Curriculum Vitae
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| 2001 - 2004 | University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, USA.
MS in statistics, emphasis on time series analysis and forecasting. |
| 1998 - 2000 |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, National Research Center on the
Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes,
Berlin, Germany.
Visiting Fulbright Scholar, coursework in financial and nonparametric statistics. |
| 1993 - 1997 | Pomona College,
Claremont, CA, USA.
B.A. |
| Spring 1996 | Budapest
Semester in Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary.
Coursework in discrete mathematics. |
Work Experience |
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| January 2008 - present |
Statistician and Founder,
Stakana Analytics, Seattle, WA. Wrote various SAS and Excel programs, built and updated various statistical models. Managed this statistical/computing consulting business. See Consulting Experience for details. |
| March 2006 - November 2007 |
Statistician,
Washington Mutual, Corporate Credit Risk and Retail Analytics Departments,
Seattle, WA. Designed and implemented a SAS software tool to process, report on, and analyze various loan portfolios. Also produced statistical trend analyses of real estate prices, proposed methods for comparing risk ratings from different portfolios, gave a short course on basic statistics, and developed a strategy for forecasting a variety of economic time-series data. Built a SAS software tool to automatically update CD rates in a database. |
| July 2004 - October 2005 |
Statistician,
T-Mobile, Department of Resource Planning, Bellevue, WA. Designed, implemented and managed the progress of a SAS software tool to analyze and forecast call center call volume. This included conducting ongoing meetings with users, writing ongoing documentation, and giving periodic presentations to executives. Also supervised an undergraduate intern and performed related various statistical analyses. |
| May 2001 - September 2001 |
Quantitative Analyst,
Princeton Brand Econometrics, New York, NY. Developed sample frames, managed questionnaire data, and developed/assessed statistical methods for forecasting market shares. |
| May 1999 - May 2000 |
Researcher and Programmer,
German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany. Researched imputation methods for the German Socio-Economic Panel and developed a computer program to implement nonparametric regression. |
| Summer 1998 |
SAS Programmer,
University of Pittsburgh, Epidemiology Data Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Wrote SAS programs to analyze data from a nationwide clinical trial assessing the health of caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. |
Consulting Experience |
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| Experiences from 2008 on are through the auspices of Stakana Analytics. | |
| April 2010 - present |
Fabric Worldwide, Seattle, WA. Contributed analytics ideas to this startup marketing technology company. |
| November 2009 - present |
Revenue Management Systems, Inc., Seattle, WA. Developed optimization and forecasting models for an airline revenue management software system. |
| January 2009 - October 2009 |
Looking Glass Analytics, Olympia, WA. Researched, wrote and tested a macro to provide estimates and confidence intervals for indirect and direct age-adjusted incidence rates. |
| December 2008 |
QL2 Software, Seattle, WA. Consulted about estimating values between data collection times. |
| August 2007 - March 2008 |
Hybrid Data Systems, Seattle, WA. Consulted on various statistical computing projects. |
| Summer 2006 |
Clarisonic, Bellevue, WA. Consulted on various technical details of a clinical trial. |
| January 2004 - May 2004 |
University of Washington,
Statistical Consulting Service, Seattle, WA. Consulted on various small statistical projects from the university community. |
Other Experience |
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| Computing: |
Math/Statistical Software: LateX, Maple, R, S-plus, SAS (Base, STAT,
ETS, IML, DDE, PROC SQL, macros), SPSS. Database: SQL, Oracle, Quadstone, Business Objects. Programming: C, Java, HTML. |
| Communication | Made numerous presentations to both technical and nontechnical audiences, in both academic and business settings. |
| Management | Managed two major projects (at Washington Mutual and T-Mobile) under time and budget constraints and coordinated them with users and executives. Also managed an undergraduate intern. |
Honors and Awards |
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| 10/13/09 | Best paper, Midwest SAS Users Group Conference, Cleveland, OH. |
| 9/27/09 | Academic chair, Pacific Northwest SAS Users Group Conference, Portland, OR. |
| 6/3/09 | Best paper, Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group Conference, Portland, OR. |
| 3/19/08 | Best paper, SAS Global Forum, San Antonio, TX. |
| 10/19/07 | Best paper, Western Users of SAS Software Conference, San Francisco, CA. |
| 2001 - 2003 | VIGRE recipient, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA. |
| 1998 - 1999 | Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Commission, New York, NY and Bonn, Germany. |
Memberships |
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| Executive Committees of the Vancouver, BC, the Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest SAS Users Group. | |
Last modified: 9/1/10