analyst, sas

Fangyuan(Farrah) Zuo

**** ******* **, ***** ******, VA, 330-***-**** ***********@*******.***

OBJECTIVE Seek an Analyst position that will challenge my analytical, quantitative and resourceful interpersonal skills.

SKILLS SUMMARY

 Programming experiences with statistical packages: SAS, SPSS, STATA, JMP and R.

 Familiar with MS Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, have the knowledge of Visual Basic

 Proficiency with Data Management, Processing and Simulation.

 Analysis of large and complex financial data, statistical model building techniques such as linear regression, logistic regression, generalized linear models, categorical data analysis, and cluster analysis.

 Demonstrated ability to successfully prioritize and multi-task in fast-paced environments.

 Strong analytical and interpersonal skills; proficient in both English and Chinese.

CERTIFICATIONS

 SAS Certified Advanced Programmer 08/2009

 SAS Certified Base Programmer 08/2008

EXPERIENCE

 University of Akron, Graduate Assistant , Akron, OH 01/2008- 12/2009

• Working with professors on current projects in the Center for Statistical Consulting.

• Computer lab instructor for undergraduate classes; tutoring students in basic statistics and economics; grading homework and exams for undergraduate students.

 China Development Bank, Data Analyst Intern Changsha, China 12/2005-03/2006

• Extracted data from various data warehouse by writing queries in SQL; performed data mining, data profiling and verified the accuracy of data.

• Involved in collecting demographic mortgage data for Analysis. Data was analyzed to see how different demographic variables are connected to each other. Statistical Analysis was done on these data using SAS

• Engaged in evaluating the econometric model specification used to detect mortgage lending discrimination by banks.

 China Agriculture Bank, Mortgage Consultant Intern Changsha, China 01/2004-03/2004

• Prepared financial report and monthly summary to the manager.

• Assisted to build Statistical models to forecast bad debt expense.

• Tested models and scored on other dataset.

• Assisted in interpretation of results and prepares tables or graphs for inclusion in reports and papers

EDUCATION

 01/2008- present: Master of Science in Statistics, GPA: 4.0/4.0 The University of Akron, OH

 07/2006-12/2007: Master of Arts in Economics, GPA 3.4/4.0 The University of Akron OH

 09/2002-06/2006: Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, Grades: 90/100

Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

SELECTED CONSULTING PROJECTS AND COURSE PROJECTS

 Determinant of Different Sources of Health Insurance Coverage among Households.

• Programming in SAS to analyze demographic and insurance data on U.S. household characteristics

• Conducted multiple methods for imputing missing values

• Built up predictive model by using logistic regression, multivariate analysis to predict the factors will lead to insurance coverage and different sources of health insurance.

• Calculated the summary statistics and reported the result of the study

 Mortgage Lending Discrimination by Banks

• Use of SAS Data Step, SAS Proc steps, SAS Proc sql for development

• Loan Denial Study based on HMDA data and on applications to individual lenders

• Identified the appropriate modeling methodology and concluded summary of the findings.

• Study the racial and ethnic Geographic disparities in home mortgage lending.

 The Study for Eating Disorder by Assessing the Indirect Effects in Multiple Mediator Models

• Assisted in recoding and categorizing the raw data from questionnaires completed by college and high school students

• Carried out the logistic models to assess the indirect effects of mediators(family associated factors) so as to predict eating disorder behavior among college and high school students

• Developed the nonparametric methods and implemented bootstrap in SAS/MACRO to validate the model

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