Mark Lyons
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Professional Management, Software Programming & Analysis for Finance,
Healthcare,
Pharmaceuticals,
Telecommunications,
Sales & E-commerce,
Business Operations,
Educational Training
& Project Management


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Optimization and Re-Design :

Pharmaceutical Reporting Application using SAS & VBA

Customer Rep

I had enhanced a pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing reporting application by:

  • Creating a map of the legacy system data sources, joins/merges/filters/calculations and outputs
  • Re-writing the new process in three steps:
    1) Load all data sources,
    2) Merge & calculate into 1 master table
    3) Output reports by filtering from the master table
  • Code was reduced by two-thirds
  • The application run-time was reduced from 30 minutes down to 8 minutes


Optimization and Re-Design : 

Pharmaceutical Reporting Application using SAS & VBA

Customer Rep

I had enhanced another pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing reporting application by:

  • Optimizing user interactive control response time :
    1) Identifying the slowest parts of the code
    2) Replacing conditional (color) formats with color properties
    3) Replacing looped cell references with range references

  • Result: User controls responded in less than 1 second