Sr. SAS Consultant, SAS Quality Partner,15+ y.exp. (Studio City, CA)

97-PR. Independent Consultant:  SAS Decision Support & Analysis, SAS Institute Affilate
 
SAS consulting assignments at various clients.  Recent projects include:  Design and ongoing production of SAS/Oracle research data marts for healthcare outcomes analysis at Pfizer Health Solutions; data warehouse for clinical data analysis; SAS & JavaScript/HTML intranet application for presentation of clinical trial results at Amgen; SAS data processing for tracking and modeling consumer awareness and forecasting consumer demand at Nielsen Entertainment.  Emphasis on analytical and decision-support activities involving heterogenous data management and extraction, and coding of complex, client-ready reports to evaluate the effectiveness of various health, behavior and consumer interventions, including metrics tracked in web logs.  Member of the SAS Alliance Program since 1997.
 
95-97. Director of Clinical Software Development at Value Health Sciences, Inc.
 
Directed the development of packaged multi-platform clinical software for managed care, pharmaceutical and healthcare research markets.  Value Health Sciences develops complex expert systems applications that apply database and software technology to monitor, report and evaluate healthcare practice patterns against clinically validated standards developed at RAND Corporation.  The software produces a multi-gigabyte SAS and Oracle data warehouse summarizing healthcare claims data that can be used to guide disease management and quality programs.
 
94-94. Project Director at Genentech, Inc.
 
Provided six months of consulting under the aegis of Biometric Research Institute (CRO) to Genentech’s National Cooperative Growth Study, a post-marketing project designed to provide scientific data to investigators using recombinant growth hormone.  Emphasized professional data management standards that would preserve the scientific integrity of the project.  Managed a 20,000-patient database in Oracle and SAS.
 
90-94. Director of Data Management at Vestar, Inc.
 
Directed the development of international clinical data management and information systems, with strong emphasis on SAS data management.  Supervised clinical programmers, data processors, clinical monitors, research administrators, document management staff and medical writers.  Provided information technology expertise to scientific research; was responsible for data management policy and procedures from protocol design to regulatory submissions.  Worked closely with in-house medical staff, R&D scientists, and off-site physicians and research staff.  Established close working relationships with clinical researchers throughout the U.S. and Europe in order the foster the scientific validity of research data.  Dramatically increased the credibility and output of the clinical research program.
 
87-90. Database Manager at Korn/Ferry International.
 
Managed the design, building and maintenance of a relational database of worldwide business information. Restructured physical and logical database design for more efficient retrieval.  Investigated new natural language query technologies for implementation for non-technical users.  Was a member of a software management team in six major cycles of software development.  Hired and managed six professionals and fifteen data processing employees to staff a centralized data center.  Coordinated all technical documentation and user testing.
 
84-87. Manager of Research & Support at the Purcell Group.
 
Managed the building of databases and reporting systems to support business research.
 
78-84. Lecturer, Department of English at U.C. Santa Barbara.
 
Taught undergraduate courses in literature and composition.  Served on state-wide steering committees.

Continuing Technical Education:

• Fundamentals of UNIX
• UNIX Workstation System Mgmt.
• SAS Programming I & II
• Building SCL Applications Using FRAME Entries    
• SAS Color Graphics I & II   
• SAS Macro Programming    
• Developing SAS/FSP Software Applications 
• SAS Advanced Screen Control Language    
• SAS Report Writing
• SAS Advanced Programming & Efficiencies    
• Getting Started With SAS/EIS Software   
• Data Warehousing:  Theory & Concepts    
• SAS Output to HTML   
• Running SAS Applications on the Web   
• Fundamentals of the SAS System  
• Cognos’ Introduction to Impromptu and Powerplay (OLAP and ad-hoc reporting)    
• Creating the Production Global Internet Web Site (UCLA)    
• Administering a Data Warehouse with SAS Warehouse/Administrator    
• Introduction to SAS/EIS Software and the SAS/MDDB Server
• SAS Enterprise Reporter Software:  User & Data Administration
• Developing Java Web Applications Using SAS AppDev Studio Plug-ins
• SAS Web Tools: Static and Dynamic Solutions Using SAS/IntrNet Software
• Statistics I:  Introduction to ANOVA, Regression, and Logistic Regression

Professional

• SAS Certified Profession V6 ( www.sas.com/certification)
• SAS Certified Base Programmer (V8)
• SAS Institute Affiliate ( www.sas.com/partners)

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