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Washington, DC

• I work for the securities litigation team on RMBS, class action lawsuits, and cryptocurrency matters. My work has covered:
• Developing waterfall models in Excel to project the flow of funds through existing RMBS securities
• Writing Python code to model damages from RMBS waterfall models and arising from equity/fixed income class-action lawsuits. Additionally, I wrote helper Python code to speed up routine process and repetitive tasks.
• Developing Python code that identified and categorized company SEC filings analyzed the impact of those release dates on stock returns.
• Writing Stata code to analyze the impact of positive and negative news releases on stock returns and efficiently compile the outputs into easy-to-understand formats. I also developed a structure of programs that.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Investigated financial fraud including market manipulation, insider trading, and securities fraud for the DOJ and SEC and regularly presented results to clients. Work included:
• Recreating equity bid-ask spreads from exchange order and transaction data using R, Python, and SQL
• Performing statistical tests and implementing new analytical methods in R and Python using Bloomberg terminal data and Bloomberg EMSX transaction data
• Analyzing telecom and trade data in R
• Analyzing blockchain transactions and tracing crypto funds in Python

Washington, District Of Columbia

• I worked as a part of the Money Market Analysis section in Monetary Affairs. My policy duties included:
• Managed the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet model and its interactions with macroeconomic projections using MATLAB and SQL and produced deliverables in R.
• Managed and analyzed data on millions of repo transactions using R, SQL, and occasionally SAS.
• Performed analysis with economists in STATA using differences-in-differences, regression discontinuity, panel regressions, instrumental variables, and logit models and extensively used R for data work.
• Led a team of six that handled FOMC materials and memos along with special requests from the governors and Chairman and produced deliverables using MATLAB and R.My research there involved work on required reserves, the.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Self-managed a project while my economist was in China for 10/12 weeks. Extensively utilized SAS and SQL to clean and merge 2.4 million data points and perform exploratory regressions for a financial economics research question.

Chicago, IL

Constructed and presented database-sourced Excel tools tracking the profitability of various insurance lines.

Washington, D.C.

Master Of Science - Ms, Economics

Activities and Societies: Economics graduate students organization president, Economics supplemental instruction supervisor, Undergraduate.

Bachelor’S Degree With Honors, Economics, Class Of 2017

Activities and Societies: First-Year Residential Adviser, Washington and Lee Student Consulting, Career Fellow, University Ambassador.

Education record