Dominic Ricottone

Over five years experience in survey research including data collection, cleaning, and weighting. I am proficient in statistical programming especially with SPSS, Stata, and Python.

Employment

Fors Marsh

Market research firm primarily working on federal contracts. For this work, I maintain several clearances as well as a DoD CAC.

• Survey Sampling Statistician

  April 2024 to present

  • Designing and executing sampling and weighting plans for nationwide probability panels
  • Designing weights for nonprobability web panel surveys
  • Performing nonresponse bias analyses under complex survey designs with nonparametric modeling techniques

• Data Management Analyst

  February 2019 to present

  • Designing QA protocols to validate multi-modal survey instruments
  • Developing automation to perform programmatic review of data quality
  • Reviewing and advising junior analysts’ work
  • Creating U.S. and international address lists for survey sampling
  • Supporting internal teams with statistical programming expertise in SPSS, Stata, Python, R, and Excel VBA

• IR&D Project Member

  May 2024 to April 2025

  • Developed MVP for an internal clone of the CDC’s Q-Bank

The Harris Poll

Market research firm. I started with the company in Rochester, New York and moved to the Arlington, Virginia office after a year.

• Junior Survey Programmer

  November 2018 to February 2019

  • Programming web surveys

• Data Processing Programmer

  September 2017 to November 2018

  • Designing data pipelines
  • Executing weighting plans for nonprobability panel surveys
  • Migrating internal source code repositories into GitLab

Chris Harris & Associates

Political consultancy firm working with Democratic officials across Western New York.

• Campaign Finance Intern

  August 2017 to September 2017

  • Scraping web pages and PDF documents
  • Coordinating fundraiser events for Monroe and Erie County Democratic Committees, election campaign for Todd Baxter, and re-election campaign for the late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

University of Rochester

Research university and the largest single employer in the Rochester, New York area. I worked with the Record Verification and Workers’ Compensation teams.

• Office Assistant

  May 2016 to May 2017

  • Managing original paper files of the Human Resources department
  • Executing modernization and digitization plans

Cancer Care of Western New York

Cancer treatment facility in Buffalo, New York. I performed data entry tasks.

• Research Assistant

  May 2013 to August 2013

  • De-identifying data for external transmission

Education

University of Rochester

• B.A. Political Science, Economics

  August 2013 to May 2017

  • Selected courses: Econometrics, Game Theory, Public Finance, Health Economics

南山大学 (Nanzan University)

• Intensive Japanese Language Studies Program

  January 2016 to May 2016

  • Intensive study of the Japanese language in a Japanese university

Active Certifications

SAS Institute

• SAS Programming 1: Essentials

  November 2019

  • Training to write SAS programs to access, explore, prepare, and analyze data
  • View certificate on Credly

CITI Program

• Biomedical Research Support Staff

  February 2019 to present

  • Training in the requirements and ethical implications of human subject research, especially in the context of the 2018 revision of the Common Rule
  • Current certificate ID is 61007756