University of Nevada Reno

Graduate Research  Assistant

2017, Aug - present

​Responsibilities:

• data cleaning, data analysis, and report/manuscript preparation.

• Assisted survey and secondary sources data (BLM, URDI, and NDOW) and report writing for the Nevada Native Seed Project

• development of the native plant material (NPM) industry in Nevada with the goal of increasing the supply and lowering the cost of NPMs for use in wildland restoration projects

• analyzing the current capacity to produce NPM in Nevada, identifying the challenges to producing NPM under cultivation, and a detailed analysis of NPM use by the Bureau of Land Management and other Federal, State, and private-sector entities in Nevada

• Preparing Ph.D. dissertation focusing on Big game hunters and impacts of Habitat Change in Nevada

• calculating the wiliness to pay by different user groups and examine the relationship between hunter characteristics and willingness to pay.

• Estimate the main drivers of hunting and expected changes in wildlife populations and hunt tag members as a result of ecosystem change.

• Explore the dynamics of big game hunting in Nevada using cost-benefit analysis, which focuses on the optimal control model. Developed STATA codes and different statistical and mathematical models (Dynamic Models)

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Global It Expert

SAS Programmer Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Maintain appropriate documentation surrounding maintaining or archiving data and/or programs.

• Contribute to computer programming efforts for a project and to provide programming support for data

• Primarily responsible for the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for data

• Ability to effectively program / troubleshoot / debug complex code

• Understands validation principles and requirements and consistently develops code in accordance with those requirements

• Ensures priorities are aligned and communicate proactively and effectively around issues and risks

 

SoDak Labs, Inc.                 

Laboratory Assistant   

Responsibilities:

• Plan, perform, evaluate, report, and interpret ELISA and electrophoresis testing.

• Assist with the purchase of equipment and consumables that will allow for accurate and efficient

• analysis.

• Complete proficiency testing as required to maintain certifications and approvals from trait

• providers.

• Manage and train employees to complete tasks in an accurate and efficient manner.

• Assist, as time permits, with PCR or other evaluations and laboratory needs

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South Dakota State University

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in survey questionnaire design and report writing for the South Dakota State University Climate Change Survey Project in 2013

• Entered and verified survey data for the 2014 edition of the South Dakota Land Market Trends 1991-2015.

• Worked closely with the data modeling team to analyze land-use change survey-related data, generate custom reports, tables and listings. Developed SAS code using Logistic regression model, GLM model building, t-test, F test, Chi-Square test.

• Used Proc SQL, Proc DBLOAD, Proc Tabulate, Proc Report, Proc Sort, Proc Freq, Proc Transpose, Proc Summary, Proc Compare, Proc Means, Proc ANOVA, Proc Univariate and Data _NULL_.

 

South Dakota State University

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

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• Assisted in Intermediate Microeconomics & Intermediate Macroeconomics (Spring 2014, supervised under Dr. Chang) Operations Research, (Fall-2013, supervised under Dr. Davis).

• Assisted Dr. Kuo-Liang Chang, project related to the Affordable Care Act (Obama Health Care) and prepared a research proposal for the Master's thesis.

• Worked extensively in SAS Data Analysis, Data Extraction, creating SAS Datasets from raw data, Excel, Text Files, Sorting, Merging and creating Reports using Proc Report.

• Performed Data Cleaning, Sorting, Merging, Data Analysis and Summarization using SQL, SAS (Interactive) on UNIX and PC SAS.