graduate, masters), Taught section on qualitative research

methods. (1999 and 2000)

Research Design (graduate, masters) Tutored masters students, providing

weekly tutoring sessions for masters students requiring additional help in

research design principles and basic statistical methods and procedures.

(1998, 1999, and 2000)

Education & Training

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) . Department of Rehabilitation Education and

Research, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, Rothberg Department of Humanities. All coursework, written and

oral comprehensive exams; 3.87 GPA, at U. of A.. Major: Rehabilitation

Education and Research; research design, SAS, and statistical analysis

through multivariate using both glm and regression models. Secondary

emphasis area; Adult and Vocational Education, Human Resource Development.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rothberg Department of Humanities;

Graduate work; Paratactic Comparison in Classical Hebrew Studies.

Master of Science, (M.S.) Rehabilitation Education and Counseling,

Rehabilitation Education and Research Department, University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville . Advisor: Dan W. Cook, Ph.D.

Bachelor of Arts, (B.A.) Psychology, Behavioral Sciences Department,

Arkansas Tech University. Advisor: David Long, Ph.D.

Bachelor of Arts, (B.A.) Rehabilitation Science, Behavioral Sciences

Department, Arkansas Tech University . Advisor: Lyman Harris, Ph.D.

Honors

E. Russell Baxter Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, University of

Arkansas, 1998-99. Permanent plaque and $1,000.00.

Invited Participant in the August 1998, Certified Rehabilitation

Counselor National Exam, Item Writing Workshop, Rolling Meadows, Illinois.

Placed in the 98th percentile on taking the exam,.

Invited participant, Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation, Next

Generation Leadership Symposium, August, 1999; Washington, DC. Copy of

presentation was included in the PCMR Year Book 1999, presented as a report

to the President and his Cabinet.

Invited participant on the Arkansas Governor's Olmstead Plan Steering

Committee, May, 2000 - December, 2000. Developed a plan to bring the

State's Medicaid and Department of Human Services programs into compliance

with the Olmstead Supreme Court Decision. Served on both the Evaluation

(using psychometric expertise to determine a standardized means of

evaluating individuals least restrictive environment) and the Vocational

committee. Plan submitted to the Arkansas Governor, February, 15, 2001.

Resolution adopting the plan was placed before the State Legislature, 83rd

General Assembly, as Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR), 7 3.

Certification/License

Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (C.R.C.)

Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (Q.M.R.P.)

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (Certified by Crisis Prevention Institute,

CPI)

Certified Personal Care Instructor (CPI)

American Red Cross: CPR, Child CPR, Infant CPR, Standard First Aid, First

Responder First Aid

United States Power Squadron; Instructor Qualification (I.Q.), Seaman (S)

Certified E-Commerce Consultant, 2010

Memberships and Associations

National Rehabilitation Association

National Rehabilitation Counselors Association

National Rehabilitation Administration Association

Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation

Arkansas Governor's Developmental Disabilities Council

(Participant Through UCP/ACS Waiver Div)

Arkansas Waiver Association (Board of Directors 2001-2004, Vice President

2001-2002

Association for Persons in Supported Employment (APSE)

American Psychological Association (Divisions 33, 22 & 40)

American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

American Association on Mental Retardation

National Council on Rehabilitation Education

Society for Disability Studies

The Association for Persons With Severe Disabilities (TASH)

Rehabilitation Student Association, UofA, President, 1996

Advocates For Students With Disabilities, A.T.U., President, 1994-1995

Alpha Phi Omega, A.T.U., President. 1994

Behavioral Science Club, ATU

Special Olympics, Coach, weight lifting & cycling

Publications

Cook, Andrew, Roberts, & Faubian (1998). Journal article publication and

citation for rehabilitation education faculty members: 1974-1997.

Rehabilitation Education, 12(4), 309- 318.

Neath, Roberts, & Schriner (1998). Supported self employment: A radical

democratic approach. Disability Studies Quarterly Report of SDS

Proceedings From 1998. Chicago: UIC Press.

Neath & Roberts (2001). Supported self employment: A radical democratic

approach to employment of people with developmental disabilities. (In

press). Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.

Roberts, W. (1999). Development of a Community Self-Employment loan

fund: A study in organizational and bureaucratic resistance to

self direction. Disability Studies Quarterly, Report of SDS

Proceedings 1999. Chicago: UIC Press.

Roberts, W. (2000). Development of a Community Self-Employment loan fund.

PCMR Report to the President 2000, Next Generation of Leadership: We

Can Pioneer Change. Washington DC: GPO.

Roberts, W. (2000). Development of a Community Self-Employment loan fund:

Choice, empowerment, and supported self-employment for persons with

mental retardation and/or development disabilities. TASH 2000: Our

Turn Now (Volume 1). Baltimore: TASH Publications.

Book Reviews

Roberts, W., Review of Guth, M,. Brain Injury Rehabilitation:

Accessing Community Resources: Discharge Planning (2nd Ed.).

Disability Studies Quarterly, Spring 1999).

Roberts, W.,Review of Livneh, H., & Antonak, R., Psychosocial

Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability. Disability Studies

Quarterly, Summer 1999).

Roberts, W.,Review of Meltzoff, J., Critical Thinking about Research:

Psychology and Related Fields. Rehabilitation Education, Vol. 13, No.

2, pp. 177-179.

Conference - Paper Presentations

Development of a community self-employment loan fund: A study in

organizational resistance to self direction . Paper presented at the annual

conference of the Society for Disability Studies, Washington, DC, June,

1999.

Development of a community self-employment loan fund: Enabling

supported self-employment for persons with mental retardation and/or

developmental disabilities. Paper presented at the annual conference for

the American Association on Mental Retardation, New Orleans, LA., May,

1999.

Supported self employment: A radical democratic approach. Paper

presented at the annual conference of the Society for Disability Studies,

Berkley, CA., June, 1998.

Development of a Community Self-Employment Loan Fund. Paper presented

at the Presidents Committee on Mental Retardation, Next Generation

Leadership Symposium, Washington DC, August, 1999.

Supported Self-Employment: Concept, Purpose, Definition, and

Development.. Paper presented at the TASH conference, Chicago, December,

1999.

Self-Employment for Persons with MR/DD: Dreams Can Become Real. Paper

presented at the YAI, National Institute for People with Disabilities 21st

Annual International Conference, New York, May, 2000.

Poster Presentations, Professional Conferences

Indicators of Subjective Well Being for 109 Clients of the Arkansas

Spinal Cord Commission 25 Years Later. Poster presented at the Southwest

Regional National Rehabilitation Conference, Hot Springs, Arkansas, May,

2001.

Subjective Quality of Life of Spinal Cord Injured Vocational

Rehabilitation Clients: Twenty-five Years Later. Kessler - Rutgers Quality

of Life Conference; Quality of Life Measurement: Building an Agenda for the

Future, November, 2001.

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