SAS Customer Recognition
The SAS Circle of Excellence highlights the stories behind users who have reached some very impressive milestones – 10 years, 20 years and 30 years of using our software. What's the most innovative way you've used SAS® to solve a problem? What’s your most memorable SAS moment? Find out in the featured profiles below.
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Michele Burlew is the author of the book SAS Macro Programming Made Easy. She has used SAS for 32 years and loves writing books and SAS programs. To be able to combine the two was a wonderful opportunity. Burlew's seventh SAS book, SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy, was published in September 2012. |
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Art Carpenter learned SAS using the blue SAS 76 manual. In his 35 years of using SAS, this consultant's list of publications includes five books on SAS programming and numerous papers presented at SAS Global Forum and other users group conferences. |
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Frank DiIorio, a self-proclaimed SAS zealot since 1975, is President of CodeCrafters Inc., a consulting firm specializing in pharmaceutical applications and SAS training. |
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Marje Fecht, has been using SAS since 1979 and specializes in building and teaching efficient, adaptable and reusable solutions. She says that the SAS community is her second family and is grateful for the network of friends around the globe who provide answers and advice in minutes. Marje will serve as the Conference Chair for SAS Global Forum 2014. |
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Senior SAS Programmer/Analyst Jerry Hamilton has more than 32 years of SAS programming experience. He enjoys creating interactive applications using SAS/AF® and SAS/FSP®, and he says he's never stopped loving and supporting SAS – even when he was forced to learn SQL to use PROC SQL. |
| Finance Specialist Arlen Harmoning has more than 34 years of SAS programming experience and says that SAS has not only made him more productive and valuable to his employers, but has also given him great personal enjoyment and satisfaction. He says his feelings about working with SAS are the same as a carpenter's feelings about his favorite tool. |
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Find out how Professor Steven Howe keeps his students in awe with the power of SAS®. |
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Veteran SAS programmer Andrew Karp has flown more than a million miles and visited more than 11 countries in his job as a consultant. Find out how a job in New Zealand teaching SAS at an aluminum smelter was almost his last! |
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Jim Kissler, Director of Service Delivery at a large financial services firm, supports analytic platforms, hardware and software for risk infrastructure and supports 1,500 analytic users across the enterprise. |
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Andrew Kramer, PhD, designs, analyzes and writes up research studies as a Senior Research Manager at Cerner Corporation. He also creates patents for novel analytical methods, presents his findings at scientific conferences, writes manuscripts for publication and more. |
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Doc Muhlbaier, Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, relies on a few key "bread-and-butter" SAS products for his work in health services research. |
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David Pasta, has been using SAS since 1977 and is the author or co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and an array of book chapters, technical reports and other presentations. He says he has seen SAS go from one thin manual to scores of manuals and that SAS has come a long way from its original acronym. |
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Brett Peppe says SAS has come a REALLY LONG way since he started using it in 1977. Find out the one resource he says new users shouldn't be without. |
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Arthur Tabachneck, President of myQNA Inc. in Toronto, has spent his entire career designing and overseeing the development of unique database and analytical applications, including computing systems for managing statewide academic programs, major industry outplacement and more. |
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Richard Wright, an IT Specialist at the Veterans Affairs/Office of the Inspector General, reflects on more than three decades of experience with SAS and how it all began. |
