I am a graduate from Georgia Tech where I received my BIE and MSOR degrees. I worked in the textile industry for 32 years as an industrial engineer and systems analyst/programmer. I first learn SAS in 1978 and work as a SAS programmer for two years in 1978-79. I intermittently used SAS during my engineering and IT jobs from 1980-1995. In 1995, I became a MS Access programmer and have used Access heavily in every job since then. I began working for one of the large banks in their Operational Risk Department in 2005. I work on the Monitoring & Oversight team where I develop MS Access systems to assist my team in monitoring systems that are part of our operational risk platform. I started taking SAS courses to refresh my knowledge of SAS in the fall of 2011. I obtained my SAS Base 9 certification in May 2012 and my SAS Advanced programming cerification in Feb 2014. I have been applying SAS analytics to my current job. I also have been assisting a Predictive Analytics group. I plan to take the SAS Enterprise Miner elearning course in the summer of 2014. Back in my early days of using SAS (1979), I went to a proc writing class and wrote my own proc using the FORTRAN language. A representative from SAS visited me and I showed him what I had done. My proc was designed for a specific EEO reporting application; however, I believe that it was one example that inspired SAS to develop proc tabulate. Database design MS Access SAS programming