Mark Jordan
SAS Jedi (Retired) at Self-employed
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Jordan is a retired SAS instructor and seasoned data wrangler with a programming career dating back to 1994 and nearly three decades teaching Foundation SAS at SAS Institute. As Principal Technical Training Consultant he designed and delivered curriculum across DATA step, DS2, SQL, Macro and CASL, and authored the second edition of "Mastering the SAS DS2 Procedure." He combines deep hands-on experience in mainframe, Unix and Windows environments with leadership roles in BI and pre-sales across financial and defense sectors. Now based in Williamsburg, VA, he remains an active community contributor (SASJedi) who presents at user groups and helps peers online, while pursuing hobbies from flying kites and drones to reading science fiction and enjoying time with a growing family. An uncommon strength is translating classroom concepts into pragmatic solutions for large enterprise systems, informed by prior roles as an analyst, project manager and Navy senior enlisted adviser.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
College Prep, College Prep at Edward Little High SchoolAS General Studies, AS General Studies at Excelsior UniversityGraduated High School College Prep, Graduated High School College Prep at Gateway Regional High SchoolCollege Prep, College Prep at Fortaleza AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Strayer University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
sas10
macros9
apr8
highlighting8
folding8
code-folding8
rust6
syntax-highlighting6
forum6
vscode-extension5
nlp5
code-completion5
deep-learning4
visual-studio-code4
vscode4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SASJedi/presentations
Aug 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
SASJedi/sas-macros
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Selected useful macros from my personal SAS macro library
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 75 pushes in 2 years 6 months
rustsasmacromacros
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