Mark Stevens is a Certification Specialist for SAS Global Certification and has been working in training and certification since 2004. A SAS Certified Base Programmer since 2010, Mark enjoys every opportunity to dive into new SAS products and features. When he isn’t working on the next SAS certification, he can be found digging in the gardens in his back yard.
Records were made to be broken, and the SAS Professionals Convention continues to break them year after year. Held each year at SAS UK headquarters in Marlow, this three day conference provides an opportunity for SAS professionals to network with peers, learn about the latest SAS technologies, hear from industry
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 seen before, since I speak with students about SAS Certification, and many of them seek certification in pursuit of a first job. And while certification can
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 Clinical Trials Programmer using SAS9. Clinical Trials Programmers create programs that analyze the data collected during the clinical trial of a new medication or treatment
Recently, I read Dr. AnnMaria De Mars' blog post "Translating Ruby to SAS (or vice versa)." I found that I really liked it, and not just because she mentions me (although that was pretty cool). But rather, I like the end of the post, where she identifies a key value
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 employees from SAS publishing who recently challenged the exam. Over the past year, they have shared their experience preparing for the exam on the SAS
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 sets and therefore haven't been overly concerned with efficient coding techniques and consequently had no idea what an index was. So off to SAS 9.2 online
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 of SAS Training, maybe now is the time? It's yet another great community to chat with your fellow SAS users and find additional training resources.
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 a global team of BI experts collaborated to create the beta exam. In May and June, candidates from a broad background of experience (novice to
A few days after I posted part 1 of this blog post, an interesting message popped up on Twitter from @annmariastat: Confused. If you can get #SAS certification in 3 months what exactly are you being certified as? How much can anyone learn in 3 months? A fair question, and
I'm happy to report that I have achieved my SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. w00t!. I took my first SAS programming course on March 10th and passed my exam on June 18th (so I guess a more accurate title would say 3 months and 8 days!). I thought I would
