GURU

Email: Guru-SAS@gmx.com
Mobile: 734-367-4333

Summary:
 Having 6+ years of experience in data analysis including data extraction, manipulation and validation techniques,
writing macros and reporting on various projects
 Worked on a different operating system like Unix, Windows.
 Data preparation for various statistical modeling which includes data cleaning, descriptive analysis, missing data
analysis and data validations.
 Proficient in SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/Macro, SAS/Access, SAS/ODS, SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH
 Experience in developing SAS procedures, macros, merges, data steps for data cleaning, formatting and
reporting.
 Experience in using SAS to read, write, import and export to another data file formats, including delimited files,
Microsoft Excel, PDF and Access tables.
 Experienced in migration of data and current SAS programs to new versions.
 Experience in using various MS office tools for analyzing, arranging and presenting data.
 Experience in pharmaceutical and medical data statistics.
 Experience in coding using SQL, Procedures/Functions, SAS macros
 Expertise in Problem solving and Created Macros to improve the efficiency of report generation and automation
of programs and data creation.
 Excellent background in general linear models, categorical data analysis, survival analysis, multivariate
analysis, design of experiments, randomized trial designs and survey design and analysis, as well as creating SAS
datasets, debugging programs, and documentation.
 Strong knowledge about drop, keep, retain, and date manipulations, formats, informats.
 Hands on experience in SAS programming for extracting data from flat files, Excel spreadsheets and external
RDBMS tables using LIBNAME and SQL PASSTHRU facility.
 Generated reports using PROC REPORT and PROC TABULATE for customized report writing.
 Excellent command in writing routines for Data Validations, Data Extraction, transformation and loading to target
decision support systems using MS Excel and SAS on various environments.
 Proven skills in Data Cleansing, Data Archival, Data Migration, reporting and coding utilizing SAS on Windows and
Unix.
 Experience in creating SAS programs for EDIT CHECKS and performed data validation on raw data sets and
created data set for analysis.
 Experience with developing predictive models for risk assessment arena using large data sets for high
transactional volume environment
 Experience in advanced statistical analysis, predictive modeling in Banking.

Technical Skills:

SAS Skills SAS/BASE, SAS/MACROS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS

SAS Procedures PRINT, TRANSPOSE, CONTENTS, MEANS, CHART, PLOT, PRINTTO TABULATE, UNIVARIATE,
SUMMARY, SORT, SQL, PROC FORMAT, FREQ, FORMS, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD, DATASETS AND
FORMAT, IMPORT, EXPORT, REPORT, GCHART, GLM, MIXED, GSLIDE, COPY, ANOVA, REG

Languages SAS 9.4/9.3, SQL

Office Tools MS office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

OS Windows NT/XP Prof/2003 Server/2000/98/95/7/8/10, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Health and Human Services Commission, Austin, TX Jun 2016 – Sep 2017
SAS Programmer

Responsibilities:

 Prepared new Datasets from raw data files using Import techniques and modified existing datasets using Set,
Merge, Sort, and Update, Formats, Functions and conditional statements.
 Developed efficient, well-documented, readily comprehensible and modifiable SAS code using SAS/Base and
SAS/ Macro facility.
 Used SAS for importing and exporting of data from and into SAS, MS Access and Excel.
 Automating several SAS Reports by using Base SAS, which will drop the reports in designated location at the
scheduled date and time without any human effort.
 Maintenance of large data sets, combining data from various sources in varying formats to create SAS data sets
by using Set and Merge for generating Reports and Graphs.
 Used SAS and SQL to perform ETL from Oracle database and created SAS datasets, SAS Macros, Proc/data steps
and SAS formats as required.
 Created complex and reusable Macros and extensively used existing macros and developed SAS Programs for
Data Cleaning, Validation, Analysis and Report generation. Tested and debugged existing macros.
 Extracting data from the database using SAS/Access procedures and create SAS data sets.
 Developed SAS programs to load data from the source and create study specific datasets, which are used as
source datasets for report generating programs.
 Maintenance of large data sets, combining data from various sources in varying formats to create SAS data sets.
 Extensively used company standard macros, generating graphs, listings, PDF and RTF files using various Base SAS
Procedures.
 Involved in establishing connections to different data sources (SQL Server and web site data) and pulling relevant
data from these source systems for data modelling.
 Wrote SQL Loader code in SAS using SAS as an interface to load the tables into the Oracle database.
 Developed Financial Monthly and Quarterly summary reports, graphs using SAS procedures like Proc Freq, Proc
Graph, Proc Univariate, Proc Summary, and Proc Report etc.
 Used procedures like PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, PROC MEANS, PROCFREQ and PROC CONTENTS to
generate different reports on different data sets.
 Extensively used SAS/ Macro facility to provide reusable programs that can be conveniently used to update
reports.
 Participate in statistical program validation and quality control activities.
 Coordinating the production of monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports for senior management.
 Created documentation, desk levels and process flow documents for all the processes.

Environments: SAS 9.4/9.3, SAS/BASE, SAS/REPORTS, SQL, SAS/MACROS, EXCEL, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACCESS,
SAS/CONNECT, Unix, Windows

FannieMae, Reston, VA Oct 2014– May 2016

SAS Programmer

Responsibilities:

 Generated statistical reports. Technologies like Oracle and SAS were used for creating reports.
 Prepared new Datasets from raw data files using Import Techniques and modified existing datasets using Set,
Merge, Sort, and Update Formats, Functions and conditional statements.
 Created reusable Macros and extensively used existing macros in developing SAS Programs for Data Cleaning,
Validation, Analysis and Report generation. Tested and debugged existing macros.
 Created SAS Customized Reports using the Data _Null_ technique.
 Developed routine SAS macros to create tables, graphs and listings.
 Developed SAS macros for data cleaning and reporting and to support routing processing.
  Used Proc REPORT to generate reports. Developed annual reports based on existing data.
 Maintained large data sets, combined data from various sources in varying formats to create SAS data sets.
 Converted ORACLE data tables into SAS data files using SAS SQL 'Pass Through Facility,' and uploaded SAS data
files into ORACLE tables using SAS 'Dbload' procedure.
 Developed SAS programs using Base SAS for tabulation counts, correlations and check for dispersion for
normality using PROC Means, PROC Tabulate and PROC Univariate.
 Created and implemented statistical analysis plans and specification documents, participated in database design,
data collection guidelines, and logic checks.

Environment: SAS9.4, SAS/base, SAS/Macro, SAS/SQL, SAS/Graph, SAS/Access, SAS/ODS, Unix, MS Office, MS Access,
MS-Excel.

Prudential Financial, PA Feb 2013- Sep 2014

SAS Programmer

Responsibilities:

 Responsible for Data Extraction, Data Preparation, Data Validation and Analysis.
 Logistic regression is performed to find the probability of paid sale.
 Involved with Promotional planning, Lifecycle management and Time Series Forecasting.
 Used SAS Base procedures FREQ, SQL, SORT, TABULATE, and MEANS to analyze the data.
 Developed forecasting models for marketing and analysis.
 Regression analysis was done to decide which factor statistical significant in deciding the propensity to buy the
insurance from each segment.
 Created RTF, PDF, and HTML Reports using SAS ODS.
 Exported SAS Datasets to various file types (including Excel, flat files).
 Coded MACROS and Generated SAS/ Graphs.
 Summarized customers according to policy type, face amt, premium and agency. Also, prepared several ad-hoc
reports using macros according to statistician’s specifications.

Environment: Base SAS, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS, SAS/Graphs, SAS/Stat, SAS/Reports, SAS/Access, MS Access,
Windows 7, Windows 10, Unix

Aetna Healthcare, Hartford, CT Dec 2011- Jan 2013

SAS Programmer

Responsibilities:

 Developed reusable SAS/MACROS and SQL Stored Procedures for automation and to minimize data processing.
Developed and maintained data retrieval and analysis tools for reporting and performed simple ad-hoc processes
as necessary to develop viable recommendation for improvement.
 Used Proc Sql for ad-hoc report programming and creation of the reports for claims header and claims detail
data. Modified/developed new SAS programs using Proc Tabulate and Proc Report to generate periodic reports.
Also performed statistical analysis using Proc Means, Proc Freq and Proc Univariate.
 Wrote SAS and SQL queries to perform data management, analysis, aggregation, profiling, cleaning and
validation and documented the anomalies, discrepancies and findings for other team members.
 Modified the existing programs with new primary key, foreign key, indexes, new joins and sub-set criteria. Used
SAS functionalities for analysis of large datasets and for data manipulation. Identified and produced analytical
data to support decision-making.
 Created SAS data sets by extracting data from Oracle tables using SAS/CONNECT and SAS/ACCESS. Used
SAS/ACCESS to read data from different databases like MS Access, Flat files, and also read and write other PC File
formats.
 Extensive worked on detecting, describing and verifying defects, bug tracking and modifying the existing datasets
for the improvement of the existing system.
 Performed Data Cleansing by analyzing and eliminating duplicate and inaccurate data using Proc Freq, Proc
 Univariate and SAS/Macros.
 Generated high quality reports in the form of listing, HTML, RTF and PDF formats using SAS ODS.

Environment: SAS Base 9.1, SAS/STAT, SAS/ODS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/MACROS, SAS/ACESS, SAS/SQL, SQL server, SAS
Metadata Server, Windows XP, Unix