Farah Lateef

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Summary:

●SAS Programmer with experience in research, development and implementation of various applications for the pharmaceutical and CRO industries.

●Proficient in various SAS tools like SAS/Base, SAS/Stat, SAS/GRAPH.

●Good experience in storing and manipulating data in SAS files by MERGE, JOINS, COMBINING, SORTING, TRANSPOSING AND FUNCTIONS LIKE CHARACTER, NUMERIC, DATE,TIME, CONVERSION FUNCTIONS etc..

●Good working knowledge of various SAS Procedures like PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, PROC CONTENTS, PROC FORMAT, PROC SORT, PROC TABULATE, PROC PRINT, PROC REPORT

●Strong working knowledge with analysis of Clinical Data, Generating Reports, Tables, Listings, Graphs and Summaries as per company standards.

●Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and accustomed to working in challenging and team environments under timelines.

Technical skills

SAS Tools : SAS V7/8/9x, SAS/BASE,, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH,

Operating systems : Windows 95/98/2000, Windows XP

Office Tools : MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Web Tools : HTML, XML

WORK EXPERIENCE

NRIT Software Solutions, NJ Jan 2015 – March 2016

Role: SAS Pragrammer

Environment : Windows.

Description:

Randomized, double blinded, multi-centre, active- and placebo controlled dose response, Phase-II trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Drug-XXX for postoperative pain control in patients following arthroscopic shoulder surgery.

Responsibilities:

●Extracting data from different data sources (plot files) and generating different types of output files.

●Providing SAS programming support for the analysis and reporting.

●Extensive usage of procedures like Proc Means, Proc Report, Proc Tabulate, Proc Freq, Proc Print, Proc contents, Proc sort.

●Creating user defined formats by using Proc Format.

●Manipulating the character and numeric data by using SAS Functions.

●Generate Safety Tables as per Statistical Analysis Plan.

●Extensively Used Proc Report and ODS to generate reports in RTF as per the Statistical Analysis Plan.

●Creating pooled, standardized and analysis datasets as per client specification.

●Exporting the data to client based on requirement.

Department of Vector Biology, Rutgers University June 2013 – Jan 2015

Role: Research Assistant – Molecular Biology Lab

Responsibilities:

Media Preparation, Maintenance of C-Elegans culture, Setup experiments collect data and perform data analysis using statistical methods.

Studied the effect of Potassium, Calcium, Megnisium and Cholesterol on Fat Metabolism on C Elegans.

Studied the effect of mutations of C Elegans KLF1,KLF2 and KLF 3 on the above experiment.

Educational Qualifications:

Bachelor of Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ August 2015

Major: Biology

Relevant Coursework

Statistics, Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Human Parasitology,

Introduction to Cancer, Cell Biology and NeuroScience

General Microbiology Human Anatomy I & II, Calculus I & II

SAS Clinical Programming Course

Laboratory Skills

Fat Staining using Oil Red O

Bodipy

Agrose Plate culture

Light microscopy, confocal microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Isolation and purification of DNA, RNA, protein

Growth and maintenance of culture

Technical Skills and Experience

Experimental design and setup

Light microscopy

DNA and RNA extraction

Differential staining

(molarity calculation and pH measurements)

Spectrophotometry

Bacterial culture

Bacterial species isolation from complex cultures

Preparation of solutions

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