Ava Smith Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Conducts intraday monitoring of risk in member portfolio resulting from market moves and portfolio changes• Developed several automated research tools utilizing cloud-based data sourcing to enable better data visualization in PowerBI and Excel, aiding team with scheduled monitoring and providing better visibility into member activity• Works closely with members of the Credit and Liquidity risk teams to provide analysis on members given breaches of respective risk thresholds

Amherst, Massachusetts

• Worked with professor on lecture instruction as well as syllabus planning for Introductory Java and Cybersecurity courses• Formulated coding projects, in-class activities, and review material

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Website: https://buildumass.com/• Worked closely with local businesses and non-profits to determine project requirements and any design requirements to be in-keeping with their brand and goals• Coordinated project requirements with the Development team and determined project timelines based on an Agile approach• Determined areas of improvement internally for our organization year-to-year, including an expansion into marketing and security planning in addition to our original Web and Application Development services

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Assisted in the development of two Machine Learning research papers exploring applications of ML in Market Risk• Recorded methodologies for hyperparameter tuning• Wrote comparative reports on production models versus models in development to better guide neural network structure selection

Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

• Facilitated CI/CD pipeline implementation of new analytics tools utilizing Jenkins • Independently created a business proposal for each performance testing tool and developed a system for estimating revenue increase with certain website performance improvements• Presented research to the Performance Testing Team to facilitate the continued improvement of tools, which was actioned to save the company roughly $1,000,000 over the next three years