8. Have you been involved with project resourcing of multiple programmers, assessing timelines for project completion, and review of project team member’s programming code? Also, have you been involved with statisticians or other functional areas, i.e. DMP, medical writing, medical monitors, ets.?
Yes, of course. When we get a project we get the data which has been managed from the data manager, they have a group of people to deal with the CRF, database design and setup, data entry, data cleaning, data coding, and they give the data to statistic programmer and when we give the data, it is clean and well-coded. And if there are some problem to enter the data to sas, for example if the data has problem about format and it didn’t be divide by a proper set, or some problem with the Marco system which is been setup before, we can discuss the problem with the data management. On the other hand, if there are some problem of the spec or the statistical data analysis function, maybe some statistician using some new test we will asking about their opinion to do the SAS analysis.
9. How do you assess a peers program for accuracy?
If produce the datasets, tables listings, I will use proc compare to compare it with my colleagues, but first of all I will generate my own datasets, table and listings. I also use the proc contents to get the numbers of the datasets generates to compare with them. Otherwise, I will use proc univeriate and proc freq to get the data summary result to compare with the result from the template one in SAPs.
10. How many projects are you responsible for at one time? Describe your ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize?
In the Watson pharmaceutical Inc, sometimes I lead a team. We always have some multiple project in one group, so we always leads different projects and do the multiple jobs. For example, last month I did a study project about compares the effect of Ferrlecit to ferrous sulfate in treating anemia and iron deficiency in chronic kidney disease patients who are receiving erythropoietic agents. I am the leader of this study. I hold meetings to assign task for our group of people, explain the SAPs, and provide sas output resource to medical writer , assist the statistician to review the output. Besides that, I am also the group member in other project study team. I will follow leader’s guide to do the regular job. I always arrange my own team’s job first and quick assign the task, and meet the deadline for other groups. If I have enough time I will help my group member to finish coding quickly.
11. Have you been faced with a deadline that seemed insurmountable and how did you handle the programming resourcing for this project? Have you make the decision to prioritize study completion? If so, why did you have to make this decision?
I have ability to do a good job to meet the deadline usually. Sometimes I always have few projects in hands, and I arrange time to deal with it. If I do the regular job like making datasets tables, Besides the job is huge and takes time, I will make a schedule to finish it part by part, I insist follow the schedule and finally I will finished it before the deadline. If time is limit beside I also do an important part in a study I will finish it first, and squeeze time to finish other scheduled tasks.
12. Aside from SAS, which other scientific/statistical programming languages do you have working knowledge of and how much experience/number of years?
I use spss do the statistical project from undergraduate school, it’s above 3 years. I have a published paper. I do the data analysis using spss and sas. I learn R in graduate school and do some project in school using R.
13. Do you ever do SAS programming in UNIX environment? How long?
Yes, I using in stony brook for one year experience. I am familiar with the command.
14. Do you have experience in the systems development? Are you aware of the SDLC(System Development Lifecycle)? How have you used it in the course of your development?
NO.
15.what has your exposure been in developing SOPs or Guidelines for statistical programming?
I work in the Watson pharmaceutical company. Our Manager always have monthly meeting. We discuss on developing new documents about trial programmers’ responsibilities for several weeks. Our manager was very open-mind, we have opportunity to discussed how to do the QC job for table making, or the deadline issue and task assignment issue.
16. How would you rate your knowledge of clinical trial methodologies? Which phases of clinical trial have you worked with the most/least(phase I, II, III,IV or even pre-clinical)
I will rate myself 7. Recently, the study I am in are phase IV. I also do the phase II, III study for the safety and efficacy analysis. Usually I worked in I, II, III to making datasets, deriving demographic,
AE lab result datasets.
17. What statistical procedures are you most familiar with to analyze data?
I have Strong statistics knowledge background including Statistic Inference, Categorical Data(probit, logistic, baseline, clog, log-log regression), Design of experiment, Statistical Modeling and Regression (mixed model, GLM,
multilevel model, non-parametric model, ANOVA) Statistic Test(t-test, Chi-square, npar1way, kaplan-Meier, fisher, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon, F-test, Tukey-test, McNemar-test, Likelihood Ratio-test, life-test and so on), Statistical Estimate( MLE, OLS, GMM, Moment Generating function) Dealing with Missing Data(imputation, mean method), Survival Analysis associated with Professional in SAS/STAT such as proc ttest, proc univariate, proc freq, proc npar1way, proc corr, proc anova, proc glm, proc logistics
18. What SAS functions are you most familiar with?
Sum max min std mean---compute simple descriptive statistics
Sqrt abs upcase lowcase
Int—return an integer of an argument
Put --- read the source with a specified informat and convert it to a character variable
Input---read the source with a specified informat and convert it to a numerical variable
Scan---return a given word from a character string using default and specified delimiters
Substr---extract a string from an argument or replace character value contents
Compress---remove specific characters
Trim---remove trailing blanks from a character string
Length---return the length of an argument
Floor---return the largest integer that is less than or equal to the argument
Ceil---return the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to the argument
Today ( ) with a null set of parentheses --- return today’s date from the system clock
19. How extensive have you used MACROs within your code? And why do you use MACROs?
Many task such as making datasets, tables, and listings are repetitive. Then I will use Macros to get a systems. when I make some similar datasets, tables I will easily use the MACROs’ system to make a little change in my program and change the variable value and to get the result.
20. Why are you seeking other opportunities?
Because my contract will be end in June, I’d like to get another opportunity to work in a pharmaceutical company like yours. It is large and has good environment. Besides I like the place and want to relocate there.
21. Any Experience in Data Manager.
22. Any experience in Health Outcome or Health Care/Claim
23. Write an appreciation letter
Questions:
What is the auto.exe in the beginning of all the sas program code?
What is SDLC ?
Where to find the Safety and efficacy variables classification?
What is Full name of preferred term, full name of the lower level term, the full name of the higher group level?
What is system organ class?
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