R sig jobs - Oct 2007 - FW: Sr. SAS and R programmer needed in MA, NJ, or IL

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From: Christina Kinchen [mailto:ckinchen at smithhanley.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:05 PM
To: 'r-sig-jobs at r-project.org'
Subject: Sr. SAS and R programmer needed in MA, NJ, or IL

SAS Programmer III needed for large Pharmaceutical company in Chicago. The
individual can work in Chicago, New Jersey or Massachusetts. The ideal
candidate has extensive industry experience with SAS and R or S-Plus
programming.
Overview:
-Back up contact for programming of tables, listings, and graphs for a
specified compound project.
-Responsible for the validation and quality assurance of any output produced
for specified projects and contributing to al project management such that
timelines are met. 
-Back up participant on Clinical Project teams representing clinical
programming efforts for that clinical team. 
-Prefer candidate with clinical experience. 
-SAS program experience required.
 
Responsibilities:
-Contribute to the programming of tables and graphs for various projects
related to genomics/biomarkers and discovery, which include in vitro and
animal pharmacology. 
-Help develop automation tools in Microsoft Excel using internal links to
Visual Basic, SAS or R; develop SAS macros and R functions for various
analysis tasks, with guidance and core code from the statisticians. 
-SAS and S-Plus/R programming experience required. 
-Discovery/pre-clinical experience will be a plus. 
-Experience in Visual Basic and Web programming (HTML, JAVA, Perl, etc.)
will be a plus. 
-This is for an experienced SAS and S-Plus/R programmer. 
-Individuals should be very proficient in generating graphs, tables and
develop automated SAS and R Macros/functions and Excel templates using the
core statistical programs and guidance from the statisticians. 
-Individuals should ideally know or be willing to quickly self-learn how to
run SAS or R programs in the background from Excel and use Visual Basic in
Excel to automate analysis tasks and create Excel templates/tools. 
-Individuals should ideally have strong experience or be willing to quickly
self-learn in creating web-based interface/tools that runs SAS and R
programs in the background. 
-Since most of this work is for projects in discovery, biomarkers and pre
clinical groups, experience in clinical trials is not required. 
 
Experience/Education:
We need very strong candidates for these openings. 
A B.S. or M.S. degree in statistics or mathematics or related field, with
coursework/experience in computer science is preferred. 
A degree in computer science, biology and related fields will also be
considered if the candidates have coursework/training in statistics and
statistical programming with the experience/proficiency in topics listed
above. 

 
If interested please send resume to Christina Kinchen at
ckinchen at smithhanley.com or call 800-684-9921 ext 220.

Christina Kinchen

Smith Hanley Consulting

Senior Recruiter

Phone 800-684-9921 ext 220

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E-Mail: ckinchen at smithhanley.com

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