PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Highly motivated, focused and result-oriented analytical professional with M.S Analytics and MBA and over 12 years of experience including 6 years in the United States. Key competencies and accomplishments include:

• Demonstrated ability to help companies improve business processes and enhance marketing effectiveness using analytics
• Substantial management and consulting experience
• Coordinated multiple projects and priorities to achieve business goals
• Excellent critical-thinking skills combined with technical expertise and education to provide analytical and data-driven solutions to complex problems

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cary, NC 
Associate Development Tester July 2010—present 
Environment: Application Service Provider (ASP), Java, Unix, Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide (EG)
Responsibilities: Currently working on four SAS Fraud Framework projects for SAS Solutions OnDemand. Many of the Fraud Framework projects are hosted by SAS using an ASP hosted model.

• Performed data manipulation/warehouse data analysis, system validation testing and analysis of business requirements including structuring data models to align with data specifications. Software development and testing included data profiling, statistical analysis, creating SAS data sets from flat files, joining, merging tables and analyzing data based on design specifications. Worked on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island project on clinical claims data. Software development and testing included good understanding of diagnosis codes (ICD-9 and ICD-10), EHR, NDC and HEDIS data.
• Successfully demonstrated "hands-on" to customers, pre-UAT fixes in the SAS Fraud Framework solutions to highlight enhanced potential of customizable SAS Fraud Framework solutions.
• Prepared Test Plans, Quality Plans and Test Cases for both manual and automated testing for various SAS customer projects. Good understanding of SDLC processes.
• Performed Manual, Automated GUI, Functional, Integration, Regression, System and User Acceptance Testing and interacted with developers to test program code and ensure software quality and functionality and resolve technical issues. Awarded SAS certificate for "Best Bug" identified in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island project on clinical Oracle claims data.
• Involved in database testing including incremental load testing with SCD1 and SCD2 changes and validating ETL processes using SAS.
• Prepared QA Metrics for customers and auditors using JMP, SAS/GRAPH® to quantify issues detected and resolved using the JIRA defects system.

Confidential, Norwich, NY 
Client: Confidential May 2007—March 2008 
Financial Consultant

• Analyzed and developed pricing models for supply chain and logistic requirements for international customers using the International Transfer Pricing Model, which involved precise analysis of international currency value vis-à-vis the dollar rate and export-import policies for biochemicals in accordance with FDA and international laws. As a result, customers were able to model supply chain initiatives based on an optimal cost structures.

Confidential, Binghamton, NY 
Member of Ascension Health September 2006—April 2007 
Jr. Financial Analyst

• Prepared key analytical reports on a daily, weekly monthly and quarterly basis which focused on costs, revenue, and a product-mix of services. Researched extensively healthcare journals, wrote and reviewed health outcomes documents.
• Reconciled regular interfaces from source systems to the hospital's budget and reporting system with close adherence to closing calendar. Maintained the reimbursement modeling parameters for the company and performed periodic reviews to ensure the system's calculations were consistent with the actual reimbursement.

Confidential, Binghamton, NY 
Not-for profit hospital system in upstate NY February 2005—August 2006 
Planning, Market Research, Decision Support Assistant

• Analyzed Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey scores using eCompass application.
• Performed periodic patient and physician volume projection analysis to monitor the hospital's market share in terms of patient and physician volumes and hospital metrics. Performed statistical and geospatial analysis using customized Medstat's tools and MapInfo to analyze market share for health outcomes measures.
• Used multivariate statistical procedures such as linear and logistic regression for decision support and market projections for hospital metric analysis.

Confidential, Binghamton, NY 
Former private label manufacturer for Atkins products September 2003—October 2004 
Market Research Analyst

• Developed Version 1.0 of a supply chain model using Crystal Reports to manage inventory/routing systems to transport products to customers and vendors.
• Used customized CRM package to effectively plan delivery schedules. Developed new metrics to measure optimal delivery scheduling for effective supply chain planning.

Confidential, New Delhi, India 
In partnership with The Wall Street Journal April 1991—October 1998 
The Financial Express has a circulation over 100 million and is the oldest financial daily in India. Chief Sub Editor

• Oversaw all aspects of editorial production including editing, writing, and analyzing health, finance and business related data, news, and information. Wrote editorials on public health issues.
• Researched business information and financial statements, analyzed health news, financial data and business news, produced daily edition of the newspaper using various publishing software.

EDUCATION

Confidential, Raleigh, NC 
Master of Science in Analytics, 2010

• Practicum: Data profiling and detailing new forecasting metrics for client company in Cary, NC. Developing new statistical models and conducting geospatial analysis using state-of-the art data visualization techniques as well as performing a qualitative assessment using advanced statistical tools, risk analytics methods, linear programming simulation for optimization and advanced analytical modeling tools.
• Relevant Courses: Risk Analytics, Text Analytics, Design and Analysis of Probability Surveys, Applied Clustering Techniques, Time Series and Forecasting, Optimization, Advanced Data Mining, Advanced Simulation Modeling using Crystal Ball, Text Mining, Survival Analysis, Customer Analytics, Geospatial Data Analytics, Web Analytics, Applied Statistics, Business Intelligence, Logistic Regression, Market Research, Optimization Research, Project Management.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt trained. Used JMP extensively as part of the M.S. Analytics program for statistical methodology, DMAIC problem soving and Design of Experiments.
• Relevant Software Applications: SAS 9.2, JMP, Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, SPSS, R, ArcGIS, Dataflux, Solver, Crystal Ball, Time Series Forecasting System and Microsoft Project.

Confidential, Syracuse, NY 
MBA, December 2001

• Major: Management Information Systems

Confidential, Delhi, India 
B.A (Honors) Economics, June 1990

• Minor: Applied Economics

TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: SAS tools including Base SAS, SAS Macros, SAS SQL, SAS BI Tools, Data
• Integration Studio, SPSS
• SAS Management Console, SAS Web Report Studio, and SAS information Map
• Studio. Experience with ODS to create graphs and web reports
• (Experience with relational databases including clinical Oracle database and
• SQL querying, client/server environments, Windows and Unix OS)
• Certifications: SAS Certified Base Programmer 9 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Trained (NCSU) 
  SAS Certified Speaker Certificate in Biostatistics (Confidential - in progress) 
  John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Biostatistics - in progress)
• Software Packages: SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Time Series Forecasting System, ArcGIS, R, JMP, Crystal Ball, Dataflux, SPSS, Windows Professional Package, Excel Analysis ToolPak, Minitab, Access, Business Objects and Bloomberg Financial, Microsoft Office-Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Healthcare Applications: Queries on AS400, Budget Advisor, Cerner, Meditech, McKesson, Lawson, HCC Applications, Business Objects, SRC software and Monarch. Familiar 
  with HBO-Trendstar, Cactus and HANYS' MedStat system applications
• Languages Spoken: English, Italian, (Advanced Diploma in Italian language).

VOLUNTEER AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Fundraising for 'Relay for Life' events for Confidential
• Member, TTEC-Triangle Technology Executives Council

OTHER

• US Citizen