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Renato G. Villacorte,
Vice President of Information Systems, leads the team of professionals that
provide expert research design and analysis support to the firm’s
researchers. As the Senior Statistician, he is responsible for conducting,
interpreting and presenting the results of multivariate statistical
analyses, predictive modeling, and advanced data mining. These tools
extract the maximum amount of information from opinion research data and
offer the best insight into the research population.
Mr. Villacorte analyzes data from the national elections as well as the
statewide elections in California, Colorado, Washington, and Arizona. He provided advanced
statistical analysis support directly to Howard Dean’s presidential
campaign in 2004 and participated in the successful campaign for
Proposition 71, the Stem Cell Research Funding Initiative in California.
With almost two decades of experience in software and database programming,
Mr. Villacorte also serves as the firm's senior consultant for information
management technologies. Prior to joining FM3 in 2002, Mr. Villacorte was
the Database Programming Manager and a
Senior Market Research Analyst for Jackson National Life Insurance, a major
financial services company. He is a SAS Certified Professional Programmer
and is also an expert with Visual Basic, MS Excel, and MS Access. His
career in academia includes teaching undergraduate statistics and
psychology courses as a Sally Casanova Fellow at California State University, Los Angeles and pursuing psychophysical
research as a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Villacorte received his cum laude B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from the California State University, Los Angeles and a M.A. in Psychophysics
from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the
American Statistical Association, the Council for Teachers of Undergraduate
Psychology, and the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. Mr. Villacorte may be
reached in FM3's Santa Monica office at (310) 828-1183, or
at renato@fm3research.com
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