Joseph George Caldwell

 

 

Professional Profile: Career in management consulting, system development, research, and teaching.  Directed projects in strategic planning, policy analysis, program evaluation, economics, public finance, statistics, operations research / systems analysis, and information technology for US, state and foreign governments, and US and foreign organizations.  Areas of expertise include health, education, vocational rehabilitation, welfare, public finance (tax policy analysis, Medicaid and AFDC financing), agriculture, civil rights, economic development, energy, environment, population, and defense (US Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense).  Considerable overseas experience.

 

2005-               Semi-retired.  Statistical Consultant, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.  Consultant on research design for impact evaluation of development projects (assignments in Honduras and Ghana funded by Millennium Challenge Corporation); also system development work in Guinea and Liberia funded by US Agency for International Development, and in East Timor funded by the United Nations Development Program).

2001-2005       Management Consultant / System Developer, Clearwater, Florida.  System development work in Zambia (funded by US Agency for International Development).

1999-2001       Director of Management Systems, Bank of Botswana (Botswana’s central bank).

1991-1998       Management Consultant / Statistician / System Developer, Clearwater, Florida.  Clients included First Union National Bank (Wachovia, Wells Fargo), Charlotte; US Agency for International Development, Egypt, Malawi, Ghana; Asian Development Bank, Bangladesh; Canada Trust Bank, Toronto, Canada.

1989-1991              President, Vista Research Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.  Research in artificial intelligence for noncommunications electronic warfare systems (work on automated scenario generation, funded by US Army Communications-Electronic Command).

1982-1991              Director of Research and Development and Principal Scientist, US Army Electronic Proving Ground’s Electromagnetic Environmental Test Facility / Bell Technical Operations and Combustion Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Statistics, University of Arizona; Principal Engineer, Singer Systems and Software Engineering; Tucson and Sierra Vista, Arizona.

1964-1982              Consultant or employee to firms in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Haiti, Philippines.

 

Education:     PhD, Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1966)

                        BS, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (1962)

                        Graduate of Spartanburg High School, Spartanburg, SC (1958)

 

Personal:       Born March 23, 1942, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

                        Married to Jacquelyn A. Caldwell

                        Three children

                        Religion: Christianity (Presbyterian)

                        Author of articles and books on divers topics (e.g., population, environment, economics, politics, defense and music, including The Late Great United States (2008); Can America Survive? (1999); The Value-Added Tax: A New Tax System for the United States (1987); How to Play the Guitar by Ear (for mathematicians and physicists) (2000).  See Internet website http://www.foundationwebsite.org  to view these and other articles.

 

22 April 2009