James E.

James E.

President,Financial/Economic Analyst & Systems Architect/Systems Developer, Independent Consultant

Dayton , United States

Experience: 25 Years

James

Dayton , United States

President,Financial/Economic Analyst & Systems Architect/Systems Developer, Independent Consultant

230400 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

25 Years

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About Me

A professional with unique Financial/Economic/Business Analysis and Business Intelligence Systems skills with experience in Forecasting, Business Operations, Marketing, and Strategic Pricing/Marketing. A result oriented and analytical indi...

Financial/Economic Analyst & Systems Architect/Systems Developer, Independent Consultant:

Performing extensive economic and financial analysis on all phases of business operations related to marketing via the mail channel.   Applied fruits of research to design and develop software optimization system to maximize total value of contents of a mail piece.  Software embodies sophisticated integer programming algorithm to optimize the value of a mail piece on a customer specific basis with optionally includable business rules relating to managerial priorities, messaging limits, positive and negative synergy constraints, etc.  Offer prices are computed through innovative analysis of parameter estimates derived from response modeling.  Computational software written in C++, GUI front end written in Visual C++, integrated database written with MS Access.  Granted a number of patent protections in 2006 - more pending. 

Skills Used: SAS, SAS Macro, SQL (Access), ODS, Process Design/Automation, Meta-Programming, System Design, Testing, Windows ME, Visual C++, Advanced Integer Programming & Profit Optimization, Predictive Modeling, Response Modeling, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Direct Marketing, Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, Optimization Research  (improving convergence speed of LP Algorithms), Database Design, ODS, Mortgage Analysis, SAS to C/C++ Conversion, OLAP, DDE with Excel, Distributed Iterative Parallel Processing Optimization Algorithms

 

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Portfolio Projects

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Engaged in Y2K coordination and compliance activities for major Pharmaceutical Company. Developed production system involving mass code scanning techniques to identify and disseminate Y2K readiness assessments of SAS usage for 7 organizations (156 SAS developers - ~35,000 SAS programs). Participated in/or responsible for remediation and testing of major systems in Y2K test lab.

Skills Used: SAS, Process Automation, Meta-Programming, System Design, Testing, NT, UNIX, VMS

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Engaged in Y2K compliance analysis for major Information Services Company. Client has requested comprehensive review of large number of interrelated systems whose output/analyses are essentially being commercially marketed.

Skills Used: SAS, Process Automation, Meta-Programming, System Design, Testing, MVS/TSO, SAS AF

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Engaged in analyzing the effectiveness of Marketing and Pricing activities for Major Retailer. Client has requested comprehensive review of Marketing Operations. Client operates stores, which house organizationally distinct Product Groups. Product Managers are tasked with improving performance by using limited budgets to fund two main activities: buying print advertising space and "covering" price reductions, i.e. using budget to make up difference between regular prices and discount prices.

Skills Used: SAS, Process Automation, Meta-Programming, Predictive Modeling, Linear Regression, UNIX/ NT, Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, ETL, Large Volume Data Processing

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Engaged in Marketing Analysis and Business Operations Analysis for Credit Card Firm. Client typically engaged in joint Marketing arrangements with various third party organizations possessing member lists. Client Managers were tasked with increasing desirable cardholder base by target marketing these lists. Duties involved processing large data sets to merge member lists with Client information sources and developing predictive models to rank order or "score" list members with probabilities for response and qualification. Additionally, used dynamic programming techniques to develop scheduling algorithm to reduce billing related operating expenses by $900K annually.

Skills Used: SAS, C, Process Automation, Meta-Programming, Predictive Modeling Linear Regression, Logistic Regression,Large Volume Data Processing, Customer Acquisition, Response Modeling, UNIX/NT/TSO

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solutions archtiect, techincal lead, hands-on

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