SUMMARY:

• More than 13 Years of professional and cultural experience working for SAS USA, SAS LATAM, SAS EMEA and SAS APAC - directly and/or through SAS Partners.
• As SAS Former and SAS Trainer, I have Custody of broad aspects of Migration and administration of different SAS Solutions.
• SAS Enterprise Architect Expert trained by Confidential as SAS Former, also specializing in High Performance Analytics Solutions.
• Custody of SAS Data quality, Data integration, Data federation, Data governance and Master data management.
• Broad understanding of many SAS Analytical Solutions bundles and their relationship to business goals according the Global Standards and Best Practices
• Management the implementation of components, processes and techniques of defined Infrastructure Projects, within budget, timescales and quality criteria, achieving Customer Satisfaction
• Solutions include SAS Grid Implementation and Administration (including Hadoop), SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Access to Hadoop, SAS Data Loader….
• Lead in data science to explore the possibilities of SAS Visual Analytics with Hadoop Spark.
• Global experience working with diverse industries, technologies business and community such as Healthcare, Energy (Oil & Gas), Financial, Retail, Insurance, Telecom, Gaming & Hospitality including legal and regulatory compliance to different regions
• Coach and mentor teammates and partners with SAS Analytical Solutions for compliance to SAS Global standards and best practices for medium and large companies
• Cross-functionally profile to ensure organizational alignment around and effective delivery of the professional services.
• CRM Expert (and their variations) with Knowledge of marketing, customer intelligence, enterprise marketing, outbound/inbound marketing, multi-channel, real time and Omni channel.
• Achieved success and worldwide professional experience by working on behalf of SAS and SAS Partners to the major industries and reputed brands in a multicultural environment.
• SAS Architecture Skillset Highlights
• Integration. Responsible as Global enterprise architect and administration for all new or never-tried-before implementation scenarios for SAS Analytical Solutions. Implementations were focused on total enterprise integration using SAS Certified and TOGAF (Open Group Architecture Framework) Certified standards bringing together the SAS Business Analytics Framework, SAP and SAP acquired products, Oracle and Oracle acquired products, IBM applications and/or home grown or third party proprietary systems based.
• Expertise also focused on performance sizing of hardware infrastructure, application architecture Throughput, security authentication and authorization including SSO, and extending out to SOA and SaaS. Also worked to size and integrate within Virtualized environments for IBM, Sun, HP, and Windows 64-bit.
• Enablement. Also acted as head implementation trainer in all Asia-Pacific regions for Internal consultants, pre-sales, technical support, customer’s IT and business staff, and alliance partners Including Accenture.
• Troubleshooter. Lead as implementation troubleshooter and acted as the direct connection to Global Strategy and R&D for show stoppers. Issues focused on technical and business expertise issues regarding Customer
• Acted as Responsible of SAS Migration knowledge transfer process to SAS APAC region.
• Custody of best practices and the different aspects of the SAS Architecture and Migration as SAS Former (not limited to):
• Creating metadata users and groups.
• Creating metadata libraries and folders.
• Designing, architecting and implementing a metadata security scheme to work with Linux OS security.
• Active directory authentication.
• Creating libraries to both Teradata and MS Sql Server.
• Starting and stopping all SAS servers.
• Reading through SAS logs to work through problems finding root causes and rectifying. Interfacing with SAS technical support
• Defining and architecting best practices pertaining to SAS.
• Monitoring grid and make sure that nodes are balanced with SAS generated code running efficiently across grid.
• Ability to work with SAS software to help users when they encounter problems
• Working knowledge of LSF as it pertains to the SAS grid.
• Ability to make changes to SAS environment such as modifying SAS code, configuration files and writing automation scripts.
• Ability to install hot fixes, service packs, upgrades as well as add-on software components.
• Knowledge and consultative approach to model deployment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAS Solutions Architecture and Data Visualization Science

Confidential —Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively to a diverse, global technologies business community
• Ability to interface with delivery teams and project methodologies, translating business requirements into systems requirements
• Managing the implementation of components, processes and techniques of defined Infrastructure Projects, within budget, timescales and quality criteria, achieving Customer Satisfaction
• Assist in reviewing SAS Solutions projects architectures for compliance to SAS Global standards and best practices
• Work a member of highly skilled team for SAS Solutions, applications, utilities and tools.
• Design SAS Solutions architectures for medium and large companies

Principal of SAS Global Practices Alignment

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Focused on pushing global standards and best practices for Asia Pacific Countries (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, India and China).
• Member of the SAS Global Professional Team to SAS 9.2 migration path and rollout for existing customers for SAS APAC.
• Facilitating workshops/meetings with clients, SAS and/or industry personnel
• Server in a lead Architect capacity for medium to large size projects; effectively oversee delivery of the solution, production of the deliverables and coach/develop staff
• Gather and analyze client’s functional requirements converting them into effective designs for medium/larger solutions
• Train the client in the use of the applications/business solution, either formally or through 1-1 knowledge transfer
• Present design/solution/application to the client, as appropriate, throughout the project lifecycle
• Comfortably and confidently present (and demo) SAS Solutions to clients and prospects
• To provide and enablement of SAS solutions consultants in SAS subsidiaries or SAS partners
• Proactively identify and assess regional project risk and procedures actions to resolve or contingency plans; where necessary escalates to the senior project manager or consulting manager
• Maintain detailed knowledge of solutions, technologies, methodologies and procedures and keep up to date with industry/business sector developments
• Thought leadership in the development and potential tricks and tips on the usage of SAS Solutions
• Custodian of a best practice for implementing the SAS Solutions
• To feedback and use knowledge and experience into the company global knowledge systems

SAS Business Analytics Implementation Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Finance Manager with reporting improvements, and Forecast process enhancements, including building active partnerships with the Sourcing team and Senior Leaders.
• Financial planning and analysis of Supply Chain Assignable Market Variations across EMEA, with a key focus on impacts to ACM (Annual Cost Movement) process.
• Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs; collecting operational data.
• Applying Profitability models to determines the Transparent vs. Shadow Limits
• Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Guides cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions.
• Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
• Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Maintains database by entering, verifying, and backing up data.
• Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; studying proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Analyzes detailed business issues and works with CRM/DTC associates to facilitate and guide strategic initiatives.
• In charge of the Analytical CRM Design and Architecture for global accounts on banking segment.
• Responsible by the design and architecture of the Analytical CRM projects, including multiple tiers of architecture and engaged with the CRM team by collecting historical data to learn everything about its customers, including their purchasing behavior and economic means.
• By using SAS with profit and risk models built and implemented, the bank was able to promote success campaigns associate with their product portfolio. The campaigns were built with a segmentation of the customers associated with their potential behavior and based on the score reached from the analytic models.
• Direct discussions with the Technology Group and Confidential -Commerce Group to make possible the in corporation of online data with the offline data previously resident in the SAS database.
• Serves as the focal person in the study and communication of the customer lifecycle with the brands, and develops models that forecast the likelihood to defect.
• Understand changes in customer actions, and measure the impact of different marketing scenarios.
• Work together with external vendors to set up production modeling process.
• Leads customer segmentation study and decide preferred method.
• Leverages the SAS database and add to the organization’s general information of the customer and broad transparency of business presentation.
• Manages the modeling procedure for higher segmentation efforts.
• Participates in the direction of quantitative methods all through the CRM department.
• Work together with marketing, merchandise planning, store operations, and technology teams as required on cross-functional projects

SAS Pre & Post Sales System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to creatively apply and demonstrate SAS Analytical Business Solutions to help solve the industries needs and communicate these approaches to different audiences at all levels.
• Also acted as lead to prepare prototype solutions and presentations based on opportunity analysis; development and present customized demonstrations for accounts.
• I worked with sales staff to outline available products and leverage sales opportunities
• I was responsible to plan and implement in conjunction with the Account Executive the better strategy to achieve the goals and perform other duties assigned to me.
• As Analytical and SAS Engineer skill set, I was responsible by the architecture of SAS solutions that understand aspects of planning and configuration of several pieces of software, layers of security in multiple platforms with environment of centralized metadata, configurations of environments with multiple conversions of interfaces integrated, definition of standards and connection protocols of communication
• Working proactively with others, including Account Executives, Systems Engineers, Solution Architects and other personnel to address customer technical needs for SAS sales opportunities.
• Building a trusted relationship with Account Executives, System Engineers, and SAS clients.
• Understand and describe how SAS products and solution(s) are used to address analytical and business challenges, with knowledge of competitive information to identify how SAS stands apart.
• Strategizing with the sales team on objectives for customer sales situations, understanding how the Technical Architect activity relates to overall sales plans and providing functional and technical solution leadership during sales opportunities.
• Conducting discovery meeting(s) to collect, analyze, clarify and document technical requirements during a sales cycle to support the SAS team to produce a solution proposal.
• Providing detailed, practical and technical guidance about the value of SAS products and solutions, and setting proper expectations.
• Delivering standard, customized and/or strategic presentations and demonstrations outlining functional or technical capabilities.
• Describing SAS' competitive advantages and the business benefits of SAS products and solutions as they apply to client needs.
• Utilizing knowledge of domain or industry to increase SAS's credibility in sales situations.
• Assisting in the response to RFI/RFP's utilizing the RFP Repository, crafting and completing responses.
• Participating in product and solution to acquire and maintain on-going, detailed, product knowledge of core components of SAS offerings and related solutions,

Business Intelligence Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developing and leading a growing EPMO organization to enable the enterprise to deliver enterprise-wide projects efficiently, meeting cost and schedule targets. Including active management of enterprise project portfolios, and the development of regular, concise C-level reporting methods in partnership with the COO.
• Implementing program and project management delivery methods, including the mentoring and development of Confidential &P team members.
• Implement the development of enterprise-wide Business Intelligence, Planning and Analysis function
• Experience in leading an agile transformation at the team and enterprise levels.
• Management of multiple projects simultaneously, frequently involving diverse technologies and strategies.