Our Staff
Chet Bowie, M.S.A., a Senior Vice President and Director of the Economics, Population, and Labor Studies department at NORC and is the Corporate Officer of the Data Enclave. Mr. Bowie is a survey statistician and has over 35 years' experience designing and conducting cross-sectional and longitudinal household, educational institution, and business surveys for the Federal and State governments, foundations, and academic institutions. He has extensive experience conducting methodological research in areas such as interviewing methods, questionnaire design, survey automation, and in combining administrative data with survey data for policy-relevant research.
Timothy M. Mulcahy, M.A., is a Senior Research Scientist in the Economics, Labor, and Population Studies department, Project Director of the NORC Data Enclave, and Co-Principal Investigator of an R21 grant examining illicit retail drug markets across the U.S., sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Mulcahy has nearly 20 years experience in social science research developing and implementing complex, data-centric projects involving sensitive data, evidence-based research, and data warehousing. His areas of expertise include criminal justice and drug policy, secure remote data access technology, data privacy, statistical disclosure control, and confidentiality. He has served as an invited speaker, keynote, panel chair, and panelist at numerous conferences, workshops, and seminars and has published widely on digital age dissemination, data access modalities, data privacy and confidentiality and statistical disclosure control. Prior to 2004, Mulcahy served as Senior Analyst at Justice Studies, Inc. where he completed two congressionally mandated studies for the National Institute of Justice, one examining the federal death penalty system and the other involving human trafficking in the US.Mulcahy earned his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Virginia and his graduate degree from the Institute for Policy Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in public policy studies and economics.
Johannes Fernandes-Huessy, B.A., is a Research Analyst in the Economics, Labor, and Population Studies division at NORC at the University of Chicago. Johannes supports the NORC Data Enclave team as the lead Enclave manager. His primary research focus is on illicit drug markets and his other work at NORC currently includes serving as the lead analyst on the “Dynamics of Methamphetamine Markets Study” sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice. He earned his B.A. at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD and is working towards an M.A. in Political Science from American University.
Kim Nguyen, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist in NORC’s Economics, Labor and Population Studies Department. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland at College Park where her research focused on gender and racial/ethnic health disparities. Prior to joining NORC, Kim served as the project director for the Aging, Stress and Health Study at the University of Maryland, an effort aimed at examining the social antecedents of health inequalities among older adults. At NORC, she is the program manager for the evaluation study design of the Administration on Aging’s Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. For the Data Enclave, Kim oversees the secure data management of microdata housed within the Enclave and serves as part of NORC’s team that supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s (CMS) Comparative Effectiveness Research Public Use Data Pilot Project.
Athena Diaconis, B.S., is a Research Assistant in the Economics, Labor and Population Studies department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Athena works as a Data Manager for the Enclave’s datasets, and graduated with a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. She has previous experience in data management through her work with the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect, at Cornell University. Her primary research interests include international development and reproductive health, and she hopes to pursue a graduate degree in these fields.
Charles A. Armstrong. is Director of Infrastructure and Security Operations, and is responsible for the NORC voice and data networks, all servers and databases, as well as the corporate datacenters. Armstrong is also NORC’s Information Security Officer. He and has more than 25 years experience in the IT field and has spent the last twenty years in data infrastructure, call center technology and data security. Armstrong joined NORC in 2006. Prior to that, he spent ten years at Tribune Company where he was responsible for infrastructure and data security for the Chicago Tribune and nine other daily newspapers, 26 television stations and hundreds of web sites. He is a Purdue graduate and is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP).
Daniel Gwynne, M.B.A., is a Senior Systems Engineer at NORC, and Lead Systems Engineer for the Data Enclve. He has over 15 years’ professional experience in the field of Information Technology. Prior to joining the NORC enclave team, he spent eight years as Senior Systems Architect for a consulting company in Northern California, where he architected and implemented virtualization and cloud based solutions for large private, government, and health care agencies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, Citrix Certified Integration Architect, and Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer. He received his M.B.A. in 2010, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Organizational Management and Information Technology Management.
John Nieszel, B.S., is a Systems Architect at NORC, where he has been involved with numerous infrastructure projects. In his role as Storage Manager, John has worked on initiatives to examine the data life cycle, categorize data types, optimize storage usage, and determine archival strategies. John has led NORC's virtualization efforts with a three-pronged approach: data virtualization using Microsoft’s DFS, server virtualization using VMware’s flagship Virtual Infrastructure products, and application virtualization using the Citrix suite of products.