Master of Science in Analytics - Career Network Day

CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES VISIT MSA STUDENTS

Professional networking and exposure to career opportunities are an essential part of the MSA program at Louisiana State University. Several employers visited LSU's campus on Friday, March 21st with the sole purpose of describing analytics use within their corporation and to interview our students for potential job openings.  The following companies had representatives present:

TATA Consultancy Services, CenturyLink, Disney & Pentaho.

We will continue to work with interested employers in order to provide the students within the Masters of Science in Analytics program exposure to exciting career opportunities that await them upon graduation.





Seth Bata and Paul Moczynski - Disney

Daniel Bechtel and Keith Abraben - Pentaho





CenturyLink- Bill Bradley &
Chris Parker

Ajay Bhargava - TATA Consutancy Services
 



Corporate representatives speak to the MSA students about career opportunities

Several companies (local and out of state) came to Louisiana State University on Friday, February 21st to speak with the students in the Master of Science in Analytics program.  The representatives from each company presented information about how their corporation uses the field of analytics and their current recruiting efforts.  They described various projects that their analysts work on and how this information is used to help their company become more profitable.  The students were invited to interview with several of the companies after the discussions.  It was an exciting and beneficial day for both the students and the companies.  It clearly demonstrated the need for analytics in the workplace and the ability for these students to satisfy that demand.



• InterWorks
• TEI Software Development 
• Amedisys
• Starmount Life Insurance
• Entergy Systems

SAS Certifications achieved

The ISDS department would like to acknowledge the following students in the Masters of Science in Analytics program at Louisiana State University for obtaining the certifications listed below:

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9:  This certification is designed for programmers, analysts, data managers, or anyone writing SAS programs to access and manage data to perform queries and analyses. To become certified one must successfully complete an exam covering topics such as accessing and managing data, creating data structures, generating reports and handling errors.

Rachel Bradley, Jansey Comeaux, Charles Cruthirds, Adam Daunis , Jaya Dhillon, Patrick Fleniken, Katie Fontenot, Zach Gorman, Ross Hartfield , David Hillsman, Mary Hunter,  Nick Joslyn , Korbin Law,  JiHoon Lee,  Miao Liu,  Kristin Marceaux, Jon McCarble , Clayton McGee, Ram Nimmakayala, Lucas Oglesby, Saumitra Sharma, Krishna Sishtla, Sean Swanner, Michael Treadwell, Michael Waldmeier

(This is the entire MSA class of 2014)

 

SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9:  This certification represents exceptional SAS programmers who demonstrate a high level of proficiency in SAS programming expertise.  To become certified one must successfully complete an exam covering topics on accessing data using SQL, Marco processing and advanced programming techniques.

Saumitra Sharma, Krishna Sishtla

 

SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst Using SAS 9:  Regression and Modeling:  This certification is designed for SAS professionals who use SAS/STAT software to conduct and interpret complex statistical data analysis.  To become certified one must successfully complete an exam covering topics such as linear and logistic regression, preparing inputs for predictive model performance and ANOVA.

Jaya Dhillon, Krishna Sishtla, Jansey Comeaux

 

 

 

Shopper's Choice Web Analytics group presentation

The MSA students presented their projects to the representative from Shopper's Choice, Mr. Jason Stutes.  Each group was responsible for a 5 minute proposal of recommendations for the company to improve its profitability based on the decision rules and metrics that have learned in their Web Analytics class.

Winning Group - R. Nimmakayala, K.Law, M. Waldmeier, and J. Comeaux        Mr. Jason Stutes (Marketing Director)

Group presentations to Internet Retail Connection

The MSA students prepared presentations based on research of the database for Internet Retail Connection.  Their projects were comprised of the decision rules they would implement in order to make this company more profitable.  They did research and came up with the analytic parameters they felt would work best for this company.  They then did a 5 -10 minute presentation to the CIO (Steve Musumeche) and the CEO (Warren Sager) of Internet Retail Connection.



Winning group - S. Sharma, K. Fontenot, K.Marceaux, P.Fleniken,

Steve Musumeche (CIO) & Warren Sager (CEO)



Michael Waldmeier's presentation at the SCSUG conference in San Antonio

Michael Waldmeier presented during the Student Symposium at the SCSUG conference in San Antonio on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic he presented on was : "Extending the Functionality of the SAS Library:  Using Visual Basic and SAS to Design Applications to Meet Your Business Needs".

(Michael Waldmeier is featured the 3rd person from the right)

Charles Cruthirds's presentation at SCSUG conference in San Antonio

Charles Cruthirds presented during the Student Symposium at the SCSUG conference on Oct 31st - Nov 1st.  The topic he presented on was: "Efficient Data Analysis with: Simple Stream  An Application of SAS for Exploring the Boston Housing Market".