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Curriculum Vitae
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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