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Ramya Bhatt

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished Senior SAS Programmer at ICON with expertise in SAS/Base and SAS/Macros. Proven ability to generate high-quality statistical reports and datasets, ensuring data integrity and compliance with industry standards. Strong interpersonal skills enhance collaboration across teams, driving successful project outcomes in clinical research.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior SAS Programmer I

ICON
04.2018 - Current
  • Create summary tables, listings and graphs as per statistical analysis plan.
  • QC summary tables, listings and graphs as per statistical analysis plan.
  • Created and reviewed tables and listings mocks, ensuring internal consistency and comprehensive display of all CRF fields.
  • Review clinical data for outliers, invalid and illogical data points.
  • Interact with Clinical Data Management (CDM) to resolve data issues.
  • Must be able to use univariates, frequencies, Proc Transpose, and macros, including modifying existing macros and writing macros.
  • Follow all pertinent SOP's and guidelines concerning programming and the change control management of all files generated by the Biometrics Programming group.
  • Program routine data displays, such as data listings, according to the approved statistical analysis plan and shell displays for clinical research studies. Write code using Base SAS programs, SAS procedures, or standardized macros.
  • Write and compare independent QC programs to verify the output generated for data displays.
  • Coordinated QC project teams for large projects, training and delegating QC tasks to ensure quality standards.
  • Create and maintain standard QC documentation.
  • Send tables and listings to clinical writers and clients, which includes printing, collating, and filling out appropriate shipping paperwork.
  • Respond to non-statistical questions from Clinical Writing and from clients.
  • Assisted in establishing departmental processes and interactions with other departments, contributing to staff training and administrative efficiency.
  • Experience in various data management skills like Merging, Handling missing values, Reading raw datafiles, Creating data structures, Handling programming errors, Accessing and Managing data, Concatenating and Interleaving of sas datasets etc.
  • Well versed with using datastep, sas formats, informats and functions, data manipulations & report.
  • Data managing like subsetting, new variable creation, combining data for analysis, validating and cleaning.
  • Worked on Arrays and Functions for data cleaning and data manipulation.
  • Data access into sas from raw data using LIBNAME, PROC IMPORT and PROC SQL and transferring data from sas environment to external using PROC EXPORT.
  • Expertise with SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/SQL, and SAS/ODS(RTF, PDF) procedures.
  • Having knowledge on creating Macro variables, Macro programs and Autocall macro library to modify existing sas program for ease of modification while maintaining consistency of results.
  • Worked on various procedures like PROC PRINT, PROC REPORT, PROC FREQ, PROC MEANS, PROC TRANSPOSE, UNIVARIATE,PROC SORT and PROC SQL.
  • Generated various safety tables and their reports using PROC REPORT, PROC MEANS, PROC FREQ, PROC TRANSPOSE and MACRO STATEMENTS as per mock shells using analysis datasets.
  • Working knowledge on various domains like Demographic data [DM], Vital signs [VS], ECG test results [ECG], concomitant medication [CM] etc.
  • Good knowledge in Phase I –IV of clinical trials and clinical terminology.
  • Familiar with ICH, GCP, CDISC and FDA guidelines.
  • Ability to interact with different functional areas with Excellent Interpersonal, Written and Presentation skills.

Clinical SAS Programmer

IQVIA
09.2016 - 03.2018

¨ Created derived datasets and produced reports using SAS/BASE, SAS/MACRO, SAS/STAT and SAS/GRAPH.

Generated tables, listings, and reports per SAP standards using PROC FREQ, PROC TABULATE, PROC MEANS, PROC SUMMARY, and PROC FORMAT.

Conducted statistical analyses, including descriptive statistical summaries, analysis of variance, categorical analyses, logistic regression, and survival analyses using PROC MEANS, PROC SUMMARY, PROC UNIVARIATE, PROC FREQ, PROC ANOVA, PROC GLM, PROC LOGISTIC, and PROC LIFETEST.

¨ Conduct and generate the Regression, Correlation studies and Analysis of Variance using PROC REG, PROC CORR, PROC GLM, and PROC ANOVA.

¨ Import datasets from different sources like a spreadsheet of Excel, flat file, Access, and data file with delimiters etc.

Organized datasets for statistical analysis by merging, combining, splitting, coding, and performing edit-checks to ensure quality.

¨ Create chart, graph and plot using PROC GCHART and PROC GPLOT.

¨ Created SAS customized reports using DATA _NULL_.

¨ Customize SAS outputs to RTF, PDF and HTML formatted files through Output Delivery System (ODS) facility

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

Vishweshwaraiah Technological University
Bangalore

Bachelor of Science -

Mangalore University
Kundapur

Skills

  • SAS/Base
  • SAS/SQL
  • SAS/STAT
  • SAS/Macros
  • SAS/GRAPH
  • SAS/ODS
  • SAS/ACCESS
  • Data visualization
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • MS Word
  • Windows

Professional Summary

Senior SAS Programmer I, ICON, 04/01/18, Clinical SAS Programmer, IQVIA, 09/01/16, 03/31/18

Languages

  • Hindi
  • Kannada
  • English

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Develop SAS Programs for ADaM, P21 Database and client-defined analysis datasets, Patient Profiles, Tables, Listings and Graphs in support of the Statistical Analysis Plan.
  • Provide technical planning to include overseeing the set-up of key macros and SAS programs.
  • Support Statistical programming activities in Real World Evidence.
  • Provide input on study design and analysis plans where necessary.
  • Review the study concept, protocol design, analysis plans, and other study-related documents.
  • Ensure that statistical outputs are produced in an efficient manner.
  • Produce analysis datasets, listings, tables, and figures for research projects.
  • Create Analysis Datasets by analyzing SAP, eCRF and Protocols.
  • Ensure that study documentation and specifications are consistent and comply with company standards.
  • Responsible for the accuracy and reliability of results.
  • Develop project timelines and ensure timely delivery.
  • Work on complex problems where analysis of situation or data requires an evaluation of intangible variable.

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Raghavendra Bhat M
  • Date of Birth: 10/28/92
  • Gender: FEMALE
  • Marital Status: MARRIED

Timeline

Senior SAS Programmer I

ICON
04.2018 - Current

Clinical SAS Programmer

IQVIA
09.2016 - 03.2018

Master of Computer Applications -

Vishweshwaraiah Technological University

Bachelor of Science -

Mangalore University
Ramya Bhatt