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 |
Senior Statistician and President,
Stakana Analytics, Seattle, WA. Wrote various SAS and Excel programs, built and updated various statistical models. Managed this statistical consulting business of eight people. 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. For further details, see also Consulting Reports and Software. | |
| June 2012 - present |
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Woodinville, WA. Assessed their best marketing opportunities using advanced statistical methods. |
| November 2011 - December 2011, March 2012 - September 2012 |
T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA. Documented various statistical procedures, fixed various aspects of the SAS infrastructure, provided advice on effective analytics management. |
| February 2011 - April 2011 |
Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, Salem, OR. Estimated the effect of OSHA inspections on reported workplace injuries. |
| November 2010 - December 2010 |
Intel, Santa Clara, CA. Developed SAS code to perform a market basket analysis. |
| November 2009 - November 2010 |
Revenue Management Systems, Inc., Seattle, WA. Developed optimization and forecasting models for an airline revenue management software system. |
| October 2010 |
Looking Glass Analytics, Olympia, WA. Applied statistical techniques for applying Empirical Bayes Smoothers to age-adjusted incidence rates. |
| April 2010 - September 2010 |
Fabric Worldwide, Seattle, WA. Contributed analytics ideas to this startup marketing technology company. |
| 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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| See also Publications, Software, and Teaching Experience. | |
| Computing: |
SAS: PC SAS (Base, STAT, ETS, IML, PROC SQL, DDE, macros), Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, Model
Manager, Management Console. Other Math/Stat Software: MP, R, SPSS, S-Plus, Maple, LaTeX. Database: Teradata, SQL, Business Objects. |
| Communication | Made numerous presentations to both technical and nontechnical audiences, in both academic and business settings. See also Teaching Experience. |
| Management |
Founded Stakana Analytics in January 2008, now president and manages a team of eight employees, as well as relationships with their clients and investors.
Managed two major projects at Washington Mutual (2006) and T-Mobile (2005) under time and budget constraints and coordinated them with users and executives.
Founded the Puget Sound SAS Users Group in August 2010, now president and manages a team of four executive committee members, as well as relationships with their attendees and sponsors.
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Honors and Awards |
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| 9/27/11 | Best paper for data visualization and graphics, Midwest SAS Users Group Conference, Kansas City, KS. |
| 10/13/09 | Best paper for SAS 101 and tutorials and solutions, 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 for applications development, Pharmaceutical Industry SAS Users Group Conference, Portland, OR. |
| 3/19/08 | Best paper for reporting and information visualization, SAS Global Forum, San Antonio, TX. |
| 10/19/07 | Best paper for data presentation and business intelligence, 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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| Member of the American Statistical Association, Executive Committees of the Vancouver, BC and the Insurance and Finance SAS Users Group. | |
Last modified: 11/6/12