Paul W. Eykamp, Ph.D.
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Paul W. Eykamp, Ph.D.

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Education
1995 Ph.D. University of California, San Diego. Major fields: American Politics, International Relations.
1994 M.A. University of California, San Diego. Major: Political Science.
1987 Catholic University, Washington D.C., 12-unit summer graduate intern program in British politics with Bowen Wells, MP for Hertfordshire.
1987 A.B. cum laude, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Majors: Economics and Political Economy, Advisor Douglas North, Nobel Laureate.

Dissertation
"Political Control of State Research Universities: The Effect of the Structure of Political Control on University Quality and Funding" Advisor: Gary C. Jacobson, Professor.

Technical Skills
18 years SAS programming - including Enterprise Miner, advanced Microsoft Office, Extensive work in graphical presentation of data using Excel and other graphical tools. Advanced statistical modeling and data mining. 15 years Web design (Dreamweaver), and Photoshop.

Professional Experience

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc, 2006-Present
Senior Consultant, Market Strategy and Analysis Program Office

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan, serving more than 8.6 million members. Market Strategy and Analysis is responsible for managing the national membership database and reporting on, analyzing, and forecasting national membership. It also coordinates business line strategy.
Major Accomplishments:
- Guided the development and maintenance of the strategic planning document for the Labor and Trust line of business, along with the VP of Labor and Trust, regional sales team members and the VP of the Labor Management Partnership.
- Analyzed effects of macroeconomic conditions on forecasts of KP membership. Created forecasting ranges based on historical data and economic analysis during period of economic uncertainty in fall of 2008 through 2010, and projections for 2010-12.
- Developed improved reporting of trends in membership growth and retention for senior leadership at the individual and group level. Managed two person staff that produced monthly and ad hoc membership reporting and analysis.
- Designed better models of member behavior and improved measurement of the effects of changes in premium rate structure and membership service performance on membership growth. Verified the effectiveness of a new retention campaign for low contact members using statistical models.
- Helped design membership accounting methods for new products (self-funded plan, and hybrid products) and implementation of new COGNOS reporting system for data collection. Create membership forecasts for new products.
- Organized and taught courses on statistics for KP staff, and led information series for summer interns.


University of California, Office of the President, 1998-2006
Coordinator of Long Range Enrollment Analysis and Database Development
Department of Planning and Analysis.

The Office of the President (UCOP) is the Systemwide headquarters of the University of California. As Coordinator of Long Range Enrollment Analysis and Database Development, responsibilities included modeling long-range enrollment demand for the ten-campus, 200,000 student UC system and conducting strategic analysis of past and present student activity to drive policy development.

Major Accomplishments:
- Developed a new long-range enrollment demand model for the UC system using demographic and student behavior data and incorporated the first model of continuing student persistence. Created first scenario planning based model system. Enrollment models are used for planning faculty hiring, building construction, and new campus acquisition decisions.
- Created database and analysis system using SAS to allow detailed analysis of short and long term student and applicant behavior creating a revolution in the information detail and sub-sets of information available to senior management. Led a project with an external vendor to improve understanding of student socio-economic background using census and GIS data.
- Organized the first Systemwide series of meetings in over a decade to improve and audit corporate student data systems. Project focused on improving reporting consistency and error reduction from nine campus offices and establishing a mechanism to improve data quality into the future.
- Developed policy and technical procedure to identify students who had exceeded negotiated number of academic units beyond those required for their academic program. This significantly reduced the fiscal impact of original policy proposal by up to $10 million.
- Projected the regional enrollment for new UC campus in order to predict student housing demand. Calculated probable demand for three proposed regional distance academic centers using demographic, census, and GIS systems.
- Wrote the technical section of Student Support Services Proposal for new UC campus and served on advisory committee to determine programmatic and physical plant needs for student support services and campus master plan design.
- Analyzed student behavior to determine the probable demand for an expanded Systemwide summer term and the expected effect of a summer term on overall student time to degree.
- Conducted strategic analysis of student pre-matriculation academic activity and the expected long-term effects on time to degree from changing levels of activity and proposed policy changes.

University of California, Office of the President, 1997-1998
Senior Policy Analyst, Department of Planning and Analysis

- Created new university wide enrollment demand model as part of a two-person team.
- Organized Systemwide reporting system for US News and World Report with first eight campus unified reporting system. Developed new system for coordinating reporting on faculty workload and classes taught for the system.
- Created a database and analysis system using SAS to allow detailed analysis of short and long term student and applicant behavior dramatically changing the information detail and information available to senior management.
Senior Administrative Analyst, Student Academic Services, Admissions and Institutional Research University of California, Office of the President, 1996-1997
- Conducted first internal validity study to determine the relationship between admissions criteria in selecting students and first year grades and graduation rates using regression analysis.
- Built and maintained first UCOP website to distribute admissions related information about approved high school courses to high schools, community colleges, and students. This was the first searchable web site at UCOP.
- Contributed significantly to the development of the web-based electronic application system for the UC system. Part of the development group for improving the use of technology for outreach to underserved groups of students. Published the first admissions data report on the web.
- Conducted strategic analysis of admissions data to evaluate the likely effects of proposed changes in admissions policy.
- Assembled primary research on politically sensitive admissions questions as part of UC Regential inquiry.
University of California, Council on Student Fees, 1994-1996
Director,
- Reorganized existing but poorly functioning Systemwide organization made up of nine independent campus committees charged with overseeing student affairs budgets financed with student fees, roughly $10 million at each campus.
- Made first coordinated reports to the UC Office of the President and the UC Regents in over a decade. Revitalized system of sharing knowledge between campuses and worked to improve effectiveness of weaker committees.
- Changed the relationship with Systemwide student government to create an effective, independent Council. Created a new succession system for Directors.
University of California, San Diego, 1993-1994
Chair, Registration Fee Committee,
- Oversaw $10 million budget for student services including coordinating annual evaluation of program effectiveness and in-depth annual evaluation of three programs.
- Evaluated requests for new programs from existing student service programs.
- Provided primary contact and oversight between Committee and Sports Facilities functional area (four administrative units) and Mission Bay Aquatic Center, an off-campus facility jointly operated with another university.


University of California, San Diego, 1993-1994
Graduate Student Intern, Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research

- Published quarterly newsletter.
- Served as primary liaison between administration and graduate students on administrative committees and with the Dean.
- Organized two symposia on graduate student issues.

University of California, San Diego, 1987-1994
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science and Fifth College Writing Program

- Lead two weekly discussion sections per quarter with 30 students each.
- Responsible for grading papers, reviewing writing progress with students, helping to write examination questions, and determined course grades.

University of California, San Diego 1991-1993, 1994-1995
Vice President (Finance, External Relations, Internal Relations), Acting President, Graduate Student Association (GSA)
- Initiated and led successful effort to get universal mandatory health insurance for all graduate students at UC San Diego which was later expanded to the entire UC system. Effort included developing scope and cost of coverage, conducting election campaign, and negotiating coverage of cost for employed graduate students by administration.
- Led major expansion of GSA through doubling of student fee by leading election campaign. Organized establishment of graduate pub on campus to meet graduate student social needs.
- Rewrote GSA constitution and reorganized method of filling positions on University committees.
- Brokered solution to multi-year long dispute between campuses for funding Systemwide student government.
- Brokered memorandum of understanding between Graduate and Undergraduate student governments, the Student Center Board, the University, and four independent student-run cooperative businesses for a new business model and relationship with the University after a six-month round of negotiations and a two-year long conflict.

University of California, San Diego, 1987-1993
Vice Chair, University Center Board

- Provided student oversight for construction of 170,000 sq. ft. student center and creation of policies for its operation upon opening and the first four years of its operation.
- Successfully expanded scope of renewal of old student center to insure its continued usefulness.
- Provided general direction for the management of a student-run coffee shop with revenue increasing from $300,000 to $600,000 over a five-year period.



- The Evansville Day School, Alumni Association Board of Directors 2002-present
- Iron Horse Corridor Advisory Committee – at large member 2006- present.
- UC San Diego Bay Area Alumni Association, President, 1999-2007.
- Washington University Bay Area Alumni Club Executive Committee, 1996-present.
Publications and Papers
- 2006 “Using Data Mining to Explore Which Students Use Advanced Placement to Reduce Time to Degree”, In Data Mining in Action: Case Studies of Enrollment Management, edited by Jing Luan, Chun-Mei Zhao, 83-100, New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 131, Fall 2006, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2006).
- 2006 “Data Mining Tools Compared, Clementine, Enterprise Miner and Others, Using a Common Database,” Panel, Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, May 14-18, 2006, Chicago.
- 2006 “Data Mining – Concepts, Myths and Case Studies,” Panel, Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, May 14-18, 2006, Chicago.
- 2006 "The Effects of Unclean Data on Your Results," Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, May 14-18, 2006, Chicago.
- 2005 "The Effects of Slightly Dirty Data on Analysis," California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, November 16-18, 2005, San Francisco.
- 2005 Grade Inflation, Reality or Artifact of Changes in Student Quality or Major Distribution? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, May 2005
- 2004 Grade Inflation, Real or Imagined? A Study of University of California Grades and Student Quality Over Time, California Association for Institutional Research Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California.
- 2004 “Where Does All the Money Go? A Comparative Analysis of State Finance, Educational Spending, and Outcomes,” University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.
- 2003 “The Effect of Advanced Placement Credit on Time to Degree at the University of California,” Association of Institutional Research 2003 Forum, Tampa, Florida (best paper series) Published: ERIC collection of AIR 2003 Forum Papers.
- 1998 through 2006 "University of California, An Enrollment Handbook," 3rd through 12th Edition. University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.
- 2000 Co-Authored “Thinking in Future Tense: Designing the New Architecture of Student Life at UC Merced,” final report of the UC Merced Student Planning Committee to UC Merced Chancellor and officers.
- 1999 "Graduate and Undergraduate Enrollment Planning Through 2010: Modeling Undergraduate Enrollment Demand," University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.
- 1998 "University of California Undergraduate Instruction and Faculty Teaching Activities, Fifth Annual Report to the Legislature," University of California, Planning and Analysis, University of California, Office of the President.
- 1997 "Internal SAT Validity Study: California Students Enrolled at UC Campuses 1994," University of California, Student Academic Services, University of California, Office of the President.
- 1997 "Information Digest," University of California, Student Academic Services, University of California, Office of the President.

 

 

 

 


 
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