Mr. Mei Songlin
Address: Blk 304 Clementi Ave. 4, #06-491 Singapore 120304
Telephone: 65-7740715 (Home); 65-98207180 (Mobile)
Date of Birth: 24 Oct. 1969
E-mail: [email protected]

 

Ideal positions: statistician/ modeler, market researcher, business analyst, or SAS programmer

As a market research manager of an international marketing information service company in Singapore, I desire to work in the fields of health care, pharmaceutical & biotechnology industry, or banking & finance and establish a career in statistical modeling, applied statistical analysis, SAS programming, or market research.

 

My current company is the regional (Asia Pacific) office of an international marketing research firm recognized by many industries as the "voice of the customer", headquartered in Los Angels, USA. As the market research manager, I am in charge of modeling, data cleaning, statistical analysis, report writing, IT application development and training colleagues on Statistics, Market research, SAS, SPSS, Web Page design, TM1 (an application of OLAP), Visual Basic, and other IT applications. As the second employee of this company (Boss is the first one), I have involved in 35 nation-wide automotive market research projects in the past year, and each of them has an average sample size of 4000.

Work Experience
1999 – Present J.D. Power & Associates (Asia Pacific, Singapore office)
Market Research Manager
- Taking charge of statistical modeling, data cleaning & processing, market analysis, report writing.
- Developing IT application programs (based on Office Visual Basic and SPSS syntax & scripts) to improve working efficiency.
- Optimizing and standardizing the entire process of market research projects. As a result, a project that used to take two months can be completed within 3 weeks now.
- Training colleagues on Statistics, Market research, SAS, SPSS, Web Page design, TM1 (an application of OLAP), Visual Basic, and other IT applications

1995 –1996 Eastern Communication Co., the largest wireless com. Manufacturer in P. R. China
Market Analyst
- Founded market research group with other two colleagues and reported directly to marketing executive vice president.
- As a team leader, designed, carried out, analyzed and communicated market survey
- Developed and managed nationwide market information database and collected market data through a variety of communication channels.
- Explored the factors on national level to determine the purchasing power, and further spearheaded and developed a business account of US$32million.

Research Experience
1996 - 1999 Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore
Ph.D. Candidate and a holder of research scholarship awarded by Singapore government
- Modeling & analyzing the diffusion process of IT innovations
- Developing marketing strategies for IT new products based on empirical study findings
- Conducting interview with 109 executives from various organizations and building multivariate statistical models to explore the leadership process
1993 - 1994 Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China
Research Project Team Player
- Building statistical models to analyze economic and demographic trends of Shanghai City from 1997 to 2000 and hence providing scientific support for Shanghai five-year city development planning
- Developing multi-objective decision application software

Education
1996 - 1999 Ph.D., Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, major in applied statistics (e.g. structural equation modeling) and its application to the marketing of IT innovations.

1992 – 1994 Master of Systems Engineering, School of Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, P.R. China, major in economic and demographic analysis

1988 – 1992 B.A, Electrical Engineering, Jilin University of Technology, Changchun, PR China

Professional Education
1995 Motorola China Co., Ltd, Beijing, PR China
-Motorola's Total Customer Satisfaction.

Honors
- 1996 - 1999 Research scholarship by Singapore government
- 1996 Outstanding Market Research, Eastern Communication Co.
- 1994 Class II Award, Shanghai Science & Technology Development
- 1992 Outstanding Graduate Student (Top 1% graduate student) by the Ministry of Machinery & Electronics Industry, PR China

Computer Skills
- Platform: Unix, Windows & NT.
- Application: SAS, SPSS, MS Office 2000, TM1, Adobe Acrobat, PhotoShop
- Computer Language: SAS programming, SPSS Syntax & Script, Office Visual Basic, Web Programming (HTML, JavaScript), Unix Shell Programming, C, and Fortran.

Language
- Fluent in English & Mandarin

Professional Affiliation
- Member, Academy of Management

Referee Provided on request