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ANAT YOM-TOV, PHD

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SENIOR A N A LY S T

S TAT I S T I C I A N A N D

• Distinguished and accomplished senior statistician with an extensive wealth of experience in analytical work,

publications and presentations.

• Senior Predictive Modeler and Statistician with an experience in leading and teaching the uses of statistical

analysis techniques and predictive models.

• Expert in statistical methods and data mining techniques including Generalized Linear Models, Linear and

Logistic regression, Decision trees, Time series and Survival analysis

• A business-focused individual with deep experience in developing and implementing analytic-based strategies.

• Building and developing (domestic and international) teams that leverage analytics to create, execute and

measure business strategies.

• Specialties: Management, Strategy, Analytics, Regulatory Compliance, Marketing, Business Development,

Modeling, Risk, Statistics, mentoring and teaching.

• Comprehensive experience in analytical forecasting in areas of health care, HR, labor market, policies, and

finance.

• Sophisticated statistical knowledge and methodological skills, including regression models, factor analyses, item

design, reliability and validity, time series modeling and survey design.

• Proficiency in SPSS, SPSS Modeler, STATA, SAS, AMOS, HLM, SQL and MS Office Suite (Access, Excel, MS

Visio, Word, Power Point).

• Results driven, focused, meticulously detail oriented with an exemplary work ethic.

• Self-motivated and able to work under stress and restrict deadlines.

• Strong organizational and management skills (hiring, supervising, set goals, and mentoring)

SKILLS, SOFTWARE & LANGUAGES

Leadership capability and management skills

Expertise in data preparation, statistics and reporting.

Expert in designing research frameworks, tracking and managing multiple sources of data.

Expertise in statistical analyses such as OLS regression, factor analyses, structural equation models,

hierarchical linear models, growth models, spatial analyses, GSS, Statistical Power, and time series analyses.

Perform data analyses to HR business partners, non-profit organization, states, and international clients.

Work independently while working in teams.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, excellent attention to detail and working in fast phase.

Expert in preparing and presenting Power Point presentations

Proficiency in English and Hebrew.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HR SENIOR ANALYST

ESPN - HR ANALYTICS - Bristol, CT, USA 2013

Accountable for business analyses of HR policies and business practices.

Developed growth and development programs which served to decrease turnover and reduce expenses on hiring.

Accountable for advising and providing statistical analysis for business partners

Using statistical models in SPSS and SAS to analyze hiring, turnover, headcount, diversity, engagement and

enablement as well as to accurately identify the areas that needed improvement.

Introducing the graphical part in SPSS Modeler to design regression models (I have done the management decision

and forecasting models using the stat software – there is a still resistance in the market for introducing spss in

general and the modeler in particular).

Led organizational changes, training and policies which increased revenue.

Handling surveys

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Developing and delivering regular reports to high-level management

Power Point presentations

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - SOCIOLOGY AND STATISTIC

HAVERFORD COLLEGE – Haverford, PA, USA

2009-2013

Accountable for teaching the following courses: Research Method; Statistics, including Advanced Statistics; Labor

Market & Economy; Social Problems; Immigration and SPSS (mainly the statistical software – unfortunately the

Modeler is unavailable in the academic institutions).

Accountable for mentoring and advising students.

In charge of designing and planning quantitative and empirical programs which culminated in successful and

growing multidiscipline program supported by new courses in statistics, most of which I taught.

Highly ranked student and faculty evaluations.

Presenting and selling programs to board members and faculty.

SENIOR STATISTICIAN AND ANALYST

WISCONSIN CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH – Madison, WI, USA

2008-2009

Accountable for a broad range of core project functions, including developing and designing standardized tests

Collaborated with researcher and management on several projects assessing the effects of contextual factors on

learning trajectory

Communicating with states representative to market new standardized tests.

Analyzing multi-state longitudinal datasets and multilevel growth models.

Monitoring and training researchers.

Writing reports and presenting the research findings.

SENIOR STATISTICIAN AND ANALYST

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY- COURT SYSTEM – Madison, WI, USA

2004-2008

Accountable for a broad range of core project functions, including writing grant proposals; developing new data

and statistical models to assess the implementation of child support policies.

Informing policy makers about the diversion and noncompliance with the policy.

Improving the implantation of child support policies by pointing to the problems in the system.

Training interviewers, field observers, and new researchers.

Collecting longitudinal data from court cases in Wisconsin and combining these data with national data records

Writing reports and presenting research findings in conferences.

Communicating with the governor and state officials.

SENIOR STATISTICIAN AND ANALYST

LOUISIANA STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTION – Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

2003-2004

Accountable for monitoring and supervising a team of workers

Provided core leadership to a state base set of projects that assessed the effect of the new welfare reform

Communicating with policy makers

Training and hiring employees

Presenting results in writing and in person

Work with state officials on new policies and monitoring the projection of the policies

Providing sophisticated statistical modeling to design policies to reduce poverty and to implement policies more

effectively

ASSOCIATE STATISTICAL ANALYST

THE CENTER FOR DEMOGRAPHY & ECOLOGY – Madison, WI, USA

2001-2003

Accountable for analyzing data from multi-national datasets

DIRECTOR AND SPECIALIZED SENIOR STATISTICIAN

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THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION – Tel Aviv, Israel

1998-2001

Directing and building the institution from ground up.

Responsible for hiring, training and supervising employees.

Providing solid team leadership and collaboration expertise which established standards of work which increased

the productivity and the engagement of employees.

Supervise all phases of project life cycle, including conceptualization, development, resource management,

reporting, analysis, and briefs writing.

Extending the relationship and projects internationally.

Communicating regularly with teams from Germany to build a cross national team of workers

Focusing on increasing revenues by writing grants and by marketing the institution to non-academic projects.

Providing several workshops on attitudes, statistical analyses, survey design, data collection, questioner writing,

Statistical software (such as SPSS, AMOS and HLM) and management consulting.

Offering the highest levels of integrity and the highest level of trust with confident data.

STORE MANAGER

THE APPLIANCE STORE – Tel Aviv, Israel

1992-1998

Supervise a team of 40 employees

Responsible for hiring, training and the general operation of the store

Negotiating with suppliers (including negotiation on products, marketing, and pricing)

Monitoring the services and the transaction

Responsible for the accounting and the financial parts

SENIOR RISK AND REGULATION MONITORING

MAJOR BANK - Tel-Aviv, Israel

1989-1992

Modeling and monitoring the practice of the banking branches

Offering models to improve the banking system

EDUCATION

PhD, Sociology, Minor: Urban Planning, Labor Relation, Statistics and Economic 2009

University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Sociology – Madison, Wisconsin

Dissertation award from The Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award, for outstanding graduate student research in

Social Studies, 2009

Dissertation: “Rethinking Inequality: Constrained Opportunities and Structural Barriers to Equality.”

This dissertation is the first to include information on 14 millions jobs in the U.S. and their characteristics (which

can be used in the evaluation of employees and the requirements for hiring).

The dissertation evaluates the role of jobs and the economic sectors in reproducing gender and racial inequality.

Master of Arts (MA), Sociology & Anthropology, Minor: East Asia and Labor Relation

2001

Tel Aviv University – Tel Aviv, Israel

Magna Cum Laude

Thesis: Inclination to Discriminate against Minority Workers in Israel: Citizenship versus Ethnic base of exclusion

Analysis.

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology & Anthropology 1997

Tel Aviv University – Tel Aviv, Israel

Magna Cum Laude

H ONORS & G RANTS :

Faculty Support Fund, awarded for research support, 2011

Center for Peace & Global Citizenship, research grant support, 2010-2011

Faculty Support Fund, for excellent in teaching and training students, 2009-2010

Honorable Scholarship, on behalf of the President and the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, 2001-2002

PUBLICATIONS

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2008: Marlene. A. Lee, Joachim Singelmann and Anat Yom-Tov. Welfare myths: The transmission of values and work

among TANF families. Social Science Research Vol (37) pp 516-529.

2008: Ingrid E. Rothe, Steven T. Cook, Anat Yom-Tov. How Did the 2004 Change in Wisconsin’s Guidelines Affect

Child Support Payments? Research Report.

2007: Ingrid E. Rothe, Jennifer L. Noyes, Lynn Wimer, Anat Yom-Tov. The Compliance of New Wisconsin Child

Support Orders With the Pre- and Post-2004 Wisconsin Guidelines. Research Report.

2006: Emma Casper, Ingrid Roth, Anat Yom-Tov. The Use of Wisconsins Child Support Guidelines: Evidence from

2000-2003. Research Report www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/cspolicy/cspolicy03-05.htm.

2006: Ingrid E. Rothe, Anat Yom Tov. What Happens to Child Support Orders Over Time? A Longitudinal Analysis

of Wisconsin Orders. Research Report.

2005: Ingrid E. Rothe, Anat Yom Tov. Does Childcare Cost Influences Child Support Order Amount? Research Report

www.irp.wisc.edu/research/childsup/cspolicy/pdfs/Guidelines-2006.pdf.

2004: Moshe Semyonov, Rebeca Rijman, Anat Yom-Tov, and Peter Shmidt. Population size perceived threat and

exclusion: a multiple indicators analysis of attitudes toward foreigners in Germany. Social Science Research Vol

33 (4) pp 681-701.

2002: Moshe Semyonov, Rebeca Rijman and Anat Yom-Tov. Labor Market Competition, Perceived Threat, and

Endorsement of Economic Discrimination against Foreign Workers in Israel. Social Problems vol. 49 No.3 pp

416-431.

2001: Moshe Semyonov, Noah Lewin-Epstein, and Anat Yom-Tov. Metropolitan Labor Markets, Peripheral Labor

Markets, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Immigrants to Israel. International Migration vol.39 No.3 pp99-120.

WORK PROGRESS :

IN

Anat Yom-Tov. The Structural Barriers to Equality: Individual and Job Level Determinants of the Racial Wage

Gap among Women.

Anat Yom-Tov. The Compositional Wage Gap and the Devaluation of Female and Minority Jobs: A new Estimation

of Job Devaluation and Earnings Processes.

Anat Yom-Tov. The New Reality of Racial and Ethnic Earnings Inequality: Structural Barriers and Sectoral

Differences.

Anat Yom-Tov. The Structural Explanations for Spatial Inequality: The Variation in the Devaluation of Job.

Anat Yom-Tov. Anti-foreigner sentiment in Israel in dynamic perspective, from 1999 until 2007.

PRESENTATIONS

2013: Anat Yom-Tov. Anti-foreigner sentiment in Israel in dynamic perspective, from 1999 until 2007. International

Conference on Migration and Well-Being: Research Frontiers, hosted by Tel Aviv University and ISA's Research

Committee on Migration (RC31).

2011: Anat Yom-Tov. “What is the Worth of Female and Minority Work?” Paper presented at the International

Conference on Social Science in Hawaii.

2010: Anat Yom-Tov "The Barriers to Equality: How Jobs and Human Capital Reproduce Racial and Ethnic

Inequality among Men." Paper presented at the ASA Annual meeting in Atlanta.

2010: Anat Yom-Tov. "The Barriers to Equality: How Jobs and Human Capital Reproduce Racial and Ethnic

Inequality among Women." Paper presented at the RC28 Meeting in Haifa Israel.

2010: Anat Yom-Tov. "The Compositional Wage Gap and the Devaluation of Female and Minority Jobs: A new

Estimation of Job Devaluation and Earnings Processes." Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society

Annual meeting in Boston.

2008: Anat Yom-Tov. Structural Processes and Solutions for Racial and Gender Inequality: The Variation in the

Level of Job Devaluation by Labor Markets Demographic Composition, Institutions, and Polices. Paper

presented at the ASA Annual meeting in Boston.

2006: Anat Yom-Tov. The Geographic Concentration of College Access: An Exploration of Wisconsin. Paper

presented at the 28th Annual Association for Public Policy Assessment and Management. (APPAM) Research

Conference; Madison, WI, November 2006.

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2005: Anat Yom-Tov. Racial and Ethnic Beliefs about the Causes and Solutions of Poverty: a Cross National

Comparison. Paper presented at the ASA meeting 2005, in Philadelphia.

2005: Anat Yom-Tov. Who Helps? Determinants of Non-governmental Assistance among Recent Louisiana TANF.

Paper presented at the RC40 Mini-Conference and Banquet for William Friesland.

2004: Anat Yom-Tov. Local Effects or Global Effects: Spatial Variation in the Effect of Minority Concentrations and

Industrial structure on the Concentration of Poverty. Paper presented at the ASA meeting 2004, San Francisco.

2001: Anat Yom-Tov. Does Size matter? Actual Size, Perceived Size, and Anti- Foreigner Sentiments in Germany.

Paper presented in August at the 2001 Meeting of the RC28 Research Committee on Social Stratification, Berkeley,

California.

2001: Anat Yom-Tov. Labor Market Competition, Perceived Threat and Propensity for Economic Discrimination:

Foreign workers in Israel. Paper presented in August at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological

Association, Anaheim, California.

2000: Anat Yom-Tov. Metropolitan Labor Markets, Peripheral Labor Markets and Socioeconomic Outcomes among

Immigrants to Israel. Paper presented at The Second Taiwan-Israel Sociology Workshop.

2000: Anat Yom-Tov. Two Dimensions of Discrimination: Citizenship and Ethnicity. Paper presented at The Israeli

Sociology Association.

AFFILIATIONS

American Sociological Association

The ASA section affiliation of Gender, Race, and Class

The ASA section affiliation of Economic Sociology

The ASA section affiliation of Occupation & Work

The ASA section affiliation of Poverty & Inequality

RC28 - The Social Stratification

Eastern Sociology Association

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