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| Khasha Dehnad is
the President and a founder of AIMS Consulting. He has over 20 years of experience applying information systems, management, operations research and statistical principles to a broad spectrum of marketing, financial and operational issues. Areas of specialty include Operations Research and System Development, Data Modeling and Requirements Gathering, Risk Management and Analytical Modeling, and Strategic Analysis. Prior to forming AIMS Consulting, Khasha held various positions at Depository Trust Company, including Director of Research & Development and Manager of Decision Support and EIS. Mr. Dehnad has taught at several universities, including Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Armstrong University. He also has been a keynote speaker at several SAS conferences and the SAS European User Group (SEUGI). He has been a keynote speaker at several SAS conferences and the SAS European User Group (SEUGI). His software expertise includes: SAS: Access (DB2), AF(Frame, SCL), Base(Macro, datastep, procs), Connect, Data Miner, EIS, FSP, Graph, Internet, MDDB, OR, STAT, WebAF, WebEIS Case Tools: ADW, Bachman, Rational Rose Database: DB2, DB2-2, Oracle, SAS Other: C/C++, FORTRAN, JAVA, REXX, MVS (TSO, JCL), Windows, Unix, OS2, MS Office products Khasha holds a MS Operations Research degree from the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Tehran University. |
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| Matthew Casella is
a Vice President at Aims Consulting. With a focus in the pharmaceutical and financial industries, Matt’s expertise includes database and system design, and web enablement within distributed and MVS environments. He has 15 years experience using SAS, JAVA and COBOL. Prior to joining the firm, he held a Project Leader and Developer position at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. In that capacity, he designed systems, coordinated the writing of technical specifications , developed project plans and schedules, and managed application and systems programmers in the development of web and mainframe applications. He also acted as RACF administrator and as SAS representative for the company. |
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| Mr. Casella began his career as a programmer at IBM, following graduation from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York with a B.A. in Computer Science. Career distinctions include the publishing a paper on using SAS extended tables to dynamically generate JCL to create historical databases from generation data groups (GDGs), and presenting it at the 17th annual SAS Users Group International (SUGI) Conference. He also has Lectured on using EIS to implement management goals at the SUGI 18 Proceedings in New York. |  |
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