Brian Ofori-Amanfo

About Brian Ofori-Amanfo

Summary of Skills:• Over 5+ years experience using SAS EM, SAS/BASE, SAS/MACROS, SAS/SQL, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/ODS, SAS TEMPLATES, SAS/EG, SAS System Reporting, and PROC SQL • Expert in SAS programming, merging, concatenating, validating reports, macro facility, SAS formats, managing data in SAS files, and preparing large datasets for statistical analysis.• Experienced with extraction and migration of data, performing statistical analysis using various analysis procedures such as Proc Freq, Proc Means and Proc Univariate.• Demonstrates advance analytical thinking in building machine learning models • Expert with Spark/Scala, SAS and SQL.• Possess strong problem-solving skills, discipline, tenacity, good oral and written skills and team-building skills.• Posses strong knowledge and expertise in Big Data Analytics and Data Ingestions.• Experience with big data tools and Hadoop Ecosystem: Apache Spark, Spark Core/Libraries, Spark MLlib, Hive,Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, HDFS, Yarn, etc• Capable of using Linux Commands especially in HDFS• Confluent Kafka knowledge and experience • Ability to research, trend/analyze data, summarize and recommend new strategies and solutions.• Strong experience in handling large volume of data in batch and Real-time • Exceptionally trainable, well organized, self-motivated, creative and capable of performing work independently with minimal direction. • A self-starter with the ability to acquire new concepts and skills quickly.• Demonstrates knowledge of several database management systems to input, extract or manipulate information.Specialties:Data MiningPredictive ModelingStatistical analysisData Visualization Data AnalyticsDomain: Tools: Spark/Scala, Big Data,Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, SQL, Oracle, Tableau, and Microsoft Office

Experience

1. Senior Cloud & Ai Platform Specialist

   Microsoft

   Jul 2025 — Present

Education

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Master’s Degree, Data Analytics

  2016 — 2019

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, General

  2005 — 2011

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Investigative Forensics Minor in Biology

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Sql Server Management Studio
• Data Entry
• Visual Basic for Applications (Vba)
• Deep Learning
• Transact-Sql (T-Sql)
• Data Structures
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Statistics
• Data Warehousing
• Sas Certified Base Programmer
• Oracle
• Data Mining
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Mysql
• Microsoft Office
• Sql
• Python
• Consulting
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Ssrs
• Quantitative Analytics
• Microsoft Excel
• Sas
• Data Modeling
• Oracle Database
• Machine Learning
• Data Validation
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Databases
• Management
• Toad
• Tableau
• Statistical Modeling
• Microsoft Word
• Big Data
• Sql Server Reporting Services (Ssrs)
• Sas Programming
• Veterans
• R