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Felix Ritchie

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Individual Profile
Good humoured and enthusiastic team leader and team player. Thrives in a challenging and dynamic environment and takes pride in delivering high quality work to time and budget. Enjoys a role with variety and that involves customer interfacing. Professional, experienced, flexible, dedicated and possesses a 'can do' attitude that focuses on solving problems and overcoming challenges.
Education
PhD Economics; MSc Economics, BSc Economics and Computer Science (1st class)
Current activities
Economic Adviser at the Office for National Statistics: Development and management of access to government microdata for research purposes, including policy advice, technical specification, contract negotiation, disclosure control, and dissemination programmes. Head of microeconomic research and deputy to divisional director. Own research on labour economics, econometrics, statistical theory, statistical disclosure control.

Independent IT consultant specialising in consumer-oriented businesses

Occasional lecturer in econometrics and programming
Key skills
Project management and client skills
New business development, assessment and costing; contracting; allocation of work; management of programming and clerical staff; budgeting; timetabling and milestones; appointment of staff; pre- and post-sales technical and business consultancy; account management; drafting of technical guides
Contract negotiation within and across government

PRINCE2 qualified (ONS internal training)
Economics and econometrics
Specialisms: econometric theory; energy issues; labour markets.
Acknowledged expert in GAUSS matrix programming language, confidentiality protection for research environments, and longitudinal business data.
Consulting lecturer on GAUSS, STATA and panel data econometrics
Statistics
Manipulation of large datasets; familiarity with range of statistical software
Wide general knowledge of data linking techniques, confidentiality issues, and disclosure control
Interpretation of legal/political environment and data sharing issues
IT skills
System administration; high-level design and specification; design and maintenance of small networks; management of programmers and consultants
Web design techniques; various programming languages; multimedia and conferencing technologies
Presentation skills
Six years lecturing experience; advisor on internet teaching and learning skills; lead technical consultant for marketing events
Presentation of government policy and drafting of briefing papers
Language skills
Tourist French and Italian, eclectic German, limited Polish, some Spanish
Current positions
02.05 -
Head of Economic Analysis and Deputy Director, Social and Economic Microdata Analysis and Reporting Division [Civil Service Grade 6]
Office for National Statistics, Newport, South Wales
  • Development of Virtual Microdata Laboratory (including long term strategic planning); development of microdata resources; support for microanalysis (economic, social, statistical) across ONS
  • International expert providing advice on: secure access to confidential data; development of longitudinal datasets; disclosure control policy for research units· Policy development: microdata access policy; general strategy on disclosure control for research environments; microanalytical capabilities across ONS; microdata funding strategy
  • Improving administration and dissemination of research, including: provision of non-technical summaries; initiation of university outreach seminars; continuing development of Research Workshop and Conference series
  • Liaison with users and government, including regular presentations to both
  • Econometric analysis and data management; representation of analytical users to data providers
  • Management of Earnings Analysis workstream· Econometric training and development of junior microeconomists
11.02 -
Occasional consultant in econometrics and IT
Trig Consulting, London and Camberley
  • Economic/econometric consulting and training, including programming skills for economists
  • IT consulting focusing on effective use of the web for small and medium-sized businesses.
Previous experience
11.02 - 01.05
Economic Adviser; Head of Business Data Linking [Civil Service Grade 7]
Office for National Statistics, London
  • Development of policies and procedures for providing access to ONS and other government data resources for research use
  • Achievement in first year includes contract negotiation, development of ONS microdata release policy, designing and managing construction of a secure virtual laboratory
  • Achievements in second year: roll-out of virtual laboratory to non-London sites and Census data; 10-fold increase in research projects; development of disclosure control theory and practice for research environments; internal and academic papers on various aspects of economics and econometrics; major security review of ONS Longitudinal Study
07.01 - 11.02
IT Consultant/Econometrician
Trig Consulting, London and Camberley
  • Independent IT consultant specialising in internet communications, web conferencing, streaming media, online learning. Tasks and responsiblities include web design and programming,client liaison, project specification and management.
  • Econometric and economic consultant and trainer, specialising in longitudinal data, large datasets and econometric teaching.
01.00 - 06.01
Operations Manager
Virtual Environments International, Oxford (now in liquidation)
  • Primary technical consultant
  • Management of technical and design teams; occasional programming and design
  • Consultancy and implementation on all webcasting and streaming media projects
  • Pre- and post-sales consultancy, account management
  • Drafting of user guides and other technical documents
  • General supervision of internal operational issues and business activity
10.98 - 09.99
Head of Computer Department
IZA (Institute for the Study of Labour), Bonn, Germany
  • Designed and managed the implementation of external access and information management strategies
  • Designed, administrated and evaluated the physical network
  • Managed data resources; and provided general economic and statistical advice
  • Managed and responsible for the equipment and training budget (£150-200k p.a.)
04.98 - 09.98
Economist
Scottish Office Agriculture Environment and Fisheries Department, Edinburgh
  • Econometric modelling of fish stocks; evaluation of land reform proposals
  • General advice on economic and statistical issues
09.93 - 12.97
Lecturer
Department of Economics, University of Stirling
  • Research: statistics, computational aspects of large databases, labour economics
  • Teaching (BSc and MSc): mathematics, general theory; labour markets: environmental and energy issues
  • Devised and delivered professional training in IT systems and programming
  • Consultancy projects for Department of Employment included the design of remote access strategy for DoE databases and the consequent programming for implement this
  • Co-ordinated and managed the research computers shared among eight university departments spread across Scotland (budget c. £70,000)
  • PhD Thesis: Accessing the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset: new techniques and applications
    Used the panel features of the data to develop efficient unrestricted longitudinal estimators, applying the results to the UK labour market; developed the accompanying software
05.89 - 10.90
Generation and system studies analyst
Electricity purchasing department, Southern Electric plc, Maidenhead
  • Analysis of electricity purchase-contracts and advice to contract negotiation team
  • Designed, built and maintained a purchase cost forecasting model
1985 - 1989
Programmer
Arena Software Limited, Cambridge
  • Team design and programming of PC-based office management system
  • Some user installation and technical support
Education
1988 BSc Economics and computer science (1st class), University of Stirling
Winner of Adam Smith Economics Prize
Final year dissertation: The Impact of the 'Big Bang' on the London Stock Exchange
1991 MSc Economics, University of Glasgow
1995 PhD Economics, University of Stirling
Personal details
Address 17 Mansfield Street
Cardiff CF11 6EE
South Wales
UK
Tel:
Mobile:
 (+44) 2920 165 793
(+44) 7909 528 136
Email: felixritchie@trigconsulting.co.uk
Web: http://business.virgin.net/felix.ritchie/
Date of birth: 21stSeptember 1965

Currently particularly interested in offers from Edinburgh, Paris, Dijon, Luxembourg, Prague, Budapest, Lubljana, Krakow, Buenos Aires
...and any small town in western Scotland, northern Italy or southern France...

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