Vanessa  Afolabi  "The SAS Mom"

Founder and Data Scientist
EDUCATION:

Hon. B.Sc. Degree, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Major: - Computer Science
Major: - Statistics 

SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer using SAS9, SAS Institute, License CTP000795v9

SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst using SAS9: Regression and Modeling Programmer, License SBARM001164v9

SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS9, SAS Institute, License APO11672v9

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS9, SAS Institute, License BP015799v9
WORK EXPERIENCE:

​Business &  Information Analyst– Central Agencies I&IT Cluster, Architecture, IM and PMO Branch, Treasury Board Secretariat Toronto, Ontario

SAS, R and SQL Programmer Analyst– Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,

SAS Programmer – Manulife Financial Asset Management, Global Operations and Data, Toronto, Ontario

SAS Database Programmer – Ontario Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (OCANDS), Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
ENVIRONMENTS:
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  • SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 on SAS v9.3, Eclipse   
  • IBM Watson Studio
  • IBM Watson Knowledge Studio
  • IBM Watson Assistant
  • IBM Natural Language Understanding
  • IBM Natural Language Classifier
  • AI Fairness 360
  • R Studio
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages:
  • Python
  • Spark
  • SAS             
  • R
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C
  • C++
  • Pascal
  • Matlab
  • Prolog
  • Scheme
  • HTML
  •  CSS
  • PHP
  • JDBC
  • XML
  • XQuery
  • XPath             
Python Libraries: ​
  • Pandas 
  • Pyspark
  • Fuzzywuzzy
  • NLTK
  • ​Wordcloud
  • NetworkX
  • Scikit-Learn
  • Numpy​
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • Folium
  • GeoPandas
  • ​GeoJSON
  • Pygraphviz
  • Pydot
​SAS Tools: Base, SQL, Macro, STAT

Office Tools: MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint