SAS Developer

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SUMMARY:
· Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence professional offering 6 + years of experience in
analyzing, developing and implementation of various applications in SAS for different
domains.
· Well-Experienced in designing, building, launching visualization and self-serve
analytic dashboards that enable internal and external stake holders with insights. Manage
development cycles with remote and local team members.
· Experience in spearheading customer’s Induction for dashboard use. Facilitating executives
during RFP (Request for Proposal) phase for successfully seizing new projects.
· Knowledge in enhancing, modifying, maintaining applications, data processing, data
collection, data merging, data sub-setting, quantitative and qualitative data analysis using
BASE SAS, SAS/MACROS, SAS/SQL, SAS/WRS, SAS/DI, and SAS BI.
· Worked extensively on SAS BI tools like SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Information Map
Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS OLAP cube studio, SAS BI Dashboard, SAS OLAP
Cube Studio and SAS LASR Server
· Experience in integrating Data Flux jobs in Data Integration Studio and Data
Management Studio.
· Experienced in requirement gathering, encompassing development, deployment and
production. Diligent in translating technical descriptions into business requirements.
· A great deal of experience in building out-of-box feature rich and dynamic dashboards,
customizations and visualizations using SAS Visual Analytics Studio 7.1 and 7.3.
· Proficient in SAS and SQL languages.
· Hands on experience as well as comprehensive understanding of heterogeneous database
structures and datasets; steering through and welding the data to business processes.
· Working knowledge on R programming and Tableau.
· Experience in using SAS to read, write, import and export to another data file formats
including delimited files and Spreadsheet files.
· Greasing the wheels for prospective clients to conduct a health check for using SAS Suite for
organization wide implementation.
· Excellent team player with high level of personal initiatives.

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:
· Post Graduate Diploma in Management from SCMLD, Pune-India.
· Bachelor’s in computer application from GGSIP University, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Deutsche Bank, New York May 2017 – Till
Date
Role: SAS Developer
Description: Deutsche Bank is a fully integrated financial services provider to Indian corporate,
institutional and individual clients. Worked as a part of the BI team to streamline the reporting
process for internal stakeholders by understanding their requirements. This includes creating data
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warehouse, reporting data marts, data loading jobs, creating reports etc. to serve all reporting
needs within the organization.
Responsibilities:
· Develop, create, and modify computer applications software.
· Analyze user needs and develop software solutions.
· Design and customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational
efficiency.
· Analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or
coordinating database development as part of a team.
· Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of the design within
time and cost constraints. Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for the analysis of system
capabilities and requirements.
· Design and develop complex computer systems. Develop new and existing Statistical
Analysis System (SAS) programs to perform ETL tasks. Analyze and load data in LASR
Analytic Server with Visual Data Builder.
· Develop ETL procedures from relational sources and design reporting base tables using SAS
Visual Analytics. Develop LASR servers using SAS VA Admin Tab. Develop SAS scripts to load
data into HDFS and LASR servers.
· Create customized drill-down reports using Report Designer in SAS VA. Develop SAS
programs using Macros. Utilize SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Data Integration Studio, and SAS
Management Console to develop ETL programs, create SPK files, and perform
administrative tasks, including creating and authorizing users, designing data libraries and
servers, and scheduling ETL flows. Familiarity with SAS VA 7.X for SAS VA for report design,
creation, and modification.

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India April 2015 – September

2016
Role: SAS Developer
Description: End to end automation of Bi-monthly/Monthly Dashboards for Retail and Liabilities
LOB Product Head for a Banking client. The aim was to eliminate human intervention for
preparation of reports right from data preparation to creation of dashboards previously done
using SAS EG and MS Excel to Informatica and SAS VA.
Responsibilities:
· Designed and developed ETL processes using Informatica and SQL Server to populate Data
Warehouses and reporting Data Marts.
· Utilized SAS PROC SQL pass through facility for data extraction, location and retrieval from
the Oracle, SQL, DB2 and Teradata databases.
· Coordinate new data development which includes the creation of new structure to meet
business requirements or streamline existing processes to reduce overhead on the existing
warehouse with ETL Development team.
· Identified possible solutions for complex data issues/limitations, and work on the
improvement of data quality.
· Developed and implemented end to end warehouse solution for 3 rd largest Indian Bank
using Informatica with oracle and My SQL
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· Successfully deployed automated reports using SAS VA to assess campaign effectiveness,

customer’s contact-ability and profitability and replaced manual report generation on MS
Excel with automated SAS VA dynamic reports.
· Designed data warehouse and reporting architecture and built 10+ dynamic iPad reports
using Informatica and SAS VA to help track business performance of products across close
to 3K branches.
· Conducted Pre Project POCs by collaborating with external industry experts and acted as
RFP Response SPOC for SAS Visual Analytics. Spearheading Talent acquisition through
profile screening and recruitment drives.
· Responsible for orchestrating weekly calls with Tier 1 Project managers; leading direct
interface along with comprehending the performance issues in the process and driving
dashboard creation.
· Actively involved in setting up the Analytics Offshore Development Center for client through
sales pitch, environment and capabilities set up and talent acquisition.

Tungsten Information Management (ZS Associates), Pune, India July 2013 - February
2015
Role: Senior Associate
Description: Creating Sales and activity reports on SAS Visual Analytics for a Europe based
pharmaceutical client using their sales activity and calls data.
Responsibilities:
· Involved in analysis, development, testing, implementation, and provided technical support
to business needs using SAS in Unix environment
· Design and Develop Data Integration Jobs for parallel execution.
· Developed Extract, Transform, Load ETL processes related to code promotion / platform
administration tasks using Base SAS, SAS Data Integration Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide.
· Advanced analytics and reports created based on the criteria provided.
· Extracted data from different sources like Oracle and text files using SAS/Access, SAS SQL
procedures and created SAS datasets.
· Imported reports from Web Report Studio, Stored Process, BI Dashboard and Information
Map to Information Delivery Portal.
· Imported raw data files in excel format in SAS and subsequently created SAS Datasets and
performed data manipulations on the datasets.
· Extensively used the SET, UPDATE and MERGE statements and respective transformations
in SAS DI Studio for creating, updating and merging various SAS data sets.
· Used SAS Proc SQL pass through facility to connect to Oracle tables and created SAS
datasets using various SQL joins such as left join, right join, inner join and full join.
· Used SAS Macros and SAS SQL to query data and to obtain results which were generally
stored as delimited text.
· Developed large scale Business Intelligence solutions for clients in health care industry to
help solve business problems, like customer segmentation, territory alignment, sales force
effectiveness and activity measurement
· Developed and implemented automated monthly reports thorough SAS Visual Analytics to
track Sales force effectiveness; performed system integration testing and UAT to help
migrate solution to client environment.
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· Responsible for coordination with Tier-1 customers and division heads for UAT (User
Acceptance Testing) calls to elucidate concerns.
· Liaison for team members to ensure correct flow of data for building comprehensive
reports and their scalability from Development, UAT and Production environments.

S&P Global Market Intelligence, Gurugram, India June 2011 –

July 2013
Role: Research Associate
Description: Project 1- Consolidation of Data warehouse for a banking client from 3 systems into
one for ease of use. Working on Extract, Transform and Load jobs to load data using SAS Data
Integration Studio.
Project 2- Data manipulation and cleansing for providing data feed to Analytics team for Sales
forecast. Use of Base SAS codes, procs and functions.
Responsibilities:
· Design and implement Data Integration jobs to transfer data from multiple data
warehouses to a single consolidated data warehouse.
· Designed and developed project-specific SAS programs like producing analysis datasets,
graphics and reports.
· Handled the responsibilities of programming SAS for retrieving data from various formats.
· Established various connections to client server by using pass through facility and Lib name
access method.
· Developed and reviewed custom SQL queries with use of joins clauses (inner, left, right,
full) to validate and reconcile data.
· Updated client databases with new information, through joining, merging and appending.
· Assisted the data analysis team by providing them the required datasets prepared after
data cleansing and data manipulation.
· Responsible for manipulating, transferring and managing data in SAS.
· Worked with SAS Analysts in SQL programming and data processing.
· Handled the tasks of writing reports and manipulating data by using windows platforms.
· Attended client and team meetings as required.
· Used Excel to prepare product specific spread sheets.