As director of business development, Dan works with AmeriSpeak clients on all aspects of project development: listening to a client’s research needs, brainstorming solutions, budgeting, grant application support, contracting, and account management. Dan has a firm grasp of NORC’s capabilities and decades of experience in solving research problems for clients. 

Since joining NORC in 2006, Dan has also managed or directed dozens of survey projects, including SHRM’s Voice of Work Research Panel, a rapid response phone survey following the H1N1 “swine flu” outbreak in 2009, and dozens of other multi-mode and telephone surveys. He currently directs NORC’s AmeriSpeak Teen Panel and the Teen Omnibus survey. He has given presentations about survey research to audiences at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, and others. He has co-authored papers presented at the AAPOR and the International Field Directors and Technologies Conferences.

Prior to joining NORC, Dan served as policy dide to current U.S. Senator Tim Kaine during his stint as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He previously taught both Spanish and English as a Foreign Language, including a teaching stint in Madrid.