SUMMARY

• Over 5 years of experience in statistical software packages BASE, STAT, MACRO, GRAPH, SQL, ODS along with solid skills of MS Access and Excel.
• Competent in SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH and SAS/MACROS.
• Expert in modifying existing SAS programs and creation of new programs using SAS Macros to improve ease and speed of modification as well as consistency of results.
• Experience in producing External files and customized reports using various SAS procedures like Proc Report, Proc Print, Proc tabulate, Proc Means, Proc Freq, Proc Univariate, Proc SQL, Proc Transpose and Data Null Technique
• Experience in producing RTF, HTML and PDF formatted files using SAS/ODS to produce adhoc reports for Analysis Reports.
• Experience in working with SAS on different platform like UNIX and Windows.
• Strong skills in developing SAS programs for manipulating Analysis of Variance ANOVA , Linear Regression, Logistics Regression, Multivartiate Analysis and Statistical Modeling.
• Experience in pulling data from different Databases/data-warehouses Teradata, Oracle and SQL Server .
• Proven skills in data cleaning, data validation, data integrity, ad-hoc reporting, and coding with SAS on various environments.
• Professional in Quantitative and Qualitative Research.
• SAS Pharmaceutical/CRO experience in programming and reporting of clinical trial data.
• Experience working in all phases of clinical trials I-IV . Good understanding of CDISC, SDTM and ADAM standards , SP systems and reporting.
• Exposed to various therapeutic areas: Oncology, Pain, Psychiatric disorders.
• Proven ability in establishing effective task priorities as a team player with result oriented attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Statistical SAS Programmer

• Invoke SQL assistant to analyze and query clinical data from Teradata DB.
• Performed data extraction by converting MS Word document and MS excel tables into SAS data sets.
• Utilized SAS/Base Proc Means, Proc Freq, Proc Sort to clean and validate large data sets and, used Proc SQL to extract column and join tables.
• Created and validated analysis data sets by mapping and deriving new variables from the raw data as per specifications.
• Initiated SAS Macro to create a table that displays the median systolic and diastolic measurements for each quartile of women's BMI.
• Generated tables and listings for safety data like Demography Characteristics, Adverse events, Concomitant Medications, Laboratory etc. using specifications in SAP and mock shells.
• Prepare tables descriptive statistics from ISS/ISE data sets.
• Used Output Delivery System ODS facility to write an analytical report directing SAS output to HTML file which includes statistical results tables, analysis Summary, and data interpretation.

Environment and Skills: SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS, MS Excel, Teradata DB.

Confidential

Statistical SAS Programmer

• Generate safety Adverse Events, Safety adverse events, Treatment emergent adverse events, Demographics, Vital Signs and Laboratory Findings and efficacy tables using Proc Report.
• Create datasets according to CDISC SDTM.
• Modified existing SAS programs/macros and creation of new programs macros to improve efficiency and consistency of results.
• Work on creating analysis datasets, defined variables of interest, study populations, visit window and baseline observations.
• Generated Descriptive and Statistical summary outputs using Proc Means, Proc Freq, Proc Univariate and Proc Summary etc.
• 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.
• 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.
• Generated Tables, Graphs and Listings for inclusion in Clinical study reports and regulatory submission and participated in preparing study results as well as ISS and ISE for FDA submissions using SAS.
• Assisted Bio-statistician in computing different statistics using PROC TTEST, PROC FREQ chi-square fisher , PROC ANOVA, Proc Reg and PROC MIXED etc.
• Generated RTF, HTML and PDF outputs for clinical study reports and integrated summaries for regulatory submissions.
• Used SAS/Graph procedures like Proc Gchart and Proc Gplot for graphical presentation of the statistical analysis.
• Provide support to and mentor junior programmers and contractors.
• Ensured accuracy of TLF's created by other programmers by following clinical study documents like Protocols and SAP and in discussion with study statisticians.
• Programming data edit checks to help data management group with data review.

Environment and Skills: Base SAS, SAS/Stat, SAS/Macros, SAS/Graph, SAS/Access, Windows / UNIX.

Confidential

Statistical SAS Programmer

• Provide programming support for ad-hoc requests from data management and medical writing groups.
• Develop understanding about clinical trials study designs, study protocols, statistical analysis plans SAP , case report form CRF/eCRF , annotated case report forms, and company standard operating procedures SOP .
• Use existing macros company standards to create analysis data sets and TLF's
• Used Base SAS and SAS Macros for building and manipulating SAS data sets.
• Used procedures such as import and export to obtain and load data from MS Excel.

Environment and Skills: Base SAS, SAS/Stat, SAS/Macros, SAS/Graph, SAS/Access, Windows / UNIX.