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Senior Sas Administrator Resume

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Minneapolis, MN

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

  • I am a SAS proponent. I have provided SAS Center of Competency Services that includes mentoring, consulting, problem solving, debugging, integrating, product upgrading, product installing, performance tracking and tuning, administering, and on - the-job . Providing all support for the 4-tier SAS BI System on AIX 6.1 LPAR servers, and the web tier running on Linux servers in VMAAS cluster. Including: architecture, installing and configuring SAS Scalable Parallel Data Server (SPDS), SAS/GRID, LSF Platform Suite, the SAS Web Portal (Tomcat), SAS DI Server (DI Studio), SAS Enterprise Miner, and SAS Enterprise Guide. Supporting Base SAS and conversion to SAS v9.4 from v9.3.
  • Along with SAS I have good experience in managing and supporting different BI tools such as, Webfocus, Tableau, Ca Web viewer and Microstrategy. Good knowledge in Devops concepts and Open source tools.
  • 5+ Years of Experience in Business Intelligence platform administration with multiple BI Tools.
  • SAS administrator in a 4 tier platform with over 1200 users. Using LSF / Grid server with 7 nodes running on AIX 6.1 running GPFS filesystem. With a mid-tier hosted on a Linux server running on VMaas.
  • 9+ years of experience in Retail Domain. Good experience in Infrastructure administration with a strong background in UNIX Systems Administration providing on-call production support
  • Extensive KNOWLEDGE in migrating SAS Enterprise Server from SAS 9.3 to SAS 9.4 on UNIX environments.
  • Extensive hands on experience in SAS BI on and SAS 9.3 SAS 9.4 M2 platforms, including Installation, Configuration, Licensing, Hotfix upgrades using SAS deployment Manager
  • Knowledge in SAS Metadata Server, SAS Object Spawner, SAS Management Console, Enterprise Guide, Data Integration Studio, Web Report Studio, OLAP Viewer for Java, SAS Connect, SAS/Intranet Server, SAS OLAP Server OLAP Studio, SAS Web Infrastructure Platform, SAS Enterprise Miner.
  • Good understanding of the SAS Webtier and SAS Server Tier Architecture with excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Good knowledge on tuning the SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server Platform to optimize the Server Performance
  • Specialized in designing, implementing, and maintaining security using SAS Metadata and ACL's on AIX
  • Responsible for Monitoring, reporting, and controlling SAS Server usage
  • Documented best practices for the SAS Application server from a scalability need.
  • Good scripting knowledge. Developed scripts that handles everyday administration tasks such as real-time monitoring of environments, self-recovery and report generation for necessary events using SHELL and basic knowledge on Python.
  • Extensive knowledge of Enterprise wide Client/Server Technologies.
  • Basic knowledge on Software Containerization Platform(Docker) and AWS.
  • Experience in building visualizations using Splunk & DataDog
  • Involved in the development of architectural design artifacts for IT solutions addressing customer requirements.
  • Exposed to Time and Money Projects (SCRUM).
  • Excellent Team, Leadership and Management skills.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills, willing to take initiative and able to apply new tools and technologies in the projects. Extensive working in DevOps

TECH PLATFORMS IN USE:

SAS Administration: SAS Connect, SAS OLAP Server, Metadata Server, Object Spawner, SAS Management Console, Enterprise Guide 3.1.4x, 4.1.495/500 , 4.2 OLAP Studio, Data Integration Studio, Web Report Studio 3.1, 3.2, OLAP Viewer for Java, Enterprise Miner 5.2,6.1, SAS Access Interface to Oracle, DB2, Teradata, SQL Server

Scripting: Shell, Python

Logging and Monitoring: Portal, Patrol, Splunk, Datadog

Databases: SQL 2208/2012, DB2, PostGre SQL, MySQL, Oracle 9i &10g

Operations: Service-Now, JIRA

UNIX Administration: SOLARIS Enterprise Server Version, Solaris 2.8/5.9/5.10 HP-UX 9, 10, 11, IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, Windows 2000, VERITAS Volume Manager 3x/4x, VERITAS File systems, GPFS Filesystem.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior SAS Administrator

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the SAS EBI 9.3 & 9.4 platforms that run on Development and Prod environments including BI security and managing Read/Write privileges of users and supports 24/7.
  • The environment has 1200 users in 7 departments, using SAS Grid and user interfaces from Citrix/Web/desktop
  • Developed and implemented real-time error-capturing code in SAS for production environment, implemented automated monitoring for FS usage / Critical SAS services etc..
  • Develop and maintain documentation of the system configuration, procedures, and apply hotfixes and maintenance releases to SAS 9.3 & 9.4 M2 as well as SPD Server & client SAS products, Design and develop routines, tools and using SAS EG/Base SAS to support ad hoc reports including automation in the SAS Web Report Studio.
  • Make the full implementation of Risk models into DEV, QA, & Prod environments and version them by using Version Control software, Configure and conduct performance-tuning of general SAS programs in SAS BI platform 9.3 & 9.4
  • Make the full implementation of Risk models into DEV, QA, & Prod environments and version them by using Version Control software, Configure and conduct performance-tuning of general SAS programs in SAS BI platform 9.3 & 9.4
  • Developed new or modified SAS programs to load data from the source and create study specific datasets, which are used as source datasets for report generating programs.
  • Attend project team meetings, worked with Bio-Statisticians, Data Managers, and Clinical Research Managers as appropriate.• Experienced in validating programs and in writing competing codes to re-check the statistical values of tables

Environment: s: SAS Management Console, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS WebTier /Applications, SAS Eminer, Data Integration Studio etc.

Business Intelligence Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Administrated the BI infrastructure (all BI tools) with Target. That included SAS, WebFOCUS, Micro strategy, Tableau and CA webviewer.
  • Monitoring all the above listed environments and fix all the environmental issues that we encounter or whatever the users are reporting
  • I have involved in planning and performing SAS 9.4 M2 upgrade from SAS 9.3
  • Involved in capacity assessment for Micro strategy and performed migrating the environment from Linux to AIX and moving the metadata from UDB to Oracle
  • Administrating WebFOCUS Development, Stage and Production environment
  • Experience in managing the WebFOCUS 7.6x reporting server in a complex infrastructure environment
  • Experience with managing IBI WebFOCUS licensing related issues
  • Demonstration of initiative and results oriented with flexibility and tenacity, and the ability to continuously adjust priorities to reflect changing circumstances
  • Responsible for Tableau environment administration
  • Administer and support tableau Infrastructure including upgrades, testing, security administration, license management, troubleshoot workbooks, performance monitoring and system maintenance. Analyzing logs, Head Dumps and Thread Dumps.
  • Analyze critical issues/repeated issues to find the root cause and provide permanent solutions part of Problem Management efforts.
  • Design and develop generic business processes for various partners
  • Involvement in designing the Overview of the project along with the Architect.
  • Participation in designing ETL Job flows & MFT Application Flows.
  • Automating routine tasks and outages using Shell scripts.
  • Review of the milestones/deliverables for the project.
  • Creation of high level and low level design documents
  • Mentorship to junior associates in the team.
  • Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Status reviews with Client Teams on identifying/proposing/implementing new solutions for the platforms.
  • Team Coordination across all the shores

Environment: Environments: SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4, Microstrategy, WebFOCUS 7.6, Tableau 8.1.0, Linux, Windows server

Backup Administrator / Linux Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Implementation and administration of backup environments running on EMC Networker and Backup Exec environments for multiple clients
  • Experience with EMC DPA (Data Protection Adviser) required
  • Demonstrate a high degree of creativity in performing tasks by identifying, proposing and implementing streamlining activities to reshape technology and processes
  • Handle technical escalations from Level 1 and Level 2 teams
  • Troubleshoot deep technical issues in backup environments running on the mentioned tools & technologies to resolution
  • Evaluate and analyze the backup reports and backup performance
  • Propose and implement backup improvement initiatives to enhance backup performance & backup success rates
  • Handle the responsibilities of being a technical interface for specific clients
  • Installation and configuration of new backup environments using the above mentioned tools
  • Migration of backup systems from one backup environments to another & older version to new version
  • Conduct periodic performance analysis and fine tune the overall backup performance
  • Execute incident management, change management and problem management in line with ITIL standards
  • Communicate project status, client updates etc.
  • Provide weekly and monthly status reports on projects
  • Track backup systems capacity and propose appropriate measures proactively
  • Work with other cross-functional teams to provide seamless Service Delivery
  • Communicate issues and solutions that may impact the team.

Environment: EMC Networker, EMC DPA, Shell, Linux, Windows

ITSM Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Experience in HPSD and/or Remedy and IT Service Management, as well as IT Operations Management capabilities.
  • Experience working with integrating or deploying CMDB's
  • Help project teams with Problem management, Incident management, Change management
  • Have the ability to drive business related discussion and guide business case creation for modernized ITSM related activity

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