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Mark Stevens is a Certification Specialist for SAS Global Certification. Mark joined SAS Institute last year and brings six years of technical education and professional certification experience to the team and in the summer of 2010, Mark earned his SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. When he isn’t working on the next SAS certification, he can be found coaching his kids’ soccer teams.
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The team behind the SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9 certification
At the end of June, SAS launched a new credential: the SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer Using SAS 9. This was the culmination of months ... Read More
New Certification Record Set
Records were made to be broken, and the SAS Professionals Convention continues to break them year after year. Held each year at SAS UK ... Read More
Interview Advice for the Aspiring SAS Programmer
Last week on the SAS Training Facebook page, I answered a question about what to expect during a job interview. It's a question I've ... Read More
New SAS Clinical Trials Programmer Certification
If you have visited our SAS Global Certification webpage lately, you may have noticed that we have a new credential in development: the SAS Certified ... Read More
Sometimes It's the Journey, Not the Destination
Recently, I read Dr. AnnMaria De Mars' blog post "Translating Ruby to SAS (or vice versa)." I found that I really liked it, and ... Read More
Certifiable: An Adventure in Pursuing SAS Certification
Those of you currently studying for the SAS Base Programming exam might enjoy this 9 minute video interview with Stacey Hamilton and Christine Kjellberg, two ... Read More
To INDEX or not to INDEX...
Recently, a certification candidate asked me about indexes and how SAS decides whether to use one or not. I don't work with supper-large data ... Read More
Certification Discussion on FaceBook
Hi all. Just a quick note to point out a recent certification discussion on the SAS Training Facebook page. If you haven't become a fan ... Read More
New Business Intelligence Certification Launched
Last month, the SAS Global Certification program added a new credential, the SAS Certified BI Content Developer. My first blog post from May described how ... Read More


SAS certification's 2011 U.S. tour