He is founder and former Director of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP) at the University of Pittsburgh and he currently directs QDAP-UMass. The QDAP labs are fee-for-service coding labs that work on projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the Smithsonian, and other U.S. funding agencies.