Brent Saunders

310-***-****

aczg1n@r.postjobfree.com

Granada Hills, CA 91344

www.linkedin.com/in/brent-saunders

SUMMARY

Market Research Professional with over 15 years of experience with tabulation / data transformation. Expertise with process automation and productivity improvement. Create innovative solutions to complex problems. I work well individually and in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Market Research Applications - Dimensions ~ Quantum ~ Quanvert ~ IBM Statistics ~ Stata ~ Minitab ~ Uncle ~ Perception Analyzer ~ DP Cubed

Programming Languages - MrScriptBasic ~ VBA ~ VBS ~ Perl ~ JavaScript ~ Python ~ Scheme ~ Lisp ~ SQL ~ ODBC ~ PHP

General - MS Office ~ Windows ~ Linux ~ Unix ~ Regular Expressions ~ MySQL ~ SQLite ~ VIM ~ Postscript ~ Adobe Distiller

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Unicom Global, Mission Hills, CA 2016 - 2016

Senior Software Engineer

Provided software support for Unicom Intelligence Software, Unicom’s flagship data collection/tabulation software. Trained to provide support for Banking Translation Toolkit.

J.D. POWER, Westlake Village, CA 2014 - 2016

Engineer III Software Development, Data Processing

Designed, developed, and implemented programs to advance departmental automation goals.

Developed program to automatically convert Dimensions Data format to SPSS SAV format, reducing processing time by 50%.

Developed method to automate conversion of external metadata and data to Dimensions database, reducing processing time from days to an hour.

IPSOS RESEARCH (acquired OTX Research 2010), Culver City, CA 2004 - 2014

Senior Manager Data Processing

Managed market research studies and later added overseeing outsourced projects and quality check deliverables. Ensured timely deliverables to client service team. Created numerous utilities that simplified routine tasks.

Conducted training for 30 employees in 3 North American locations and 2 webinars for absent attendees on Dimensions software platform, improving proficiency in new data collection methodology.

Automated process to read and turn metadata into table specifications in newly acquired Dimensions software, reducing post processing time from days to hours.

Created program that efficiently generated table specifications in Quantum, reducing post processing time from 8 hours to 2 hours.

Increased ability to change Quantum outputs to Microsoft Word documents in a single command.

Served as domain expert on engineering team that was tasked with converting proprietary data collection and reporting, increasing ability to understand reporting requirements to customize Dimensions software.

PINE COMPANY, Culver City, CA 2000 - 2004

Senior Project Director / Programmer

Manage market research studies. Ensured timely delivery of deliverables. Created tabulation programs. Worked solely in Quantum software.

Created program that efficiently generated formatted reports for clients.

Automated program that pulled and imported data from survey results and created 130 pages PowerPoint deck, customizing each deck for 125 franchise locations.

Created web-based Document Control System using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL, improving ability to track over 100K scanned questionnaires distributed to 10 different projects.

EDUCATION

BA, Political Science

San Francisco State University, CA

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