SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Statistical Analysis and all aspects of design, Significance Testing, sampling, development, and implementation of Statistical data models including data extraction, manipulation and reporting.
• Represent the statistics function in support of a clinical study.
• Provide statistical input to development and submission plans, and support of regulatory submissions.
• Provide accurate, statistically valid deliverables based on study protocols, statistical analysis plans for study reports or regulatory submission documents.
• Implement project level database (including derived database), analysis and reporting standards. Provide suggestions to achieve high quality databases and specifications by working with Data Management and Programming at study level.
• Plan, direct or self - implement study-level analysis and reporting activities including review of work from other programmers.
• Provide technical oversight of statistical activities of external vendors to ensure timeliness and quality of analysis data and statistical outputs. Review and approve key statistical vendor deliverables.
• Anticipate and communicate study level resource and quality issues that may impact deliverables or timelines. Propose and implement solutions. Escalate issues to management as appropriate.
• Support implementation of departmental standards and process improvements.
• Good working knowledge of SAS with extensive experience in SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/STAT and SPSS on Windows, UNIX.
• Hands on experience working with Data step programming, Procedures - Print, Contents, Datasets, SQL, Means, Summary, Tabulate, Report etc.
• Have worked with ODS - routing output to MS Excel, PDF, MS Word etc
• Extensively used SAS/MACRO facility for reusable programs.
• Good proficiency in SAS/Base statements, procedures, functions, options and formats which was acquired by applying procedures such as Means (continuous data), Freq and Uni-Variate (for categorical data), GLM. (Statistical data), Transpose, Contents, Sort for various other applications.
• Experience in Linux Operating System, have worked on scripting in ksh,perl etc.
• Experience in merging, interleaving and stacking of datasets and involved in cleaning, analysis, and validation of Health data / Clinical trials data
• Thorough Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office tools like MS word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Access
• Efficient in diagnosing and avoiding errors, in providing edit checks, in understanding and enhancing output to furnish reports and worked effectively as an individual or with a team.
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills with good organization skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Statistical Software: SAS Version 6, SAS Version 8, SAS Version 9.3, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS/Base, SAS/Macros, SPSS

Hardware: MVS - IBM Mainframes, Sun Unix Servers, Intel Servers

Office Tools: MS Office 97/2000/2003/2010

Operating System: Solaris 5.10, Unix, MVS, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Regression Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Involved in advanced analytics in support of conceptualization, design and evaluation of BCBSM clinical programs, such as the largest Patient-Centered-Medical Home initiative in the nation and numerous pay-for-performance initiatives.
• Analyze large volume of health care administrative data using Predictive modeling, Regression Analysis, Time series Analysis and other advanced statistics/data mining methods to understand existing and forecast future health care spending trends and issues.
• Proactively discovers potential areas for medical cost improvement and management/healthcare initiative strategies. Responsible for research, analyze and recommend topics within scope of internal desk audit, including the specifications.
• Provide statistical support and consultation to auditors, legal services, CFI, etc. on sampling and projections, and provider aberrancy and use patterns.
• Prepare presentations and technical reports in a clear and concise manner to communicate findings from epidemiologic studies to management, Michigan providers and other interested parties.
• Disseminate research results through presentations to scientific and professional groups and through publications in scientific and professional journals. Identify potential problems through data information review, analyze and investigation from massive data files. Other duties may be assigned.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.3, SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1, SPSS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Office.

Confidential

Analysis Statistical Reports

Responsibilities:

• Provides consulting services, Analysis and Statistical Reports.
• Provides statistical programming, analyses and statistical reports for Research as required.
• Coordinates the quality-control checking of deliverables, (reports, summary tables and graphs)
• Work closely with clinicians, programmers, and to generate and QC outputs to ensure accuracy, quality and soundness of statistical methodologies.
• Work with the clinical study team on study design, development and/or review of clinical study protocols.
• Develop and/or review statistical analysis plans, including Table/listing/figure shells, and final study report for clinical studies; perform post-hoc statistical analyses as needed using SAS
• Work with the project statistician and clinical data managers on design/review of case report, data transfer specification, edit check specification, and generate/review data tables/listings and coordinate data review meetings during the course of the study to ensure data quality.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.3,SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Office.

Confidential

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist with the implementation of the use of Statistical techniques across the corporation.
• Provide accurate, statistically valid deliverables based on study protocols, statistical analysis plans for study reports or regulatory submission documents.
• Plan, direct or self-implement study-level analysis and reporting activities including review of work from other programmers.
• Involved in Data validation and quality control of data and specs.
• Define statistical design, methodology and sample size requirements to meet the information needs, conduct statistical analysis using SAS software to derive conclusions.
• Identify new opportunities for standard reports and for value added analytics.
• Work with different departments at the company to facilitate the and understanding of the use of statistical tools.
• Implement study design plans following Company’s procedure to answer business questions and provide written summaries.
• Gather recommendations from others to develop research plans, identify appropriate data sources and delivery options.
• Maintain databases used for statistical analysis for continuous process improvements.
• Produce analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures by using SAS/Base, SAS/Stat, SAS/Macro and SAS/Graph, SAS/SQL, SAS/Access.
• Produce customized reports by using Proc Report, Proc Sort, Merge Step, Proc Tabulate, Proc Format and Proc Summary.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.3, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Office.

Confidential

Health Care Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementing Health Care Insurance Services model development / evaluation / program utilization / research effort using SAS and SPSS
• Ensure that all aspects of evaluation and research conducted by Health Care Services meet integrity and compliance standards.
• Critical responsibilities include but are not limited to, the collection of valid and reliable information, the design and implementation of information systems, and the implementation, monitoring, reporting, and utilization of the findings of these systems.
• Responsible for Design and conduct ongoing evaluation of existing services, new services, pilots, models, and health care services tools.
• Coordinate data collection of evaluation discharge outcomes, client satisfaction surveys, follow-up surveys.
• Design, test, maintain and link Evaluation databases and documentation. Monitor and manage data integrity and compliance through data and onsite audits.
• Worked on Linux Operating System.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.2, SPSS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Excel, Windows.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developing SAS code and associated life cycle deliverables, programming consistency checks and related ad-hoc queries as necessary on the studies.
• Running quality control checks on other programmers’ work.
• Programming and analyzing data for all clinical trials and developing methodological documentation .This consists in leading and analysis or assisting another statistician’s (QC, partial programming, methodological support).
• Helping develop overall strategy of clinical data analysis and processing in the clinical development stages of a drug, biological product or medical device by performing the following duties:
• Retrieve and combine data from multiple sources 
• Perform data analysis and provide statistical support for ongoing clinical trials.
• Develop, assist or review development of methodological documentation(statistical analysis plan)
• Create statistical tables, figures and listing for review and submission
• Advise in improving statistical process
• Coordinate internal and external collaboration(CRO, contractors)
• Proceed in statistical software validation
• Ensure a backup position
• Produced analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures by using SAS/Base, SAS/Stat, SAS/Macro and SAS/Graph, SAS/SQL, SAS/Access for clinical trials data.
• Involved in data validation, edit checks and creation of several macro programs which were modified and used for validation across different studies and protocols.
• Maintain study databases perform edit checks and adhoc requests for data processing of clinical trial data.
• Produce customized reports by using Proc Report, Proc Sort, Merge Step, Proc Tabulate, Proc Format and Proc Summary.
• Produced descriptive statistics using PROC Means, Frequency, Uni Variate and Summary.
• Provide statistical analysis using Proc ANOVA, Proc GLM.
• Involved in designing, coding, testing and documenting SAS Programs/ Macros.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.2, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Excel, Windows and UNIX.

Confidential, Windsor, ON

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included data analysis, producing tables, listings and graphs as requested.
• Produced analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures by using SAS/Base, SAS/Stat, SAS/Macro and SAS/Graph, SAS/SQL, SAS/Access for clinical trials data.
• Involved in data validation, edit checks and creation of several macro programs which were modified and used for validation across different studies and protocols.
• Maintain study databases perform edit checks and adhoc requests for data processing of clinical trial data.
• Produce customized reports by using Proc Report, Proc Sort, Merge Step, Proc Tabulate, Proc Format and Proc Summary.
• Produced descriptive statistics using PROC Means, Frequency, Uni Variate and Summary.
• Provide statistical analysis using Proc ANOVA, Proc GLM.
• Involved in designing, coding, testing and documenting SAS Programs/ Macros.

Environment: SAS/BASE v9.1, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 9i, MS Excel, Windows and UNIX.

Confidential

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Extracting health care data from the database using SAS/ACCESS, SQL procedures and creating SAS datasets and views
• Implementation of data cleaning techniques using PROC FREQ, PROC PRINT
• PROC MEANS, PROC TABULATE, PROC UNIVARIATE, NODUPKEY, PROC SQLPROC COMPARE and PROC RANK to detect invalid values for categorical variables like gender and race
• Create/modify standard macro driven programs to be used by entire analytic group
• Create/modify programming code to produce/revise standard reports for clients from
• Prepare analytic results and study methodology in the form of graphs, client reports and charts for professional meetings using PROC GCHART, PROC REPORT

Environment: Base SAS 8, SAS/Access, SAS/Connect, SAS/Graph, ODS, Macros, Oracle, SPSS, PL/SQL, MS Excel, Windows, UNIX

Confidential

DATA ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute market list selections internally and client server environment.
• Review, validate and implement change request associated with database objects.
• Extracting data from the database using SAS/Access, SAS SQL procedures and create SAS data sets.
• Creating SAS Views from tables in Database using SAS/Access.
• HR data collection and reports using PeopleSoft.
• Retrieved the data from flat files received from the vendors and converted to SAS data sets for Analysis using SAS/STAT Procedures such as Proc Freq, Proc Tabulate, Proc Univariate, and Proc Anova.
• Implementation of QA techniques using Proc Freq, Proc Means, Proc Tabulate, Proc Univariate, Proc SQL, and Proc Compare.
• Creating validation data sets, restructuring the data, created macro’s to check numeric, character, and invalid data entries.
• Creating reports in different output formats and export them to the web to enable customers review.
• Scheduling and Planning different projects using PRIMAVERA.
• Performing in-depth quantitative analysis/data analysis.
• Coding SAS programs with the use of Base SAS and SAS/Macros for ad hoc jobs.
• Transferring and converting data from one platform to another for further analysis.
• Data Modeling using Regression Analysis and Logistic Regression in Credit Risk Monitoring (CRM) Dept.

Environment: SAS/BASE, SAS v7.0, v8.2, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS, SAS/MACROS, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, MS Excel, Windows NT