Research Assistant and Data Analyst Resume Tennessee, Knoxville - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience in data analysis, research and interpreting and analyzing socio - economic data.
Proficient knowledge in statistics, mathematics, econometrics and analytics.
Excellent understanding of socio-economic operations and analytics tools for effective analyses of data.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Extensive knowledge of mathematical and statistical methodology to complex data and able to implement it in SAS and R
Strong expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methodology and databases
Experience in data design, data structure, data mining, data visualization and data modeling
Proficient in univariate and multivariate analysis and experimental design & analysis
Excellent knowledge of SAS tools with emphasis on SAS BASE, SAS MACROS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH and SAS/ODS
Familiar with SPSS, JMP, STATA and MATLAB, and
Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Access and Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tennessee, Knoxville

Research Assistant and Data Analyst

Researched primary materials, utilized SAS and R software to analyze state of affairs and crisis of human rights, asylum seekers and refugees’ data of Eritrea
Worked closely with research scientist to identify existing human rights situation in Eritrea
Successfully interpreted data to identify key metrics and draw conclusions
Translated of lengthy primary documents from Tigrinya to English

Confidential, Tennessee, Knoxville

Graduate Research Assistant

Data cleansed and provided modeling and analyses of Mozambique’s household of smallholding farmers data
Employed various statistical analysis and data mining techniques using SAS, R, MATLAB and SIMETAR to understand the interactions between adoption of farming technology and the risk associated with adoption of smallholding farmers using large volume of household data
Performed data manipulations combine merge data using PROC SQL and produced SAS outputs in RTF, PDF, CSV and HTML formats using ODS
Performed univariate and multivariate statistical analysis

Confidential

Supply Chain Data Analyst

Analyzed and strategically selected of 500+ bidding local and international companies interested in ACF’s open call of interest to supply goods and services using excel spreadsheet
Serve as a subject matter expert in SAP and internal processes or procedures
Expertly support and manage day-to-day purchasing operations
Created efficient inventory metrics and helped in saving costs on unwanted stocking of supplies

Confidential

Budgeting Data Analyst

Performed detailed statistical analysis using Excel, R and SAS on annually and quarterly budget requests and expenditure and submitted more than 15 published reports
Applied statistical theory and methods to monitor optimum allocation and utilization of budget for line ministries
Analyzed large data sets using statistical techniques such as general linear and mixed models, analysis of variance
Generated statistical report, summary tables and graphical representations to senior management