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Experienced manager and hands on data and modeling expert. Over 15 years of experience managing statistical experts and working with data and statistical models for Retail, Insurance, Banking, Pharmaceutical, and Direct marketing companies. Expert programmer with SAS and experienced with Visual Basic, KSH, and have a working knowledge of several other languages. I personally have built or supervised the construction of models which are at work in many Fortune 500 companies. Have presented analytics solutions to "C" level executives or senior managers at over 20 companies. Founder and President of Equity Decision Systems, an independent consulting firm, which has been in operation since 1998 with notable clients such as Hallmark Corporation, Asurion Insurance, HSP Direct, and The Retail Equation.

Specialties

Handling large complex data sets, predictive modeling, text mining, targetted marketing, data mining, analytics, SAS programming, SAS automation, SAS reporting, measuring ROI of predictive models, presenting analyitcs solutions to executive level management, data management, survival analysis, mortgage modeling, risk modeling, data cleaning, data manipulation.

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