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Hiren G

Ph: 734-367-4333
Email: hiren.sas@gmx.com

SUMMARY:

 Having 12 years of experience as a Sr. SAS Programmer/Analyst involved in Market/Risk Analysis, Financial Analysis,
Data Analysis and Mortgage.
 Expert in using PROC SQL, PROC Report, PROC Frequency, PROC Summary, PROC Access, PROC Means, PROC
TRANSPOSE, PROC Tabulate, PROC GPLOT, PROC Chart, PROC Datasets, PROC Format, PROC Import and PROC
Export.
 Experience in Base SAS, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/Access, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ETS and SAS/ODS.
 Extensive experience in SAS Business Intelligence, SAS Financial Management (FM), Campaign Management (CM),
SAS OLAP Cube studio, SAS Management Console, Enterprise Guide (EG 4.0), Enterprise Miner, SAS DI Studio
SAS/FSP, SAS/AF, SAS EBI.
 Expertise in Marketing Strategy development, financial models, projections, Basel II Compliance, DSS [Decision Support
Systems] and documentation, Risk Analysis, Correlation and Regression including Multiple regression, Logistic
Regression, Multivariate Analysis, Projections, Time series Analysis, Factor Analysis and Forecasting.
 Extensively worked on SAS views and SAS Indexes to reduce I/O bottlenecks and processing time for large volumes of
data.
 Strong understanding in various Economic/Econometric and statistical concepts such as ANOVA, Correlation,
Regression Analysis and Multivariate Analysis.
 Proven skills in Data Mining Techniques, Statistical (Regression), Mathematical and Econometric Models using SAS,
STATA, etc.
 Experience in design and developing of SAS programs to analyze and generate Files, Tables, Listings, Graphs,
Validations, Documentation.
 Used SAS/ETL to create reports from relational database or multi-dimensional cubes.
 Knowledge in using SAS/ACCESS to Export, Transfer and Load (ETL) data from ERP packages.
 Knowledge in data warehousing and business intelligence concepts, design principles Experience in RDBMS
development including SQL, PL/SQL, languages.
 Proficient in using Import and Export procedures to handle data in raw data files ORACLE, DB2, TERADATA and
SYBASE database management systems.
 Quick learner with ability to understand job requirements, employ new ideas, concepts, methods, and technologies.
 Strong analytical, diagnostic skills and ability to work in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Statistical Software -SAS V9.x /8.x, Base SAS, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS,
SAS/ETS, SAS/IML, SAS BI Server and SAS Data Integration Platform, SAS Forecast
Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SPSS, SAS EBI, SQL Server, Toad
Programming Languages -SQL, MATLAB, VBA, C, C++
Databases -Oracle, MySQL, MS-Access
Operating Systems -Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/VISTA/7, DOS, UNIX, Linux

EXPERIENCE:

Fannie Mae, Dallas, TX January 2016- Present


SAS Developer/Business Analyst

The project involves the mortgage settlement with the servicers. Created quantitative tools/models for a variety of analytical,
reporting and risk management programs to ensure all network operations are within acceptable company guidelines and
stakeholder requirements.

Responsibilities:
 Used Created business requirements, solution specifications, user acceptance testing and developments for MI
Resolutions EUC and enhancements to automate, track and monitor the entire lifecycle of $20B+ worth of assets.
 Assessed compliance of development processes with accepted methodology and communicated to higher
management. Documented exceptions and deviations as needed. Convened meetings and planned agenda to
ensure important issues were aired and resolved.
 Used SAS EG, Macros to develop dynamic SAS programs to extract, validate data for Statistical analysis.
 Extensively used SAS procedures like means, frequency and other statistical calculations for Data validation.
 Developed SAS programs using Base SAS for tabulation counts, correlations and check for dispersion for normality
using PROC Means, PROC Tabulate.
 Used Proc SQL, Proc import, Proc export statements to load SAS data sets from and to DB2 and Oracle 11i.
 Hands on experience working with SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio 9.2, Information Map Studio and Web
Report Studio.
 Used Tableau to create reports using Data Warehouse data, accessing, formatting and delivering data.
 Used Oracle Toad to extract data from oracle tables and write the SQL queries to analyze the data.
 Wrote SQL queries and optimizing the queries in SQL Server 2012.
 Used Created database objects like tables, views, procedures, packages using Oracle tools like SQL* Plus,
PL/SQL and TOAD.

Environment: Windows 2010, SAS/BASE, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Studio 9.2, SAS/MACRO, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS,
SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, HTML, MS Excel, MS Access, MS OneNote, Oracle 11i, Tableau, Oracle Toad, SQL Server.

Catalina Marketing Corporation, St. Petersburg, FL July 2015- January 2016


SAS Consultant

Catalina’s personalized digital media connects shoppers to the brands they want. Catalina does this by delivering only the
most relevant ads and offers from their home to the aisle. The project involves lot of analytics to track operations, to discover
new targeting techniques, to design sales initiatives, and so forth.

Responsibilities:

 Responsible for Data Extraction, Data Preparation, Data Validation and Analysis.
 Data integrity was checked by the data mining procedures.
 Used SAS/BASE, Macros to develop dynamic SAS programs to extract, validate data for Statistical analysis.
 Extensively used SAS procedures like means, frequency and other statistical calculations for Data validation.
 Developed SAS programs using Base SAS for tabulation counts, correlations and check for dispersion for normality
using PROC Means, PROC Tabulate and PROC Univariate.
 Conducted statistical modeling for both continuous and categorical data, including linear regression, nonlinear
regression, ANOVA, GLM model, repeated measure, nonparametric regression
 Extract raw data from Oracle and Netezza tables and loaded the data into SAS datasets Used Macro routines to
convert different types of source file (Excel, Word, and Text) to produce SAS reports and graphs.
 Extracted data from the database using SAS/Access, SAS SQL procedures and create SAS data sets.
 To work on request from business regarding any running SAS jobs error and issues in SAS reports.
 Creating SAS access for user using SAS Management Console.
Environment: Windows 8, SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ODS, SAS BI, SQL,
SAS Enterprise Guide, UNIX, MS Excel, MS Access, Oracle 11i, Netezza, Remedyforce Console, SAS Management
Console.

Fannie Mae, Dallas, TX April 2013- July 2015


SAS Developer/Business Analyst

The project involves the mortgage settlement with the servicers. To build the Business EUC and long-term application for
mortgage settlement with different servicers. Analysis to determine the discrepancy in Mortgage Insurance proceeds. The
project involves in developing different kinds of reports for REO, PFCL properties for business. Different lines of business
such fulfilments, collections, Sales and Valuation is involved in CLM-MIS reporting (Credit loss Management).

Responsibilities:

 Used SAS/BASE, Macros to develop dynamic SAS programs to extract, validate data for Statistical analysis.
 Extensively used SAS procedures like means, frequency and other statistical calculations for Data validation.
 Developed SAS programs using Base SAS for tabulation counts, correlations and check for dispersion for normality
using PROC Means, PROC Tabulate and PROC Univariate.
 Used Proc Dbload, Proc SQL, Proc import, Proc export statements to load SAS data sets from and to DB2 and
Oracle 11i.
 Import raw data from Oracle and DB2 tables into SAS datasets to produce SAS reports and graphs.
 Extracted data from the database using SAS/Access, SAS SQL procedures and create SAS data sets.
 Used Business Objects tool to create reports using Data Warehouse data, accessing, formatting and delivering data.
 Used Oracle Toad to extract data from oracle tables and write the SQL queries to analyze the data.
 Used SAS/Access to ORACLE feature for large data extractions.
 Used SAS/BASE to extract data from FALCON, TRAX, DART and EQUATOR database.
 Develop SQL queries using SQL Server to extract data from EQUATOR database by writing SQL queries.
 Build a EUC as per Business Requirement using Microsoft Access VBA.

Environment: Windows XP, SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ODS, SAS BI,
SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, HTML, MS Excel, MS Access, Oracle 11i, Business Objects, Oracle Toad, SQL Server, FALCON,
TRAX, DART, EQUATOR.

Genworth Financial, Raleigh, NC May 2011- March 2013


SAS BI Developer

The project involved regular analysis of the inforce business to the banks selling the Mortgage. The analysis ranges from
capturing financials of loan levels and paid claims to determining the actual on delinquencies and reinstatements.

Responsibilities:

 Used SAS/BASE, SAS EG, Macros to develop dynamic SAS programs to extract, validate data for Statistical
analysis.
 Developed SAS programs using SAS Enterprise Guide for tabulation counts, correlations and check for dispersion
for normality using PROC Means, PROC Tabulate and PROC Univariate.
 Used SAS Base procedures FREQ, SQL, SORT, TABULATE, and MEANS to analyze the data.
 Optimized, automated daily/weekly /monthly scripts for increased efficiency and intelligence.
 Performed statistical data analysis, generated reports and graphs using SAS/Base, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL,
SAS/Access and SAS/Graph.
 Generated reports using Microsoft Excel Pivot tables.
 Generated web based reports via Web Report.
 Used SAS extensively to create ad hoc reports, match merge and created graphs by using SAS/GRAPH base.
Generated output using SAS/ODS in CSV, XLS, DOC, PDF and HTML formats.
 Performed extensive regression and statistical data analysis using Proc REG, Proc GLM, and Proc ANOVA.
 Transacted with various formats of data; flat files, CSV, XLS; to create and maintain large datasets.
 Implemented Set, Merge and SAS/SQL to perform suppressions and exclusions on the data.
 Developed reporting procedures using PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE and DATA _NULL_.

Environment: Windows XP, SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH,


SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ODS, SAS/SQL, SAS/Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Studio, SAS BI, HTML, SAS DI Studio, Oracle,
SAS OLAP Cube.

GAP Inc., San Francisco CA July 2010-May 2011


Sr. SAS Business Analyst

The project involved analyzing sales and inventory data to prepare statistical data models and produce intelligent
business reports on consumer behavior patterns. Actively involved in development and implementation of a yield
management report [YMR] at user-specified levels of aggregation - firm-wide, by location, by region using cross-
classification variables.

Responsibilities:
 Studied store behavior at a high level to gather information and generate reports regarding selling patterns, traffic
volumes, geographic divides and seasonal swings.
 Spearheaded the requirement gathering, development and testing phases of the YMR Project.
 Used SAS/Access and SQL Assistant to interface with the database server for data extracts.
 Performed extraction, transformation and loading from / to large Teradata tables.
 Optimized, automated and productionalized daily / weekly / monthly scripts for increased efficiency and intelligence.
 Performed statistical data analysis, generated reports and graphs using SAS/Base, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL,
SAS/Access and SAS/Graph.
 Generated web based reports via Web Report Studio to enable users and decision makers across the enterprise with
self-sufficient access to consistent, accurate data and the predictive power of SAS analytics.
 Used %sysfunc and other macro functions of SAS/MACRO to execute I/O operations and write reusable code.
 Generated output using SAS/ODS in CSV, XLS, DOC, PDF and HTML formats.
 Performed extensive regression and statistical data analysis using Proc REG, Proc GLM, Proc ANOVA.
Environment: Windows XP, SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH,
SAS/CONNECT, SAS/ODS, SAS/SQL, SAS/Enterprise Guide, SAS Web Studio, SAS OLAP Cube, SAS EBI, HTML,
Teradata.

Office of Mental Health, Albany, NY Jan 09- June 2010


Sr. SAS Programmer/Analyst

The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is part of New York State’s mental health system which serves more than 500,000
individuals each year. These programs include various inpatient and outpatient programs, emergency, community support,
residential and family care programs. It also maintains health data sets and publishes several quarterly and annual surveys
and reports.

Responsibilities:

 Used SAS/BASE, Macros to develop dynamic SAS programs to extract, validate data for Statistical analysis.
 Extracted data from Oracle, using SQL pass through facility of SAS/ ACCESS, for further analysis.
 Extensively used SAS procedures like means, frequency and other statistical calculations for Data validation.
 Used SAS/ETL to create reports from relational database or multi-dimensional cubes.
 Conducted statistical modeling for both continuous and categorical data, including linear regression, nonlinear
regression, ANOVA, GLM model, repeated measure, nonparametric regression, classification tree etc.
 Involved with upgrading of SAS 9.0 to SAS 9.2
 SAS E-Miner was used to minimize credit risk, anticipate resource demands, increase response rates for marketing
 Used SAS ETL Studio in order to build Data Marts.
 Using SAS BI, performed Queries across multiple data sources (databases) using relational or multidimensional
data.
 Created Maps with the use of SAS/Information Maps for publishing the report to Web Report Studio/Portal.
 Configured and administrated the SAS environment through SAS Management Console.
 Created new programs and modified existing programs in the data warehouse.

Environment: SAS V 9.0/9.2 (Base, Macros, SQL), SAS BI, SAS E-Miner, SAS OLAP Studio, Management Console, SAS DI
Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS/ETL, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/CONNECT, SAS/STAT, SAS EBI, Excel, Access,
Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, Windows XP.

Prudential Financial, PA Feb 08- Dec 08


Sr. SAS Programmer/ Analyst

This project aims at developing a tool for improving marketing efficiency for acquisition modeling for direct mail insurance and
was to identify potential customers with a propensity to buy a particular type of insurance and to formulate a CRM model to
increase the sale of this particular insurance.

Responsibilities:

 Responsible for Data Extraction, Data Preparation, Data Validation and Analysis.
 Data integrity was checked by the data mining procedures.
 Logistic regression is performed to find the probability of paid sale.
 Involved with Promotional planning, Lifecycle management and Time Series Forecasting.
 Used SAS Base procedures FREQ, SQL, SORT, TABULATE, and MEANS to analyze the data.
 Developed forecasting models for marketing and analysis.
 Regression analysis was done to decide which factor statistical significant in deciding the propensity to buy the
insurance from each segment.
 Created RTF, PDF, and HTML Reports using SAS ODS.
 Exported SAS Datasets to various file types (including Excel, ASCII flat files).
 Coded MACROS and Generated SAS/ Graphs.
 Summarized customers according to policy type, face amt, premium and agency. Also, prepared several ad-hoc
reports using macros according to statistician’s specifications.

Environment: Base SAS, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS, SAS/Graphs, SAS/Stat, SAS/Reports, SAS/Access, SAS BI,
SAS E-Miner, SAS EG, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS EBI, Oracle9i, MS Access, Teradata, Windows 2000/XP, Windows XP
professional.

Liberty Mutual, IN Jul 07 – Dec 07


Sr. SAS Analyst/Programmer

Managed Payments (Commercial Market) is a system under Liberty mutual to process the medical bills resulted from
workers comp claims. It will receive the doctor and their pricing information from various venders like Progressive, Med
Risk, and Aetna and try to give the best quote for the claim. Manage payments will re-price the bills and prepare the checks
for the eligible bills and disburse the checks to the provider.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in Business Analysis and Systems Planning.
 Migration of data from text files and DB2 to SAS data sets.
 Created complex and reusable Macros and extensively used existing macros and developed SAS Programs for Data
Cleaning, Validation, Analysis and Report generation. Tested and debugged existing macros.
 Played a major role in quick generation of Ad-hoc Business Analysis Reports and resolving data issues upon
request.
 For data analysis, and BI Reporting application development used SAS DI-Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS
OLAP Studio as well as Base SAS and Macro programming.
 Developed SAS programs using SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/ACCESS and SAS/MACROS for statistical
analysis and data display.
 Used ODS statements and PROC TEMPLATE to create reports in style format.
 Used SAS extensively to create ad hoc reports, match merge and created graphs by using SAS/GRAPH base.
 Used SAS Macros, PROC SQL to extract, sort; match test accounts and ODS to HTML, PDF and RTF.

Environment: SAS 9.0, SAS/BASE, SAS/SQL, SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS BI, SAS DI Studio, OLAP
Studio, Web Report Studio, SAS/ETL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS, HTML, DB2, MS-Excel, UNIX.

JP Morgan Chase, TX Oct 06- Jun 07


Sr. SAS Consultant

The project analyzed short-term and mid-term credit needs of its consumer in order to analyze purchasing power of its
consumer and subsequently embrace business activities such as Risk Analysis and Management, Database marketing,
Credit policy, regulatory norms compliance, management reporting and analysis and information support.

Responsibilities:
 Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objectives, via feedback sessions and client meetings, in
collaboration with all teams.
 Conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination. Analyses of data feed requirements
for Risk Management, Customer Information Management and Analytic Support.
 Worked on customizations required within SAS Credit Risk Solution for Basel II analytic engine for compliance with
FDIC norms extending Basel II accord regulations.
 Used OLAP Cube Studio to create reports from SAS Financial Management and Stat procedures, regression model
building, (Summary, CHAID, CART, Mean, Freq), cluster analysis, Excel, UNIX (Korn and C) shell scripts.
 Created data marts, predictive model, OLAP Cubes and reports for Business intelligence reporting in SAS using SAS
ETL Studio, SAS DI Studio and Enterprise Miner and SAS Financial Management Studio.
 Wrote Korn and shell scripts to submit the series of Jobs on UNIX and for transfer the data, reports and SAS
programs from one location to another location.
 Automated Risk division reporting process using SPSS, SAS and MS Excel.

Environment: SAS 8.2, SAS Financial Management (FM), SAS OLAP Cube studio, SAS Management Console, Enterprise
Guide (EG 4.0), Enterprise Miner, Text Miner, Windows 2000, UNIX, Korn Shell OS390, SAS DI Studio, SAS/Access,
SAS/SQL, SPSS, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, MS Office, MS Excel Macros, SQL Server.

VERIZON, TX May 06- Oct 06


SAS Marketing Consultant
The scope of the project is to implement marketing strategy and evaluate performance. This application creates the mailing
list of consumers for Direct Mailing and Telemarketing offers and measures the performance of those campaigns.

Responsibilities:
 Developed SAS programs to create a customer mailing list for Direct Mailing and Telemarketing.
 Extracted data from the database using SAS/Access, SAS SQL procedures and create SAS data sets.
 Performed data analysis, created reports with extensive use of BASE SAS, Macros and SAS reports with the help of
default procedures.
 Created new SAS programs and modified existing programs.
 Created reports using SAS /ODS and SAS /Views from oracle database tables into different formats like HTML and
RTF.
 Worked with large customer response and sales data sets.
 Created reports trough SAS BI Tools (SAS OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Information Delivery
Portal).
 Used PL/SQL and PROC SQL Pass through Facility to work with ORACLE and DB2.

Environment: Base SAS, SAS Macros, SAS/Access, SAS/STAT, SAS DDE, SAS ODS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/IML, Oracle 9i,
DB2, SAS V 8.x, SAS Indexes, SAS Views, SAS MP-Connect, SAS Enterprise Guide, Base SAS, SAS Management
Console, OLAP Cube Studio, SAS Information Map Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS EBI, SAS Information Delivery
Portal, Excel, Windows XP, UNIX.

GE Healthcare, Atlanta, GA Aug 05- Mar 06


Sr. SAS Developer

GE Healthcare is one of leading providers for Medical Insurance Plans in US. The project involved maintenance of existing
GE Data Warehouse in correspondence to addition of new business logic as per updating to existing plans to stay up with
changing trends in Insurance Market.

Responsibilities:
 Developed and scheduled SAS jobs using Shell Scripts / UNIX.
 Created intricate set of SQL tables to hold user login and user access information with constraints and access errors
were logged in to error tables.
 Provided enterprise data model access given to application developers, database designers and end users through
Modelmart.
 Used Proc Dbload, Proc SQL, Proc import, Proc export statements to load SAS data sets from and to DB2 and
Oracle 9i.
 Provide statistical programming expertise in the production of datasets, analyses, tabulations, graphics, and listings
from client’s data.
 Responsible for the development of a Budget Data Mart for the Finance Department.
 Used SAS Access to ORACLE feature for large data extractions (SQL-Pass thru), PROC DBLOAD.
 Forecasted impact of direct market campaigns for acquiring, developing and retaining customers using SAS.
 Developed and maintained SAS Web Reports for sales data based on the requirement.
 Implemented data management plans designed to meet project deadlines.

Environment: SAS 8.0 (SAS/Access, SAS/Connect, SAS/Stat, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS/Graph, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS),
Information Map Studio, SAS Web Report Studio, Oracle 9i, SAS EBI, DB2, MS Excel, Solaris 8, K-Shell.

EDUCATION:
 Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, Mumbai University, India.
 Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University.

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