SUMMARY:

Highly skilled, enthusiastic social science and IT professional with 15 years of management and 22 years of computer programming, research and statistical analysis experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAS Base, SAS Macro, SAS Statistics, SAS Unix, SAS MVS, SAS Graph, Proc, SQL, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Forecast Server, SAS JMP, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS BI Dashboard, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Connect, SAS Add - In for Microsoft Office, SAS API Connection, SPSS, MS Excel, MS Access, MS, PowerPoint, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS FrontPage, MS Pivot Tables, Business Objects, Crystal Ball, Teradata, Zycus, SAP, Oracle, Sybase, Output Delivery System (ODS), SAS/Intranet, Data Warehousing, HTML IBM Data Studio, SOAP, Python and Qlikview. Install SAS EBI 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4 Development, Test and Production systems on the Window, Solaris and Linux Platforms. A year experience working with the SAS GRID Environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and manage SAS 9.4 Business Intelligence environment on Windows and T-5 Spark Solaris Servers which included upgrades to SAS software (patches / maintenance releases / hot fixes, etc.) for the Confidential Security, Confidential Citizens and Immigration
• Support Administration of SAS environments, services and tools that are used to develop, deploy and provide data integration, storage and reporting for various business units.
• Provide SAS system design, monitoring, performance tuning and troubleshooting in order to achieve and maintain optimum SAS platform performance, reliability and availability.
• Interface with business point of contacts in order to setup applications and provide support and operational management of the SAS environment.
• Interface with SAS developers and provide consulting services on SAS software capabilities.
• Interface with SAS Institute support personnel for Confidential - Confidential projects and operational assistance.
• Manage the metadata security configuration, licensing, physical install and location of the servers and services and that comprise the SAS environment.
• Collaborates and Interfaces with storage, server, LDAP, database and other platform engineers/ administrators to support ongoing operations for meeting the business needs via the SAS environment.
• Review and maintain the organization and security of the objects contained in the repository.
• Establish and maintain the application areas, manage users, groups, roles, perform backup and recovery, build and maintain monitoring scripts and usage reports of the SAS EBI environment.
• Analyze the data usage in order to promote better usage of the SAS environment.
• Execute platform reforms including upgrades, develop and implement governance processes including security, capacity management and adoption or standards and procedures.
• Train and lead the team and projects from a technical aspect, assist in interviewing other candidates for who may join the team.

Confidential

Program Manager/SAS Platform Administrator/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop the group infrastructure and to attain all IT service level agreements for the user community within the organization.
• Work closely with decision makers in other departments in all global regions to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.
• Work with SAS Team to upgrade SAS 9.4 Cloud to SAS GRID
• Migrate legacy Base SAS code to be used within Enterprise Guide
• Convert SAS Code within SAS Base and SAS EG to create stored processes
• Set up statistical models in SAS EM and build time-series models in SAS FS
• Work with end users, business analysts, technical staff, and project team members to plan, design, develop, implement, and enhance business analytics capabilities using a variety of SAS software products.
• Drive the SAS Product patching and release upgrade activity and act as liaison to SAS for any support issues
• Provide maintenance and support for SAS products during deployment, upgrade and any changes to SAS products and/ or during other enterprise activities that impact SAS infrastructure
• Manage and track SAS products inventory and license updates for SAS servers and end users
• Manage the configuration support and maintenance of the SAS platform
• Create Application Programming Interface ( API) connections with SAS and test through Fiddler, SoapUI, Python etc.
• Provide assistance to project teams with architecture design, developing documentation and creating project deliverables.
• Use SAS programming to independently create, test, execute, maintain, validate, and archive programs that generate input files for high stakes processes.
• Responsible for clearly documenting all work, managing assignments to meet timelines, and producing high quality deliverables.
• Provide expertise, direction, and training of other staff with respect to SAS programs.
• Responsible for management of mid-tier
• SAS Security framework: within SAS, it is managed by Group and Role management as defined in the SAS Management Console
• Apply Univariate and Multivariate statistical techniques such as Multiple-Regression, Logistic Regression Correlation, Factor Analysis, Frequencies, and Chi-Square to determine many risks such as loss and gain within the automotive industry.

Confidential

Program Manager/SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support operational Requests for Support for the Confidential .
• Provide support for tracking which includes data extraction and analysis; facilitating and updating ESRI/ArcGIS shape files for effective, mapping, maintaining the metrics dashboard and data extraction to support assessments and provide leadership with quantitative organizational assessments to support functional evaluations.
• Provide expert-level technical leadership for SAS application and technology products supported by the enterprise Business Intelligence team.
• Provide assistance to project teams with architecture design, developing documentation and creating project deliverables.
• Translate business requirements using complex methods and models to determine appropriate system solutions.
• Migrate legacy Base SAS code to be used within Enterprise Guide
• Convert SAS Code within SAS Base and SAS EG to create stored processes
• Work with end users, business analysts, technical staff, and project team members to plan, design, develop, implement, and enhance business analytics capabilities using a variety of SAS software products.
• Drive the SAS Product patching and release upgrade activity and act as liaison to SAS for any support issues
• Provide maintenance and support for SAS products during deployment, upgrade and any changes to SAS products and/ or during other enterprise activities that impact SAS infrastructure
• Manage and track SAS products inventory and license updates for SAS servers and end users
• Manage the configuration support and maintenance of the SAS platform
• Present findings to US Intelligence Community (IC) members.
• Generate SAS code using ODS outputs to present data in HTML, PDF, Excel and/or RTF format.
• Used SAS for extracting and transforming data from Oracle, Sybase, Mainframe and Teradata for data analysis, leveraging marketing and credit card analysis.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for producing a structure framework for centralizing defense demographic data, analytic reports, products and tolls for Europe Eurasia and Levant regions
• Perform programming and analysis tasks using SPSS, SAS Enterprise Miner and Excel in order to conduct research projects and produce analytic studies using different statistical techniques
• Develop strategies for collecting defense demographic data determined unavailable
• Formulate alternative scenarios and hypotheses, relating demographic data and analysis to future developments
• Collaborate with other JAC analysts, other JIOCEUR elements and other USEUCOM staff
• Collaborate with US Intelligence Community (IC) members, government agencies, demography agencies/companies, USECOM polling efforts
• Collaborate with geospatial analysts and graphic specialists to develop and produce specialized, complex demographics products and visualization tools
• Create and maintain demographic profiles for not less than 15 countries throughout Europe, Eurasia and Levant regions
• Make collected demographic information available to the USEUCOM Enterprise and beyond
• Develop, produce and disseminate population pyramids for all countries in Europe, Eurasia and Levant regions
• Provide expert advice concerning the selection of appropriate statistical methodologies for specific problem applications and overseeing implementation of the methods selected
• Use SAS Enterprise Miner to build descriptive database of Data Mining models and performance to use for modeling characteristics
• Used SAS Base to create predictive models based illegal activities using logistic regression modeling techniques
• Perform meta-analysis of historical Data Mining programs to help improve future models & build modeling recommendations.
• Used programming techniques to conduct data profiling with SAS Data Flux and other analytical tools
• Assisted with the design and installation of data quality controls and scorecards for each master data entity using SAS Data Flux with SAS Dashboard

Confidential

Senior Consultant (Project Task Lead/Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert guidance and advice on best practice data collection methodologies, optimal utilization of data analytical technologies and tools, and data analysis process improvement.
• Provide sound business recommendations and strategies based on the best data analytics possible to the Strategic Sourcing Program Office (SSPO).
• Examine Department of Confidential Security ( Confidential ) investment trends, analyze the scope and effectiveness of that investment and develop strategies for improving the economy and agency-specific purchasing trends and investment.
• Examine Confidential department wide mission alignment, conditions and assess the effectiveness of current procurement methods in order to define the best objective course of actions that will create improvements over current conditions.
• Responsibilities include analytical support for capturing agency requirements; researching and evaluating industry/market conditions; spend and trend analytics; identifying commodity mission objectives and priorities; and providing web support for the outreach of completed enterprise solutions.
• Currently using my SAS skills to analyze, design, develop and validate SAS applications in accordance to Confidential Security data system.
• Currently Optimizing performance using Data Validation and Data Cleaning on Confidential Security data using statistical procedures like Proc Freq, Proc Univariate, Proc Means and other SAS techniques.
• Working with several Statisticians, Economists and other Social Scientists to analyze results obtained from various statistical procedures like Anova, Logistic Regression and Multiple Regression
• Team member on a major data warehousing effort for Confidential Security in order to install SAS DI Studio, Web Report Studio and Management Console.
• Regularly utilize SAS Base, SAS Stats and DB2 for data consolidation, analysis, and ad-hoc reporting, in support of executive decision-making and analysis.
• Created several data sets using SAS, with data and statistics similar to actual data, to demonstrate and finalize the functionality of a dashboard.
• Extracted data from Teradata and created SAS data sets for use in in-depth analysis, verification models and fraud detection

Confidential

Senior Consultant (Project Task Lead/Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Diagnosed customer’s need and compared to our product set to develop a specific solution for that customer
• Drove business executive meetings through clear demonstration of domain expertise and provided insightful solution options to clients that lead to increased business with better margins.
• Managed delivery of solutions based on SAS products and tools that satisfy customer requirements.
• Ensured that customer staff participates in solution implementation or development to increase the skill and knowledge of the staff.
• Supervised staff members to develop capabilities and enrich their experience.
• Designed technical solutions that accomplish customer business objectives within budget parameters.
• Developed and delivered custom demonstrations and presentations as they apply to customer problems
• Strategized with the sales team and consulting staff to address technical issues and participated in the development of the strategy and objectives for all customer meetings
• Managed the full life cycle of the enterprise sales process from prospecting to closing.
• Responded to prospect or customer concerns during meetings by articulating clear and concise responses positioning the benefits of SAS solutions
• Worked with other sales representatives and consulting team to outline available products and services to leverage sales situations.
• Followed up with customers periodically to track customer satisfaction levels and to prospect for additional service opportunities.
• Continued to learn and maintained an in-depth knowledge of the SAS products and technologies in order to compare competitor’s products and identify industries trends.
• Analyze population-based surveys and using different statistical techniques such as regression, multiple regression and logistic regressions
• Used SAS for extracting and transforming data from Oracle, Sybase, Mainframe and Teradata for data analysis, leveraging marketing and credit card analysis.

Confidential

Senior Statistical Consultant (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Identified and translated business units needs into actionable business strategy through statistical modeling, analysis, data mining, test design, profiling, and segmentation using SAS, SPSS, MS Excel or other analytical tools/applications
• Utilized advanced statistical techniques, data mining tools, and quantitative analyses to determine whether the Department of Confidential Security (SBI/CBP) is meeting their congressionally mandated goals.
• Worked with outside data and service vendors to identify and evaluate new data source opportunities and values to business.
• Managed the development, deployment and performance of the modeling to ensure the models are flawlessly executed and perform as expected.
• Designed, develop and implement data management and programming strategy to gather, maintain and validate data from multiple data sources and platforms
• Developed reports with accurate, easy to read and useful information for research use
• Reviewed performance of programs to make recommendations for modification of algorithms
• Presented findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and routinely provide status improvement reports
• Manage and analyze large datasets

Confidential

Senior Data Architect/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Provided expert guidance and advice on best practice data collection methodologies, optimal utilization of data analytical technologies and tools, and data analysis process improvement.
• Managed seven people that are responsible for data extraction and cleaning, data modeling, data design and statistical analysis reporting of the data
• Managed the data collection and cleansing process in creating public use data sets for distribution to the public.
• Applied Univariate and Multivariate statistical techniques such as Multiple-Regression, Logistic Regression Correlation, Factor Analysis, Frequencies, and Chi-Square with SAS 9.0 in the MVS environment and SAS 9.0 in the Microsoft Windows environment to determine whether these government-sponsored enterprises are meeting their congressionally mandated affordable housing goals and for a wide variety of other analyses.
• Eight years of data collection and manipulation experience using SAS, SQL, SPSS, MS Access or other database access tools.
• Interacted on a daily basis with clients, government project officers, data provider organizations, and project team leads.
• Prepared weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual data reports.
• Presented findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and routinely provided status improvement reports