Skills and Competencies
This portfolio is designed to show concrete examples of how I have applied various skills and competencies. Each project illustrates the application of some combination of the following set of skills: Consulting, Research (Research Design, Economic Research, Market Research, Field Research), Quantitative Analysis (Statistical and Regression-based Forecasting and Modeling), International Economic Analysis, International Management, Program Management, Program Evaluation, Marketing Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Reporting (MS Office Suite, PowerPoint Presentations), Database Management, Desktop Publishing and Graphic Design, and Translation and Interpretation.
Projects
- Cranium Inc. International business plan. Skills demonstrated: Consulting, research design, economic research, market research, field research, regression-based modeling, desktop publishing, reporting, PowerPoint presentations.
- View the executive summary here. (Adobe Acrobat required)
- LanguageLine Services. GIS Consulting Project. Skills demonstrated: Consulting, research design, GIS, marketing, database management.
- View the executive summary here. (Adobe Acrobat required)
- Recycling Program Evaluation. Skills demonstrated: Research design, program evaluation, field research, quantitative analysis.
- Final report will be available soon!
Publications
- Tsuneo Akaha and Brian Ettkin, "International Migration and Human Rights in Northeast Asia," paper presented at the workshop "Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Making the 'Impossible' Possible?" organized by the United Nations University and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, September 20-22.
- Brian Ettkin, “The Regional Economy of Primorsky Krai and Labor Concerns.”
- Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Tsuneo Akaha, Brian Ettkin, Stephen Lum, and Glenn Guarin, “Cross-Border Population Flows and Policies in Northeast Asia,” to be presented at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population International Population Conference, Tours, France, July 18-25, 2005
- Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Tsuneo Akaha, Brian Ettkin, Stephen Lum and Glenn Guarin, “Cross-Border Population Flows and Policies in northeast Asia,” in International Migration of Population; Russia and Contemporary World (Volume 15), Vladimir Iontsev, ed., Moscow State University, forthcoming: Fall 2005.
- Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Stephen Lum, Brian Ettkin, and Glenn Guarin, “Population Trends and Migration Patterns in Northeast Asia,” in Crossing National Borders: International Migration in Northeast Asia, Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva, eds. (United Nations University Press: Tokyo), forthcoming: Fall 2005.
- Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Stephen Lum, Brian Ettkin, and Glenn Guarin, "Population Dynamics and Migration Patterns in Northeast Asia,” presented at Cross-border Human Flows in Northeast Asia: A Human Security Perspective, a seminar sponsored by the United Nations University and the Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, in Tokyo, Japan, October 7, 2003.
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Check out my article on Northeast Asian migration with Van Arsdol, Lam and Guarin in Crossing National Borders, eds. T. Akaha and A. Vassilieva (United Nations University Press, 2006). Available from Amazon.Com through the following link:
