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WILLIAM S. KOSSACK

Data Analyst

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

20122017

Clinical Programmer

nSpire Health/iCardiac

Senior Statistician/Programmer Data Scientist with experience in the fields of medical research, survey analysis and design, systems analysis and engineering, financial analysis and reporting, and quality assurance;  Extensive experience in the design and use of datawarehouses, SQL, planning and designing projects to solve technical and business related problems;  Effective in Training technical and not technical staff on Statistics, Data Visualization and creation of accurate, understandable and actionable reports.  Areas of expertise and software experience include

20102012

Advanced Analytics Statistical Analysis (Operations Analysis)

Anthem Bluecross

Research and analysis of operations performance

  • Cluster analysis of text data using SAS Enterprise Miner and Text Miner.  Using SAS text miner to cluster customer comments to determine reasons for customer satisfaction and issue resolution.
  • Sampling analysis and power analysis of operational performance including insurance claims processing accuracy audit and call center performance
  • Stratification analysis and segmentation of insurance claims
  • Predictive modeling of insurance claims receipts, calls and performance
  • Developed statistical enterprise wide trending reports detailing quality and performance on corporate systems.  Reports included analysis of text notes and error classification categories and causes
20092010

Biostatistician

Colorado Foundation for Medical Care

Contracting to CMS(Centers for Medicare and Medicade Services) Working with Medicare Hospitalization data to report on hospital admission, readmission, and Emergency Room visits and patient survival

20092009

Statisticial Consultant

SourceGas

Consulting to Risk Management Development of trading analysis for Natural gas Modeling of Risk, resource demand and the effect of weather hedging modeling effort

20072008

Reporting Analyst

Reed Group
  • Interim Director Quality and Reporting.
    • Assigned tasks and distributed workload to department members
    • Assured quality processes were carried out
    • Made sure new department members were trained and knew their assignments
    • Represented department to upper management until replacement director was selected
  • Designed and implemented data driven SAS programs to replace manual reporting to an automated process including developing complex data extracts from SQL Server data warehouses and preparation and cleaning of SAS dataset for further processing
  • Reduced quarterly reporting time from 4 to 6 weeks to 1 day saving more than a man year of time
  • Improved the accuracy, readability, and consistency of reports
  • Performed data cleaning, developed ad hoc reports and review and analysis of data problems
  • Redesigned reports providing statistically correct and actionable information on medical disability including disability diagnosis patterns, durations, cost, abuse and fraud.
  • Automated the generation of call center activity reports in the Cisco IP phone system using SAS including developed SQL queries for Cisco system databases to track and report on call center activity
20022006

Biostatistician

NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER, Denver

Designed and planned clinical research projects and document findings.

  • Developed analysis and forecasting models for the treatment and outcome of respiratory diseases.
  • Contributed statistical expertise to clinical research projects including the design, plan, execution, analysis and publishing of research projects for NJC researchers and pharmacology and biotechnology companies
  • Developed data driven SAS reporting methodologies for reporting results from clinical trials.
  • Developed, adminstrated and evaluated SQL Server clinical research databases
  • Evaluated software tools for Web testing and managing the Institutional Review board.
  • Developed data integrity checking Cold Fusion application to verify the integrity of SQL Server research project databases with design requirements.
20012001

Senior Software Engineer

VISUAL NUMERICS

Performed Software development using C and C++ for the visual analysis software application WAVE.

  • Updated and enhanced database SQL/ODBC functions and interaction for Oracle and Sybase on UNIX and windows operating systems for major software release.
19992000

Manager Network Reliability Analysis

QWEST COMMUNICATIONS

Reported to the Director of Ring Operations providing analytical insight to the measurement and analysis of the performance of Qwest communication’s networks.

  • Created a system to report and analyze network failures.
  • Developed a web reporting and analysis capability with SAS to report on an audit and cleanup of corporate Oracle data warehouses effecting the performance and reliability of QWEST communications networks.
  • Consulted to management and technical staff on the proper use of statistics in the analysis and reporting of network problems and issues.

Education

M.Sc

University of Georgia

B.Sc

University of Georgia