I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University and am primarily affiliated with the Research & Evaluation Methodology emphasis area within the Experimental and Applied Psychological Sciences specialization. My research applies psychometric and taxometric modeling techniques (e.g., latent class and latent trait models, mixture models, Meehlian taxometric methods, and other clustering algorithms) to research questions in the prevention of drug, alcohol, and sexual abuse. My research is driven by the premise that prevention is the optimum solution to many behavioral and social problems and is thus focused on ascertaining and defining their characteristics and etiology. I also have methodological interests in general psychometrics, taxometrics, and mixed-effects models for cross-sectional and longitudinal data. I teach several graduate-level quantitative methodology courses and am the founder and director of the Office of Methodological and Data Sciences, which, along with several students and affiliated faculty, provides methodological consultative services to the College of Education and Human Services and the Utah State University community.