Experienced SAS Resource with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry Skilled in Data Center, Visualization, Base SAS, SAS Macros, SAS EBI Suite, Python, AWS, CI/CD, Actimize, ESRI suite of products, ArcGIS Server, ArcMap, MS SQL Server, Jira, GitHub and Business Analysis in Banking, and Insurance with Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Science - BSc. focused in Physics, Mathematics from Karnatak University.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
TechArm IT Services, Inc
Saint Louis, MO
01.2024 - Current
Create excel templates for reports
Analyzed, designed, developed, and enhanced applications integrating with existing business components, ensuring alignment with established processes and frameworks
Collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements and assess the potential impact of change requests, ensuring effective coordination and communication throughout the process
Conducted comprehensive analysis of application and process issues, identifying problems, and coordinating with customer-facing support teams to provide timely resolutions
Communicated regularly with management, reporting on work progress, identifying and resolving issues promptly to minimize project impacts
Demonstrated proficiency in software development using SAS, Teradata, and Unix scripting, contributing to the development and support of existing and new project requirements
Utilized strong understanding of banking products, operational processes, and transaction flows to develop effective solutions and address business needs
Applied knowledge of data requirements, research, analysis, and business design to develop data sourcing and transaction monitoring solutions
Exhibited excellent organizational and team skills, working efficiently under minimal supervision and collaborating effectively across diverse teams and leadership levels
Developed statistical and optimization programs to support business operations and data analysis
Applied data analytical skills to solve business problems and enhance decision-making processes
Utilized SQL, SAS, and Python for data analysis and modeling
Created data visualizations using Tableau and presented findings to stakeholders.
Senior Software Engineer
Motion Recruitment
Saint Louis, MO
11.2021 - 11.2023
Model remediation of Python and SAS models including data analysis and contributing to documentation
Deploy, validate and monitor Models using SAS Model manager
Used GIT, Jenkins and other tools
Programming in SAS, SQL, and Python
Automated model scoring of forecasts and sensitivity tests by building a data driven system to implement multiple regression and time series models through SAS and SAS Macros programming
Gathered business requirements for automatons of scoring
Built interactive SAS programs to prepare data for models in the Model Development Group
Identified data and modeling issues
Automated existing Pre QA process using SAS, SAS/Macros and statistical procedures
Automated generation of comprehensive dashboard reporting and visualizations of Data Management area to support managerial decisions
Created and modified Programs to Monitor Transactions, for Global Remittance Services, Customer Lending, Leased Routing Numbers, and International Wire transfers, Online Trafficking, Foreign Currency Exchange, and Cash Structured Monitoring
Customize SAS Alert Generation Process models to meet specific business requirements
Identify issues with code implementation, logic, and performance issues and take corrective actions
Experience implementing, programming, and administering SAS GRID, SAS AML, SAS Visual Analytics, and SAS VIYA
Customize SAS Alert Generation Process modules to meet specific business requirements
Monitor batch jobs and provide support on production issues, collaborate with team members on SAS architecture, design, development, and testing and Coordinate with the production team to deploy enhancements and new releases
Utilized programming languages such as SQL, SAS, and Python for statistical analysis and optimization programs
Developed and implemented data analytics strategies on large datasets to inform decision-making processes
Utilized Tableau for data visualization and presentation of insights to stakeholders
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to analyze risk using quantitative and qualitative information.
Solution Architect
Matrix-IFS
Tampa FL & Saint Louis, MO
12.2017 - 10.2021
Successful implementation of SAS AML8.x for different banking clients which included AML data preparation, scenario and ECM tasks
Worked closely with SAS US team on AML add-ons
Worked on adding Cloud configurations to Java Spring Batch–Rule Engine and pushed it to Cloud Foundry
SAS Viya Installation and configuration for banks
SAS AML - Solr enhancement and customization
Developed SAS Code using CAS utilities, viz; PROC CASUTIL, Assigning CAS libraries using CASLIB, and used CASHOST= and CASPORT= system options to invoke the SAS Cloud Analytic Services server and various other SAS Procedures like FORMAT, PRINT and others
Experience implementing, programming, and administering SAS GRID, SAS AML, SAS Visual Analytics
Manage large volume of structured and unstructured data as well as extracted and cleaned data to make it amenable for analysis
Developed SAS Stored Process to strategically assign AML alert investigations based on multiple business rules and priorities and created rules to Monitor Financial Advisor’s Activity
Created rules to identify premium transactions related to firm from Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) that belongs to a Firm
Monitor the Transactions/Purchases of annuities outside the Firms platform and FA Selling Annuities
Annuities to avoid the Supervisory process; Selling to clients without an account with the Firm or proved by the Firm by directly going to the carrier
Transactions under the same Party/Account where values for 'Applicant' or 'Beneficiary' changes from historical values for this Party/Account
Flag parties who are the originators of messages above a specified value and volume that went to/through a high-risk jurisdiction
Developed historical conversion processes which migrates the existing operational data into SAS Anti-Money Laundering and Enterprise Case Management solutions
Import Data from Sources (Flat files, Databases)
Demonstrated understanding of applicable credit policies and industry regulations related to loss recognition, ensuring compliance in programming activities
Managed audit and control environments, including end-user computing portals and audit self-assessments
Interacted with internal and external auditors to address queries and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
Demonstrated proficiency in software development using SAS, Teradata, and Unix scripting, contributing to the development and support of existing and new project requirements
Utilized strong understanding of banking products, operational processes, and transaction flows to develop effective solutions and address business needs
Applied knowledge of data requirements, research, analysis, and business design to develop data sourcing and transaction monitoring solutions
Exhibited excellent organizational and team skills, working efficiently under minimal supervision and collaborating effectively across diverse teams and leadership levels
Updating SAS ECM functionality, Including UI modification.
Senior Consultant
Capgemini
Charolette, NC
03.2017 - 12.2017
Collaborate with business analysts, data analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data integration requirements
Analyze source data and define transformation rules based on business needs
Used SAS fraud management, First Data Defense Edge tools, Design/Frame fraud detection rules to flag or identify suspicious activities for millions of transactions
Analyze fraud data in old system & drawing inference from historical data
Develop & design strategies, innovative solution via analytics to catch ATO(account take over) and Account generation fraud that helped organization to catch fraud on the fly
Aided project teams with architecture design, develop documentation and create project deliverables in SAS software and technologies
Convert High level strategy requirements to detailed design with the coding specs which has high level overview of the coding, the rules and strategies involved and datasets involved
Created/Modified production code/Scripts for Auth/fraud changes validation and reporting
Implement & design SAS fraud management tool as a fraud detection platform for various stakeholders; and mentor, guide, and monitor programmers, ensuring adherence to programming and documentation policies
Implement appropriate solutions and enhancements to ensure an improvement in system reliability and performance
Assist in performance tuning of the systems and servers
Work in collaboration with multiple functions including Risk, IT, Compliance, & Client’s to drive & deliver the projects
And co-ordinate across business units affecting the project
Develop Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes to move, transform, and load data from source systems to target systems
Utilize SAS Data Integration Studio's graphical interface for designing and implementing ETL jobs
Create and configure data sources, transformations, and targets within the SAS Data Integration Studio environment
Implement best practices for efficient and scalable data integration solutions
Worked on SAS Data integration studio to efficiently transform and load data
Used SAS Viya to process huge transactional data through Proc casutil & other procedures
Platform: SAS, Oracle, Unix, SAS Fraud Management tool, First Data Tool, SQL Developer, Autosys, FDRNET, FDWC, SAS DI Studio
Utilized SAS in a UNIX environment on a regular basis for data analysis, statistical modeling, and report generation
Demonstrated proficiency in software development using SAS, Teradata, and Unix scripting, contributing to the development and support of existing and new project requirements
Utilized strong understanding of banking products, operational processes, and transaction flows to develop effective solutions and address business needs
Applied knowledge of data requirements, research, analysis, and business design to develop data sourcing and transaction monitoring solutions
Exhibited excellent organizational and team skills, working efficiently under minimal supervision and collaborating effectively across diverse teams and leadership levels
Demonstrated understanding of applicable credit policies and industry regulations related to loss recognition, ensuring compliance in programming activities
Managed audit and control environments, including end-user computing portals and audit self-assessments
Interacted with internal and external auditors to address queries and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
Implement data quality checks and validation routines to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the integrated data
Handle error handling and logging mechanisms for failed data integration processes
Optimize the performance of data integration jobs by fine-tuning transformations, ensuring parallel processing, and optimizing data flow
Monitor and troubleshoot performance issues to ensure timely and efficient data processing
Manage metadata within SAS Data Integration Studio to document and track data lineage, transformations, and dependencies
Ensure that metadata is maintained accurately and kept up-to-date
Implement security measures to ensure that data integration processes adhere to data governance policies and protect sensitive information
Deploy data integration processes from development to testing and production environments
Utilized programming languages such as SQL, SAS, and Python for statistical analysis and optimization programs
Developed and implemented data analytics strategies on large datasets to inform decision-making processes
Utilized Tableau for data visualization and presentation of insights to stakeholders
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to analyze risk using quantitative and qualitative information.
Senior Software Analyst
Accenture
Hartford, CT & India
02.2011 - 03.2017
Led a geographically dispersed team of 6 System Analysts in Personal Insurance space for a major Insurance client
Collaborated with various stakeholders to develop technical solutions for business requirements; participated in Agile development cycles, backlog refinement and defect triage activities
Extensive data analysis and statistical programming for small business group, assisted in model building for direct marketing campaign
Schedule and support the different SAS reports (through LSF Scheduler) which are running as part of marketing operations team
Completed POC using (ESRI MicroStrategy & Qlik sense) to accurately report risks by marring policy data with hurricane/wildfire and other hazards data
Created SAS Application Servers for OLAP Servers, Workspace Servers, Pooled Workspace Servers, Connect Servers, Stored Process Servers, Batch Servers, and Java Batch Servers and worked with internal and external AIX Technical Support, Help Desk Support, Access Technical Support, SAS Technical Support groups to set up connectivity, validate installations, troubleshoot, and facilitate resolution of issues and have remotely assisted the AXA Business Intelligence Infrastructure Team in Using the SAS BI 9.2 Suite
Used SAS Management Console (SMC), to add and modify permissions for SAS Business Partners and Monitor, Control and manage the SAS account for different Business Users across all Entities
Scheduling and refreshing the reports for the Business, so that the Business can access the critical data on scheduled time thus reducing manual intervention, Actively Involved in Metadata Security implementation of SAS BI and SAS VA framework (SAS 9.1.3 and SAS 9.2) Provide support to all the Client SAS customers
Developed SAS Data Integration jobs and SAS Webservices to serve the retail business logic for large Campaigns
Created mailing lists, analyzed and tracked database marketing campaigns, Cooperated in design of marketing campaigns.
Software Engineer
HCLTech
India
07.2010 - 02.2011
Created tools using VBA for MS-Excel like Account Planning Tool, Vacancy Management Tool, Customer Transition Tool, Profiling Tool, Differentiation Tool and Multichannel Tool
Used SAS to produce tables, listings and data sets for market analysis trials by accessing Oracle tables through SAS
Developed SAS programming for statistical analysis and reporting
Automated sections of preliminary data analysis, Extract, transform and load raw data in various platforms
Developed, modified, and maintained programs using SAS/Base, SAS/Macro, and SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH and SQL programming to produce detail and summary level reports, tables, and figures for assigned projects, generate summary tables, charts, alerts for production use
Supported statistical programming teams in planning, designing and implementing statistical software solutions
Research methodologies and conduct advanced metric reporting
Analyze trends to recommend process and operational improvements
Provided ongoing production support by monitoring productions jobs
Validated and ensure data accuracy, completeness and operational data quality
Created documentations, as a part of the team developed a system component to track issues related to user requests.
Modeling Analyst
Mantra Analytics Pvt Ltd.
India
01.2009 - 12.2009
Automated a manual task of using Excel VBA to automatically align the Data in Excel sheets and these excel files were used as Source files for the data load., leading to 90% savings in time
Developed SAS programming for statistical analysis and reporting
Assisted in model building for direct marketing campaign
Data Analytics work on marketing, campaign, Sales area on ODS data warehouse
Reviewing data for cleaning and validation process and verifying the data which is loaded into target data bases and maintained the daily error log for cleaning the data
Responsible for increasing enrollment by identifying the proper target population using statistical models like logistic regression and cluster analysis using Base SAS, SAS Macros
Worked on data manipulation and cleaning for statistical modelling and Pulled Transaction level data for reporting to build insight tables at various levels
Complex SQL queries were developed for joining multiple tables to create final insight tables
Used Data for Regression Analysis, predictive analysis, Competitor Analysis, and Trend Analysis.
Process Associate
Fidelity Investments
India
03.2006 - 12.2007
Created an Age calculation tool using Ms-Excel VBA Macros to calculate the Age of the participant and classify them by Age for calculation of defined benefits
Extract the Work Items from the Dash Board and distribute the Work items within the team and keep track of the Work Items missing the SLA and informing the concerned team members.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics
Karnatak University
05-2002
Skills
Proficient in SAS, Teradata, and Unix scripting
Strong understanding of banking products, operational processes, and transaction flow
Ability to gather and interpret data requirements
Excellent research and analysis skills
Effective communication across technology, business, and leadership
Program Administrative Assistant II at Medical & Social Services Division, Access & Eligibility Services Texas Health and Human Services CommissionProgram Administrative Assistant II at Medical & Social Services Division, Access & Eligibility Services Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Executive Administrative Assistant at Johnson & Johnson - Strategy & Business Services, Global ServicesExecutive Administrative Assistant at Johnson & Johnson - Strategy & Business Services, Global Services
Child Protection Investigator at Child Family Services, Department of Public Health & Human ServicesChild Protection Investigator at Child Family Services, Department of Public Health & Human Services