SAS developer/programmer

Joshua P. Rozen

**** ********* ******, ***** *****, MD 20815

(c) 202-***-****, *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over 25 years of increasing responsibility in providing IT support for economic, health and social policy research for both US and international organizations. Manage strategic deployment of IT resources to support and enhance corporate mandates. Responsible for insuring corporate information security, managing IT cost center, handling vendor relations, and overseeing the corporate IT department with focus on innovative solutions, quality service, cost effectiveness, and staff development. Entire career has emphasized supporting statistical analysis and quantitative data systems, now often called data analytics. Recent achievements include cloud migrations, PMO implementation, and successful security certification and accreditation. Enjoy hands-on opportunities to program

(with recently renewed SAS certification) and support analysis more directly. EXPERIENCE

VP & IT Director, Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) October 1994 –March 2018, Washington DC (VP since 2008, IT Director since 2004) Oversee IT support for a company of 1000 that is a leading social policy research organization

Develop and implement IT strategic and tactic plans in alignment with corporate goals

Work with business unit committees to proactively address IT topics such as power processing and interactive applications

Manage IT cost center including annual capital ($5 million) and operating ($13 million) budgets

Negotiate and coordinate major contracts and relationships with vendors and service providers such as Microsoft, SAS Institute, Deltek, Qlik, and Avanade

Oversaw planning, purchase, and implementation of SAS Grid with 4 compute nodes

Help with design and deployment of new corporate-wide Project Management Office (PMO)

Supervise a staff of 35 in 4 locations to provide service desk, network support, administrative and web application support, and corporate information security

Oversee management of new service/helpdesk implementation including dashboards and other metrics for support of IT and other administrative groups

Managing the rollout to staff of password self-service, single sign-on, and employee initiated software installations

Manage multiple migrations to cloud solutions including a hosted email solution, MS Project Online for the PMO, and ServiceNow

Senior Programmer, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) October 1991 – October 1994, Washington DC

Provide programming support for policy researchers seeking solutions for ending hunger and poverty

Develop applications for statistical research and data collection and analysis typically using SAS and SPSS

Support servers and local area network

Provide end user training on all IT resources

Support researchers traveling around the world including early electronic mail programs

Co-authored “Strengthening Policy Analysis: Tests Using Computer Software” with Lawrence Haddad et al. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 1995; primarily responsible for coding sample programs in SAS, SPSS/PC+ and Gauss-386

Develop a FORTRAN model on rice production and participate in a conference at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Philippines

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Senior Programmer, Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) November 1988 – October 1991, Washington DC

Provide programming and data development support in collaboration with research divisions

Direct a project with the Italy-based Food and Agricultural Organization to update the Cereal Consumption Balance System (CCBS) for analyzing food aid needs

Perform a set of imputations on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) corporate tax data with a series of FORTRAN and SAS models to help select returns to be audited

Develop a system for the US Department of Agriculture to match state records from the Women, Infant, and Children Program (WIC), Medicaid, and Vital Statistics databases to assess program effectiveness and savings

Develop and provide support to the IRS on the Integrated Test Call Survey System to improve the accuracy of IRS responses to taxpayers' questions

Work on various file development tasks with data sources such as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Area Resource File (ARF) Computer Consultant, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) May 1987 – October 1988, Rome, Italy

Develop a PC-based model for tracking world cereal grain supplies on a country level for the FAO, the UN’s specialized agency to defeat hunger

Design and implement the Country Cereal Balance System (CCBS) for identifying those countries with the greatest needs for food aid

Write technical and users’ manual and train staff on the CCBS

Set up a local area network (LAN) with communication links to FAO's IBM and VAX computers to access enterprise level data

Develop system for extracting, downloading, and analyzing on the PC data from the main FAO database for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Direct follow up contract in May/June of 1990

Computer Programmer, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) May 1984 – March 1987, Washington, DC

Lead the migration to PC-based processing and provide programming support for food policy research

Support all PC related activities for the Institute

Design and implement software for modeling and database development

Train and assist researchers and analysts/assistants with statistical software applications EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

Penn State University with BS in Computer Science and BA in History Honors: Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University Scholars Program SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9 Certification

SAS Base Programming for SAS 9 Certification

Professional Scrum Master I Certification

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