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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Cross-PA Service and Resource Planning (CSRP), Resource Efficiency Data Science (REDS)• Leading Cross-PA adoption of Google’s internal capacity planning tool, PARPA, to ensure data center efficiency across product areas• Building and maintaining data pipelines and dashboards for capacity projection and fleet inefficiency detection, directly impacting resource allocation strategies• Spearheading the standardization of PA definitions for capacity efficiency metrics, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and data scientists• Providing high-impact insights through dashboard development and analytics presentations, helping Google leadership optimize fleet and resource efficiency• Mentoring junior team members and guiding high-priority project execution

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Commerce Integrity - Investigation Analytics GroupSenior IC, covering Product Data Science with focus on Trust & Safety Experiences, Actor Enforcement, Adversarial Behavior, and Ecommerce within Marketplace• Defined/measured/monitored key metrics and team goals, while partnering with product managers and engineering managers to define team charter and quarterly direction• Conducted deep dive analyses to understand and mitigate integrity issues, driving project impact from analysis conceptualization through stakeholder alignment and implementation of recommendations• Designed, monitored and evaluated product experiments (A/B Tests) for impact and integrity guardrails• Built custom pipelines and dashboards for monitoring experiments and team goals, as well as for prototyping metrics• Partnered closely with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, ML engineers, data engineers, operations teams, and analysts• Presented rigorous analytical findings in clear and actionable manner, including to leads and upper-level management• Mentored junior team members across multiple product pillars, with an eye towards Tech Lead and Management

Washington, Dc, Us

Quantitative Research Analyst in the Clearance and Settlement (CS) Examination Program, part of the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)• Developed CS program risk assessment methodology and analytics used for setting annual examination priorities• Conduct examinations of clearing agencies, including several systemically important financial market utilities (SIFMUs) under Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act• Examine all technical/quantitative aspects of clearing agency operations, including margin and clearing fund model methodologies, stress testing, back testing, model governance, model risk management, liquidity risk management, and default management, for centrally cleared products including options, futures and credit default swaps (CDS)• Collaborate extensively with SEC Enforcement and Trading & Markets divisions, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the CFTC, and the Bank of England• Won OCIE Four Pillars Award (2018), awarded for outstanding service to investors and the National Exam Program• Won multiple Special Act Awards (Q3/Q4 2017, Q1 2018, and Q3/Q4 2018), awarded in recognition of service above and beyond scope of normal job responsibilities

New York, Ny, Us

Risk management and quantitative analysis for Index Asset Allocation funds, including Defined Benefit (DB), Defined Contribution (DC) and Synthetics portfolios.• Created state-of-the-practice risk analytics in collaboration with BlackRock Solutions, including prototyping Active Share risk measure for Fixed Income passive funds, extensively utilizing SQL, VBA and MATLAB• Produced supervisory/managerial/regulatory reports, analytics dashboards and visualizations, and presentations pertaining to risk management, risk analytics monitoring, and optimization of portfolio construction• Developed and enhanced proprietary techniques for portfolio construction and optimization to be implemented in iShares ETFs, as well as institutional Index portfolios• Collaborated with portfolio management, strategy and iShares product design teams to enhance existing funds and potential new products• Conducted mean-variance optimization to aid portfolio management with tracking error reducing trade lists, as well as optimization analyses to aid in the design of new products• Analyzed ongoing fund risk, performance and turnover

New York, Ny, Us

Risk management and quantitative analysis for Fixed Income iShares® ETFs and institutional indexed funds.• Created state-of-the-practice risk analytics in collaboration with BlackRock Solutions, including prototyping Active Share risk measure for Fixed Income passive funds, extensively utilizing SQL, VBA and MATLAB• Produced supervisory/managerial/regulatory reports, analytics dashboards and visualizations, and presentations pertaining to risk management, risk analytics monitoring, and optimization of portfolio construction• Developed and enhanced proprietary techniques for portfolio construction and optimization to be implemented in iShares ETFs, as well as institutional Index portfolios• Collaborated with portfolio management, strategy and iShares product design teams to enhance existing funds and potential new products• Conducted mean-variance optimization to aid portfolio management with tracking error reducing trade lists, as well as optimization analyses to aid in the design of new products• Analyzed ongoing fund risk, performance and turnover

New York, Ny, Us

• Prototyped Active Share measure for Fixed Income passive funds.• Conducted risk and turnover analysis on Fixed Income iShares ETFs and Indexed Institutional Funds

Champaign, Il, Us

• Taught, tutored, and graded courses in Calculus I-III and Matrix Theory. Course sizes ranged from 21 to 87 students

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

• Graduate Mathematics Program Intern• Held Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Security Clearance• Developed skills in programming languages: Java, LaTex, and Hadoop – a MapReduce framework for cloud computing• Created a package using Hadoop for finding connected components in large graphs for the purpose of graph analytics• Documented findings in internally published classified technical paper and briefed results directly to Director of NSA• Operated in a Red Hat Linux environment

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Taught, tutored, and graded courses in Calculus I-III and Matrix Theory

Master Of Financial Engineering (Mfe), Financial Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd (Abd), Mathematics

Master Of Science, Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Mathematics