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Our clients – typically researchers and government agencies– use our services to understand what your information mean. Yellow Ray offers over 25 years of experience in the preparation of data, analysis, and intelligent reporting.
Government Agencies
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Regional Psychiatric Centre - Correctional Service for Canada
- Regional Headquarters (Prairies) - Correctional Service for Canada
Organizations
- Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre
- Retail Wholesale Department Store Union (RWDSU)
- Saskatchewan Research Council - Organic Producitivity Information System
Companies
* Anderson/Fast Marketing Solutions now operates as Fast Consulting
- Anderson/Fast Marketing Solutions *
* Anderson/Fast Marketing Solutions now operates as Fast Consulting
Academics
Some of those listed have retired, moved on to other universities or other departments. All worked at the University of Saskatchewan at the time service was provided.
- Dr. Sheryl Gow (Veterinary Epidemiology)
- Dr. Roanne Thomas-MacLean (Sociology)
- Dr. Donna Goodridge (Nursing)
- Dr. Cheryl Waldner (Veterinary Epidemiology)
- Information Technology Services (SPSS and SAS)
- Dr. Bob Russell (Sociology)
- Dr. Angie Wong (Extension)
- Dr. Jim Waldram (Native Studies)
- Dr. Reg Fleming (Education)
Some of those listed have retired, moved on to other universities or other departments. All worked at the University of Saskatchewan at the time service was provided.
- Anti-Microbial Resistance Database Project
- Breast Cancer Research Project
- SPSS Consultation
- Medical Geography Shape File Data Conversion
- Canadian Database of Animal Parasites (CDAP)
- Wildlife Disease Surveillance
- West Nile Virus Wild Bird Surveillance (WNV)
- Avian Influenza Virus Wild Bird Surveillance (AIV)
- Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance (CWD)
- West Canada Beef Productivity Study (WCBPS)
- SPSS & SAS Instruction and Help Desk
- Employee Survey
- Organic Productivity Information System (OPIS)
- Criminal Career Profiles (CCP) and Data Conversion
- Research Department Statistician
- Computer Lab Setup
- Market Research
- Mine Labour Relations Survey
- Statistical Consultations Native Studies Research
- Statistical Consultations Curriculum Studies
- Extension Division Satellite Course Evaluation
Breast Cancer Research Project
- Project Lead: Dr. Roanne Thomas-MacLean
- Department of Sociology
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Began involvement with project in January 2006
- Continue to present
- Statistical data analysis for longitudinal study of breast cancer patient arm morbidity
Nursing Research
- Project Lead: Dr. Donna Goodridge
- Department of Nursing
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Began January 2009
- Continue to present
- Statistical programming using SPSS
- Deemed employee of Statistics Canada
Database Consultation
- Project Lead: Rob Meyers
- Medical Geographer Public Health Agency of Canada
- Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- May 2008
- Conversion of shape file data to MS SQL Server
Database and Application Upgrades
- Project Lead: Dr. Alvin Gajadhar
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
- Centre for Animal Parasitology, Saskatoon Laboratory
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Project Lead: Dr. Lydden Polley
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Upgrade March 2008
- Upgrade to MySQL
- Upgrade application interface to MySQL
- Application initially developed in 1998 through 2000.
Wildlife Disease Surveillance
- Project Lead: Dr. Ted Leighton
- Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC)
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- August 1996
- December 2007
- Database administration & development of open source databases MySQL and PostGreSQL
- Server administration (Redhat Linux)
- Application development for access to national wildlife disease information
- GIS/Map preparation and statistical analysis
West Nile Wild Bird Surveillance
- Project Lead: Dr. Ian Barker
- Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC)
- Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College
- Unviersity of Guelph
- Guelph, Ontario, Canada
- Began May 2000
- October 2007
- West Nile Virus Surveillance
- Database administration & development, server administration, software development and GIS/Map data preparation for the wild bird component of the WNV surveillance.
Avian Influenza Virus Wild Bird Surveillance
- Project Lead: Dr. Ted Leighton
- Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC)
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- May 2005
- October 2007
- Avian Influenza Virus Surveillance
- Database administration & development, server administration, software development and GIS/Map data preparation for the wild bird AIV surveillance.
Western Canada Beef Productivity Study
- Project Lead: Dr. Cheryl Waldner
- Department of Large Animal Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Fall 2000
- Completed 2003
- Database administration & development using MS Access for Dr. Waldner, Veterinary Epidemiologist of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance of Wild Deer and Elk in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Project Lead: Dr. Trent Bollinger
- Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC)
- Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM)
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Fall 1998
- Continues as of fall 2007
- Database administration & development, server administration, software development and GIS/Map data preparation for the CWD surveillance.
Information Technology Services
- Project Lead: Sheila Flory
- Information Technology Services
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- July 1999
- August 2005
- Provided help desk assistance for SPSS and SAS help requests. Taught short courses for SPSS and SAS
Retail Wholesale Department Store Union (RWDSU)
- Project Lead: Randy Hoffman
- Retail Wholesale Department Store Union
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- December 1999
- March 2000
- Provided consultations to design survey instrument, sample frame construction, data processing of the questionnaires, statistical data analysis and reporting
Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC)
- Project Lead: Mark Gimby
- Saskatchewan Research Council
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Spring 1995
- Fall 1997
- Developed database application to manage organic product grown during the summer in Western Canada for the organic agriculture industry
Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) - Correction Services for Canada (CSC)
- Project Lead: Dr. Stephen Wong
- Regional Psychiatric Centre, Research Department
- Affiliated with the Psychology Department
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From September 1992
- To Winter 1999
- Development on Criminal Prediction Software. The project involved development and implementation of a graphical method of managing criminal records and provided alternatives to statistical methods of the prediction of reoffending of incarcerated inmates. To fully test the system, a data conversion program was created to convert existing records of data into a more analyzable format. The data conversion program continues to be used to this day for corrections research across Canada.
Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) - Correction Services for Canada (CSC)
- Project Lead: Dr. Art Gordon
- Regional Psychiatric Centre, Research Department
- Affiliated with the Psychology Department
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Project Lead: Dr. Stephen Wong
- Regional Psychiatric Centre, Research Department
- Affiliated with the Psychology Department
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From August 1985
- To Spring 1993
- Under contract as staff statistician for the Research Department at the Regional Psychiatric Centre. The focus of the research was clinical psychology psychopathy research, sex offender research and criminology.
Colonsay School Computer Lab
- Project Lead: Barry Peters
- Colonsay School
- Colonsay, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From July 1995
- To June 1996
- Under contract to install 24 micro-computers in the Colonsay School Computer Lab. The installation included Windows NT Server, 23 workstations, and supporting network infrastructure.
Native Studies Research
- Project Lead: Dr. Jim Waldram
- Department of Native Studies
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From 1993
- To 1995
- Under contract for several research projects to organize and manage data, and provide statistical data analysis expertise for Dr. Jim Waldram of the Native Studies Department
Mine Labour Relations Research
- Project Lead: Dr. Bob Russell
- Department of Sociology
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From 1993
- To 1996
- Under contract to organize, manage and statistically analyze data for a Mine Labour Relations Survey of employees working for Saskatchewan potach mines.
Market Research
- Project Lead: Doug Fast
- Anderson/Fast Marketing Solutions
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From 1989
- To 1996
- Under contract to provide data processing and statistical data analysis for market research surveys conducted by Anderson/Fast.
Education Curriculum Studies Research
- Project Lead: Dr. Reg Fleming
- Department of Curriculum Studies
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From January 1989
- To March 1990
- Under contract for a research project involving educational data ranging from evaluation of teacher internships to perceptions of new technologies in our society.
Extension Division Research
- Project Lead: Dr. Angie Wong
- Extension Division
- University of Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- From 1988
- To 1990
- Under contract to do statistical work for Dr. Angie Wong of the Extension Division of the University of Saskatchewan. The studies involved the evaluation of satellite course offerings made available through the extension department.
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