Experience Summary
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RELEVANT COLLEGE-LEVEL COURSES
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- Applied Research Methods in Public Policy
- Survey Methods for Social Research
- Advanced Statistics
- Survey Research and Methodology
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Marketing Research
- Applied Statistics for Evaluation
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SOFTWARE SKILLS
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- Expert using Microsoft Office 2010 applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- More than seven years of experience using Stata, in the areas of data analysis, graphing, and report automation
- More than 10 years experience using SPSS; beta tester for SPSS 15
- Sawtooth
- Endnote
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SUMMARY OF SKILLS
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- Experience with maintaining and manipulating large datasets, analyzing and interpreting data, ensuring integrity of the data, performing quality assurance, and formally writing up results
- Possess strong data analysis skills using statistical programs and databases including
SPSS, Stata, and Excel
- Unique ability to present complex data graphically
- Very skilled at creating professional presentations using PowerPoint
Teaching Style
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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
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STUDENT ASSISTANT, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.
- Assisted professor in data management using SPSS and Excel
- Hosted weekly office hours and exam reviews for over 100 students in Research Methods 101
- Provided assistance in basic SPSS commands, research design, and syntax structure
- Responsible for editing and revising student resarch papers and proposals for clarity, flow, basic grammar, and statistical methods
| Microsoft Excel |
 This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| Advance Excel, including data analysis, macros, lookup functions, pivot tables, and graphing. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint |
Proficiency: Experienced
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| Using styles, inserting images and graphs |
| Statistics SPSS |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| *Basic Statistics: descriptive (frequencies) and bivariate (means)
*Advanced Statistics: regressions, correlations, and repeated measures
*SPSS Syntax: reproducibility and handling complex data manipulations and analyses
*Create pivot tables, charts and graphs
*SPSS Macros & Scripts for job automation
*Data Migration - Read data and write output from and to other statistical packages (SAS, Stata, R, etc.) or spreadsheets (Excel, etc.).
*Data Preparation - Define variables, labels, and variable values
*Data Validation - Check missing value, valid data range
*Data Transformation - Transform data to the right format that can used for analysis; recoding, etc. |