Prior to joining BIAfn and SpectraRep, Ducey was a top executive at the National Association of Broadcasters for 17 years. He was Senior Vice President of NAB's Research and Information Group. In this position, he was in charge of the association's new technology assessment, audience and policy research, strategic planning, and information systems, including all Internet operations. He also developed publications and seminars. He has served on the faculties of several major universities teaching and conducting research in new media technologies, strategic marketing, research methodology and statistics.

Before joining NAB in 1983, Ducey was a faculty member in the Department of Telecommunication at Michigan State University where he taught and did research in the areas of emerging telecommunication technologies and strategic market research. He also served on the faculties of the George Washington University Graduate Program in Telecommunications Management and the University of Maryland, where he taught strategic market management and research methodologies. He has published a number of research articles and papers in these areas and serves on editorial boards of leading scholarly journals in the communications field. He worked at radio stations WSOQ-AM/WEZG-FM and Upstate Cablevision in North Syracuse, NY.