SUMMARY

• Over TEN Years of IT experience: SAS Architecture and Administrator (SAS 9/Viya), R Admin
• Certified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• OS expertise: Linux, UNIX, Windows.
• Domain worked: Software ( Confidential ), Banking/financial services, Telecommunication and Mass Media, Insurance, Supply chain
• Plan and implement SAS Grid, Non - Grid installation and configuration. SAS Software upgrade
• Cloud Technology: Good understanding of cloud concepts: MS Azure Products and Service, Networking and Storage, IoT, AI, DevOps, Billing Accounts and Subscription, Security, Availability Zone and Region. AWS Architecting.
• Hardware costing for different sets of environment: Prod, Dev, Test, QA
• Open source technology worked on: R implementation: R, R-Studio, R-Connect
• SAS Migration and storage capacity handling
• LSF Administration. Perform DR activity wif team, outage maintenance
• Advise team for best SAS products and solutions, SAS best practices
• Linux scripting, Autosys and Cron scheduling. SAS Macros and ad-hoc coding
• Educating users wif new technology products and SAS best practices
• Quick learning ability for new tools and technologies
• Lead meetings. Believe in communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cary, NC

SAS Administration Services

Responsibilities:

• Review and assess multiple customer environment from architecture, SAS Products and Solutions, installation and configurations and security perspective.
• Plan SAS upgrade environment: SAS Viya, SAS 94 for SAS Cary hosted, UK based MS Azure and AWS hosted. Collaborate end to end SAS upgrade plan for multiple customers. Meet wif project team including Tech Lead to make sure appropriate customer deployment plan
• Verifying software orders, storage, network and security, database connectivity, generating and verifying plan file for many hosted customers environment
• Meet wif team to discuss about migration plan to new environment
• Perform hardware costing for hosted customer
• Make sure customers gets appropriate storage, cores and RAM for deployed SAS products
• Update architecture diagram and documentation based on customer entitled deployment

Confidential, Foster City, CA

SAS Admin/R Admin

Responsibilities:

• Perform day to day SAS administrative activity to manage SAS 94 Grid environment
• Making suggestion to optimize performance
• Set up alerts for server status and server usage using SAS Environment Manager
• Work wif SAS users to optimize code/to minimize total run time for batch jobs
• Communicate scheduling wif downstream and upstream to SAS for ETL processes
• Support R, RStudio activity. Making sure R environment is up and running fine
• Document findings from research and suggestions

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SAS Grid Administrator, SME

Responsibilities:

• Linux based SAS Grid implementation: SAS 9.4 M6 Installation and configuration. Migration from SAS 9.4M3 to SAS 94 M6. User Access management: Linux, AD, SAS PAM
• Collaborating Linux performance issue wif Linux Admin, troubleshooting SAS performance issue
• Configure database connectivity like ORACLE and Hadoop. Setting alerts using SAS EVM
• LSF Administration: Removing/adding worker nodes from/to cluster, resource management
• Onboarding users and educating them about best practices running SAS on Grid
• Release SAS news, updates to user community

Environment: SAS EG, SAS EM, SAS Studio, SAS Data Loader for Hadoop, SMC, SAS EVM, SAS Grid Manager.

Confidential, Boston, MA

SAS Platform/Grid Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAS 9.4 M5 Installation and configuration on Linux Grid environment
• Plan and execute SAS UIP: SAS 9.4 M3 toM5. SAS VA, MRM. DB Configuration: Oracle and Hadoop
• Security configuration: Reverse Proxy and Site-Miner authentication
• SAS LASR Analytics Server administration. Support, troubleshoot dataload job, memory management
• Priorities issues and put action plan in place. Document best practices: Using SAS on Grid environment

Confidential, Plano, TX

SAS Engineer/ SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Team Member: SAS Engineering, SAS COE (Center of Excellent), GRA (Global Risk Analytics) ~5000 users across 35 plus LOBs. Distributed environment
• Install and configured SAS 9.4 M3 on Linux environment. DB: Oracle, Hadoop, SQL (Data direct)
• Successful Implementation of R, R-Studio, R-Connect. Perform DR activity
• Performance network latency testing across multiple datacenter: SAS and Hadoop
• Developed, tested and implementing R repository wif thousands of packages to use it for users
• Collaborate wif SAS and other vendors like SAS, Microsoft, R for critical technical issues
• Administering LSF. Working wif hosts, queues, resources management
• Take ownership of variety of tasks, worked wif challenging timeline

Confidential, Glendale, CA

SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• SAS Migration: SAS 9.1.3 To SAS 9.4. ~$1B annual sale planned based on Statistical forecast
• Manage and facilitate SAS servers to determine key business and technical design criteria
• Conduct gap and impact analysis. Developing SAS Macros/ad-hoc codes for reporting/query purpose
• Enforce established quality standards, enterprise architecture standards and compliance controls
• Define change request process to PROD environment and write standard routine documents
• Streamline SAS production environment. Schedule SAS jobs for automation and monitor. Provide SAS graphical view for production data/jobs to business leaders for better decision making process

Confidential, Hartford, CT

SAS Engineer/ SAS Platform Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configured SAS 9.3 on Windows environment. Create subset of SAS Software Depot to install SAS independently for remote users: USA, India, Switzerland. Troubleshooting installation.
• Secure business data and Design and applying folder security using SMC
• Perform load balancing across different servers
• Developed code to collect census information for SAS business users and documented
• Work on JMP 10 wif SAS and WRS. Documented best practice

Environment: SAS 9.3, SAS Base, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, JMP, SAS Add-in for MS, MS Office.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

SAS Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• SAS 9.3 UNIX environment. Report to BI Manager and Senior Director of Revenue Assurance
• Development, testing and implementing of new SAS code and logics. Modifying existing code as require
• Apply data quality check for existing business reports. Has used TOAD for Oracle for few queries
• Responsible for ~40 daily, weekly and monthly business production processes
• Worked wif SAS BI Team and SAS Daily adjustment team to implement new/modify existing code
• Scheduling and maintaining SAS jobs on UNIX Cron facility

Environment: SAS 9.3/ 9.2, Base SAS, SAS EG, TOAD for Oracle, SAS WRS, WIN SCP, MS Office tools, SMC.