Elizabeth Anna Weber
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, PA 19081
eweber1@swarthmore.edu 		53 Turtle Cove Lane
Huntington, NY 11743

EDUCATION

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors, June 1998.
Major in Economics, minor in Mathematics and Statistics.

Huntington High School, Huntington, NY. National Merit Finalist, Advanced Placement Scholar with
Distinction, National Honor Society. Graduated June 1994.


EXPERIENCE

Statistician, Projections Branch, Population Division, United States Census Bureau, Washington, DC (Fall 1997)

  • Prepared data files, spreadsheets, and computer programs in preparation for the 1997 round of US population estimates and after each monthly round of population estimates.
  • Wrote SAS programs for extracting data and evaluating estimates and projections.
  • Incorporated automatic HTML formatting into data dissemination process; conceived idea, researched process, wrote program, gave presentation on techniques, and implemented use.
  • Documented the dissemination processes that occur monthly and changes made to the population estimates base after the incorporation of test census results.
  • Answered phone queries made to the Population Projections Branch, explaining estimates and projections data and procedures to data users.

    Summer Intern, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC (Summer 1997)

  • Researched and prepared information for data sheets.
  • Researched and updated information for Population Bulletin revision.
  • Researched and wrote "Mozambique" and "Bolivia" for Population Today.
  • Answered demographics-related queries from the general public and the research community.
  • Updated the library collection of state data resources.

    Teaching Assistant, Swarthmore College Economics Department (Spring 1997 and 1998)

    Lead weekly problem sessions and correct problem sets for students taking Introduction to Economics and Intermediate Macroeconomics.

    Technical Assistant, Swarthmore College Economics Department (Summer-Fall 1996)

    Aided students with computerized data analysis and presentation. Wrote annotated bibliographies of demographic and health care policy resources as Web pages for courses. Located data sets on the Internet and converted them to appropriate formats for class exercises.

    Research Assistant, Swarthmore College Economics Department (Summer 1996)

    Did SPSS programming and summarized recent Child Care Economics literature.

    Administrative Assistant, The Math Forum, Swarthmore, PA (Summer 1996)

  • Coded and analyzed responses to a user questionnaire with SPSS.
  • Suggested specific Internet resources to math educators in response to questions asked in math education newsgroups.
  • Fixedbroken links in The Forum Collection of Internet Math Resources, and collected new resources to add to this database.

    Grader, Swarthmore College Mathematics and Statistics Department (Spring 1996)

    Graded papers for an introductory statistics class.

    Payroll Clerk and Storekeeper, TW Recreational Services, Yellowstone National Park (Summer 1995)

    Kept track of work hours, pay rates, estimated total wage payments, and confidential employee records for a 50-person department. Ordered and stored food supplies for a kitchen serving 120 staff members and several hundred guest meals daily.

    General Manager, Swarthmore Phoenix (campus newspaper) (Spring 1997)

    Oversaw all financial, printing, advertising, and circulation matters. Researched and wrote historical and general features articles for a weekly paper with a circulation of 2200 students, faculty/staff members, parents, alumnae, and parents. Previously s erved as section editor, historian, and staff writer.

    SUPPLEMENTARY SKILLS

    Experience programming in SAS, SPSS, and HTML; working in Unix, VMS, Windows, and Macintosh environments, and using Statview, Excel, Quattro, Pagemaker, Photoshop, QuarkXPress, WordPerfect, and Word.

    Numbers (GPA, telephone, etc.) and references not available online. Mail me if you'd like a print copy of my resume (which does include these numbers).

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