Dr. David R.

Fontenot
E-mail: dfonteno@uci.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
Ph.D in Criminology, Law and Society
September 2014
University of California, Irvine, Ca. School of Social Ecology
M.S. in Statistics
September 2008
University of California, Irvine, Ca.- School of Information and Computer Science
B.A. in Mathematics, English minor
Pomona College, Claremont, Ca.

May 2005

Research Experience, Skills, and Accomplishments

Doctoral Research 2011-2014
Developed protocols for human subjects research in 9-1-1 call centers
Successfully prepared proposal for IRB review
Actively recruited police departments for research participation
Conducted ~220 hours of observations in 9-1-1 call centers
Collected field notes by hand for sensitive information environments
Maintained integrity of protected categories of information
Conducted interviews with dispatch workers and officials
Identified potential new measures of dispatch efficacy
Produced recommendations for integrating new emergency technologies
Graduate Research 2005-2010
Worked with cognitive scientists on interdisciplinary models for cognitive learning
Analyzed longitudinal data for long-term multivariate health outcomes
Cleaned, consolidated, and formatted data arrays
Transcribed legal interactions for linguistic analysis
Geo-coded gang incidents and created interactive digital maps of gang activity in east L.A.
Reed Institute Summer Research Program 2004-2005
Develop statistical methods for measuring gene expression in microarray data
Create and present submarine part failure models to U.S. Navy officials
Teaching Experience
Adjunct faculty, Spring 2014, Chapman University Orange, CA (Sociology)
Instructor, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, University of California - Irvine, CA (Social Ecology)
Part-time instructor, Spring 2012, California State University Los Angeles, CA (Criminal Justice)
Teaching Assistant, 2005-2007, University of California - Irvine, CA (Statistics)
Teaching Assistant, 2008-2013, University of California - Irvine, CA (Criminology, Law and Society)
Teaching Assistant, 2011-2014, University of California - Irvine, CA (Online Masters of Advanced Study in
Criminology, Law and Society)

Professional Software Skills

R
ArcGIS
Inqscibe
InDesign
FinalCut
Quicktime
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Keynote

Research Skills & Certifications

Quantitative: Statistical modeling, longitudinal data analysis, generalized linear models, survival analysis,
predictive simulation, missing & incomplete data analysis, Bayesian statistics, interpretation and
presentation of statistics, model evaluation, non-parametric inference, operationalizing human behavior,
limits of quantitative inference, data gathering systems.
Qualitative: Human subject research ethics & law, participant observation data collection, active
recruitment of research sites and subjects, researcher and community engagement, ethnography of
institutional practices, visual ethnography data collection & analysis, audio and visual transcription,
linguistic data analysis, limits of qualitative inference.
Geographic Information Systems: Spatial & geographic data analysis, interactive mapping.
Affiliations
Member, American Statistical Association (AMSTAT)
Member, Law and Society Association (LSA)
Publications
Crime, Emergency, Discourse, and Technology: The War on Crime and the 9-1-1 Emergency Response
System. Doctoral Dissertation, UC-Irvine, 2014
Stopping Criterion for a Gradient Search Algorithm with Truncated Data. Reed Institute for Applied
Statistics, Claremont McKenna College, 2004.