KIM SEEFELD
· Expert level skills in SAS, R/SPlus, JMP, SQL and highly adept to working with various other packages.
· Experience with large datasets, educational data, and biomedical data (medical claims, clinical, laboratory, genetic).
· MS Mathematics (Statistics), December 2003, University of New Hampshire (Durham)
· Software used extensively included: SAS, SPlus, R, JMP. Able to do all basic statistical analysis and modeling.
· M.Ed. Computer Technology, August 2001, Plymouth State University (NH)
· BS Computer Science, August 2000, Franklin Pierce College (NH)
· BS Zoology, August 1994, Michigan State University
Kim Seefeld, MS, M.Ed. spent ten years working in biomedical research laboratories collecting and analyzing data after finishing a BS in Cell Biology from Michigan State. She understands the difficulties in making sense of research data because she did it for a long time. After doing all that wet lab work she moved out of the lab, got a degree in computer science and worked as a software engineer. Her programming skills are in many languages, including Perl, SQL, VB, Java, and C/C++. She also taught programming in public school and at the college level. She authored Java Programming Fundamentals, a book about object oriented programming in Java because she likes to explain difficulty technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
Kim finished an MS degree in statistics and continued studies at the doctoral level. She is an expert in statistical programming, especially using R Software and SAS, and is the author of Statistics Using R with Biological Examples. For five years, she has taught college statistics (University of New Hampshire, NHCTC-Manchester) to students in various fields and has worked in statistical consulting at New England Medical Center.
Areas of expertise include: data presentation (including doing very complex and customized graphs), R programming, SAS programming, experimental design, statistical modeling (linear, nonlinear, hierarchical, logistic, survival), scientific programming, statistics using Excel, SQL queries, database setup/organization, multivariate analysis, Bayesian methods, nonparametric methods, and applications of statistics to genetics (microarray analysis, whole genome association studies).
EXPERIENCE
Research Associate/Statistician, Tufts - New England Medical Center (Boston, MA)
Nephrology & Biostatistics
Statistical consulting, administer training presentations (R, PLINK), report writing
Statistical programming in SAS (BASE, SQL, STATS, ODS, MACROS, REPORT, GENETICS), JMP and R
Projects included:
o Processing large-scale Medicare claims data to analyze frequencies of comobrid conditions in dialysis patients
o Modeling stroke mortality using logistic regression
o Cleaning clinical databases using SAS
o Analyzing patient satisfaction survey data
o Analyzing snp genetic data using whole genome techniques (PLINK software)
o Generating reports to over 150 dialysis centers (DCI chain) detailing specifics of patients at that clinic compared to national and multi-clinic standards (using R)
Instructor in Mathematics, New Hampshire Community Technical College (Manchester, NH)
Instructor in Statistics, University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH)
Secondary Teacher, Dracut Public Schools (MA)
· Taught C++ programming and HS mathematics (algebra, algebra2, precalculus)
· Tracked and analyzed student data (using JMP software and GradeQuick)
Contract Technical Writer
· Worked independently on projects paid by writing contracts
· Professionally agented by Waterside Publications (Christian Crumlish, agent)
· 2003-2004 Authored ‘R for Bioinformatics’, OReilly (Contract)
o Wrote successful proposal, planned and authored text
o Text covers R statistical language programming – wrote all code samples
o May 2007 published online on http://www.r-project.org/ as ‘Statistics Using R with Biological Examples’ and free to download
· 2001-2002 Authored ‘Java Programming Fundamentals’, Charles River Media (Contract)
o Wrote successful proposal, planned and authored text covering fundamentals of object oriented programming and the Java language
o Published (still in print) by Charles River Media and available on major outlets for purchase )
Computer Teacher, Timberlane Public Schools (NH)
Software Engineer, ElephantX Dot Com (Nashua, NH)
· Front end web programming: Javascript, HTML and back end Java, SQL, Visual Basic programming for large-scale database (stock exchange) application
Research Assistant, Dartmouth Medical School (Hanover, NH)
· Worked in research laboratories generating and analyzing biomedical data
· Used Excel, Access, Minitab on a frequent (at least weekly) basis to analyze results
· Produced graphs, charts, and tables for publications
