Alexander B. Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Cut report preparation time by 30% using Python and Bloomberg’s API v3 by automating comparison analysis reports for equities
• Reduced annual tail-end VAR by 8-12% by developing key risk management tools such as time-series pairwise correlation tracking
• Decreased memory usage by 40% and improved run times by 20% by refactoring old fundamental factors codebase into Cython
• Introduced a priority operating procedure for ranking trade opportunities saving 20 minutes a day for PM's
• Wrote company research for PMs including news, analyst commentary, sector sentiment, valuations, and quantitative factor rankings with focus on the Software industry and Technology sector

New York, New York, United States

• Technologies Used: - Python / Bloomberg Terminal / Bloomberg API v3 / SQL / Excel
• Helped launch in-house company fundamentals and time-series pricing ETL data pipeline in Python with Bloomberg’s API v3 data
• Lowered portfolio volatility by ~5% by leading initiative to introduce and build an automated basket hedging framework
• Applied NLP text classification methods on news sourced from Bloomberg Terminal using NLTK to find notable themes quicker

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted artist relations find upcoming artists by web scraping 100+ music festival info and lineups with Python and BeautifulSoup4
• Reached over 10 million impressions in a year by creating daily content schedules for Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr

Greater New York City Area

Bachelor'S Degree, Statistics & Quantitative Modeling (Major) | Art History (Minor), 3.7

Associate'S Degree, Computer Information Systems | Sales & Business Marketing

Activities and Societies: - Starting Gate Business Accelerator - Business Connection Club - Sports Mentoring Association - Sales &.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Track & Field, DECA, Senior League of Boys (SLOBS)