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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Hamilton, Nj

Executive analytic lead and member of corporate leadership team. Responsible for turning Fluent’s vast dental claims database into actionable insights and intelligence for all stakeholders. Developed and enhanced best in class analytic offerings aimed at transforming the way employers, dental benefits vendors, health plans, and government payers manage their networks, improve the overall quality and effectiveness of patient care, reduce fraud and abuse, and increase the efficiency of their dental benefit operations. Developed first-ever high-value targeting offerings for the dental device market. Consulted clients on effective usage and interpretation of data and analytics. Proactively identified and addressed data analytics needs in line with corporate strategic initiatives. Managed data driven projects involving timelines, client relationships, and budgets to ensure projects are delivered with the highest quality and within specified time frames.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Provided statistical and analytic consulting for a patient engagement and medication adherence company.Directed operations and technology team on best practices around data onboarding, QC, filtering/missing data handling, and analytics.Proposed enhanced methodologies for evaluating patient adherence and developing propensity-matched control cohorts.Documented all recommendations and presented proposed enhancements to executive leadership team.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Taught an undergraduate-level, online introductory statistics course for the social and behavioral sciences and nursing.Recorded lectures via Adobe Connect utilizing online analytic resources.Worked with students with a wide range of educational backgrounds and experiences to ensure their understanding of statistical concepts such as: data collection and visualization, measures of central tendency and variation, probability, the normal and binomial distributions, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals.Graded students’ tests, quizzes, and projects.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Led a group of statisticians and statistical programmers, conducting a wide range of retrospective, patient-level, longitudinal analyses utilizing a fully adjudicated medical and pharmaceutical claims database.Developed a range of applied predictive models for identifying patients with a high likelihood of meeting specific criteria (e.g., developing a specific chronic condition, being at high risk for inpatient readmissions, demonstrating large increases in future healthcare utilization), using a range of traditional statistical modeling and data mining techniques (decision trees, generalized linear models, logistic regression/multinomial logit).Created a novel, comprehensive, adaptive scoring algorithm, incorporating a wide range of disparate data sources, to evaluate a member’s suitability for recruitment into member care management programs.Consulted with a wide range of internal stakeholders on appropriate statistical methodologies to effectively measure the impact of patient care initiatives.Developed and presented statistical overviews of various analyses to corporate senior management.Conducted a wide array of statistical studies using SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner, including: data manipulation, exploratory data analyses, regression (linear, non-linear, and logistic), categorical data analyses, and data mining.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Led a group of thirty statisticians and statistical programmers, spread across five countries, providing complete analytic and methodological support for all of IMS’s global offerings including a full suite of anonymized patient-level data (APLD), national, sub-national, and prescriber-level prescription data, and sales data.Developed and enhanced projection methodologies for longitudinal prescription and patient estimations.Led a team providing evidence-based consultative offerings designed for large pharmaceutical chains.Managed global development initiatives, timelines, and resources to ensure projects were completed on time and within budget.Consulted sales, marketing, and software development personnel on statistical methodology.Developed and presented statistical overviews of various analyses both internally and to clients.Worked closely with clients to determine their needs and help them understand and use the results.Led the integration of multiple, disparate data sources into existing APLD offerings, allowing client reporting enhancements that presented longitudinal patient data by patient ethnicity and disease diagnosis.Incorporated CHAID decision trees into the patient sample stratification process, allowing for better defined and modular patient strata.

Conducted retrospective, patient-level, longitudinal analyses utilizing a fully adjudicated medical and pharmaceutical claims database.Directed the statistical and programming output of multiple analysts and programmers for fulfillment of consulting studies.Conducted statistical modeling analyses (Cox Proportional Hazard Models, Generalized Linear Models, Logistic Regression, Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis) on patient-level data.Developed proposals, research protocols, and presentations of results for a diverse range of pharmaceutical clients.Developed a bootstrapping estimation methodology to produce confidence intervals for projected disease prevalence rates.

Conducted retrospective, patient-level, longitudinal analyses utilizing a regionally diverse administrative claims database.Directed the statistical and programming output of multiple analysts for fulfillment of consulting studies.Developed proposals, research protocols, and presentations of results for a diverse range of pharmaceutical clients.Created analytic content for multiple journal publications and professional meeting presentations.

Led a group of statisticians and statistical programmers providing statistical consulting services to pharmaceutical clients for the management of their sales forces, generating over $2.8 million in revenue in 2003.Developed, implemented and oversaw the statistical methodology for projects in prescriber targeting, sales force planning/sizing/compensation, promotional optimization, and measuring sales force effectiveness.Spearheaded new, innovative analytics which incorporated multiple, disparate primary and secondary data sources, maximizing the value and business utility of these analyses.Consulted sales and marketing personnel on statistical methodology.Developed and presented statistical overviews of various analyses both internally and to clients.Worked closely with clients to determine their needs and help them understand and use the results.Conducted a wide array of statistical studies using SAS (PC and mainframe) and SPSS, including: data manipulation, exploratory data analyses, regression (linear, non-linear, and logistic), analysis of variance (ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, and MANCOVA), categorical data analyses, multivariate procedures (discriminant analysis, factor analysis, and principal components analysis), clustering, nonparametric, and categorical analyses.Used SAS Enterprise Miner and SPSS AnswerTree to conduct multiple studies, including promotional response modeling, variable reduction and segmentation using decision trees (C&RT and CHAID), and identifying significant switching patterns using a neural network trend analyzer.Promoted twice during tenure within Consulting.

Developed and enhanced multiple projection methodologies for several IMS syndicated data audits, using simple, stratified, ratio estimation, and geo-spatial projection methodologies.Participated in the development and refinement of multiple statistical tools that track the influences of managed care in the pharmaceutical industry.Participated in the development and refinement of a new study to track the compliance rates of patients in obtaining refills on their prescriptions.Conducted a wide array of statistical studies using SAS (PC and mainframe).Promoted three times during tenure within syndicated IMS.

Taught the undergraduate level introduction to statistics class. Instructed students in the use of MYSTAT.Developed and graded exams and quizzes for the class.Assisted a professor in teaching this class.Served as a private tutor for undergraduates for these and other statistics classes.

Developed a computer model to predict the rate of enrollment for new patients in clinical trial studies using SAS.Created a computerized graphical presentation package to display various statistics concerning current patient enrollment as well as statistics on projected enrollment.Created a sampling scheme for testing the production quality of a new drug.Analyzed results from a drug experiment and consulted with research chemists on the proper analysis of these results.

Conducted various statistical analyses of Delaware Educational Assessment Program (DEAP) data using SPSS-X for the Research and Evaluation Division.Designed a statewide-stratified sampling procedure for evaluating student performance in reading, language and mathematics.Performed data searches in the department's longitudinal data file and prepared summary reports for various clients.

Participated in various projects connected with the ongoing operation and maintenance of the Current Population Survey (CPS).Performed various projects utilizing SAS.Conducted research associated with the 1990 redesign of the CPS.Designed a sampling procedure using computer-aided telephone interviewing (CATI) for testing new versions of the CPS questionnaire.

Master Of Science, Statistics

Program included courses in statistical computing, experimental design, sampling theory, mathematical statistics, and linear modeling.

Bachelor Of Science, Statistics

Program included courses in experimental design, calculus, multivariate analysis, and regression.

Pharmaceutical Marketing

Completed courses in accounting, management, marketing, product management, designing strategic partnerships, and the regulation.