John Kriston Email & Phone Number

United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

*Utilize data manipulation to review and verify data on all NFL plays during live games*Ensure correct data and video mappings for NFL plays*Confirm all advanced statistics for players and teams*Utilize in house developed web-based tools to make data changes

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Multinational Investment Bank ($310B Assets Under Management)
• Utilized SQL and Power BI to perform metadata compliance analysis on 1300 critical data elements (CDE) for international expansion
• Evaluated and audited critical data elements by performing market research for the data sectors
• Led bi-weekly meetings with Data Governance Team to review new CDEs and updated financial databaseAI Healthcare Company - Culturally focused platform to provide under-served communities with healthcare resources
• Performed due diligence and market/customer research to find the differences in the customer category/groups
• Trained client’s team as lead engineer, led bi-weekly team meetings, assigned engineering tasks, oversaw completion of work, and led assessment and review

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Created an automated platform in Python to analyze agency MBS trades and profit and loss by broker, as well as portfolio, coupons, and notional value comparisons by account
• Modeled trading signals from CFTC data on 10YR UST, S&P 500, WTI, and EUR/USD futures and options

San Diego, California

• Designed transport block generator for uplink communication for 5G
• Developed and tested 5G chipset, wrote testing scripts for software protocols

Menlo Park, California

• Reformed Crowdsourcing Team’s internal tool using PHP, XHP, React, and HTML
• Collaborated with Pages and Crowdsourcing teams to test/debug internal tool, and improve user interface of tool

Menlo Park, California

Developed an IOS mobile app that teaches the basics of computer science to children, by having them play fun interactive computer games.

Urbana, Illinois, United States

*Employee of Microsoft representing Microsoft on campus at University of Illinois UC*Run workshops and hackathons, host tech events and give demos*Work alongside Microsoft professionals, join exclusive Microsoft training events to learn the latest technologies*Grow and nurture a community of students and faculty on campus and online

San Francisco Bay Area

* Developed computer science curriculum for elementary school children* Built website and mobile application prototype for curriculum (c3po.com)* Lobbied Congress for CS education in U.S. core curriculum through Video Game Innovation Fellowship

Mountain View, CA

* International Ambassador * Selected as one of 50 people worldwide for program to bring CS education to "bottom 5 billion"* Collaborated with Google executives and designed program "Club in a Box"

Cohort 15, Venture Capital

Experience in Venture Capital which Includes: 1) Due Diligence 2) Sourcing 3) Evaluating Business Models & Key Metrics 4) Financial.

Masters, Financial Engineering

Experience In: 1) Investments 2) Financial Accounting 3) Econometrics 4) Stochastic Calculus 5) Trading, Market Frictions and Fin Tech 6).

Bachelor'S Of Science In Computer Engineering, Minor In Mathematics

Experience In: 1) C++ 2) R 3) Python 4) Machine Code 5) Statistical Modeling 6) SQL

Silicon Valley Workshop (Tec), Technology & Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Technology Entrepreneurship Center (TEC) at UIUC*Selected as one of 25 students from 200+ applicants to attend.

"Think Chicago" Tec, Technology And Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Technology Entrepreneurship Center (TEC) at UIUC*Selected as one of 25 students from 200+ applicants to attend.

High School, Advanced Placement/College Prep

Activities and Societies: California Scholarship Federation (CSF) (2009 - 2015) National Honor Society (NHS) (2011-2015) Speech and Debate.

Business, Summer Program (July 2014)

Computer Science, Summer Program (July 2013)

Frontiers Of Physics Non Euclidean Geometry, Summer Program (July 2012)