SKILLS

• SCIENCE: Health-care clinical trials NIH-funded public health, environmental science.
• DATA ANALYSIS: Data manipulation merges, sorts, transposes display scattergrams, histograms, error bars , descriptive statistics ANOVA, chi-square, correlation, Monte Carlo modeling , randomization, regression linear, multiple, logistic , Student's t, survival analysis , time series limited .
• TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION 2002-2011 : six co-authored research papers three involving data graphics and/or applied statistics , two book chapters, a book combined, 197 pages of published technical writing in forestry, geology, dental public health data reports, grant writing 25,000 .
• OUTREACH: Teaching public speaking.
• LANGUAGES: Native English fluid conversational Japanese ten years study including 2.5 yr in Japan .
• SOFTWARE: SAS BASE, 3.8 years, Access forms, queries, Visual Basic , SPSS.
• SELF RATINGS ON KEY SOFTWARE skills relative to data manager/analyst peers Access 2, SPSS 3, SAS 3.5, Statistics 3.5, Data graphics 4.5, Science 5, Technical writing 5 1-5 scale, where 1 beginner, 3 competent, 5 expert .

EXPERIENCE

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CONTENT RESEARCHER contract , Healthentic Inc.. Identified the medical-science needs of this wellness IT start-up, found journal articles to fill the gaps, wrote technical summaries for new medical/IT initiatives.

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HOME CAREGIVER for ailing father Taking care of Dad made me a better human being taught me about frontline healthcare including prescription medications, providers primary care specialists , insurance, Medicare/ Medicaid, respite-care support, gaps in the system.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ANALYST 2 IT , Group Health Cooperative . Did quality control on annual HEDIS report HMO report card of treatment efficacy for 500,000 members using Access, Business Objects, Excel, SAS 30, 30, 20, 20 , respectively .

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PROGRAMMER-ANALYST Hired at the 3-yr SAS-level, I mined HMO databases in sup port of research projects, clinical trials, the e-health revolution SAS 50 , Access 50 . In Access, I also set up a database for tracking 12,000 subjects through a multi-year trial.

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RESEARCH CONSULTANT Data manager/analyst 75 data analysis, 15 data cleaning, 10 teaching . Working among study coordinators, principal investigators, clinicians, MS/PhD biostatisticians, I used SAS 85 , Access, SPSS, Excel 5 each to produce statistical reports tracking 2000 subjects through four NIH-funded clinical trials: 1 a dental rinse for slowing elderly tooth loss 2 a low-cost alternative to adolescent braces 3 fluoride treatment of baby teeth 4 an anti-bacterial chewing gum. I also analyzed a database of 23,000 kids submitting Medicaid dental claims in New Hampshire. For all, I wrote new SAS programs or used code written by prior analysts. Between deadlines, I improved data quality, provided researchers with ad-hoc datasets analyses, taught applied statistics.

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FINANCIAL ADVISOR, . Gathered advised clients, placed them in mutual funds stocks in taxable, retirement, educational accounts. Managed 2.3 million from 85 households.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• AT THE GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, I made a fair number of data pulls for retrospective studies for trials of new treatments. For example, I found all the HMO members between ages a b that had come in for back-pain between dates d e, but did not take drugs f g for it. I culled such members from larger files, merged them into working study files. Sometimes I passed these to biostatisticians that was that. At other times I randomly sampled the files, fed selected members to Access files for study tracking mailing query of interest letters, etc. .
• AT THE UW DENTAL SCHOOL, I did the data management, statistics, figures/tables on two published dosage studies.
• FOR MY FORMER CAREER as a forestry/geology scientist, I was one of three scientists who clinched the argument that the Pacific Northwest experiences magnitude 9 earthquakes. Using statistical methods, I helped establish the scientific basis for ongoing earthquake retrofitting tsunami preparation from British Columbia to northern California. Along my campaign, I authored a 1997 short paper in Nature, the world's leading scientific journal. I also co-authored the graphics-rich book, The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 UW Press, 2005 . The data-presentation skills I learned from the latter project especially enlarged my capabilities as an analyst/programmer/writer because they help me package findings in a way that readers will get it. I can draft the graphs, tables, statistical methods sections of data reports manuscripts like few others.

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OUTREACH selected

• BOOK TALK NW Geological Society, Olympic National Park, Oregon Mensa, Seattle Aquarium, Society of American Foresters, Wash. State Assn. for Multicultural Education WSAME , Wash. State Library, Wash. Social Studies Teachers.
• MEDIA INTERVIEWS on earthquake hazards in three documentaries Seattle, London, Tokyo .
• COLUMNIST 3/06-present . Wrote 60 essays for the North American Post, Seattle Japanese community newspaper circulation 2500 .