Vishnu Vardhan

About Vishnu Vardhan

10+ years of experience as a Technical Advisor/Lead with expertise in SAS Admin, SAS Business Intelligence and enterprise analytics platform management, with handling huge sets of data.• Worked closely with stakeholders to gather requirements and reached out to management to get key approvals and move projects from initiating to planning the project meeting the deadlines.• Strong experience in working and communicating the project implementation tasks with business stakeholders and acted as a liaison between developer.• Self-motivated SAS Administrator with a proven ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and deliver solutions in high-pressure environments. • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and experienced in Power BI for data visualization and reporting to support SAS analytics. • Independently plans and executes SAS environment remediations, system optimizations, and troubleshooting efforts with minimal guidance from supervisors or managers.• Assisted in interpreting and adapting to new or changing securities rules, regulations, policies, and laws at FedEx, ensuring compliance by updating processes and department procedures accordingly.• Proficient in migrating and upgrading complex SAS environments to the latest technologies, including RHEL 8 OS, SAS M8 maintenance upgrades, and SAS Viya platform development.• Extensive experience in Data Center migration projects, including the installation and configuration of SAS Grid and Viya environments to ensure seamless transition and minimal downtime.• Skilled in administering SAS ecosystems, encompassing metadata identities, user accounts, groups, and roles through tools like SAS Management Console and SAS Environment Manager.• Responsible for data analysis and reporting using BI tools for various business insights to the management.• A results-oriented professional with a focus on root cause analysis, automation, and optimization to improve operational efficiency and service quality. • Extensive hands-on experience with various SAS applications like SAS Base, SAS BI tools, SAS data quality tools (DMS), SAS, and SAS-Intranet, on different platforms.• Provided all levels of technical and application support for different SAS tools.• Worked on different databases like Oracle, Teradata, and EDW.• Addressed user, application and data issues in SAS applications.• Proficient in Unix/Linux environments, with hands-on experience in commands, scripting, permissions, file systems, and server configurations.• Performed maintenance and necessary revisions for the existing reports.

Experience

1. Sas Technical Specialist Advisor

   FedEx Freight

   Feb 2026 — Present · Memphis, TN, US

Education

• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

  Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2014 — 2016

• Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya, Kancheepuram

  Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

  2009 — 2013