SUMMARY

• SAS administrator with 5+ years of experience in end to end SAS systems as administrator capacity as well as developer capacity.
• SAS 9.4 server grid design, implementation, migration and user support for business.
• Installation and configuration of SAS 9.4. SAS 9.3, SAS 9.2 and GRID architecture including designing application server contexts, connect servers, object spawners, sas applications. Setting failover processes. Installation, configuration of Platform LSF. Setting up queues and writing scripts to support LSF/SAS architecture.
• Worked as an SAS administrator to supporting users and designing and maintaining a SAS platform for business users.
• Possess outstanding analytical and problem solving skills. Proactive, Innovative, Challenge Oriented. Possess the ability to demonstrate both as an individual and as part of a team with excellent communication, interpersonal skills and ability to handle multiple projects at one time.
• SAS Administrator providing support to end users on SAS applications, server connectivity, workspace management and updating software patches.
• Always energetic to learn new skills, multiple responsibilities concurrently, extremely organized and efficient. Handles complex issues professionally
• Effective team player with excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and inter - personal skills, ability to interact with individuals at all levels. Hard working, ethical and highly result oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAS Tools: Base SAS 9.4, 9.2, 9.3, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS DI studio, SAS Management console, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACRO, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/ODS, SAS/Graph

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Teradata, GreenPlum

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux

Office Tools: WinSCP, Putty, MS Office, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAS System Administrator

Confidential, CA

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of SAS 9.4 GRID architecture including designing application server contexts connect servers, object spawners, sas applications. Setting failover processes. Installation, configuration of Platform LSF. Setting up queues and writing scripts to support LSF/SAS architecture.
• As an SAS administrator to supporting users and designing and maintaining a SAS platform for business users.
• Implemented the Hot Fixes and patches. Supported client specific configurations.
• SAS Server back up and restores DR process design and implementation.
• Setting up DB Connections to Teradata, Oracle, Db2. Monitor all the tiers - Metadata, Compute & Web on Unix. Monitoring of servers, databases and workstations to ensure availability and efficiency.
• Promotion of Metadata such as libraries, metadata folders, information maps, campaigns, etc from one environment to another
• Administer user access and security on the system, Maintain the User Inventory & License Information
• Responsible for generating weekly, monthly and quarterly reports as per the requirement and running them as per the schedules.

Environment: (Windows and UNIX): SAS 9.3, 9.4, Grid, Platform LSF, SAS/Macros, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide4.3,, SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, WinSCP,, Putty for Unix, Teradata SQL Assistance, SAS/SQL, MS Access and MS Excel.

SAS Administrator

Confidential, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Manage the platform SAS Platform on Windows server 2008 and Linux. Troubleshoot issues with off shore user base.
• Installation of SAS 9.4 Grid platform TEST and PROD.
• Installed/configured LSF/PM for GRID.
• Design migration from SAS 9.2 to new SAS 9.4 Grid environment. Plan/implement migration of data as well as code. Implement / document the migration efforts.
• Work with users with successful migrations. Troubleshoot any issues. User training on new environments.
• Implement scripts for disk space usage/ notifications.
• Implement scripts for automatic cleanup of sas work.
• Implement scripts to archive old files on the servers.
• Ongoing user support and enhancements to the platform.
• Mentoring junior developer and debugging their technical issues including code review.

Environment: Base SAS, Grid, Platform LSF, SAS EG, Teradata, SAS/ACCESS and SAS/SQL, MS/Excel, Oracle8i

SAS DI Developer / Production Support

Confidential, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Migration of base SAS processes into DI Studio. Building flows with improvements in the process where possible and applicable. Test and validate the flows.
• Architect SAS DI production environment. Set up procedures to migrate from test to production. Build and maintain Production repository.
• Build Quality control checks in the DI studio processes to address data issues. Build reports on data quality.
• Design metadata security architecture to support production and test environments.
• Generate output files in various formats like text, MS Excel, CSV, PDF, XML, etc.
• Responsible for designing, developing and validating data validation model.
• Responsible for SAS code development and documentation. Also, responsible for validation template creation and documentation.

Environment: (Windows and UNIX): SAS 9.3, SAS/Macros, SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office, Putty, SAS/SQL, MS Access and MS Excel.