statistician, statistical analyst, data analyst, data scientist

Wei Ma

**** ********** **** ****, *** U***, Blacksburg, VA 540-***-**** ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVES

Seeking a full time position of Data Analyst at Software Specialists

EDUCATION

M.S. Statistics, M.S. Plant Pathology May 2014, GPA: 3.3/4.0

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Selected Coursework: Regression and ANOVA, Probability and Distribution, Statistical Inference, Linear Models,

Statistical Collaboration, Biostatistics I and II, Epidemiology, Statistical Software Package, Regression Analysis, Spatial

Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Nonparametric Analysis, Survival Statistics, Longitudinal Analysis, Experimental Design

B.S. Plant Science and Technology GPA: 3.5/4.0

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan, China

WORK EXPERIENCE

Statistical Consultant September 2012 - Present

Virginia Tech’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA)

Blacksburg, VA

Supervise more than 10 statistical consulting projects in diverse disciplinary areas including Engineering, Education

Science, Economics, Biological Science, Agricultural and Life Science, Transportation, Public Health, etc.

Provide clients with collaboration service on their experimental designs, data analysis, result interpretation, etc.

Offer statistical software services on SAS, R, JMP, SPSS, and MATLAB

Maintain walk-in consulting service and assist intermediate statistical courses

Teaching Assistant 2010-2011

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Managed weekly lectures, graded weekly assignments and quizzes, and held regular office hours

Research Assistant 2009-2011

Virginia Tech (Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center)

Blackstone, VA

Designed and administered experiments to examine the genetic resistance of tobacco to root-knot nematode

Proposed the factorial tests of pesticide effect on the pathogenic agents of tobacco in Virginia

Concocted and operated laboratory tests to investigate the heat tolerance effect of anhydrobiotic seed gall nematode

Performed data modeling, diagnostics, remedies, analysis, and visualization to the results of the managed projects

Led the management of the lab team on daily laboratory work and pesticide application

Supervised the database management of research station

COMPUTER SKILLS

Selected quantitative software: SAS, R, MATLAB, C, Minitab, SQL, Java, Hadoop, Python, AM, SPSS, JMP, ArcGIS

Selected office software: Microsoft Office, LaTeX, Prezi, ARM, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop

Language: English (fluent), Cantonese (fluent), Mandarin Chinese (native)

Publications

2014 in submission: Ma, Wei, C. S. Johnson, J. D. Eisenback, and T. D. Reed. Clarify the resistance to sedentary

endoparasitic nematodes from the Rk2 genetic factor in tobacco. Journal of Nematology.

Eisenback, J. D., Wei Ma, and Curtis W. Roane. 2013. Heat tolerance and aging of the anhydrobiotic seed gall nematode

with SEM observations. Journal of Nematology 45 (1): 43-48.

OTHER

Activities: City volunteer for Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Provincial Athlete of Third Level in China

Interests: Consulting, Reading, Cooking, Sports (NBA, NCAA, tennis, F1, Premier League), Fitness, travel

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