Suresh

Senior SAS Platform & Viya Administrator

Cell # +65-9152 4969, +91-897*******

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Email: adaqbi@r.postjobfree.com

Domains

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Banking, Insurance, Government, Social Media, Telecom and Health Care/Clinical

Platform Admin and Prodcution Support

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SAS Viya 3.4 (SMP & MPP) & SAS 9.4 Visual Analytics 7.4, 7.2, sas data governance, SAS LASR Server with Hadoop, LSF, RTM platform process manager, SAS Real-Time Decision Manager, SAS Marketing Optimization, SAS Marketing Automation, SAS 9.3 SAS Web Analytics 5.3 and SAS CXA/CXP/CXT Suite 6.1 and 6.3, SAS 9.4, 9.3 and 9.2 EBI Suite, SAS Grid, SAS Customer Intelligence Studio, SAS Merchandise Intelligence, SAS Revenue Optimization, SAS Size Optimization, Ansible, Speed-Trap and Celebrus

Operating System

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IBM AIX, Redhat Linux and Windows 2012 R2

Other

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Citrix, Putty, WinSCP, MobaXterm and Jboss

Educational Qualification

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Bachelor of Commerce with Quantitative techniques from Andhra University

Summary

• Around 9 years of experience in Information Technology on SAS Platform and Visual Analytics Administrator

• Production Support from offshore Macys Retail SAS environment, Experienced in Architectural Design & RFP

• Experienced in Team Managing, Client interaction, task Estimation, preparation of technical documents

• Worked closely with Pre-sales team, SAS Inst, SAS Competency (COE), Interaction with various clients for

Providing SAS Technical Expertise, RFP’s and PoCs

• Experienced on multi-tier/ HA and Grid Installation/ Configuration on SAS9.3, SAS 9.4 and SAS Viya 3.4

• Onsite exposure on UK (@2013), USA (@2017), Valid B1 Visa and Singapore EP visa

• Build number of SAS Environment servers for internal, clients and sas Viya 3.4 cloud deployments

• Expert in SAS Server cloning, implemented several SAS 9v cloning on UK Data Center

• Worked with SAS UK (SSOD) team as a part of SSOD (SAS System on Demand)

• Implemented/ build SAS CI, SAS Merchandise Intelligence and SAS RTDM @ Macys (USA)

• Visited Telicity Group Data Center @ Volt Avenue, NW10 6PW in London to clone the SAS server

• Visited Telicity Group Data Center @ 6/7 Harbor Exchange Square, E14 9GE in London to deploy SAS

monitor the Server backup data tapes

• Deployed SAS Viya 3.4 SMP/MPP on Singapore Govt Data Center, SAS 9.4, and 9.3 many

solutions of installation and configurations Grid and non-grid

• Handling 3 projects and working as lead position

Quinnox-Solutions pte. Ltd. From Dec 2018 to till date

Role Senior SAS Platform & Viya Administrator

NCS, Singapore

Location: Singapore

Client

Govt. Of. Singapore

Environment

SAS Viya 3.4 MPP & SMP, SAS 9.4 with SNA

Role

Senior SAS Platform & Viya Administrator

Description

Ministry of Social and Family Development, Govt. Of. Singapore.

Responsibilities

Understanding client requirement and engage with team and third party support team

Setup pre-requirements of SAS Viya and understanding current SAS 9.4 environment to migrate to sas Viya

Created detailed documentation and communicating SAS –sales team

SAS Viya 3.4 SMP and MPP deployment mode on various environments, Dev, UAT and Production

Coordinating with various teams which include System Administrators, Security teams and Database teams to troubleshoot the issues and requirements in the process of remediation.

Migrating all jobs and objects from SAS 9.4 to SAS Viya

Contacting the SAS Technical Support Team for various issues encountered with SAS

Supporting existing SAS 9.4 environment

Sun Technologies Integrators Pvt. Ltd. From Jan 2017 to Dec 2018

Role Senior Systems Engineer – SAS

Macy’s

Location: Bangalore & Atlanta (USA)

Client

Macy’s

Environment

SAS 9.4 With HA (SAS Customer Intelligence Studio, SAS Real-Time Decision Manager, SAS Marketing Optimization, SAS Marketing Automation, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Merchandise Intelligence, SAS Revenue Optimization, SAS Size Optimization)

Role

SAS Platform Administrator

Description

Macy’s is an online and offline retail store

Responsibilities

Remediation of SAS installation and configuration in various environments Production, Non-Functional Testing and DR.

Coordinating with various teams which include System Administrators, Security teams and Database teams to troubleshoot the issues and requirements in the process of remediation.

Remediation of Platform Suite products in all environments which include Production, SIT, DEV, QA, Test and DR.

Giving necessary permissions on different kind of SAS tools and objects to the users based on their role.

Contacting the SAS Technical Support Team for various issues encountered with SAS.

Involved in preparation of Application Migration Specification document.

Capgemini Projects Experience from Feb 2014 to Jan 2017

Role Senior Consultant

Nordea

Location: Bangalore

Client

Nordea Bank

Environment

SAS 9.4 EBI and SAS 9.4 Visual Analytics 7.1 (Distributed) with hadoop

Role

SAS Visual Analytics Administrator

Description

Nordea is the largest financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic region, with a leading position in corporate and institutional banking as well as in retail banking and private banking. We are also the leading provider of life and pensions products in the Nordic countries. Nordea is one of few European banks with an AA-rating and is also among the ten largest full-service banks in Europe, based on market capitalization. Maintaining two channels of banking SAS servers.

SAS 9.4 with Java

SAS 9.4 VA 7.1 with Hadoop

Responsibilities

Serve as the go-to subject matter expert for IT personnel on all day-to-day problems involving the SAS server, including performance, tuning, troubleshooting, gathering and interpretation of diagnostics, and decisions about configuration

Coordinate installation of upgrades, enhancements, and changes to SAS software

Coordinate and monitor progress of testing by users and professional programmers

Schedule and coordinate all planned outages on the SAS server

Alert users affected by unplanned outages on the SAS server, notifying them if there is to be an emergency reboot, and keeping them informed as to status and progress during the outages

Serve as liaison to SAS Institute on all aspects of the SAS software, licensing, and cost matters

Review and advise on annual renewal of licensing for SAS software portfolio

Develop disk space usage reporting for permanent data, with emails to users of shared disks that reach or exceed a threshold

Develop a monitor to detect old data not cleaned up from critical shared disk used for SAS work data sets, sending email alert to owning user, with copy to Server Administrator—if the shared disk fills up, an entire group of users is immediately denied access to SAS

Administer SAS BI server user access definition and controls

Change management and DI deployment

Provide estimates for upgrades and changes in the system

User assistance with access rights, information maps, servers access etc

Participation in production support and implementation of SAS Products on AIX.

Interact with customer to understand and solve the issues.

To resolve the cases related to changes all environment in production and changes in server.

Syneos Health (INC Research and inVentiv Health)

Location: Bangalore

Client

Syneos Health

Environment

SAS 9.4, Visual Analytics 7.3

Role

SAS Visual Analytics Administrator

Description

The coming together of INC Research and inVentiv Health as one global company, called Syneos Health™, has created the industry’s only true end-to-end solution. This one entity combines world-renowned clinical research and commercialization capabilities with today’s most advanced science, business and data technologies to make real advances possible. We help you improve performance, reduce risk and expedite delivery of healthcare innovation to patients worldwide.

Load and unload data sets from LASR

Enabled audit reports

Automated LASR server while stop/start

Applying license

Applied hotfixes

Server maintains

Metadata and files system backup monitoring

Implemented auto load tables to LASR

Issolutions plc from Feb 2013 to Jan 2014

Role Senior Support Engineer - SAS

SARS

Location: United Kingdom

Client

SARS, South Africa

Environment

SAS Management Console 9.2, Customer Experience Analytics 6.1 and Speed-Trap

Role

SAS Administrator

Description

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is the nation’s tax collecting authority. Established in terms of the South African Revenue Service Act 34 of 1997 as an autonomous agency, we are responsible for administering the South African tax system and customs service.

Setup and configure Speed-Trap

End to end SAS 9.3 EBI with CXA 6.1 Installation and configuration

Pre-requisite setup

Active directory configuration for linux

Install and configure LSF and PM

Deploy the DI jobs and test the flow and WRS Reports

Server maintenance

Topdenmark

Location: United Kingdom

Client

Top Denmark Insurance And Pension, Denmark

Environment

SAS Management Console 9.2, Customer Experience Analytics 6.1 and Speed-Trap

Role

SAS Administrator

Description

TopDanmark, an insurance company based in Denmark use their data into predictive insights about performance, customers, markets, risks and more.

Cloning from Master Server which includes (Pre-requisite, LSF, Speed-Trap and SAS)

Active directory configuration for linux

Deploy the DI jobs and test the flow and WRS Reports

Server maintenance

Veikkaus

Location: United Kingdom

Client

Veikkaus, Finland

Environment

SAS Management Console 9.2, Customer Experience Analytics 6.1 and Speed-Trap

Role

SAS Administrator

Description

Veikkaus, a finish betting agency use SAS CXA to understand how individuals interact with the site which helps them to improve the overall user experience.

Cloning from Master Server which includes (Pre-requisite, LSF, Speed-Trap and SAS)

Active directory configuration for linux

Deploy the DI jobs and test the flow and WRS Reports

Server maintenance

Emerio Technologies Pvt. Ltd. From May 2012 to Jan 2013

Role Sas Consultant

People's Association Govt. Of Singapore

Location: Chennai

Client

People's Association Govt. Of Singapore, Singapore.

Environment

SAS 9.2 EBI

Role

SAS Platform Administrator

Description

People’s Association (PA) through its network of 105 Community Clubs (CCs) and other outlets aims to build social cohesion, racial harmony and social capital by organizing a wide range of programs and activities to cater the needs and interest of Singaporeans from all walks of life. These programs organized cover a wide-spectrum, focusing on cultural and education to recreation, sports and social programs. Develop a community and a staff centric system that will help Peoples association to reach out and engage residents.

Install, configure and maintain SAS-EBI 9.2

Providing SAS 9.2 Platform Support and Maintenance on HP-UX Itanium 64 Bit Servers

Working closely with SAS Developers/ Programmers to provide timely and quick Platform Support and talking

Interacting with Vendor support when required

Interacting with different Support teams like UNIX Administration, Green plum Database Administration, Desktop Support

Setting up and monitoring Backup policies by working with Enterprise Backup teams

Professionally handling and tracking requests/tickets, which include preparing internal

Ogilvy & Mather from Mar 2011 to April 2012

Role SAS Administrator

Bakersdelight

Location: Bangalore

Client

Bakersdelight, ANZ

Environment

SAS Management Console 9.1.3, SAS EG and SAS Base

Role

SAS Administrator

Description

One of the major bakery stores wanted to understand the purchase behavior of its customers. The objective of the project was performed customer segmentation and cluster analysis and market basket analysis. This analysis helped the bakery store in building strategies to target the customers for promotions

Deploy the DI JOB’s

Jobs Promotion from dev to prod

Import and export SAS Packages

User, user group, role and library creation

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