SUMMARY:

• Highly Motivated IT professional with Over 13 years of experience, delivers innovative solutions to complex business needs and achieves key strategic initiatives.
• Dedicated and conscientious individual with impeccable work ethic and a keen sense of responsibility towards the organization and those it serves.
• Highly proficient in system level architecture, server sizing and overall solution design
• Expert in various tools and technologies across SAS platform such as SAS Grid Manager, BI server, Visual Analytics, and Model Risk Manager.
• Architect, Project Lead for SAS 9.3/9.4 Grid Implementations, led several other SAS implementation and upgrade projects.
• Great deal of experience with Data Integration tools such as Informatica, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and SAS DI Studio.
• End - to-end implementation experience in SAP BI, SAS, Spotfire, and QilkView.
• Expertise in Installation and Configuration of SAS and other BI tools.
• Perfect in the art of performance tuning and system optimization.
• Expert level understanding of several tools in the space of Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Integration, Modelling along with their Architecture and configuration.
• Provided server specification, storage specification, security model, content organization, and operational support model for several BI tools including SAS, SAP BO, Qlikview, and Spotfire.
• Big Data enthusiast having trained in Hadoop, Hive, PIG, Impala. Worked on SAS/Hadoop integration.
• Mastery in defining efficient IT processes in line with industry standards such as ITIL.
• Expert in project planning, resource management, and work allocation.
• Understanding, flexible, adept at working in high paced energetic environments, and adapts quickly to different business organization’s needs.
• Great communicator with superior leadership, training, and mentoring capabilities. Excellent documentation and problem solving skills. Ability to deliver things at a very fast pace.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TechnologyTools Analytical Tools and BI: SAS Platform 9.4/9.3, Grid Manager, SAS BI Server, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Model Risk Management. Enterprise Guide, SAS Management Console, PC SAS, Information Map Studio, Web Report Studio, Stored Processes, DataFlux, and SAS ACCESS.SAP BI Administration, OBIEE, QlikView Administration, and Spotfire Administration.

Data Integration: SAS Data Integration Studio, Oracle Warehouse Builder, and SAS Enterprise Guide, and Informatica.

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Big Data: Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Pig, Impala, and SAS.

Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows, and RHEL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. SAS Platform Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide Solution Architecture for the clients SAS 9.4 Platform which includes SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Model Risk Management and SAS Grid.
• Provide Guidance to IT management and Business partners on the future of the SAS products, Lay out a strategy for implementation of new features and functions.
• End to end platform support-system maintenance, hotfix Installation, user administration, architectural changes and operations.
• Designed SAS Security model, laid out back and restore methods, and streamlined self-service ad-hoc analytical needs using Enterprise Guide.
• Set up Single sign on (SSO) for SAS Middle-Tier using CA siteminder and third party web servers.
• Set up load balancing for SAS Mid-Tier, maintain SAS Content Server.
• Monitor SAS data loads using SAS Grid Manager plug-in.
• Performed upgrade for SAS Model Risk Manager from version 6.1 to 7.1.
• Conduct end user training. Organize user forums to enable users with new product related tips & tricks.

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide Solution Architecture for BI systems across Commercial, HR, Finance, R&D, and Manufacturing business functions. Tools include SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio. SAS Grid Manager.
• Oversight of NEXTGEN project, which involved implementation of SAS Grid 9.4, Teradata, and JMP.
• Platform Administration and maintenance of SAS GRID 9.4 and Legacy SAS Environment.
• Create new groups and users via SAS Management Console. Access management to SAS libraries and content management via SMC and SAS Server.
• Maintenance of SAS Data Libraries based out of Teradata, MS SQL Server and Oracle.
• Monitor SAS Grid environment through Grid Manager plug-in and RTM. Create job queues and assign job prioritization.
• Analyzed Current State Architecture & Tools and Technology stack, Assessed Gaps, and Proposed Roadmap for future state based on key stakeholder inputs and industry standards.
• Established strategy for Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) needs.
• Created Architecture Framework by defining Standards and Best Practices, across all BI components. Established BI COE and Governance Model to standardize the design process.

Environment: SAS, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, Teradata, Oracle EBS, MicroStrategy, OBIEE.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Architect

Responsibilities:

• System manager for legacy SAS as well as latest SAS Grid Environment. Provided operational support, evaluated and installed maintenance packs.
• Maintain and monitor SAS Server landscape, perform monthly maintenance or when needed. Clean up SAS temp space, clear hung processes, restart SAS Metadata Server workspace servers, mid-tier servers, and object spawner. Apply patches if needed.
• Monitor disk utilization, re-engineer modify/optimize file system usage. Add remove storage as per the business requirements.
• Monitor CPU and memory utilization. Constantly read I/O throughput to understand system utilization, make necessary changes to scale the environment for best performance.
• User access management and content security management which includes, creating new user groups, new users, setting up security access to folders and libraries, using via SMC.
• Created and maintained several SAS libraries using SAS ACCESS software sourced out of Oracle, SQL Server, PC Files, and SAS Data sets.
• Designed and implemented security model for content management, user management, and access management. Defined and created ACT’s (Access Control Templates) for permissions to folders and libraries.
• Administer and Monitor SAS jobs and server load, using Grid Manager plug-in for SMC and Platform RTM. Well versed with the concepts of Platform LSF and Grid Control Server.
• Trained users on new SAS Grid computational capabilities. Demonstrate Grid parallel processing, load balancing capacity by showcasing an existing SAS program.
• Negotiate matters related to licensing and yearly renewals.
• Provided leadership and technical expertise for a smooth end-to-end implementation of multi node SAS Grid 9.3. Defined hardware architecture, storage architecture, and DR (Disaster Recovery) process.
• Expertise using SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Management Console, PC SAS, DI Studio, Grid Manager, and RTM.
• Modified several UNIX scripts for the smooth transitioning of SAS code and jobs during upgrade.
• Defined best practices and standards for SAS operation support, code development, and code migration.
• Installed and configured SAS Grid 9.4 including SAS ACCESS to Hadoop, Impala, and SAS Data Loader. Completed SAS Visual Analytics tool evaluation.
• Lead Architect for SAP business objects upgrades. Successfully lead the recent upgrade for SAP BO to version 4.1.
• Lead and support Commercial Spotfire environment. Provide operational support and administration.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies to meet ongoing business needs. Execute Big Data initiatives.

Environment: SAS, Red Hat Linux, Oracle, PC Files, MS Office, Exadata, SAP BI, Qlikview, Spotfire.

Confidential, Glastonbury, CT

SAP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Deliver end-to-end reporting requirements. Analyzed requirements and developed, tested, and deployed.
• Developed and maintained several BO universes sourced out of SAP BW using then SAP Integration Kit for BO.

Environment: Business Objects XI R1 & R2, Crystal Reports, SAP BW, SAP ERP systems, MS SQL Server 2000.