J Bowen

Analysis and reporting involving health care, wellness, eligibility and claims information on multiple platforms - primarily SAS, SQL Server and Oracle with heavy Office integration. Light administration on a server, some scripting. Learning SAS DS/2. Continuing education with Python, R, and full stack web development.

District 30 Toastmasters | Jul 2015 - Jun 2016

Logistics Manager

Volunteer position - part of a team that supports District 30 events such as conferences to make sure things get done right. Custodian of some district property, general purpose tech guy hooking things up and making them work at events.

Alere, Inc. | Aug 2009 - Jan 2015

Analyst

Analysis and reporting involving health care, wellness and claims information on multiple platforms - SAS, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server primarily. Light administration on a server. Picking up advanced Powershell scripting/ integration, other technologies as they are needed.

CVS Caremark Toastmasters Club | Jul 2012 - Jun 2013

Area Governor District 30

Professional development and leadership in a nonprofit organization. Promoting and maintaining the clubs in my area. Charter member of CVS Caremark club, since 2008, also member of other clubs. Working on presentation skills with particular emphasis on live demos, internet, explaining technical arcana. Achieved DTM.

CVS Caremark | Jan 2005 - Aug 2009

Research Analyst

AccordantCare support - periodic reporting, RFPs, disease prevalence analysis using PC and Unix SAS, Enterprise Guide, DB2, Oracle, and anything else that's handy. Much experience running/optimizing high volume queries against complex schemas in DB2 and Oracle. SAS BI involvement, developing stored procedures, information maps, evangelizing for SAS Addin for Microsoft Office. I spread knowledge and applications around, particularly with Unix and SAS.

Freddie Mac | May 2004 - Apr 2005

Contract analytic support

Mainframe SAS and DB2 support for FAS140 audit activities

Fannie Mae | Oct 2003 - Apr 2004

Contract analytic support

General purpose SAS and Oracle support on Unix

TEKsystems | Sep 1994 - Apr 2004

Contractor

Supporting clients as assigned on mainframes, AS400s, Unix platforms and Windows, doing SAS, Oracle, DB2, MS Office, VB, CL, COBOL, RPG and whatever was available.

BMG Music | Apr 2003 - Sep 2003

Contract analytic support

Process automation/data warehouse work with Unix, mainframes, SAS, DB2.

MasterCard | Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

Contract analytic support

Unix and PC SAS support for client custom data warehouse solutions, analysis of transactions. Developed innovative load balancing method to permit high volume multithreaded daily processing. Also Corworks/DOD. Some Oracle, Business Objects exposure

EDS, an HP company | Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

Contract software development/maintenance support

Coding, testing and some 24/7 support of a large vertical market telecom billing/rating/customer support application written primarily in COBOL and running on AS/400s. Much work on billing, rating, taxation aspects. Supported requests for regenerating bills. Designed and built automatic process to feed production data in designated format to Oracle data warehouse using only native AS/400 facilities. Also worked with external Unix systems and mainframes.

Sprint | Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

Contract Analytic Support

Mainly SAS on mainframes with some ADABAS pulling and reconstructing data for discovery in a lawsuit.

ComEd | Jan 1989 - Jan 1993

Contract engineering support

Outage support, engineering evaluations, scheduling, desktop support, outage management, mainframe SAS, other tasks as needed. Hired as engineer, morphed into IT.

Illinois Power | Jan 1985 - Jan 1989

System Engineer

Engineering in support of operations and startup of a one unit BWR6 for misc BOP systems - feedwater, air systems, di water, chlorination, etc.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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