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San Diego, Ca, Us

Nicosia, Cyprus

Cyprus

Market research on where and how to position Skuld as an upcoming start-up.Curation of leads database with personal contact information.Outreach to potential clients.Ad-hoc responsibilites included building slide decks, outreach templates, spreadsheet cleaning etc.Secured first demo ever for Skuld with driverless-car company Motional.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Carried out a Data-Driven project with classmates from ESADE for SCI.SCI required to build an NLP (Natural Language Processing) based forecaster for the Indian stock market.We firstly built a web-scraper to scrape stock prices and articles relating to finance and stock news.Then, I worked closely in the process for building the NLP algorithm.We used this algorithm to carry out sentiment analysis on articles and ultimately use these in another model and predict stock prices.

San Francisco Bay Area

Spearheaded data collection efforts for a biennial Investor Survey. Reached out to clients externally and and client teams internally prompting them to complete the survey. Improved sample size of participating investors to 144 in the survey which was almost doubled from 2018`s sample size.Cleaned survey data of more than 2000 rows of observations, preparing them for analysis.Designed multiple presentations using Excel and R, investigating different trends and correlations that were reflected in the survey answers. These presentations were published by Albourne for their global client base as market research.Published reports summarising clients` ESG commitments in their investment processes and assigned them internal ratings.

Cyprus

Prepared quarterly and annual financial statements and ensured compliance with financial reporting guidelines.Undertook job cost tracking, analysis and reporting in 5-member team, preparing documents required for timely payment of bills.Analysed Accounts Receivable in order for the collection team to focus their efforts towards specific customers for timely receival of payments.

Cyprus

Learned to respect and enjoy diversity in communities and gained an eagerness to find common through negotiation and leadership skills.Captained a Turkish and Greek Cypriot bi-communal basketball team which won an international tournament in Norway (also named in the All-star team)Led seminars and camps as a "Youth Leader", working with more than 50 younger teenagers between the ages of 6-12.Devised team-building activities which were incorporated into Basketball.

Cyprus

Worked both as a salesperson and as a store manager.Recorded sales revenues that were above the store average in the first week of me working there.Led the the sales standings accounting for 20 % of total sales in a sales team of 10.Terminated the usiness day and prepared the "end-of-day" reports to be sent to the headquarters as a store manager.Influenced my co-workers to not take more than the 30 minutes we were allowed during the lunch break.

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Analytics

#1st Spain | #7th in the world for its Master in Business Analytics and #3 in Europe in 2020 @QS Term 1: - Artificial Intelligence - Cloud.

Bachelor'S Degree, Quantitative Economics & Econometrics

Activities and Societies: UCSD Rugby Team