Data Management

JIANJUN LIU

QUALIFICATIONS

• Task-oriented biostatistician with comprehensive analytical and programming skills; Background includes SAS and R programming, data manipulation and analysis, epidemiology, and clinical medicine

• Extensive experience in advanced clinical trial design and statistical analysis methodologies

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, well-organized and detail oriented, strong ability to multitask and willing to learn

EDUCATION

M.S. Biostatistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2010

M.D. Clinical Medicine Hebei Medical University 2004

CERTIFICATION

• SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS®9, 2010;

• SAS® Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS®9, 2010;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAS Programmer, Statistics and Data Corporation (SDC), Tempe, AZ. April 2011 – Present

• Develop routine SAS macros for data cleaning and reporting across multiple studies.

• Provide tabular and written summaries of analyses for inclusion in clinical study reports.

• Perform validation and QC on derived datasets following standard operating procedures.

• Analyze data with biostatisticians using various multivariate analysis procedures such as PROC GLM, MIXED, LOGISTIC, etc.

• Generate tables, listings, graphs, and customized reports in text, HTML or PDF format using SAS ODS, use SQL to perform queries.

• Assist in the design and maintenance of clinical trial databases, process data from different sources.

Intern, Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical company, Ridgefield, CT. June 2010 – October 2010

• Built workflow for gene expression array data analysis within GeneData system.

• Performed a variety of data management and analysis tasks, including data transformation. inspection of outliers and invalid data values, and conducting various analytical tasks.

• Interacted with software developers to address system bugs.

• Conducted analysis such as various types of ANOVA models for microarray data, cluster analysis and multiple testing in Microarray studies.

• Performed sample size calculation, and protocol review.

Intern, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. June 2009 – August 2009

• Wrote SAS codes to perform data management and manipulation for clinical trial studies.

• Conducted a myriad of data analyses such as factor analysis, mixed models, and survival analysis using SAS.

• Provided support for research design, model specification, and database management.

• Supported data analysts and medical writers on SAS coding and result presentations, sample size calculation, produce tables, listings and figures; perform data review and statistical analysis.

SAS Programming and Data Analysis Consultant, Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA. January 2010 – Present

• Provide technical support on SAS, SPSS programming related to data manipulation and analysis.

• Conduct survival analysis, multilevel modeling, and other multivariate analysis for peer-reviewed manuscripts and conference presentations.

• Support the interpretation of study results and assist with written presentation of study results

• Assist in writing analytical procedure and results sections of manuscripts.

Teaching Assistant for the course of Analysis of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst January 2010 – July 2010

• Lead in class lab discussion

• Run office hour instruction and provide feedback to students

• Correct and interpret SAS codes

Resident Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Xianxian General Hospital, China. September 2004 – April 2007

• Conducted surgical operations under supervision and then independently in inpatient and outpatient sections of Department of General Surgery

• Supervised six fifth-year undergraduate interns in their training in Surgery Department

• Ran public health training workshops for 300 factory workers

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Li, Y., Lynch, A. D., Kevin, C., Liu, J., & Lerner, R. M. (2011). Peer relations as a context for the development of school engagement. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35, 329-342.

Li, Y., Zhang, W., Liu, J., Arbeit, M., Schwartz, S., Bowers, E., & Lerner, R. M. (in press). The role of school engagement in preventing adolescent delinquency and substance use: A survival analysis. Journal of Adolescence.

Li, Y., Liu, J., & Lerner, R. M. (2011). School engagement and family connection as protective against adolescent tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug initiation: A Developmental analysis. Poster presentation at the annual convention of American Psychological Society (APS), Washington, DC.

MATH AND COMPUTER SKILLS

• Strong background in advanced mathematics (algebra and linear matrix)

• Proficiency with data management and analysis in SAS (SAS/SQL, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ODS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/IML, SAS/Genetics and SAS/STAT), R (R/base, R/class, R/genetic, R/stats, R/MASS, R/Matrix, R/nlme, R/rpart), MS Excel, and MS Access

• Familiarity with SPSS statistical package

• Experience in website design software Adobe® Dreamweaver®

CORE COURSES

Mixed Models and Longitudinal data analysis, Survival Analysis, Analysis of Categorical Data Intermediate Biostatistics, Mathematical Statistics I&II, Matrix linear Algebra, Applied Statistical Genetics, Intro to Statistical Computing R(R Programming), Practical Data Management and Statistical Computing (SAS Programming and R Programming), Design and Analysis of Experiment, Computer Analysis of Health Science, ST-Stat Computing (SAS Programming and R Programming), Environmental Health Practice, Principle of Epidemiology

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