- The document provides details about the professional experience of Bhaskar Kota including over 8 years of experience in healthcare, financial, and pharmaceutical industries using SAS. - Kota has extensive experience developing SAS programs for data extraction, transformation, loading, analysis and reporting. Primary projects have included predictive modeling for financial and healthcare clients. - Technical skills include SAS Base, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/MACRO, and experience working with databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and Teradata.

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Bhaskar Kota
Number:480-524-2357
Email: bhaskarkota.sas@gmail.com
SUMMARY
 Certified Base & Advanced SAS Professional with 8 years of working experience
in HealthCare, financial, insurance and Pharmaceutical industries.
 Have extensiveexperienceinSASprogrammingondifferentplatforms - Windowsand
UNIX,alsohavingworkedinupdating,dataextraction,transformationandloadingto
data warehouse,dataanalysis,updating,testinganddatavalidation.
 Ability to turn business requirements into Technical Design specifications and
documents, SAS Programs, and SQL Queries related to quantitative, statistical
and financial models. Capable of working with cross-functional teams to manage
projects, determine prioritization, and create appropriate timelines.
 Experience inDataanalysisandReportinginhealthcare,finance andmarketingsectors.
SASexperience includesdetailedknowledgeof statistical analysisof financial andhealth
care data and inthe productionof reportsand tables.
 Primarilyworkedon Predictive modellinginfinancial andMedicare andMedicaidin
HealthCare
 Experience in SAS/BASE,SAS/EG,SAS/MACRO,and SAS/ODS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT,
SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ACCESS,and SAS/CONNECTin UNIXand Windowsenvironments.
 DevelopednewormodifiedexistingSASprogramstoloaddata fromthe source and
create specificdatasets.
 Experience inutilizingSASProcedures,Macros,andotherSASapplicationsfor data
extraction,data cleansing,data loadingand reporting.
 Performed data analysis on the datasets using PROC PRINT, PROC SORT, PROC
TRANSPOSE, PROC MEANS, PROC SUMMARY, PROC TABULATE , PROC UNIVARIATE
AND PROC FREQ.
 Experience inperformingadhoc queriesforvariousapplicationandreportsona
daily/weeklyormonthlybasis.
 PerformedDatamanagementlikeMerging,concatenating, interleavingof SASdatasets
usingMERGE,UNION andSET statementsinDATA stepand PROCSQL.
 Experience inusingSAStoread,write,importandexporttoanotherdatafile formats
includingdelimitedfiles,spreadsheet,Microsoftexcelandaccesstables.
 Worked closely with Business users in gathering the requirements for project
documentation and generated reports. Involved in all stages of SDLC (Software
Development Life Cycle).
 Abilitytoworkinself-directed environment and very good team player with excellent
analytical and problem solving skills
 WorkedextensivelywithSASonUNIX,WindowsandMainframes,SASEnterprise Guide,
PC-SAS.

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 Professional Experience with Import Various External Data Files into SAS Dataset,
workingwithlarge datasetsandbusinessapplicationsbyUsingSAS/ACCESS,SAS/INFILE,
SAS/IMPORT, SAS/SQL.
 Extensively worked on various RDBMS like Oracle and SQL Server
 Extensive Experience in arranging and participating in meetings with Business Users,
Managers and suggesting recommendations for improving system performance.
 WorkedinProductionsupport,Development,Technical projectrequests,Enhancement,
implementation support, post-production batch monitoring and Client issues for all
supported applications.
 Develop project plan, work-breakdown-structure, metrics, tasks lists, action items,
Identify critical paths. Understand and define priorities and milestones.
 Proven skills in efficient processing of millions of records of data, optimizing SAS
programs for better performance. ETL process design, Analyzing, Reporting and
migratingData frommultiple platforms/databases using SAS,NDMand SFTP. Statistical
distributions and calculations.
 Thorough Knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office tools like MS Access, MS
SharePoint, MS word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel.
 Excellent working experience in tools such as INFOMAN, Maestro, Autosys, Resolve IT
and ServiseNow.
 Involvedindifferentserversetupsfornew projectsandaccessingdestinationserverson
various operating systems such as Unix, Windows and Mainframes.
 Have knowledge on HADOOP-HDFS, PIG, SQOOP, HIVE,HBASE and MapReduce.
TECHNICAL PROFILE:
Operating Systems Windows 2007, MS-DOS, UNIX
SAS Tools
Base SAS, SAS/SQL, SAS/STAT, SAS/MACRO, SAS/GRAPH,
SAS/ODS, SAS/ACCESS, SAS/Connect, SAS/Enterprise Guide.
Programming Languages SQL,PL-SQL C, JAVA,SQOOP,HIVE,MAPREDUCE,PIG
Database
Teradata, DB2, Oracle, MS Access, SQL server, HADOOP and
Sybase.
Application Software MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access).
Scheduling tools Maestro, Autosys
Special Software
Infoman, Resove IT, Autosys(Work Load Center) and ServiseNow
Domains Banking, Insurance, Health Care and Pharmaceutical

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Professional Memberships / Certifications
Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified
IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 Universal
Database (DB2 UDB) V8.1 Family - Test 700
02/01/2008
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform,
Standard Edition 5.0 - 310-055
03/01/2008
Exam 1Z0-007: Introduction to Oracle9i : SQL 03/13/2009
Certificate in Banking & Finance V2 11/16/2009
SAS Base Programming for SAS9(211) 09/29/2010
SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9(212) 08/17/2012
AREAS/APLICATIONS
 Healthcare
 Real-estate(REL)/Mortgage
 Citi Financial North America(CFNA)
 Banking Domain :BOA credit cards and Citi Bank North America (CBNA)/UCCB.
 Retail business.
 Insurance
CAREER PROFILE
1) Since Aug 2014 – till date – CARESOURCE
Client Caresource
Project Name Marketplace
Duration From Feb 2011 – till date
Line of business of
the client
Healthcare
About the project CareSource wasfoundedonthe principlesof qualityandservice deliveredwith
compassionanda thoroughunderstanding of consumers.Asanon-profit
organizationits mission-driventoprovide qualitycare to the members.
CareSource HealthPlansInc.providesmanagedcare servicesexclusivelyfor
governmentsponsoredhealthcare programs,focusingonMedicare and
Medicaid.
The projectworksin differentLine of Busenesssuchas Medicare,Medicaidand
HealthInsurance exchange programs(HIX).
 Caresource Medicaid, including families with low incomes, children,
pregnant women, and people who are aged, blind or have disabilities.
Ohio Medicaid also includes Healthy Start and Healthy Families.
 Caresource Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan (SNP), who are
full dualeligible with Medicaid and Medicare benefits.
 The primary objective for the Marketplace request project is to develop
new sas jobs to support the extended business in Kentucky, Indiana and
enhance the existing projects of Ohio.
 The automated projects are developed in base SAS and scheduled in a
TIDAL scheduler and all the Adhoc and on demand jobs are developed
using SAS Enterprise Guide.
 Need to develop reports to help business for taking better decisions to

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improve the business.
 Three environments involved in Software development life cycle –
Development, Certification and Production region.
 All automated projects are developed in Base SAS and Manual and
adhoc projects are developed in SAS EG.
Role Sr.SAS Developer
Activities  The main responsibilities in this position are to enable process and
trendanalysisandprovide recommendationsfor the implementationof
new/revisedoperational and/orreporting processes in Ohio, Kentucky
and Indiana.
 Involved in requirements gathering, Estimation of Efforts,Coding Unit
testing, RFC Creation, Cert Implementation and Production move.
 Classification of reports based on Carsource Advantage Model of Care
which involves Enrolment, member, claims, finance, marketing,
pharmacy, provider, service operations, authorization regulatory and
utilities.
 Preparation of batch jobs, parameter files, log files, SAS jobs such as
control, preparation, formatting, PULL, ETL and Report generation.
 Developednew ormodifiedSASprogramsandused SQLPass through
facility andLibname methodstoextractdatafromthe Teradataand
SQL ServerDBs andcreatedstudyspecificSASdatasets,whichare used
as source datasetsfor reportgeneratingprograms.
 Made recommendationsonnew automationopportunitiesandwaysto
enhance existingautomationtools.
 Created complex and reusable Macros and extensively used existing
macros and developed SAS Programs for Data Cleaning, Validation,
Analysis and Report generation..
 Generatedcustomizedreportsusing SAS/MACROfacility,PROC
REPORT, PROC TABULATE andPROC SQL.
 ConvertedexistingSAScode intohighquality SAScode thatisefficient
(fast),automated,maintainable,andfollowsindustrybestpractices.
 Created SAS Datasets with the usage of SAS MACRO, Macro Variables,
CALL SYMPUT.
 Developedad-hocreportsusingSQLPassthrough, libname Statements
and PROC SQL to interact with different RDBMS like Teradata and SQL
server.
 Analyzed data using PROC FREQ, PROC MEANS, PROC Transpose and
proc univariate to effectively and efficiently coordinate quality
activities and improve performance metrics of organizational goals.
 Extensively used ODS HTML, ODS PDF, ODS RTF to prepare, compile,
review andsubmitmonthlyandquarterlyreportsforqualitycommittee
meetings.
 Used SVN tool to commit the new codes for prod implementation.
 Creationof RFC’s with Implementation document with tagging of new
and backout code, test case document and attending cab review
meetings to explain the impact of new implementation.
 Preparation of detailed design and code change document for future
reference.
Technical Platform Operating system: Windows 7

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Languages/Tools: SAS/Base 9.3, SAS/EG 5.1,
Database: Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata
Tools: Tidal scheduler, SVN, Windows batch
Location CARESOURCE, DAYTON OH
2) Since June 2010 – July 2014 – CITI GROUP
Client CITI Group
Project Name Non-Cards Solutions Bridging Group
Duration From Feb 2011 – till date
Line of business of
the client
REL,CFNA,CBNA and CARDS
About the project  The primary objective for the Non-Cards SB group is to provide rapid
technology Solutions when a traditional IT solution is either not required
or cannot be achieved within the timeframe mandated by business
needs. Our team supports all lines of business, including Cards (Private
Label / FDR only), CFNA/One Main, UCCB and REL. The technology
framework we operate within consists of primarily SAS and SQL code
executed in a Unix environment, though we do have a small mainframe
application that is still supported by our group.
 Project requests are received via a CCR project request. Once captured
in that system the requests are routed to the CCLM repository where
they are tracked during the project life cycle. Project status is updated
routinely on that site where upper management in the Collections COE
can view them. Simultaneously projects will have corresponding
Planview requests and support tickets opened for tracking hours spent
and for managing all required project artifacts during its lifecycle.
 Our products are delivered to our customer base using several methods,
including NDM and SFT data transfers, SharePoint repositories loaded
via SMTP transfers (email) and externally to vendors using CitiSFT via
SFTP. The vendors we interface with today include Soundbite, ORCC,
Venture, Convergys and Sapient.
 The team includes 3 in Offshore and 5 at onsite.
 The technologies used for the Project are SAS, Oracle, SQL Server,
Unix ,NDM scripting and Secure File Transfer (SFT)
Role Project Leader
Activities  Involved in requirements gathering & Estimation of Efforts.
 Design Preparation.
 Interact with assigned business analysts and project managers to
perform work outlined
 Assigning the projects to the team based on capacity.
 Follow-up with the team and making sure the work done on time.
 Successfully completed more than 20 development projects.
 Developed SAS code and SQL’s for Data Extraction and Loading into
flat files.
 Reviewing Unit Test cases to make sure testing is done properly.
 Conducting Final Inspection & Audit.
 Working with large datasets and business applications
 Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the
progress of tasks.
 Sharing of Knowledge with the team members.
 Tracking and updating the project status by using the CCLM repository.
Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX

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Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro,
Autosys and Resolve IT.
Database: Oracle, SQL Server
Location CITIGROUP,IRVING,TX,U.S.A
Client CITI Group
Project Name Leveraged Solutions Bridging Production Support
Duration From Oct 2010 – Feb 2011
Line of business of
the client
REL,CFNA,CBNA and CARDS
About the project  The prime objective of Solutions Bridging production support team is to
offer quick solutions unlike any normal development team. The team
includes 4 in Offshore and 1 at onsite.
 The primary function of the Leveraged Solutions Bridging Production
Support team is to identify any production issues and work those issues
through to resolution. The issues should be resolved within a 24 hour
period for processes running daily. Those processes running less
frequently would generally need to be dealt with in 24 to 48 hours
depending on the job in question.
 Notifications are received when jobs fail for any reason but can also be
triggered by non-fatal issues that should be investigated. LSB has two
means of receiving notifications for job failures/alerts. The first
notification is usually via an automated email. The second means of
notification is via the command center. Often both notifications are
delivered but not always.
 UNIX script errors are generally trapped by Maestro. Maestro has a web
tool that can be used to view any error messages trapped from an
abended process.
Role Team Lead
Activities  Involved in presenting induction to the new joiners in the project
 Worked as primary point of contact for all the Production support jobs
 Resolved all the abends on time and achieved the customer confidence
 Developed SAS code and SQL’s for Data Extraction and Loading into
flat files.
 Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the
progress of tasks.
 Automating the Job failures/alerts notification process by using the UNIX
Scripting.
 Resolved the abends as soon as received a call from command center.
Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX
Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro,
Autosys and Resolve IT.
Database: Oracle, SQL Server
Location CITIGROUP,IRVING,TX,U.S.A
Client CITI Group
Project Name CITI Cards – Collections
Duration From July 2010 – OCT 2010
Line of business of
the client
CITI CARDS
About the project In CITI Cards Collections, DRI - Diversified Resolutions Incorporated is a default
application when a loan becomes default for a user the account gets in to the
collection/ default processing system. It is a system where the loan account gets

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the default processing service done. The project recreates the existing default
system of CITI and merges it in to a single GUI application and integrates all the
modules on a single sign on system.
Role Team Member
Activities  Requirement Analysis
 Create and review the design documents (both HLD and LLD)
 Development and Coding
 Test script Preparation
 Unit and System Testing
 Reviewing and Delivering
 Bug Fixing
 Conducting Final Inspection & Audit
 Sharing of Knowledge with the team members
 Regular Status meetings with the clients and TCS Managers on the
progress of tasks.
 Published the knowledge based documents into Knowmax.
 Published code snippets in Mighty for automation which avoids re-work.
 Prepared implementation Documents for Production implementation by
Maestro Team.
Technical Platform Operating system: Windows Server 2000/ UNIX
Languages/Tools: SAS, UNIX, NDM, SFTP, SSH Tectia, Infoman, Maestro,
Autosys and Resolve IT.
Database: Oracle, SQL Server
Location TCS, Chennai, India
3) Since July 2009 to June 2010
Client Name Bank of America
Title Information Management Non Basel - Information Analytics Foundation
Collections (IAF - COLLECTIONS)
Period Since July 2009 to June 2010
Position Team Member
Line of business Credit Cards, Banking
About the project  The goal of the initiative is to produce a number of data extracts
from the BACARDI database which will be fed to the IAF -
COLLECTIONS platform by way of the JMS subsystem. The
programming language used to produce these extracts will be
SAS.
 In addition to the daily scheduled extracts and transfers, a one-
time full extract for each feed will need to be produced in order to
initialize the IAF - COLLECTIONS platform. The SAS extract
programs should be written such that they can produce either this
full extract, or the normal nightly “delta” feed based on a passed
parameter
Responsibilities  Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications
to understand the application.
 Involved in presenting induction to the new joiners in the project
 Developed SAS code and SQL’s
 Automation of run book preparation for support related activities
after implementation.
 Prepared implementation Documents.
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based on requirement and design document
 Interacting with onsite coordinators and clients.
 IQA & EQA activities in the project and preparing defects log
 Customizing the existed components to work for the newly created
 Creation of New Jobs & Schedules for Info quest.
 Code fixing, testing, tracking all the documentation and code
through IPMS tool mapping and following the standards defined in
TCS-IQMS.
 Monitoring and fixing production jobs during batch run.
 Capturing of requirements for enhancement projects, coding,
 Unit testing and System testing of the modules.
Languages SAS, UNIX, SQL & SQL SERVER.
Special Software IRIS, SCCS.
Tools
IPMS, IQMS, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, INFOMAN, ELIPS,
TSO SAR, REVINE, ASA, TCA, ASSENT
Work Location
Hyderabad (India)
4) Since April 2008 to June 2009
Client Name AC Nielsen, USA.
Title Metered Sample Hub (MSH)
Period Since April 2008 to June 2009
Position Team Member
Line of Business Retail
About the Project The Metered Sample Hub (MSH) is the corporate HUB for the Metered
Sample data that is collected through the MSM application. The Metered
Sample Hub archives household and persons characteristics for metered
samples. MSH replicates data from MSM and A/P Collection Facility
systems to its stage database throughout the day. It also serves as a
history database for the A/P Collection Facility. The MSH close process,
every day, transfers the replicated data to the elemental database in MSH
HUB. MSH transforms some of the data to the legacy Descriptor Control
Database (DCDB) format for Active Passive and Mark II metering
technologies. The transformed data is stored in MSH Summary and
loaded to the DCDB. The Elemental data is used to serve MSH clients
such as MVD, IVA, Tracking, ELDB, FMDS, NDDS, National (NPower),
HHR, A/P Crediting. This project comprises of maintenance and
production support activity.
Responsibilities  Understanding and Capturing of requirements.
 Involved in the preparation of high level/low level design
documents.
 Involved in the Analysis, Development and testing phases of the
project.
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raised.
 Involved in the Unit testing and User Acceptance Testing.
 Involved in the Resolution of technical issues while testing.
 Production Support (Dedicated).
 Worked on Control-M tool for keeping the system healthy and to
make the jobs of various environments to run as per the schedule.
 Creating our own region for testing modelling the UAT regions.
 Adherence to IQMS (Integrated Quality Management System) by
 Following quality procedures like IQA (Internal Quality
Assurance).
 EQA (External Quality Assurance) and FI (Final
Inspection) for all the deliverables.
 Adherence to IPMS by entering efforts and logging defects.
 Adherence to SPEED by achieving goals periodically.
Languages SAS,UNIX,SQL-PL/SQL
Database SYBASE
Special
Software/Tools
PVCS (for source code control), WSFTP, Control-M, Remedy, Remote
desktop
Project Location Chennai (India)
5) Since June 2007 to March 2008
Client Name Prudential & Financial, USA.
Title Output Systems
Period November 2007 – March 2008
Client Name Prudential & Financial, USA.
Position Developer
Line of Business Insurance
About the Project Prudential Output Systems is the doorway through which prudential
communicates to its customers. DAP-(Document Automation Platform) is
used to produce the policy package and customer communication letter.
The System interfaces with the policy administration system AOS.
Documents are composed from images using the DAP Tool. The tool will
produce print files in either metacode or Print Control Language (PCL).
The former is used in production environment and the later in development
environment.
Responsibilities  Analyzing the Business Requirements to understand the
application.
 Prepared implementation Documents.
 IQA & EQA activities in the project and preparing defects log
 Code fixing, testing, tracking all the documentation and code
through IPMS tool mapping and following the standards defined in
TCS-IQMS.
 Capturing of requirements for enhancement projects, coding,
 Unit testing and System testing of the modules.

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Languages SAS,UNIX,SQL SEVER,Mainframes Cobol.
Special
Software/Tools
DAP Tool.
Project Location Chennai (India)
Awards/Appreciations
Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified
CITI Galaxy of thanks 02/20/2014
TCS On the spot award 12/11/2009
Bank of America Chess Championship 08/13/2010
TCS On the spot award 07/18/2012
TCS Best Team award 08/07/2013