Justin Z. Smith Curriculum Vitae

This page is a short curriculum vitae for Justin Z. Smith, showing statistics-related work experience, papers, presentations, awards, consulting work, and education. Additional information available on request from justin at statisticool dot com.

Work Experience

• U.S. Census Bureau (DC metro area), Mathematical Statistician (3/2005 - Present)

  • Duties
    • On various teams for the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES), combining six annual surveys into one survey, frame and measure of size construction, researching sampling, variance estimation, and related research in the Economic Directorate. SAS programming, Excel, Python, working with Title 13/26 confidential data. Conduct peer review of papers
    • Previously mathematical statistician supervisor for the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS). Supervised and directed staff, carried out planning, frame development, sampling, weighting, micro and macro level editing, estimation, unit and total quantity response rate calculations, variance estimation, disclosure avoidance, publication review, data visualization review, significance testing, benchmarking, working with the Business Register, seasonal adjustment with the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders survey (M3), and troubleshooting
    • Standardized Economic Processing System (StEPS) II project, requirements gathering, use cases, stakeholder communication, extensive testing and troubleshooting, expertise in survey processing for a variety of complex surveys differing in editing, imputation, disclosure, and estimation requirements, migrating manufacturing and construction surveys into StEPS II. Being the technical communication link between mathematical statisticians and programmers, relaying issues in both directions. Headed the StEPS Methodology User's Group (SMUG), attended the StEPS Methodology Advisory Group, General Imputation Subteam, Estimation testing group, Time Series Analytical Repository (TSAR) user's group, and other meetings to communicate StEPS I/II methodology issues
    • Assisted with Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES), Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICTS), and Economic Census of Island Areas research and methodology, survey processing, framework for tracking/archiving estimates in quality control framework, and troubleshooting, such as SAS programming issues, response rates, complex estimation scripts, general imputation framework and specifications, outlier identification, weight adjustment, disclosure avoidance research (cell suppression and noise infusion), and carrying out publication readiness and review. Utilized project management principles, including creating a "one page" dashboard to communicate project status, to cleanup, digitize, and organize the Research and Methodology file storage area
  • Presentations
    • Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference: "Developing a Sampling Frame for the Annual Integrated Economic Survey" (10/27/22)
    • Current National Academy of Sciences Stratification Team findings, presented to Steering Committee (7/11/19)
    • Economic Area Methodology Seminar (EAMS): "What is the Economic Area Sampling Methodology Inventory (Part 1 of 3)" (1/15/14)
    • Northeast SAS User's Group (NESUG): "Penetrating the Matrix" (11/2012)
    • Northeast SAS User's Group (NESUG): "Creating and Displaying an Econometric Model Automatically" (11/2012)
    • Economic Area Methodology Seminar (EAMS): "Overview of Nonparametric Statistics" (2/15/12)
    • Census Bureau SAS User's Group (CENSAS): "Concordance Correlation Coefficient & Macro" (9/1/11)
    • Census Bureau SAS User's Group (CENSAS): "Keys and Searching Strings" (5/24/11)
    • Economic Area Methodology Seminar (EAMS): "Best Practices for Developing an Imputation Base for StEPS Imputation Methods" (1/20/10)
    • Economic Area Methodology Seminar (EAMS): "Nonresponse Bias Study For the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey" (3/18/09)
    • Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM): "Nonresponse Bias Study for the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey" (2009)
    • ACES presentation to Business Investment Branch (outliers weight adjustment, post-stratification) (4/23/08)
    • Economic Area Methodology Seminar (EAMS): "Protective Noise for Disclosure Avoidance for Two Company Statistics Division Programs" (7/18/07)
    • ACES presentation to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) (9/22/05)
  • Papers
    • Smith, Justin Z., Smeltz, Adam, Burton, James, 2022, Developing a Sampling Frame for the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) in the Economic Directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau. In proceedings of Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) Research and Policy Conference.
    • Goldschlag, Nathan, Jones, Antonio, Miranda, Javier, Smith, Justin Z., 2022, Imputing Establishment Robotics Data: I'm Afraid I Can't Do That. Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    • Smith, Justin Z., Thompson, Katherine J., 2009. Nonresponse Bias Study for the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey. In JSM Proceedings, Business and Economics Statistics Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 3365-3377.
    • Smith, Justin Z., Bonner, Brian, Hildebrandt, Ashley, Tominack, Alan, Processing Late Forms in the Annual Capital Expenditures Survey and Information and Communication Technology Survey, 6/2/08. Analytic project internal memo.
    • Name appears as acknowledgment/contributor in numerous publications (e.g. Annual Capital Expenditures Survey, Information and Communication Technology Survey, and Economic Census of Island Areas surveys) and presentations
  • Awards
    • 2022 Director's Award for Innovation (DAI) for Business Establishment Automated Classification of NAICS (BEACON) team work
    • Bronze Medal award for innovative development of statistical methodology in the StEPS II project (2015)
    • Recipient of many special achievement, performance, and other awards
  • Volunteering
    • Volunteered as a professional statistician to judge science projects through the Washington Statistical Society. (2012)
    • Volunteered as a professional statistician to judge the posters submitted to the American Statistical Association's K-12 Poster competition (4/30/11)
      • My Day as a Judge for the ASA K-12 Poster Competition: http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2011/07/01/judge-for-poster-competition/ and https://magazine.amstat.org/wp-content/uploads/2011an/July2011.pdf
  • Consulting
    • mapping MAC addresses to random radio frequency category
    • analyzing flapping nodes for network traffic using runs tests
    • equations for rectangle to tile squares for distributed rendering in farm
    • monitoring network traffic outliers for suspicious activity
    • located publicly available data to answer a variety of questions (number of pubs per sq ft in Portland, Oregon, as an example), Census data, American Community Survey data, Economic Census data, Bureau of Labor Statistics data
    • mathematics to display ads randomly, but based in proportion to how much each buyer paid for ad
    • equation for a linear gradient to create background colors
    • predicting gigabytes used using linear regression
    • assigning a "karma" score to good/bad actors in a system
    • math and statistics tutoring
    • probability and statistics book recommendations
    • SAS, R, and Python code and Excel spreadsheet review

• Oregon Department of Human Services, Center for Health Statistics, Vital Records (Portland, OR), Data Operator (12/30/04 - 2/28/05)

  • Entered and verified marriage, birth, death, and abortion certificate data
  • Numbered vital records forms using numbering machines
  • Worked with confidential data

• Oregon State University Statistics Department (Corvallis, OR), Statistics Teaching Assistant (9/2001 - 6/2003)

  • Provided weekly office hours for statistics students of varying levels
  • Corrected student papers, recorded student grades
  • Proctored midterms and exams
  • Conducted weekly computer labs, teaching students how to use statistics software
  • Responded to minor grade disputes
  • Received a teaching assistantship for all terms of graduate school
  • Received excellent teaching assistantship evaluations

• Southern Oregon University Math Department (Ashland, OR), Student Mathematics Assistant (1999-2001)

  • Responsible for maintaining grades for many full-sized statistics classes
  • Used Microsoft Excel and Blackboard extensively to manage grades and devise point schemes

Education

• Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR) (2001-2003)

  • MS Statistics/Applied Statistics minor
  • 3.12 Cumulative GPA
  • Final presentation on concordance correlation coefficient

• Southern Oregon University (Ashland, OR) (1997-2001)

  • BS Mathematics/Economics Minor
  • 3.17 Cumulative GPA
  • Thesis on logistic regression
  • Nominated by SOU Math Department as a 1999 Barry Goldwater Scholarship candidate
  • Recipient of 1999 Ida and Eugene Bowman Encouragement Award
  • Recipient of 1999 Southern Oregon University Calculus Scholar Award
  • Calculus problem in MMA publication: The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 31, No. 5, Nov. 2000, problem 688, p. 409