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• Launched the Payments and Fintech product suite, incorporating app metric, transactional, and web-scrape data to provide near-real-time insights across the Fintech market for institutional clients via Tableau dashboard and API.• Initiated coverage on Coinbase and Robinhood, as well as produce data-driven equity research reports and KPI forecasts for the broader Payments and Fintech sectors.• Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineering, sales, and equity research teams to produce and deliver actionable insights for over 100 of the world’s largest hedge funds.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Produced equity research reports and KPI forecasts in the e-Commerce and Internet sector, with coverage including eBay, Amazon, Wayfair, DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber and Lyft.• Developed eBay and seller-marketplace product for institutional investor client-base, including novel web-scrape and digital purchase data to derive gross merchandise value insights.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Piloted international market acceptance in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, granting $77k in new revenue at start. Since adoption and expansion, this initiative led to $1.22MM in top-line revenue in FY 2018. • Optimized e-commerce payment processing system to increase acceptance rate throughput and minimize risk. Maintained fraud rates below 1% industry requirements during 2017 and 2018.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Built empirical risk models, financial projections, and fraud predictions. Deep-dive, query, audit and join datasets from in-house database using SQL. • Increased top-line revenue through improved payment processing management via new rulesets. One such auto-accept rule, derived from chargeback threshold analysis, led to $109k in accepted orders in Q4 2017.• Developed in-house fraud-reporting KPIs and dashboard reporting to provide actionable insights to senior management on a regular cadence

• Performed quantitative data analysis and qualitative research for Assistant Professor Kyle Lascurettes.• Edited and researched for Lascurettes’ book, Orders of Exclusion, and his work for the RAND Corporation.

Strasbourg Area, France

Taught and organized English-language workshops at the Language Resource Center (or Centre des Ressources des Langues) at the University of Strasbourg. Class topics depended on the subject of study for each group, with the main ones being economics, psychology and biology.

• Performed extensive data analysis on userbase to facilitate fraud prevention on the Evolve Money app.• Identified fraud rings using statistical methods, the largest accounting for $500k in fraudulent transactions.

Developed websites, managed social media, and provided business development support for clients, as well as PR and messaging assistance. Messaging included logo redesigning, branding, and competitor analysis.

Oregon City, Oregon

Responsible for building a main street database, complete with market analysis, business mix, and tax data. Inventoried all the businesses in the Economic Improvement District (EID). Developed marketing and economic restructuring plan for the EID.

Trained two age groups of students, 4-7 and 8-12 year olds, in the art of Krav Maga Self Defense. Taught Muay Thai Kickboxing to adults.