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)

o        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

R statistics
Splus / Splus
JMP
SQL
statistical programming
R programming
SAS programming
statistical modeling
scientific programming
statistics using Excel
SQL queries
database setup
database organization
multivariate analysis
excel programming
splus help
s plus programming
database analyst
access analyst
database analyst
visual basic help
analysis of database
database programming services
database consultant
visual basic database consulant
access database programmer
database programmer
database developer
java programming
sql database programmer
plink
c programming r
data management consulting
access data consulting
logistic regression model building
analyzing survey data
analyzing biomedical data
biomedical data mining
biomedical data analysis
object oriented programming
perl programming
statistical programming
java programming
javascript object oriented programming
snp data analysis
bioinformatics

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

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).