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

A market research company primarily working federal contracts. I work on several high-profile surveys that drive national policy-making, such as the Department of Defense’s continuously-running Futures Survey. I hold a Common Access Card (CAC) in service of my Department of Defense funded contracts.

• Data Management Analyst

  February 2019 to present

  • Cleaning large (1M+) sample files with international addresses using SPSS, Stata, and Python
  • Weighting survey data to mitigate design effects and non-response bias using Stata
  • Writing technical chapters for analytical reports and incident report postmortems
  • Validating multi-modal surveys operated through Decipher, VoxCo, and TeleForm using SPSS, Stata, Python, and R
  • Reviewing and quality assurance testing of junior analysts’ work

The Harris Poll

Market research company specializing in brand evaluation and concept testing. We operated at a breakneck pace, often launching a panel survey within days of winning a contract and delivering weighted data a week later. I developed automation programs, VBA macros, and shell scripts for my team to accelerate turnaround times. I led a migration to GitLab for version control and software maintenance.

• Junior Survey Programmer

  November 2018 to February 2019

  • Programming web surveys with the Decipher platform

• Data Processing Programmer

  September 2017 to November 2018

  • Weighting longitudinal survey data with stratified sampling for rolling-window B2C analysis using Quantum and SPSS
  • Validating web surveys operated through Decipher and Confirmit with SPSS and Quantum
  • Automating data cleaning and quality assurance processes through Bash, Python, and Perl

Chris Harris & Associates

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

• Campaign Finance Intern

  August 2017 to September 2017

  • Scraping contributions disclosures from web pages and PDF documents using Python
  • Canvassing and organizing fundraisers for elected officials including Monroe and Erie County Democratic Committee Chairs, Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter, and the late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

University of Rochester

Internationally-acclaimed research university and the largest single employer in the Rochester area. Decades of employment records are stored on- and off-site with strict protocols concerning access and retention. I worked with the Record Verification and Workers’ Compensation teams as the centralized manager of employee data.

• Human Resources Office Assistant

  May 2016 to May 2017

  • Managing flow of protected files between physical offices when they are pulled for inquiries and audits
  • Administering multiple modernization and digitization projects

Cancer Care of Western New York

Cancer treatment facility based in Buffalo. I scrubbed PII and PHI from patient records for use in secondary exempt research. I worked with Dr. Roehmholdt to draft a case report of penile melanoma.

• Research Assistant

  May 2013 to August 2013

  • Researching the medical academic literature on penile melanoma
  • De-identifying data files in compliance with IRB and Common Rule exemptions

Education

University of Rochester

• B.A. Political Science, Economics

  August 2013 to May 2017

  • Overall GPA of 3.43
  • Represented the student body for three years in varying levels of student government, including multiple executive appointments
  • Focuses in:
  • Mathematical modeling (Econometrics, Game Theory)
  • Interaction of government and the private sector (Public Finance, Political Economy, Health Economics, Economics of Globalization)

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 45797471

Department of Defense Cyber Exchange

• Cyber Awareness Challenge

  April 2019 to present

  • Training to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities to department information systems
  • Current certificate verification code is HKY37X6SPE

• Identifying and Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information

  April 2019 to present

  • Training in data governance of personally identifiable information
  • Current certificate verification code is HKY75X3TQT