Data Assistant

XINGJIA (KRIS) SHANG

Cell: 646-***-**** email: *******@*****.***

San Antonio, TX

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position as SAS Programmer that starts immediately

QUALIFICATION

Master degree of statistics with solid statistics knowledge and methodology background

Strong analytical skills, more than 3 years of statistical programming and data analysis

experience, prior experience in dealing with medical/biostatistics data

Strong proficiency in mainstream statistical language with SAS 9 Advanced certified expert at

Office tools

Good knowledge of clinical trial practices, procedures and methodologies

Excellent writing report and presentation skills

Excellent communication and organization skills, excellent team worker, can work

independently

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

SAS ® 9 Certified Advance Programmer for SAS/SQL, Macro etc

Expert at data management and manipulation techniques

Proficient in SAS BASE, STAT, SQL, ODS, GRAPH, IML modules etc

Proficient in statistical software R/S-plus, SPSS, SQL, Minitab, Matlab

Experienced in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Data Analyst (Volunteer) 03/2009 – present

Transformation Strategies Inc., San Antonio

Extracted data and perform pre/post evaluation regarding the trainer individual leadership skills

Tracking the historical data in a user-friendly relational database and provide both quantitative

and qualitative analysis in SPSS, SAS, Access and Excel software

Consulting services on pharmaceutical market research, market segmentation, input-output

analysis and predicted trend and make customer analysis

Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant 08/2007 - 12/2008

Dept of Management Science & Statistics, University of Texas at San Antonio

Assisted Students for computer application of statistical analysis, graded homework and exam

Collected data and managed data analysis, designed survey form and compiled electrical files,

preparation of the teaching notes and presentation

Research Assistant 08/2006 - 07/2007

Dept of Electro-Optics, University of Dayton

Cooperate group members to design innovative photo-detector and simulate statistical

algorithm

Xingjia (Kris) Shang

Research Assistant 09/2004- 07/2006

Dept of Opto-electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China

Analyze biomedical fMRI data, make statistical analysis and report

RESEARCH PROJECTS

A parametric & semi-parametric analysis of UMARU study 10/2008- 12/2008

Constructed an appropriate parametric model, built a Cox proportional hazard model to

determine

if an alternative form of therapy of shorter duration would have the same effectiveness as the

traditional longer duration therapy for the AIDS patient relapse days.

Tool: Proc LIFETEST, Proc LIFEREG, Proc PHREG

Progesterone data inference test 11/2008- 12/2008

Extracted, cleaned up the data and developed SAS programming codes

Developed a distribution model, constructed a sampling distribution of the parameters

Performed Chi-square test and two sample t test to investigated the relationship between

gestation status and progesterone level

Tool: R (mle, t.test, var.test, ks.test, ecdf plot, power etc)

Logistic regression model for high school and beyond data 9/2008- 11/2008

Did data consistency and transformation of some variables, built an appropriate logistic model

to

test internal relation between student’s math score and other factors

detected the influential observations and made a prediction based on the model.

Tool: Proc LOGISTIC, Proc SQL, Proc FREG, Proc MEANS

Analysis of the cause of the concentration of an air pollutant (NO2) 3/2008- 5/2008

Analyzed correlation of meteorological variables by t-test and Bonferroni test, predicted

concentration of NO2 with SAS Generalized linear regression model.

Tool: SAS IML, Proc GLM, Bonferroni test, Proc CORR

National ambulatory Medical Care Survey data 11/2007- 1/2008

Conducted data sub-setting, performed one-way ANOVA analysis to test the association

between weights of patients’ race and gender, estimated bivariate densities,

did locally weighted regression and nonparametric analysis of variance.

Tool: Proc FREQ, Proc CORR, Proc Mixed, SAS GRAPH, LOESS, Proc NP1WAY

EDUCATION

University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio TX USA 12/2008

Master of Science: Statistics

Bachelor of Science: Engineering, China 12/2004

COURSE WORK

Mathematical Statistics (I&II), Mathematical Methods of Statistics, Statistical Inference,

Linear Regression Analysis, Linear Model, Numerical Analysis, SAS programming, Survival

Analysis, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Time Series, Experimental Design, Bootstrap Methods and

Xingjia (Kris) Shang

Permutation Tests

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