Paul Ho

SACS Consulting, Melbourne

• Providing personal Stata coaching for data analysis.
• Transfer data from Excel to Stata: Excel file with more than 300 variables and 4,000 observations, Stata coding - loops, commands for labeling, Recode and Encode, Excel's VLOOKUP, Find & Replace, etc.

Teach economics and econometrics to graduates and undergraduates.

• Manage more than 10 classes per semester, 25 to 50 students per class.
• Teaching contents include introductory micro and macroeconomics, regression models, statistics for business, and using Excel and Stata for data analysis.
• Coordinate with lecturers, tutors, and admin staff. Answer students' queries.
• Receive excellent student feedback of 4.5 out of 6.

Used econometric models and data from Australia to study the effects of locations on individual well-being and income.

• Experienced with econometric methods such as multivariate OLS regressions, measurement models/principal component analysis, structural equation modeling, ordinal probit/logit models, and time series estimation.
• Worked with data from multiple sources: HILDA, ABS, Geoscience, and BOM - familiar with ABS's Microdata and TableBuilders and working with ArcGIS shapefiles.
• Familiar with data analysis using Excel, Stata, SPSS, EViews, and R.
• Reviewed literature, prepared drafts and reports, and presented findings.
• Excellent research project management: developing research proposals, working with research supervisors, setting and meeting deadlines, etc.
• Completed the research projects - final reports of more than 400 pages, scholarship awards of more than $120,000, and excellent reviewers' and supervisors' feedback on the quality of the reports.
• Project findings at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pm57kCoAAAAJ&hl=en

The 'Marketplace Landscape' project aimed to identify a shortlist of Australian industries that offer the greatest potential for efficiency gains.

• Gathered and summarized government reports to identify industries and areas for efficiency gains.