SAS Resume

Summary

Provided analytic services for the P&C insurance industry predicting loss ratio, claims frequency, severity, fraud; marketing models for response, cross/up-sell, retention, good customer, segmentation, clustering; risk models for telecommunications, credit cards, mortgages; and collections for primary, secondary, tertiary and later placements in the medical, telecommunications, and student loan arenas
Managed junior and senior (bachelor’s and master’s level) modelers, data/IT production teams, and custom and generic analytic projects for in-house and external clients
Presented business cases to upper management on optimal applications of analytic techniques, tracked and reported their performance, managed the delivery of analytic products from initial sales calls, project specification, analytics development process, and reporting on final product to providing QA on the final implementation
Technical expertise in regression models, data mining, machine learning including CART, bagging, boosting, clustering, neural nets; SAS Base, Stat, Macro, Graph; R, SPlus; SPSS, Clementine, Answer Tree; FORTRAN, C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, Visual Basic, VBA; Word, Excel, Power Point, Access; ESRI GIS; Windows, Unix and mainframe platforms; data sets up to terabytes in size including national credit bureaus, raw and aggregated; national demographic data bases at the personal and geographic level; econometric data; spatial data sets; and customer-supplied data including free form text

Positions

Current�(January 2011 – Now) Confidential-Contract programming analyzing engineering data to substantiate ad claims , Hartford Insurance –providing statistical and GIS expertise for a new product they are developing
Confidential�(May 2010 – October 2010) Product Manager

Converted prototypes in MySQL to production versions in SAS
Implemented statistics-based QA processes in SAS

Confidential�(October 2008 – May 2010) Senior Director/Developer

Applied proprietary machine learning algorithms (Predigy) to client data
Mentored junior modelers in modeling using SAS, Python and Perl
Researched new analytic techniques for data mining

Confidential�(Nov 2001 as Market Touch – June 2008) Chief Statistical Officer

Responsible for hiring, training and managing a staff of production modelers
Constructed custom collections models and tracked their performance
Built marketing models for response, payment and conversion
Designed national prospecting data bases for clients
Developed automated modeling tool for custom models
Three patents filed relating to modeling and data processing

Confidential�(Feb. 2000 – August 2004) Principal

Contacted clients, advised on strategies for using analytics, developed proposals, reviewed and fulfilled contracts, presented results to customers, provided training to customers as requested
Developed modeling systems using SAS, SPlus and SPSS AnswerTree
Built insurance models such as MVR violations, undisclosed youthful driver, loss ratios, disposable income and performed ad hoc research
Client list included
Largest U.S. P&C insurer
Cingular
GMAC Insurance
American National Property and Casualty
Centro de Informaci�n Crediticia de Las Am�ricas, S.A.
Royal Bank of Canada Centura

Confidential�(May 1999 – Feb. 2000) Senior Modeler, Acxiom/SDS

Built insurance models
Implemented data preprocessing tools using SAS
Managed and mentored junior modelers

Confidential�(Nov 1995 as Equifax – May 1999) Chief Modeler

Hired, trained and managed the modeling team
Reviewed and implemented modeling software including neural net software
Oversaw development of generic and custom insurance models for loss ratio, claims frequency, severity which included QA of their implementation
Participated in strategic sales calls, met with customers to develop analytic strategy and specifications, advised on implementation of analytics, and presented results to customer

Confidential�(April 1985 – Nov 1995)

Mathematical Sciences Faculty of Loyola University, New Orleans
Biometry & Genetics Research Faculty of LSU Medical School, New Orleans
Mathematics Faculty of Southern University, Baton Rouge

Education

MS, Computer Science
MS, Mathematics
BA, Mathematics

Software

Base SAS, STAT and macro programming; MySQL, SPlus ; R, SPSS and AnswerTree; ArcView, Perl; Visual Basic; FORTRAN; C/C++; NAG Libraries; Excel; Word; PowerPoint; Access, VBA, Java, Python, ESRI GIS tools

Details of SAS Experience

Asked to be a Quality Partner by SAS Institute based on submitted code samples and business resume
Over 15 years experience using SAS in both academic and business settings
Worked with data sets in the Terabyte size using SAS
Extensive experience in Base SAS including PROC SQL
Extensive macro programming experience including macros that write macros
Extensive experience in SAS Stat including PROC REG, PROC LOGISTIC, PROC GLM
Experienced in writing SAS windowed applications for data input
Extensive experience in SAS Access

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