Charles “Chic” Naumer has spent over 20 years working in the public, non-profit and private sectors.

 

Charles’s experience developing information systems includes supporting large scale evaluations systems for the US Department of Education, developing community based information systems for AOL/Digital City and working with newspapers throughout the country to build their community information architecture.  As a member of CiviCore, he has worked to develop the technology and infrastructure used to provide clients with information tools and services.

 

Charles has also been an active researcher performing statistical analysis on a large national longitudinal database to determine the effects of minimum competency tests on student performance.  He has assisted in the design and implementation of a survey of California and Florida high school students.  Charles has conducted research on performance measurement and re-engineering of government services, analyzed the relationship between educational spending in the state of Alabama and students' performance as part of prepared testimony in a major school finance reform case, assisted with research on youth resiliency, evaluation of job training programs, and a study on discrimination in the workforce.

 

Charles’s current research interests include developing information architecture that support decision making, problem solving and innovation within organizations.  His focus has been on utilizing qualitative research methods within information systems to improve insight and organizational effectiveness.

 

His work in the non-profit sector includes founding an organization dedicated to developing college students as mentors to junior high school aged children and serving on the boards of several non-profit organizations.

 

Charles is a Ph.D. candidate in information science at the Information School at the University of Washington where he is working on his dissertation on the use of information to “frame” issues.  He also holds a degree in Economics from Pomona College and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.