SUMMARY:

• A meticulous I.T professional with proven track record in platform Management. I am a hands - on technologist, focused in Software Development and technical Business Analysis.
• Architect, Optimize, Install, Administer & Troubleshoot SASGSUB, SAS/GRID, J2EE apps & Linux/Unix scripts
• Gather requirements and Develop Dynamic Applications (SAS, Java, HTML, RDBMS)
• Manage, Re-arrange team as needed (policy, cost cutting etc.)
• Install, Automate and Monitor daily jobs (Shell scripting, LSF scheduler), Code review
• Plan and perform quarterly production environment entitlement review

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Manhattan, NYC

SAS Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage development team and environments.
• Applied hotfixes, patches and updated Licenses for the platform
• Install, configure SAS, SAS Grid, Platform LSF on various environments
• Monitor SAS jobs on the Grid, assist users on code optimizations
• Monitor and manage Platform LSF
• Explore, plan, delegate and often perform migration, upgrades and rollbacks of hardware and software
• Troubleshoot code/environment issues and track/co-ordinate/escalate issues to vendor if necessary
• Establish coding and security best practices, train users in technology when necessary
• Owned compliance documentation, Production run-books and tracked it

Technologies used: Linux, SAS EG, SAS GRID/Environment Manager, LSF Scheduler, MS Projects, BtSync, Visio (BPMN), GitHub, Software Lifecycle model: Waterfall, Rapid Prototype, Iterative development, Agile/SCRUM

Confidential, Manhattan, NYC

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed platform Uptime and implementing development best practices.
• Monitored SAS servers and OS utilizations, tuned for performance
• Applied hotfixes, patches and updated Licenses for the platform
• Managed helpdesk Level-3 calls for SAS
• Managed vendor SLA (SAS), trouble tickets
• Created and maintained UML documentations including BRD (Business Req. Doc ), SRS ( Software Req. Specs)
• Hardened Linux OS and assisted managing SAS platform security
• Represent admin team at the SAS user group meetings
• Assisted analysts in running R programs
• Plan, co-ordinate execution and test storage migration, retirement and recycling
• Review Storage options to isolate cheaper solutions annually
• Test performance and redundancy of proposed storage changes

Technologies used: SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Metadata/ SAS Studio, Linux, PYTHON, Business continuity Volume, EMC Remote Data Facility, cron, MS Projects, Visio, MS VSS

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Senior Business Analyst/SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage clients and Enterprise IT platform dedicated to Fixed Income products:
• Manage 100% availability of all hardware & software for clients (Traders) SAS platform and report/discuss outages/issues to senior managers
• Install/Administer Intelligence Analytical Platform (Prod, Test, Dev) and certify required functionality
• Develop script applications to automate manual reporting and logging
• Isolate tools to resolve issues or to maximize client performance
• Manage new tool acquisitions, deployment, updates and maintenance
• Isolate COB risks and explore solutions with the vendors
• Explore, isolate and test proof-of-concept COB strategies for suppliers/products without COB provisions
• Conduct monthly and quarterly COB tests, inspect COB facility announced and unannounced
• Manage internal financial data security and shared resources audits, prepare volumes for external reviews
• Assist in implementing compliance (Financial/Trading Regulations) and security guidelines in transporting and confiscating data and media

Technologies used: SAS BI Platform, SAS Management Console, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Miner, WebAF, SAS OLAP, SAS Base, Solaris8 & 10, SAMBA, Linux, Platform LSF scheduler, PGP, rsync, MS SQL Server / Office

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Analytics Platform Architect/Resource Audit Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate, supervise and certify installation of Intelligent-Platform
• Developed application to measure Intelligent-Platform status and efficiency
• Manage vendor support, SLA and escalation procedures
• Conducted application availability tests after each change and maintenance
• Presented reports on the state of the Infrastructure bi-weekly to senior managers
• Represented Operations-Team in user-group meetings
• Prepare activity-and-change documentations for successful internal and external audits
• Assist compliance team to plan and perform security tests
• Design and assist in Quarterly RCSA compliance reviews
• Assist in setting security guidelines for procurements of hardware/software
• Performed quarterly and unscheduled firewall policy and activity reviews
• Audited enterprise IT assets and assisted in determining net asset value for quarterly reports

Technologies used: SAS BI Platform, SAS Management Console, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Miner, WebAF, SAS OLAP, SAS Base, Platform LSF Scheduler, UNIX/Linux file administration, Shell Scripting, UML, OOP, OOD, MS SharePoint, Software Lifecycle model: Waterfall, Rapid Prototype, MS Office

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

SAS Business Intelligence Development Specialist/Production Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the installation, configuration, operations and technical health of three distinct SAS
• Managed the migration of SAS solution off under performing hardware to a newer platform. Coordinated all activities with SAS Technical services to ensure proper hardware sizing and configurations. Included the reinstallation of SAS software and the reapplication of all DoD security configuration requirements.
• Lead software team in each step of Software development lifecycle
• Gather business requirements, create functional requirements, co-ordinate development efforts and co-ordinate UAT sign-offs on Resource monitoring web application, Data-mart delivery and reusable code development
• Developed and showcased automation module for a GIS application
• Developed module for resource utilizations application
• Explore SharePoint security model and develop a suitable authorization framework
• Plan, Develop and Administer SharePoint Intranet sites based on individual group requirements
• Examine job documentations for compliance, code and resource best-practices and architectural issues
• Implement version controlling and production level security, in corporate notification and deploy job along with coordinating DQ and UAT signoff
• Lock down production data marts and control project data mart access
• Plan and Develop reports to forecast resource needs and issues
• Plan and execute Resource reclamation and redistribution projects, train users on resource-aware code development techniques

Technologies used: Business Intelligence Platform, Platform LSF Scheduler, UNIX/Linux file administration, Shell Scripting, JAVA, J2EE, Servlet, JSP, BEA Weblogic Application Server, LDAP, UML, MS Sharepoint, Software Lifecycle model: Waterfall, Rapid Prototype, Iterative development, Microsoft Word/Excel/Projects/Access

Confidential, Schenectady, NY

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed internal transaction web application from ground using J2EE technology & RDBMS
• Coordinated development and integration efforts among on-shore and off-shore consultants
• Reported status to the senior managers and managed datelines
• Tested system integration, trained power users
• Designed & Developed hybrid solutions which included Java, Oracle Stored Procedures, VB Script, Shell Script
• Prepared documentation for application QA, code peer review called “Toll-Gate Reviews”
• Re-engineered application components to enhance portability and completed extensive API documentation to qualify them as reusable components
• Administered OS level access permissions and the Java Application Server, HTTP server
• Deployed Enterprise Java applications, tested and prepared them for production migration
• Isolated reengineering needs, tuned and enhanced SAS/Internet applications
• Fixed algorithm issues with internal billing application and enhanced reporting capabilities

Technologies used: SAS, J2EE, EJB, Servlet, JSP, Tomcat, IBM Websphere 4.2, IBM/APACHE HTTP Server, Microsoft Word/ Outlook

Confidential, Rochester, Minnesota

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop code to migrate data between different databases and operating systems
• Develop code to confirm data consistencies of the transported data
• Captured requirements from end-users, and based user-needs Re-Designed and developed team intranet site
• Developed Java components for a major Enterprise application
• Prepared ad-hoc reports using SAS-Java technology
• Developed methods and executed Testing
• Managed availability and usability issues
• Assisted in legacy application rewriting by gathering business requirements via user interview, web polls
• Conducted Usability Testing and certified usability with assistance from Usability Lab
• Deployed Enterprise applications and assisted in performance tweaking
• Assisted in troubleshooting SAS application service installation issues

Technologies used: SAS 8, Solaris, IBM MVS390, JCL, Sybase, Java Beans, Java Script, HTML, CSS, XML, Schema, DTD, Microsoft Word/Excel/Projects/Access/Outlook