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

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

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

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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