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New York, Ny, Us

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Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Adaptable, hands-on engineering manager supporting data science and analytics platform (SAS and Viya) in a complex, fast-paced environment. Functions include:- Prioritize technical tasks and assign to team- Ensure platform alignment with cyber security and related policies- Define and ensure adherence to best practices- Oversee technical training plans for Engineering and Support team- Manage GMF SAS platform technology roadmap- Maintain relationships with key technical contacts at GMF, SAS Institute and other related technology vendors- Research new or unused SAS functionality to support increased adoption and value realization- Review engineering and support team performance of technical tasks and provide feedback on improvementRecent accomplishments:- Developed 3 year “road map” and budget for SAS software platform in partnership with vendors and internal stakeholders including consolidation of legacy SAS platforms (SAS 9.4 and Viya 3.5) to Kubernetes based Viya platform on Tanzu- Leading deployment of Viya lab environment on MS Azure AKS to address risks and knowledge gaps related to roll out of Viya on Kubernetes in future- Successfully sold and kicked off Viya Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning adoption effort with GMF data science team in partnership with vendor team- Upgrade of SAS Viya deployments including enhancements of TLS, high-availability and authentication approaches- Lead first successful disaster recovery tests for both SAS 9.4 HPC and Viya 3.5 ML environments- Made significant improvements to hiring process for technical resources resulting in increased improved resource quality with lower time investment- Successful integration of CDH Hadoop Data Lake with SAS Viya to consume Parquet data and parse JSON content. Subsequent conversion to S3 interfacing for same and additional customers- Supported initial integration efforts of SAS 9.4 and Viya with open-source platforms (Python/Jupyter) using API packages

Cary, Nc, Us

Leader of technical team responsible for installation, configuration and administration of SAS 9.4 and Viya as well as open source software systems. Functions include: Hiring and administrative management of technical consultants Mentoring and development of technology skills with team RFP/SoW process support and improvement  Maintenance of best practice architectures Optimization of deployment processes and associated collateral Monitoring vendor and industry technology landscape for opportunity and impact Provide technical leadership on complex deployments throughout the project lifecycleRecent accomplishments: AWS Lab Improvement: created standards and CloudFormation based infrastructure as code to support Zencos SAS lab environments. Results include improved training opportunities for consultants, validation of project software deployments, increased proof of concept and hosted project capabilities. Container deployment projects: performed complex integration (Kerberos/Hadoop) of Docker container-based SAS Viya software with major financial institution. Deployment project collateral improvement: lead creation of Ansible tooling, Git based “reference deployments”, documentation templates, project plans, etc. that have greatly increased quality of deployment project from estimation through to delivery. Lead estimation through delivery for multiple, large ($300k+ budget) SAS Grid and Viya deployments with major financial institutions in the last year. These included complex integrations with SSO, Hadoop, Kerberos, Git, R, Python and Containers. Proof of concept for build/test of SAS software at AWS with deployment to customer environment using AWS VM Export and VMWare.

Cary, Nc, Us

Columbia, Md, Us

Application architect, technical lead and application specialist for the campaign delivery team. Provide ongoing support for SAS BI Platform applications (SAS Marketing Automation Suite) for 100+ users for multiple clients. Primarily Merkle's largest revenue generating client - Dell - a true 24x7, global marketing organization. Responsible for full lifecycle delivery of SAS Marketing Automation as well as RedPoint Interact and Unica applications in multiple industry verticals (Financial Services, Insurance, Retail) Completed full life-cycle implementation of 5 SAS MA environments. The included Base SAS (9.2-9.4), Marketing Automation Suite (6.3-5.4) Customer Intelligence (5.4-6.3), Platform LSF (8.1), Enterprise Miner Server, Enterprise Guide, SAS Access (OLE DB - SQL Server / Netezza), Jboss, RH EAP, and SAS Visual Analytics. Deployed clients and servers on virtual architectures - including successfully configuring and packaging suite of client applications in a VMWare/Symantec environment. Contributed to discussions of security of various options for provisioning SAS applications to global user base with varied requirements. Deployed SAS Unicode server and developed ASCII (Latin) / UTF8 character set conversion code and processes to support global business needs. Server operating systems supported include Sun/Solaris, RH Linux and Windows Server 2008-2012 (x64).

Columbia, Md, Us

 During each implementation provide direction for or lead - unit testing, documentation, user acceptance testing (UAT), post-implementation stabilization & tuning and organizing and maintaining ongoing support. Carry out and oversee incident resolution, request management and ongoing application maintenance (e.g. application patching and management of environment hardware life-cycle). Drive system sizing efforts with vendors, provide recommendations for performance architecture, coding standards, etc. Ensure consistency of system architecture standards and practices Lead efforts to setup real-time system monitoring and increase redundancy levels to reduce downtime as well as recommending improvements to disaster recovery preparedness and code optimization.  Work closely with business and IT stakeholders to define detailed financial budgets and effort estimates for marketing automation related projects. Maintain contacts at all levels of internal and client organization from end user and IT support technicians to senior leadership in competency and client account management.

Columbus, Oh, Us

Experienced in all aspects of BI application technology supporting the marketing function including SAS, Unica Campaign, Microstrategy and ETL/DW integration. This includes direct involvement with all levels of support ticket resolution, planning / resourcing / scheduling of application patching and upgrades, architecture design and liaising with both business customers as well as technology infrastructure teams. Role is a blend of about 65% administration/support and 35% architect:- Lead successful $750K rearchitecture of all SAS application environments from planning to delivery. Included migration of SAS environments across versions and variants of OS, hardware and SAS application (9.1.3 & 9.2 to 9.3). Also accomplished transition of UNIX environment from traditional SAS on IBM Power to HP Proliant hardware running on Platform LSF / GRID architecture.- Experienced with SAS GRID (9.3) installation, configuration administration and troubleshooting; includes high availability (e.g. load balancing, cluster & virtual host solutions) and disaster recovery configuration and administration. - Experienced and familiar with SAS metadata management including: user & group management, library creation and maintenance, folder structures, repository creation and management and configuration of Access Control Templates.- Lead proof of concept related to SAS’ “model factory approach” which included limited implementation of SAS Scoring Accelerator, Analytics Accelerator, Rapid Predictive Modeler and Model Manager to evaluate benefits and issues with implementing this approach. Demonstrated significant increases in modeler productivity and model result quality as a result of the approach enabled by this toolset.

Columbus, Oh, Us

- Delivered SAS and Unica architectural improvements that increased performance while meeting enterprise objectives for high-availability and disaster recovery; areas of improvement include SAS operating system and application server configuration as well as hardware provisioning and resources (IO, memory, etc.).- Deep experience with SAS/ACCESS for Teradata including connection configuration, loader management and performance optimization.- Experienced and familiar with web application server management (JBoss / WebLogic) and configuration concepts.- Responsible for delivering business intelligence solutions that exceed customer expectations and requirements; utilizing multiple platforms in complex, fast-moving application/infrastructure environment.- Provide leadership and direction as it relates to design and implementation of solutions on the SAS, Unica and data warehouse systems/applications; - Leader and enterprise point of contact for all SAS and Unica related projects and activities.- Supervise all levels of technical and application support including on-call support; incident management; address user, application and data issues.- Provide all levels of trouble ticket support for a primarily analytics user base (Enterprise Miner and Enterprise Guide) including desktop, terminal server and webstart clients; resolve issues ranging from login/access trouble to performance tuning and configuration optimization.- Manage the configuration support and maintenance of the SAS platform; installation, upgrade and configuration of technology products on all supported server environments. - Responsible for physically installing, updating and configuring SAS software including new packages, upgrades, hot fixes and licenses.- Familiar with configuration and maintenance of SAS authentication using host, PAM, LDAP and AD authentication methods.

Columbus, Oh, Us

- Oversee, recommend and implement appropriate solutions and enhancements to ensure an improvement in system reliability and performance.- Liaise with software vendors as required to keep up to date with enabling technologies- Monitor the overall availability and performance of the supported application environments and take corrective actions as necessary to insure peak performance.- Work with the user community; perform periodic code reviews to insure that utilization of efficient design principles and adhering to internally published best practices.- Provide solution assistance to insure that the most appropriate technology is selected to satisfy the business requirement and to provide user assistance during early phases of the project lifecycle.- Project management competency; scope and requirements management, risk management and control, excellent project communications and change management and upward feedback.- Experienced and successful at relationship building, managing expectations at all levels.- Interview, vet and obtain necessary augmentation resources for successful project delivery; working with internal vendor management and external IT resource providers.- Provide cross-platform leadership for infrastructure architecture, such as capacity planning and project estimates.- Demonstrated ability to build trust and respect in diverse cross-functional teams and lead by example and influence.

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