Keyways your curiosity will lead you to your dream career in Four States

ON-DEMAND SEMINAR

Keyways that your curiosity will lead you to your dream career

View state-wise recording below:

ACT

VIC

NSW

QLD

About the seminar:

SAS partners with universities to develop analytical leaders of the future. Throughout the year the SAS Academic Team works closely with your university career centres’, to offer a catalogue of FREE activities through the SAS Student Connection program. Given the unusual circumstances and challenges faced in the last 2 years, at SAS we want to help you, make 2022 the year to get ready for your dream job “in Analytics” and make a real difference in the world.

Join us for the SAS Analytics is Everywhere Seminars and hear how the new SAS® Skill Builder for Students program provides you access to free elearning, and the types of certification pathways sought by industry. And register for SAS® Viya for Learners to follow alongside our seminar demo.

Thousands of skilled students have been connecting with organisations in need of SAS skills, see the Alumni stories here.

*By participating for the entire duration of the seminar, you’ll go in the draw to win a masterclass mentoring session with a SAS professional in your local state.

Agenda

For Curious, Passionate, and Creative people - learn how you can make a real difference in the world with a career in Data. The application of data is everywhere, and new applications are only limited by your imagination. Register for student access to the analytical discovery platform SAS Viya for Learners and follow the instructions to log in and proceed ahead.

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Speakers

ACT– Allan Tham

Allan Tham,
Principal Customer Success Manager,
SAS Australia

Description:

Allan is a practitioner in the area of data science for the past 22 years both in SAS and open source technologies. He has spent many years with various large federal government agencies in ACT, helping them to implement business intelligence/analytics initiatives. He is currently the Principal Customer Success Manager at SAS ACT helping customers adopt SAS effectively to drive the best analytics insights within organizations. He is also the SAS ambassador to local universities in ACT.

VIC- Isaac Marsh

Isaac Marsh,
Systems Engineer,
SAS Australia

Description:

Isaac Marsh joined SAS Australia in 2016 as Install and Configuration Consultant. He has a bachelor degree in Science from Monash University, dbl. majoring in Computer Science. Isaac is a technical team member who specialises the architecture of SAS software and how its components work together to provide users with a powerful analytics platform. He worked for four years installing and configuring enterprise-scale server deployments of SAS, helping to build applications such as Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence in banking, and Intelligence Management in Public Security and Law Enforcement.

Isaac moved into a Customer Advisory role as a Systems Engineer in 2020 and now helps our customers understand how best to design modern solutions with SAS software and cloud technologies. On weekends Isaac likes to go camping and hiking with his partner and friends, or when the weather doesn’t permit outdoor adventures he will be homebrewing beer or PC gaming online.

QLD – Lily Clarke

Lily Clarke, BMedMath,
Customer Advisory Consultant,
SAS Australia

Description:

As a self-confessed “do-gooder”, my analytics journey stemmed from my desire to improve the lives of the global community. Every day I keep working towards my mission, whether that be by demystifying analytics for students, optimizing resources for hospitals or preventing fraud in some of Australia’s largest Government Agencies. I love sharing my passion and inspiring my fellow future leaders to change the world through technology.

NSW - Michela

Michela Guimaraes,
Senior Customer Advisory,
SAS Australia

Description:

Michela Guimaraes joined SAS Australia in 2018 as a Senior Customer Advisory with focus on Advanced Analytics SAS Solutions. She has a bachelor degree in Mathematics and earned an Executive MBA in Marketing as well as a Machine Learning Specialization at University of Washington.

She has been working in the analytics workspace for more than 20 years and her roles were focused on understanding real business problems and either interrogating large data sets or designing and building effective solutions to solve these problems through the use of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning.

Previously she was employed at SAS Brazil for more than 8 years as a Senior Pre Sales consultant where she worked in partnership with several SAS customers to solve their main business problems using SAS Advanced Analytics solutions as well as business specific solutions such as SAS AML (Anti Money Laundering), Fraud Detection and Prevention and SAS Customer Experience solutions among others. In her free time Michela loves to spend time with her family, kitesurfing, playing tennis and taking care of her bees (she’s an amateur beekeeper!).