SAS Programmer Cover Letter

I am excited to be applying for the position of SAS programmer. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for data listings and graphs using SAS to support safety monitoring for clinical trials.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Expertise in programming languages such as SAS, C#, SQL
• Deliver integration specific mappings, programs, views, and data deliverables to support integrated summaries of safety/efficacy, publications, LCM
• Ensure compliance with compound level metadata definition
• Ensuring that studies have been correctly anonymised and complexities of studies parent/child linkage has been correctly implemented in the anonymisation
• Coordinates and leads project tasks is preferred
• Professional SAS Certification(s) preferred
• General CMS experience
• Experience in education analysis or survey research either through coursework or professional experience

I am excited to be applying for the position of SAS programmer. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

Previously, I was responsible for sAS programming support to internal customers including statistical analysts, quality assurance specialists, and web developers.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Experience programming within a pharmaceutical/medical device industry strongly preferred
• Unix scripting experience (scripts, vi )
• Superior communication skills (oral and documentation)
• Proficiency in performing data analysis
• Relevant experience in health care fraud detection, investigation or prosecution
• Participating in project team meetings to ensure timelines are met with high quality
• Performing quality control of SDTMs to ensure submission requirements are met
• Create and be able to perform quality control of ADaMs to ensure submission requirements are met

I would like to submit my application for the SAS programmer opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

In the previous role, I was responsible for technical leadership in SAS programs and applications to report clinical trial data and for submissions of data in CDISC format.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience transforming and analyzing administrative healthcare data (e.g., Medicare/Medicaid, other claims-based or electronic medical records databases) is preferred
• Experience with medical coding systems, basic medical terminology, and epidemiologic and biostatistics principles and methods is preferred
• Proficiency with software packages, including Microsoft Office suite
• Experience working with administrative healthcare data
• Develop some macros to standardize data processing to generate tables
• Equivalent experience in the biopharmaceutical industry is preferred
• Review and prepare SDTM specifications and define.xml files
• Generate and validate tables, listings, and figures per protocol and statistical analysis plan and for ad-hoc requests

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the SAS programmer position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for statistical programming support to clinical trials for regulatory submission.

I reviewed the requirements of the job opening and I believe my candidacy is an excellent fit for this position. Some of the key requirements that I have extensive experience with include:

• Generate and validate SAS datasets using Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards
• Perform programming crosschecks of other programmer's work, including tables, listings, figures, and datasets
• Participating in the development of statistical analysis plan table, listing, and figure shells
• Perform program documentation on all programs, files and variables for future reference
• Extensive hands-on experience in CDSIC standards and datasets (SDTM, ADaM)
• Experience in FDA/EMEA trial submissions
• Drug Development (pre-, early, late and/or observational) in related industries or academic research
• Strong SAS programming expertise

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the SAS programmer position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for leadership, training, guidance, and support to other department members on data review tools such as SAS and JMP Clinical.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Experience coordinating and leading project tasks is preferred
• Experience with Medicaid and/or Medicare claims preferred
• Programming experience with analysis in the healthcare industry preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Office, SAS, SQL
• Experience with latest data trends and software versions including SAS 9.4
• Strong experience with data extraction, processing, cleaning, analytics, and visualization
• Working effectively with external vendors for task like secure data transmission, data validation
• Strong proficiency in SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Office Analytics or Base SAS (writing and troubleshooting queries, extracting and transforming data, ) and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, macros)