Name: Zhongwen Lai Company: University of Pennsylvania Phone: (215) 545-2979 Email: zwlai@lexis.pop.upenn.edu Location: Delaware Valley area preferred, but willing to relocate

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Zhongwen Lai 201 S 13th St., Apt 1107 Phone: (215) 545-2979 Philadelphia, PA 19107 Email: zwlai@lexis.pop.upenn.edu *****************************************************************************

OBJECTIVE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seeking a position as a Senior SAS Programmer/Analyst.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Excellent quantitative & analytical skills. Solid training in statistical modeling. * Five years experience in SAS. Strong skills in programming, data editing & manipulation. Experinece with SAS/STAT, SAS/INSIGHT and SAS/Macro. * Experience with both mainframe and PC/window working environments. * Language: BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, dBASE. * Three years experience in STATA, both interactive performance and programming. * Packages: Lotus 123, Quattro Pro, Excel, WordPerfect, MS-Word. * Proven ability to work both as an individual and as a part of a team, to adapt to new environments and learn new things quickly, very organized, self-starting and hard working. Excellent writting skills.

EXPERIENCE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Assistant (PT). Univ. of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. 1/95 - present

* Duties include complicated data editing and manipulation, statistical analysis and modeling, working on large scale Medicare, Medicaid and other health care data sets. * Participated in the development of a queuing model for psychiatric hospital beds.

Research Assistant (PT). Univ. of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center. 9/93 - Present

* Principle analyst of the following projects with SAS or/and STATA applicaitons. (1) Career Mobility of Engineers in the US. NFS's SSE panel data for both 1970s and 1980s. Multiple Increment-Decrement life table method, logistic regression. (2) Sex Ratio at Birth and Women's Reproductive History -- A Study of Four Rural Counties in China. Logistic modeling. (3) Demographic Impact of AIDS in Africa. Projection technique and BASIC programming.

EDUCATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Population Studies Center, Uiniversity of Pennsylvania. 9/93 - present. * MA in Demography, University of Pennsylvania. 9/93 - 5/94. * MA in Economics, Peking University, Beijing, China. 9/89 - 1/93. * BS in Management Science, Business School, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 9/85 - 7/89. * Course work in modeling for Regression Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis and Survival Analysis with SAS and/or STATA applications.

PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * True or False: Mortality Decline Among Qing Nobility after 1840. Pp. 205-216 in The Qing Nobility: Demographic Behaviors and Social Environments, edited by James Lee. Beijing, Peking Uinversity Press, 1994. (Project with SAS application.)

(References Availabel upon request)

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