Chandler Caulkins
Greenbelt, MD 20770
**********@*****.***
Summary
Chad is a creative-minded and dedicated data miner who strives to provide relevant and actionable knowledge and patterns to serve the business’ needs. Adept at building trust between the different departments within a company, he uses great interpersonal and listening skills advising on complex issues to upper management in both domestic and outsourced settings. As a team player, he appreciates opportunities to mentor junior team members and bigger picture help the team focus on the end result. More recently, this has included chances to develop processes for SAS Administrators on the SAS Platform, as well as Fraud Analysis on SAS FM. Currently, he has been continuing to hone his Data Science skills in DoorDash and other projects.
Education
●B.Sc., Computer Science – Universidade de Sao Paulo (Sao Carlos, Brazil) - August 1996
●Master’s in Computational Intelligence – USP (Sao Carlos, Brazil) - August 2000
Thesis: “Knowledge Acquisition using Relational Machine Learning”
●Continuing Education: MBA with AI and Big Data - completion targeted for September 2025
Employment History - recent
Data Miners, Data Science Delivery Specialist
June 2022 to present
Description
Develop data science projects while on delivery either for my grandson or DoorDash
Accomplishments
●Sought to integrate Python and R macro code to better manage data science initiatives;
●Researched recommender systems for possible final project in MBA program;
●800+ deliveries on-time and completed for DoorDash in the first four months
Technologies: Python/R, MySQL/Google BigData, Google Services
KellyMitchell, Implementation Specialist - (100% Remote)
July 2022 to June 2023
Description
Coordinate rules governance and associated tasks with SAS FM at Discover Financial Services
Accomplishments
●Sought to integrate Python and SAS macro code to better manage transactional fraud at DFS
●Governed rules coming from multiple Fraud Strategy teams, as well as Lookup Lists and rule configurations
●Troubleshooting and monitoring of queries in SnowFlake database(s)
Technologies: SnowFlake databases, SAS Fraud Management, Tableau, Jira
Arrow Alliances Industries, LLC., Data Analytics Manager
October 2021 to January 2022
Description
Coordinate communications for Logistics Data Services at the US Marine Corps
Accomplishments
●Coordinated updates to metadata modeling
●Transmitted minutes for Agile sprint meetings
●Scoped AWS RedShift requirements
Technologies: AWS Redshift and Oracle 12c databases, Jira
SAIC/Softworld, Inc., SAS Platform Coordinator - Washington, DC
April 2020 to September 2021
Description
Implement procedures for change management at the U.S. SEC – Securities Exchange Commission – specifically to manage SAS Platform and its servers for data science and analytics initiatives
Accomplishments
●Coordinated requests for updating servers in different environments working with admin and engineering teams to implement
●Coordinated requests related to data sources, especially as regards move from Oracle 11g to Oracle 12c on the database server
●Contributed to upgrades for platform and standing up other instances of tools for data science
●Coordinated Installation of packages for open-source applications in Python and Perl
●Scoped AWS EC2 and S3 requirements
Technologies: SAS Platform 9.4M5, Netezza, Oracle 12c, Perl 5, Python 3, Matlab
IQVIA, Quality Assurance Engineer (remote)
January 2020 to April 2020
Description
Test and verify dashboards for Human Data Sciences company, charged with providing information specific to different medical societies
Accomplishments
●Developed scripts to test dashboards created in Spotfire using IQVIA datasets
●Coordinated testing exercises to verify correct functioning of dashboard components in MicroStrategy
●Participated in Scrum meetings as part of Agile Programming process
Technologies: Microsoft Office365, Microsoft Teams, TIBCO Spotfire
Federal Working Group, SAS Programmer - Washington, DC
August 2017 to December 2019
Description
Serve government client(s) with Business Intelligence reports and dashboards in and through SAS 9 Intelligence Platform and Base SAS 9.4m3 at the US Coast Guard and US Census Bureau
Accomplishments
●Run and verify monthly and weekly SAS 9.4 reports on the APMS platform at US Coast Guard
●Train and foster usage of Information Delivery Portal serving Contracts and Procurement within the Acquisitions Directorate at US Coast Guard HQ;
●Performed data analysis, statistical analysis, generated reports, listings and graphs using SAS tools e.g., SAS Integration Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS/Graph, SAS/SQL, SAS/Connect and SAS/Access.
●Collaborated with SAS consultants and US Coast Guard IT support to continue providing data migration across the board;
●Participated in scoping activities for ETL processes at US Census Bureau, specifically for Administrative Records in the PEARSIS project using BASH shell scripting as well as Base SAS 9.4m3 for programming.
Technologies: SAS 9.4M3 Intelligence Platform, Office365, Bash Shell scripting