SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in SAS / SAS Administration in SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2, SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4 on UNIX/LINUX/WINDOWS operating systems
• Installation of client applications and Troubleshooting technical problems.
• Tracking applicable SAS hot fixes and creating implementation plans for respective SAS modules and applications.
• Extensive hands on experience on SAS BI SAS 9.2/9.4 Administration, including SAS Connect, SAS Internet Server, SAS OLAP Server, SAS Metadata Server, SAS Object Spawner, SAS Management Console 9.2/9.4, Enterprise Guide, OLAP Studio, Data Integration Studio, Web Report Studio, OLAP Viewer for Java, SAS Performance Forecast Server, SAS Connect Server, SAS Grid Control Server, LSF Suit, SAS RTM
• Install and configure teh complete SAS grid environment along wif SAS.
• Adding users, registering tables, etc. using Management Console.
• Automation of sas user management.
• Monitoring SAS Server resources and reporting usage(s).
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining security on SAS Metadata and Linux for users.
• Provide guidance and assistance to SAS Developers on operational and technical issues, interfacing wif teh SAS Institute for Support on administrative and system issues.
• Creating and implementing upgrade plans.
• Occasional after hour support when system OS and hardware maintenance and applying SAS hot fixes and upgrades occur.
• Documented best practices for teh SAS Application server from a scalability need.
• Handled routine system administration tasks like login issues, password unlock, reactivating user accounts and password reset. Provided access permissions on Directories and files as needed.
• Supported multiple applications in 24/7 environment.
• File systems management, disk space management like responding to file system full etc.
• Patch installation using tools RPM and YUM.
• Worked wif backup team to restore file/directory.
• Log file provision: Compressed log files using gzip and sent application support teams when requested.
• Using ansible to install 3rd party tools, sync conf files on all nodes.
• Using Splunk to create dashboards and reports and monitor saswork usage.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: SAS 9.2, 9.4 m2 and m4, SAS VA 7.3, SAS GRID, LSF 7, LSF 9.1.1/9.1.3 , SAS Access to Hadoop, SASEP for Hadoop, SAS Scoring Accelerator for Teradata, SAS Management Console, SAS Enterprise Guide, BASE SAS, SAS/CONNECT, SAS - SQL, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/DI, SAS Visual Analytics and Lasr Servers, SAS EV Manager, DS2, saspy, Power BI, AWS, Python, Anaconda,Splunk

Databases: SQL Server 2005, MS Access 2007, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Teradata, Hadoop, Amazon Redshift

Operating System: Windows, UNIX, LINUX

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting, Ansible, Perl, Python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

SAS Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and tuning of SAS Analytical Platforms in Linux and AWS Cloud environments.
• Coordinating and implementing SAS application upgrades, maintenance, data- base connectivity, and testing, including modeling
• Installation, administration, monitoring, maintenance, and tuning of Anaconda, R-Studio and various other data science toolsets in AWS environment.
• Design and implement a security policy which covers SAS analytical platform, Anaconda, R-Studio and ensure that it aligns wif Bausch standards.
• Act as Subject matter expert and provide assistance to user in effort to migrate from PC SAS to SAS Analytical platform, Code tuning etc.
• Establish and document best practices and guidelines for administering/usage of teh SAS and various data science platforms like Anaconda, R-Studio etc.

Confidential, Cleveland,OH

SAS Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a point of contact for all teh SAS issues that are outstanding and work wif SAS support folks as needed.
• Installed and configured sas access to Hadoop.
• Helped business wif configuration files for saspy.
• Worked on setting Single sign on for SAS
• Involved in Disaster Recovery Design.
• Monitoring SAS Server resources and reporting usage(s).
• Provide guidance and assistance to SAS Developers on operational and technical issues, interfacing wif teh SAS Institute for Support on administrative and system issues.
• Creating security models and user groups.
• Reviewed, validated, documented & mentored SAS Admins, SAS Analysts and DBA’s regarding SAS environment.
• Working wif Security team to remediate any SAS platform related Vulnerabilities
• Involved in promoting code to production environment using GIT/Udeploy and setting up production jobs via CA7
• Documented best practices for teh SAS Intelligence Platform from a scalability and maintainability perspective.
• Worked wif SAS to implement a POC SAS VIYA environment on a single node in on perm including installation, configuration and setting up autantication via LDAP Worked on monitoring and administering teh POC VIYA environment
• Created Tableau Reports to show teh storage and system metrics.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

App Analytics Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on upgrading from sas 9.4M3 to SAS 9.4M5
• Involved in designing new sas grid environment as per business requirements and calculated user base increase.
• Installed sas 9.4M5, LSF 10.1 on Four node AIX 7.2 cluster wif share nothing configuration files.
• Installed Midtier on RHEL 6 node and configured for SSL/server encrypt.
• Created time based LSF queues to handle varied load.
• Installed and configured sas access to Hadoop.
• Helped business wif configuration files for saspy.
• Reconfigured SAS to pass Kerberos tickets to connect to Kerberized Hadoop.
• Setup EGO managed services for metadata server, WIP Data Server.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery Design.
• Adding users, registering tables, etc. using Management Console.
• Created an automated user sync process.
• Monitoring SAS Server resources and reporting usage(s).
• Provide guidance and assistance to SAS Developers on operational and technical issues, interfacing wif teh SAS Institute for Support on administrative and system issues.
• Creating security models and user groups.
• Responsible as a point of contact for all of teh SAS issues that are outstanding and work wif SAS support folks as needed.
• Worked wif citrix team to install sas client tools on citrix environment for end users.
• Reviewed, validated, documented & mentored SAS Admins, SAS Analysts and DBA’s regarding SAS environment.
• Documented best practices for teh SAS Intelligence Platform from a scalability and maintainability perspective.
• Designed installed and maintained Anaconda 4.1 and Anaconda 5.2 enterprise servers.
• Designed and Installed RStudio Server and responsible for maintaining R-Studio Server
• Designed and Installed and maintained Angoss Knowledge Studio 10.4

Confidential, Dover, NH

Sr SAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.4 installation and migration of users from SAS 9.2 to SAS 9.4
• Created custom self-service scheduler using shell script, sasgsub, esp.
• Responsible for redesigning security and autantication method moving away from LDAP based autantication to PAM based autantication.
• Tuned sas grid to handle increased user load.
• Involved in designing new sas grid environment as per business requirements and calculated user base increase.
• Installed sas 9.4, LSF 9.1.3 on fifteen nodes running RHEL 7.2 wif share nothing configuration files.
• Installed Midtier on two RHEL 7.2 node and configured for Horizontally clustered high availability and SSL/server encrypt.
• Configured three dedicated high-performance nodes which are used only for SAS HP procedures and involved in designing access process for these nodes.
• Migrated data from a veritas storage to GPFS storage.
• Created time based LSF queues to handle varied load.
• Installed SASEP for Hadoop.
• Installed and configured sas access to Hadoop.
• Helped business wif configuration files for saspy.
• Reconfigured SAS to pass Kerberos tickets to connect to Kerberized Hadoop.
• Created macros for business depending on business requirements
• Setup EGO managed services for metadata server, WIP Data Server.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery Design.
• Adding users, registering tables, etc. using Management Console.
• Created an automated user sync process.
• Monitoring SAS Server resources and reporting usage(s).
• Created splunk dashboards for reporting for various performance metrics.i.e. I/O,CPU,Number of users on system and sasdata usage.
• Created splunk process to warn and kill process which consume high saswork space.
• Involved in designing a process to move archived sasdata to aws glacier cloud storage.
• Provided basic support to SAS VA, RTDM and Fraud frame work.
• Provide guidance and assistance to SAS Developers on operational and technical issues, interfacing wif teh SAS Institute for Support on administrative and system issues.
• Creating security models and user groups.
• Wrote SAS code to refresh metadata libraries based on changes made in teh database.
• Involved in setting up single sign on.
• Responsible for setting up SAS Access/Interface to Teradata, DB2 and hadoop servers for end users as per their requirements.
• Responsible in setting up ODBC connections to MS/SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Amazon Redshift for end users as per their requirements.
• Responsible as a point of contact for all of teh SAS issues that are outstanding and work wif SAS support folks as needed.
• Worked wif citrix team to install sas client tools on citrix environment for end users.
• Reviewed, validated, documented & mentored SAS Admins, SAS Analysts and DBA’s regarding SAS environment.
• Documented best practices for teh SAS Intelligence Platform from a scalability and maintainability perspective

Confidential, Atlanta, GA 

SAS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing SAS on teh Servers and Client machines.
• Maintaining SAS Servers Health.
• Securing Metadata foundation repositories.
• Install and config lsf.
• Monitoring lsf load and jobs through RTM
• Creating separate lsf queues as per requirements
• Adding extra nodes to teh grid
• Creating users, groups, roles on teh SAS Meta data server.
• Troubleshooting teh SAS server related issues.
• Responsible for schedulingSASJobs, backup scripts, cleanup scripts using Crontab
• Monitor allSAS Admin emails and troubleshoot and timely respond
• Creating Profiles forSASEnterprise Guide andSASEnterprise Miner Users
• Day to day User support by implementing libraries and provide/grant access to teh users accordingly
• Tested validation and derivation procedures and verified teh accuracy of teh data
• Installation, configuration and administration responsibility of SAS V9.4 Visual Analytics & Analytics.
• Installing & renewingSASLicenses
• Software upgrades, patches, maintenance, performance tuning of SAS environments
• Experience on SAS 9.2 administration using SAS Tool called SAS/Management Console.
• Good understanding of teh SAS Web tier and SAS Server Tier Architecture wif excellent troubleshooting skills
• Creating SAS libraries and registering SAS datasets.
• Applying Hot fixes on SAS Servers and client tools.
• Renewing SAS license wif SID (SAS Installation Data) files.
• Modifying SAS configuration files and taking back up of original files.
• Creating Database connectivity libraries.
• Creating UNIX scripts for monitoring teh file systems and delivery automated alert mails.
• Interacting wif project leads for daily reporting.