SAMUDRALA Phone: 732-698-8284 Email:samudrala.stat@gmail.

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SUMMARY:

Certified SAS Programmer and Statistical Analyst with 8 + years of experience Market/Risk Analysis, Financial Analysis, Health Care Data Analysis and Economic Research. Through understanding of Statistical concepts with Bachelors Degree in Statistics. Proven skills in Data Mining Techniques, Statistical (Regression), Mathematical and Econometric Models using SAS, STATA, SHAZAM, R and GAMS. Experience with Financial Models, Forecasting, Projections, and Decision Support Experience in Base SAS, SAS/Macros, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/Access, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ETS and SAS/ODS. Strong understanding in various Economic/Econometric and statistical concepts such as ANOVA, Pearson chi-square test, T-Test, Correlation, Regression Analysis and Multivariate Analysis Strong expertise in SAS Base procedures, reporting and summary procedures. Experience with PROC SQL, SAS DDE and SAS Arrays. Extensively worked on SAS views and SAS Indexes to reduce I/O bottlenecks and processing time for large volumes of data. Expertise in Time series and forecasting techniques using SAS/ETS and Enterprise Miner. Extensively used Enterprise Miner for Data mining, predictive modeling and statistical analysis for marketing campaigns. Knowledge in data warehousing and business intelligence concepts, design principles Experience in RDBMS development including SQL, PL/SQL, languages. Good understanding of Health care terminology such as Medicare, Medicaid, HIPPA, CPT, DRG and HCPAC. Expertise in Health Care Analytics and Fraud Modeling. Proficient in using Import and Export procedures to handle data in raw data files ORACLE and DB2, database management systems. Quick learner with ability to understand job requirements, employ new ideas, concepts, methods, and technologies Strong analytical, diagnostic skills and ability to work in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment. TECHNICAL SKILLS: Statistical Software :SAS V9.1.3, Base SAS, SAS/SQL, SAS/MACROS, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS, SAS/ETS, SAS/IML, SAS Enterprise Guide, SPSS, R Programming Languages :SQL, MATLAB Databases :Oracle, MySQL, MS-Access. Operating Systems :Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista, UNIX Internet Technologies :J2EE, JSP, Servlets, HTML/DHTML, EDUCATION: P.G Diploma in Statistical Quality Control & ISO 9000 from AIIMS, Chennai, India Bachelor in Statistics and Mathematics from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India CERTIFICATION: SAS Certification for Base Programming by SAS Institute

DirecTV, CA SAS Programmer/Analyst

Jan11 - Current

DIRECTV is leading provider of satellite-based television services to U.S. and Latin America. Their operations include satellite television services, phone and internet services to millions of households. DirecTV Latin American analytics division provides analytics support analytics needs for seven Latin American countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela. Responsibilities: Extracted data from Text files, CSV files, Excel files and SPSS files and created SAS data sets Contributed for the development of data mart by developing scripts to extract information from source systems Used SAS Enterprise Miner to conduct data mining and build predictive models for customer churn prediction Generated Logistic regression, Neural Network and Decision tree models using SAS Enterprise Miner Used SAS/Access facility to connect to oracle data mart and used SAS SQL procedures to create data for model development and score generation Developed and automated scripts to check data stability (Population Stability Index) and model validations Supported Developed SAS programs to create mail lists for satisfaction survey and churn survey Provided decision support for new product launch, X-Cell, Up-Cell opportunities, impact of dunning policy, and impact on new channel purchase agreements. Performed data analysis, created reports with extensive use of BASE SAS, macro and SAS reports with the help of sas procedures. Maintained and enhanced existing SAS reporting programs for marketing campaigns. Extensively used SAS Enterprise Guide for Ad hoc reporting. Conducted individual account and household level analysis and conducted significance tests and study response rates for different offers. Analyzed response and sale results and write up monthly summary on campaign performance. Created reports using PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, ODS statements and PROC TEMPLATE to generate output formats in HTML. Acted as liaison between regional analytics teams and programmers located in USA. Reviewed various documents and source systems schema to improve business understanding and data understanding and become subject matter expert in the area of customer churn Environment: SAS/ACCESS, SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, GeoDa, SAS/Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, Teradata, Oracle, MS OFFICE Thomson Reuters Healthcare, MI SAS Programmer/ Statistical Analyst Feb 09 Dec10

The Thomson Reuters Health care is the leading provider of decision support solutions to organizations across health care industry to improve their clinical and business performance. The current project Medicaid Integrity Contractor (MIC) TO1 is part of CMS Medicaid Integrity Program (MIP) Plan. The objective of the project is to conduct data mining and risk assessment of Medicaid data to identify improper payments. Responsibilities Reviewed existing literature on Medicare, Medicaid and models dealing with Medicaid fraud

 Attended various seminar presentations on Medicaid fraud such as finding duplicate claims, service after death, multiple service providers etc. Converted several fraud algorithms in Dataprobe scripts to SAS programming Modified existing SAS programs for facilitating migration from Mainframes to Oracle data engine. Used SAS/ASSIST to extract data from SAS Files and Oracle Data base. Involved in writing code using Base SAS & SAS/Macros to clean and validate data from oracle tables. Conducted data investigation Involved in Data mining using Enterprise Miner for various health care datasets such as Eligibility, Inpatient, Outpatient, Long Term Care and Pharmacy (Rx). Involved in developing various fraud algorithms and validated existing algorithms against specification Generated formats using PROC FORMAT for frequently used variables such as CPT (Current procedural terminology), HCPC, DRG (Diagnosis related group), Program type, type of claim, type of service, diagnosis code, Adjustment Indicator etc. Used SAS import procedure to generate temporary and permanent SAS data sets from txt, csv and excel data sets. Created various Graphs using SAS/GRAPH, SAS/GPLOT and SAS/INSIGHT. Validating data and creating reports using different procedures like PROC FREQ, PROC MEANS, PROC TRANSPOSE, PROC DATASETS, PROC SORT, PROC COMPARE, PROC SQL, PROC REPORT etc. and SAS ODS facility. Extensively used statistical procedures and predictive modeling techniques such as ANOVA, Regression Analysis, Trend Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Principle Component Analysis Conducted QA for macros generated by other programmers using Macro options MLOGIC, SYMBOLGEN, MPRINT, MACROGEN etc. Performed documentation of the SAS Code for the better understanding of the program Environment: Base SAS, SAS Macros, SAS/Access, SAS/ASSIST, SAS/STAT, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/IML, Enterprise Miner, ORACLE, SAS V9.1.3, SAS V9.2, Main Frames, Excel, Windows XP, UNIX. Reliant Energy, TX SAS/ Statistical Analyst Oct 07 Jan 09

Reliant Energy, Inc. (NYSE: RRI) based in Houston, Texas, provides electricity and energy-related products to approximately 1.8 million retail and wholesale customers in Texas and in the Mid-Atlantic Region. The purpose of the project is to design and develop different processes for publishing daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on gas, power, NGE positions and PnL. The source of data includes Zainet and Off-System files and flat files. And automation of Excel/manual processes to SAS and VBA. Responsibilities Involved in designing processes in SAS and VBA for new business units. Analyzed and build Risk-Metrics using SAS/IML and SAS/ETS and Base SAS. Implemented Monte-Carlo simulation techniques for Risk-Metrics using SAS/IML. Integration / synchronization of daily P&L reports with financial forecasts. Reviewed existing reporting outputs to validate current deliverables prior to publication. Ensured the accuracy and timeliness of daily PnL and position reports using SAS reporting procedures and VBA tools. Automation of Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading the results to final datasets using Oracle, SAS and SQL. Streamlined the data mining process from data extraction to model deployment for using Enterprise Miner and SAS/ETL. Work with Enterprise Miner for marketing campaigns doing statistical analysis. Generated Reports, Summary tables, Charts and Graphs for different users using SAS/ASSIST. Used advanced techniques to reduce the execution of processes times in SAS and MP-Connect,

SAS/Access. Conducted data validation using SAS Enterprise Guide Summarized the results and data with PROCs FREQ and MEANS. Performed Statistical Analysis with statistical procedures and univariate procedures from Base SAS, SAS/STAT and SAS/IML. Created Reports with PROC REPORT and ODS. Scheduling day-to-day and weekly processes of reports using Windows Scheduler. Developed Unix Korn shell scripts to automate recurring processes and routine administration tasks.

Worked with both windows and UNIX environments. Communicating the day-to-day results to senior managers. Environment: Base SAS, SAS Macros, SAS/Access, SAS/Assist, SAS/STAT, SAS DDE, SAS ODS, VBA for Excel, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/IML, ORACLE, SAS V9.1.3, SAS Indexes, SAS Views, SAS MP-Connect, SAS Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner, Excel, Windows XP, UNIX. GE Money Global Decision Sciences, Bangalore Senior Analyst Aug05 - Aug07

As a Sr. Analyst supported Germany Business and worked on Cash Loan response models and campaign optimization. Worked on Acquisition models, X-Sell and Up-Sell marketing models, segmentation and targeting.

Campaign optimization, analysis and tracking the campaign success, Generating Regular, Ad-Hoc
Reports of CRM, MIS and Segmentation reports using SAS Tools and Oracle.

Building Statistical Models such as Regression Models, Logistic Regression models, score them and track Automation of MIS Reporting systems by using advanced SAS tools like DDE. Developing Acquisition Models based on demographics data, sales data and internal and external data
sources. Handing large complex data with different formats to get desired output. processes.

the performance of the model using SAS Tools. This is increased the Auto Loans response rate by 5% for Germany business.

Providing and reporting the performance of existing processes which are Excel and converting into SAS Doing Statistical Analysis with statistical procedures and univariate procedures from Base SAS,
SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH. Assist clients and partner integrators in data mining very large databases. Environments: SAS 9 Base, Macros, STAT, ACCESS, Knowledge Seeker 5.3 Model Builder Cranes Software (SYSTAT), Bangalore Statistical Analyst May02-Jul05

Find Analytical solutions through SYSTAT software and compare the results with other statistical
softwares to check the compatibility. statistics concepts.

Develop Algorithms or statistical Modules/techniques and co-ordinate with coding team to translate the Highly worked with graphs modules of SYSTAT to generate for Normal probability plots and
Multivariate chats like Chernoff faces etc.

Compare the technique results with other prominent statistical softwares like SAS, SPSS, S-Plus.

 Efficiently worked with integrating the other prominent software STATXACT. All Exact tests which are
very much useful for small data set techniques are integrated up to SYSTAT trend. trail versions of development has received appreciations several times. Environments: SAS 8 , SYSTAT, StatXact, SigmaPlot, SPSS,S-Plus.

Test the developed code to test the accurate results even at digits level and found several bugs at several

Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad Statistical Trainee

Aug '01Mar 02

Indian Statistical Institute is a world reputed research center for Statistics and Mathematical Sciences. Working on existing / new research projects with renewed professors. As a statistical trainee helped faculty members in their research and software development effort. Worked closely with Dr.P.Bhimashankaram, to conduct data analysis . Participated in scientific workshop Ninth international workshop on Matrices and Statistics Regular Responsibilities included collection, storage and cleaning of relevant statistical data (to be used for research).