Girish S. Patel 8563 Bauer Circle Springfield, VA 22152 anirdeshjob@gmail.com 703-582-3025 (C) Clearance: Active Top Secret (TS) & SCI clearance. OBJECTIVE: To obtain a challenging and responsible position in the field of SAS, Statistics, & SAS Business Intelligence (BI) Solution Application Design, Development and Programming. EDUCATION: B.S., STATISTICS, S.P. University, V.V. Nagar; India, 8/78 M.S., STATISTICS, S.P. University, V.V. Nagar, India, 8/80 30 PhD Credits in Statistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Certified BASE SAS Programmer (SAS Institute, November 2011) Certified ADVANCED SAS Programmer (SAS Institute, January 2012) Certified SAS BI Content Development (SAS Institute, June, 2013) TRAINING: SAS Programming, TSO/ISPF, JCL, Dataset Management, ROSCOE, Sync Sort, SAS BI, SAS Enterprise Guide, Creating and Exploiting OLAP cubes and Microsoft ACCESS, ORACLE PL-SQL, People soft Tools- Development, Crystal Reports, HTML,WEB Design Applications, Cognos, Micro Strategy, and Informatica. Relevant Experience: U.S. Department of ARMY (DOD) Sr. SAS Engineer, Jay Consultants, LLC Inc. www.jayconsultants.com (Subcontractor to CACI) Arlington, VA 22203 September 2011 - Present Responsible for supporting US DOD agency to provide SAS / Statistical programming & advanced analytical support to multi-intelligence teams, social analytical teams, and special operations analytical teams for data collection, parsing, data basing, and integrating relevant data in support of research, strategies, programs and policy developments and evaluations to fight & support global US war mission. Responsible for extracting, manipulating, collecting, organizing data from various data servers from various platforms and operating systems using SAS EBI components for analytical, reporting, briefing, and publishing activities. Responsible for providing senior leadership and management SAS programming analyses and database support to analyze and monitor risk assessment using SAS BI tools including SAS DI Studio, BI Dashboard, OLAP Cubes, Information Maps, WEB Report Studio, and Information Delivery Portal. Responsible for converting, updating, enhancing and automating various reports into SAS Store Processes, OLAP Cubes and Web Reports. Responsible for designing and developing summary statistical reports, ad-hoc reports for managerial war fighting decision, briefing, congressional and program activities. U.S. Coast Guard - Department of Home Land Security (DHS) Sr. SAS Business Intelligence Architect/Programmer Analyst; Advanced Software Systems Inc. (http://www2.assyst.net) Washington DC 20593 April 2010-September 2011 Responsible for providing SAS BI application design, development, and document support to Acquisition and Procurement Division of USCG. Provided SAS solutions for contract management, performance and procurement portfolio matrices development and monitoring activities. Responsible for providing reporting solutions using SAS BI platform to create Web Reports, OLAP Cubes, Stored Procedures, Information Delivery Portal, Dashboard, Scorecard, Cost Matrices and Contract Life Cycle tracking application activities. Responsible for requirement gathering, manipulating, extracting data from CIMS, FPD, FPD-NG, and CIS Federal systems to generate Contract performance and procurement matrices information for contract management and monitoring activities. 1 ITSO - Department of Home Land Security (DHS) Sr. Technical Consultant - NetStar-1 (http://www.netstar-1.com) Washington DC 20528 February 2009-April 2010 Provided financial management, operations, analysis, reporting, oversight and budget support services to Business and Financial Management Division (BFMD) of DHS. Provided SAS Business Intelligence Application Development support and solutions to DHS HQ Business Service Division for financial information, & measurements – Funds, Budgets, Cost, Inventory, Billing and Performance operations and activities. Responsible for coordinating, processing and validations of monthly ALAN, CLAN and DHS Component Data Center billing invoices, ad-hoc analysis, reporting services and cost recovery strategies using FFMS, PRISM and FIDO federal systems. Responsible for creating SAS Information Delivery Portals, SAS Web Reports, Information Maps, Stored Procedures, OLAP Cubes, SAS Financial Management (FM), SAS Activity Based Modeling (ABM) and Web Application for data display, analysis, reporting and dissemination. Bearing Point, Inc. Sr. Technology Consultant September 2007-Feb 2009 Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 Responsible for providing Business Intelligence (BI) consulting solutions, Data analyses and technical support to Federal enterprise solutions through Enterprise Solutions Competency Center (ESCC) of U.S. Army. Responsible for providing technical support to data extraction, collection, analyses, report generations, design, develop and implement OLAP cubes using SAS BI Platform, dashboards/scorecards and portals using database integration and ETL activities. Responsible for writing, debugging, documenting, developing, testing and modifying SAS codes & programs. Supported development of Business Intelligence solutions using SAS, and supporting data integration, ETL, & data warehousing project to provide design and implementation solutions that transform client’s data into business intelligence. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Sr. SAS/Systems Engineer (Consultant) Oct. 2002 - August 2007 Creative Information Technology, Inc. (www.citi-us.com) Arlington, VA 22201 Provided SAS and Statistical Analysis support to Policy Development and Research group (PD&R) at Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for their Fair Market Rents and Income Limits programs of 65 million dollar budget. Responsible for designing, developing, modifying, updating and enhancing existing systems using SAS, and WEB methods. Designed, developed and updated many WEB access systems, viz. Work-Load Tracking System, Special Tabulations of Census 1990 and 2000 data System, Fair Market Rent System, Special Tabulations on Aging, Building Permits System and FY2005 Fair Market System design and development for WEB access using new geography of Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs). Developed, supported and monitored WEB based Housing Market Analysis Data System and Rental Market Monitoring System to automate Census, Building Permits, Current Employment Statistics (CES) and Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of BLS for Housing Market Analyses studies by the field Economists. Med Immune, Inc. Gaithersburg MD 20878 Independent SAS Consultant (Remote Work) Jan. 2007 - Aug. 2007 Responsible for providing SAS and Statistical/Clinical Data Analysis support for RSV related disease and hospitalizations among infants across the US regions to evaluate clinical outcomes over various time periods and to study impacted use of Synagis drug/treatments. Responsible for data validation, verification, aggregation, analysis, summary report generation, charting and database management using SAS, EXCEL, Access and SAS graph. 2 Sr. Credit Policy Analyst - MIS 300 Saint Paul St. CITI -Financial, Baltimore MD 21202 Aug. 2002 - Oct. 2002 Provided SAS and Statistical analyses support for Citibank's program and policies. Responsible for data extraction, validation, verification, summarization, analyses, graphical representation and summary report preparation using SAS on Mainframe and PC. Identified, isolated and recommended corrective action for business development and improvement by analyzing data regularly to identify anomalies, trends, recognize patterns. Developed and optimized credit policies using SAS and statistical techniques to stratify credit/risk populations. Designed and implemented tests that challenge existing processes; analyze and document results, forecasting delinquency rates, and credit losses for all products. Evaluated alternative data sources/scores for use in the portfolio policies. Produced monthly reporting & analysis package to communicate results to the managerial staff members. Analyzed business and personal loan data for business decision. Sr. Programmer Analyst Ajilon LLC, 210 W. PA Ave, Suite 650 Towson MD 21204 Dec. 2001 - August 2002 Provided SAS Programming, Statistical Research Analyses, and Data Management support for on-going research of designated Mortgage products services and developments. Identified and validated business efficiency opportunities through data acquisition, data mining, and business analysis. Extracted, created and maintained various databases using SQL, Sybase and Oracle database from UNIX SUN / SOLARIS system. Refined and enhanced reports, and business processes. Sr. Programmer Analyst PEPCO 701 9th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20068 May 1998 - Dec 2001 Provided SAS/ORACLE programming and analytical support to Customer Services, Human Resources, and Health Care Utilization and Cost monitoring programs and policies. Responsible for reporting various Health plans data, and statistical information system. Responsible for supporting and monitoring GAAP program for HR activities. Responsible for preparing No. of Hires, Terminations, Promotions, Transfers, Job code- Job group and Salary/Pension analyses. Responsible for dataset manipulation, creation, maintenance, writing SAS codes, designing specifications, testing, debugging and documenting SAS codes/programs using ROSCOE, RAMIS, Mainframe, ISPF, TSO, JCL and IBM utilities. Responsible for performing analysis and programming for PEPCO business activities, preparing analytical datasets; performing data analysis and developing quality control strategies, and programming functions to satisfy complex ad-hoc requests for information. Rewrote RAMIS reports into SAS. Sr. SAS Programmer Nov. 1996 - May 1998 Total Service Solution, 4601 Forbes Boulevard, Suite #320, Lanham, MD 20706 (Consultant) U.S.CENSUS BUREAU, Suitland, MD 20746 Responsible for processing and editing American Community Survey (ACS) Edit and Allocation System data to the established EDIT specifications and guidelines using SAS on UNIX platform. Transferred pseudo edit codes into SAS codes to edit process and create ACS survey data files for further research and statistical analysis. Verified, and validated cross consistency checks for data errors, and edits inconsistencies. Responsible for creating and modifying, revising, updating, documenting & maintaining SAS codes and data sets. Responsible for performing analysis and programming of applications for health survey research, producing reports and prepare analytical datasets; performing exploratory data analysis and develop quality control strategies. 3 Sr. Statistical Analysis Advisor May 1995 - Nov. 1996 2121 K St. Suite 350, UMWA Health & Retirement Funds (http://www.umwafunds.org) Washington DC 20037 Responsible for providing SAS programming, analyses, reporting and documenting support to Health Care, Pension, Medicare, Blank Lung, Present disability, Drug utilization, Managed care databases using Mainframe/PC SAS. Responsible for monitoring and analyzing ongoing cost, utilization and reimbursement information, including quality assessment for a variety of benefit plans, and medical expenses. . Responsible for Inpatient, Outpatient, HHA, SNF and Hospice -HCFA, Medicare, Medicaid, and Black-Lung data extraction, analyses and summary report generation. Provided data integration and database management support. Responsible for executing cost, benefit, utilization analysis, research projects, ad-hoc report generation, and Managed care application models designing and development. Sr. Staff Consultant The Orkand Corporation (Consultant) Jan. 1993 - May 1995 Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistic (NCHS) U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Hyattsville, MD 20782 Responsible for writing, testing, developing, modifying and documenting SAS codes & programs that ensures that all data items of Health Care Survey Data are error free input validation existence of necessary input data items, testing for acceptable ranges of data items, and testing for illogical relationships among data items, intra-and-inter record inconsistencies, and other relevant data errors, according to established edit guidelines for further research & statistical analyses. Responsible for developing a well documented computer based system that captures, stores, edits, updates, and displays survey data in clinical formats incorporating quality control standards that will ensure accuracy and completeness of the data and generational backup of data files & programs for rapid recovery. Responsible for developing and providing SAS Programming applications and statistical data analyses support. Designed, modified and recommended new statistical tables using SETS software to prepare annual statistical reports. Statistician Drug Enforcement Administration Department Of Justice, Washington D.C. 20008 Sept. 1991 - Dec. 1992 Designed, developed and conducted variety of research studies and projects for the national drug & alcohol abuse and trafficking using Mainframe/PC SAS. Responsible for data collections and manipulation, input, validation, statistical data analyses, data management, summary report writing and dissemination of statistics related to DEA operational activities, trends in the U.S. Illicit drug problem, and effectiveness of alcohol and drug law enforcement programs using DAWN and STRIDE database. Responsible for SAS programming, developing and modifying SAS applications for statistical analyses. Maintained and updated SAS data files. Prepared and updated annual statistical reports. SAS Programmer The Sachs Group Ltd. July 1990 - Aug. 1991 501 Office Center Dr. Suite 450, Fort Washington, PA 19034 Responsible for writing, debugging, documenting, developing, testing and modifying SAS codes & programs to analyze healthcare and clinical database using IBM 3090 Mainframe/PC SAS. Responsible for loading, processing, maintaining and analysis of health care, clinical and medical database for research and strategic marketing and planning using SAS. Processed and compiled accurately and timely nationally representative database of hospitals and physician data to provide unique data products concerning physician practice, clinical norms payer mix and financial norms. 4 Statistical Process Control Statistician Sept. 1988 - July 1990 FBF Industries, Southampton, PA 18966 Successfully introduced SAS software applications. Designed, developed and modified SAS Programs to analyze process performance data for all product line and for process control/cost activities. Supported and coordinated statistical activities analyzing qualitative and quantitative data using regression analysis, design of experiments and other nonparametric statistical methods through SAS; for continuous process development and improvement. Wrote Statistical Process Control manual. Statistical Process Control Analyst Feb. 1986 - Aug. 1988 FDP, Inc. P.O. BOX # 5627, Trenton, NJ 08638 Implemented and developed Statistical Process Control (SPC) programs successfully for all product line. Monitored continuous process performance, defined problem areas, and recommended corrective actions. Introduced SAS and Supported R & D personnel statistically in research projects for new products. Responsible for data collection, input, statistical analyses, graphical displays and summary report writing. Responsible for defining problem areas through manipulating raw process data performing process capability studies instituting statistical analyses methods necessary to monitor process performance and development. Statistician S. P. University, V. V. Nagar; India 388120 Aug. 1980 - Nov. 1985 As a university statistician, planned, designed, and conducted statistical activities and research projects. Developed and modified data collection plans using sampling/survey methods. Responsible for verifications, tabularization, graphical display, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, summary report writing, presentations and publications. Prepared statistical summary reports on Examinations Reforms. Organized and conducted various seminars and workshops. PUBLICATIONS: (1) "Semester System, A View ", Sankhya Vignan, Vol. 4, January '83 (2) "A Survey Study of Semester System "National Center for Education Research & Training, Vol. 1, July'84 STATUS: U.S. Citizen. 5