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Kerem Tezic
Chattanooga, TN, 37402, USA
Phone: 423-***-****
Email: ***********@*****.***
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kerem-tezic/29/14b/691
SUMMARY:
• 4+ years of work experience with Data Mining (Neural Network, Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Partial
Least Squares, LARS, Bagging, Boosting in SAS EM) and Text Mining in the Health and Workers Compensation
Insurance companies.
• 7+ years of statistical and predictive modeling work experience (Survival Analysis, Mixed linear/non-linear
models, time-series analysis, factor analysis, PCA, correspondence Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Linear and
Logistic Regression, GLM, Longitudinal data analysis, Sample selection models, propensity score matching,
count data analysis, sampling techniques) using SAS and R, in the Health and Workers Compensation Insurance
companies and research institues.
• 15+ years of SAS programming experience, SAS STAT, SAS ETS, 5+ years of experience SAS EM 4+ years of
proc SQL experience
• Good organizational skills to assess needs, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Good team player but capable to work independently.
Work Experience:
BlueCross BlueShield of TN, Chattanooga, TN December 2011 – Present
Role: Data Mining Specialist/consultant (full-time)
Duties:
• Builds predictive models for determining the health care costs of current members using claim data.
• Builds rare-event and end-of-life predictive models.
• Builds health risk assessment models.
• Campaign evaluation.
• Builds return on investment models (ROI).
• Validate, manipulate and perform exploratory data analysis tasks on data sets.
• Instructs and consults the other team members about statistical model specification and data mining.
AFA Swedish Labour Market Insurances, Stockholm, Sweden Dec. 2007 to Dec. 2011
Role: Statistician/Data Analyst
Duties:
• Builds advanced-level predictive models for different outcomes (such as multilevel modelling of the severity of
the work-related injuries, GLM and competing-risks/survival models for health outcomes
• Analyzes population groups’ demographics, industry, risk factors, incidence measures
• Uses dimension reduction techniques (such as multiple correspondence analysis) to analyse the claims data base
• Prepares conclusions and predictions based on data summaries; reports results of statistical analyses, including
statistical modeling and graphic analysis; clearly articulates the underlying business problem being solved and the
insight from the analysis
• Constructs time-series forecasts of different insurance products
• Performs data mining and text mining (using SAS, SAS EM software) using the claims database
• Designs and extracts data based on sampling techniques, determines types and sample size of groups for quality
control analysis
• Manipulates, extracts and transforms the data for costumers and researchers
• Writes annual and monthly reports of work related injuries and long-term sickness based on the results and assists
in the presentation of these reports to the labour market parties and Swedish media
• Presents the results to the customers and non-technical/technical audience
• Examines the new relational database using PROC SQL to identify sources of errors
• Performs advanced statistical functions in the validation, interpretation and analysis of data .
The Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics (SLI), Lund, Sweden Sept. 2005 to Dec. 2007
Role: Econometrician/Research scientist
Duties:
• Builds advanced econometric/statistical models to analyze which characteristics make agricultural workers stay in
the agricultural sector, on the survival analysis of farms, on the conditional probability for young agricultural
workers of leaving non-employment in any particular year out of work.
• Develos and using the agricultural sector model CAPRI (which is used by the European Commission) to make
scenario analyses for 2020 related to bio energy production.
University of Gothenburg, Economics and Statistics Department Gothenburg, Sweden Sept. 2003 to June 2005
Role:Teacher/Assistant Teacher
Duties: Teacher /Assistant Teacher position in following courses:
• Econometrics (main teacher),
• Statistical Data Analysis 1,2,3 (assistant teacher)
• Multivariate Statistical Analysis (assistant teacher)
• Regression Analysis and Time Series (assistant Teacher),
• Econometrics (PhD level) (assistant Teacher)
Education:
University of Gothenburg
1996 to 2004
PhD. Economics (Department of Economics and Statistics)
Universite de Nancy, Centre European Universitaire
1989 to 1991
Masters Degree in Economics
University of Istanbul
1984 to 1988
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics
Publications:
Publication: International Review of Applied Economics
Article: Parental income and continuing education of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Date: July 2006, Volume 20, No 4
Co-Author: Prof. Ali Tasiran, Birkbeck, University of London
Publication: Applied Economics
Article: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden
Date: 2007, Volume 39, pp. 809-824
Co-Author: Prof. Ali Tasiran, Birkbeck, University of London
Publication: European Review of Agricultural Economics
Article: Who stays after entering the primary sector? Evidence from Swedish micro-level data.
Date: 2008, Volume 35(1), pp. 1-28
Co-Author: Joakim Gullstrand, Lund University
Publication: Safety Science Monitor
Article: Threats and violence as a precursor to occupational injury; text-mining of insurance-based information on police
officers and security guards in Sweden 2004-2007
Date: 2010, Volume 14(2), pp. 1-13
Co-Author: Prof. Tore Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and Cecilia Oldertz AFA Swedish Labor
Market Insurances
Working Papers:
• Arrival Cohort Effects on the Incomes of Immigrant Women in Sweden
• Threats and violence as a precursor to occupational injury: text-mining of insurance-based information on police
officers and security guards in Sweden 2004-2007 (Presented at SAS Global Forum, Washington DC, March
2009)
Report Papers:
• A simulation of the development of Swedish Agriculture until 2020 in the light of continued reform and increased
biofuel demand. Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics Report Paper (prepared for Swedish
Environmental Protection Agency).
• Economic Analysis of Graduate Employment in Sweden (prepared for Statistics Sweden, SCB)
Seminar participation as invited speaker:
• International Labour Market Conference, Abredeen, June 2002
Topic: Parental income and continuing education of second-generation immigrants in Sweden.
• Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), 2-3 June 2003, University of Versailles, France
Topic: Second generation immigrants’ entry into labor market in Sweden: Experiences of young people from
Middle-East and African Countries
• SAS Global forum March 22-25, 2009, Washington DC
Topic: Text-mining of insurance based information
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings09/TOC.html
• SAS A2009 Analytics Conference, July 1-2, 2009, Copenhagen
Topic: Threats and violence as a precursor to occupational injury: text-mining of insurance-based information on police
officers and security guards in Sweden 2004-2007
http://www.sas.com/events/aconf/2009/program.pdf
• SAS Data Mining Conference October 25-26, 2010, Las Vegas
Topic: Clustering and Predictive Models with Text Mining: Examples from Insurance Claims Management.
http://www.sas.com/events/dmconf/m2010/speaker.html#t2
Computer Skills & Competencies:
• SAS, R, SAS EM, Proc SQL, Gauss, Stata, Limdep, SPSS, Excel, Word, Scientific Workplace, Gams
Additional Information:
• Fluent in English, French, Swedish, Turkish, Italian, beginner skills in Spanish.
• Referee in Journal of Population Economics, Applied Economics
• Member of the Swedish Society of Statisticians
• Currently I am on H1-B visa
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