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Westmont, Illinois, United States

- Lead and oversee all aspects of the financial function, including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management- Partner with the CEO and leadership team to develop and implement long-term financial strategies that drive sustainable growth and profitability- Advance data and analytics capabilities across John Burns to improve business and strategic decision making

Chicago, Il

Lecture graduate students, design curriculum and develop materials for courses in the Masters of Science in Applied Data Science program as part of the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Division. Core and elective courses include: - Time Series Analysis and Forecasting- Leadership and Consulting for Data Science

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Courses: Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics, Introduction to Statistics, Linear and Non-Linear Models, Bayesian Analysis, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Led $1.2B of business transformation opportunities through the Commercial organization and related support functions (e.g., Finance, Risk, Logistics, Operations) of a large multi-national Oil & Gas company- Established approach to fund additional Working Capital needs (up to $500M) through new products including Receivables Securitization Facility (RSF), Receivables Factoring and Discounting Letters of Credit- Developed 5-year Digital and Analytics roadmap to support up to $350M in trading initiatives- Partnered with procurement division to advance hedging capabilities by leveraging advanced analytic modeling (e.g., machine learning methodologies, time series forecasting) - Developed custom decision support tool to minimize risk exposure for commodity purchasing (e.g., aluminum, sugar)

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Partnered with Accenture’s Corporate Finance leadership to help the organization leverage the value of data through innovative, problem-solving solutions (e.g., backlog planning and forecasting, payroll forecasting)- Recruited, supported and developed new and junior team members across the North America Finance division of Accenture's Data Analytics & Storytelling function. Specific focus on the growth of data science skills and techniques

Chicago, Illinois

- Communicated data stories to a variety of audiences from C-suite, managing directors, business analysts and to machine learning experts. Client categories include Corporate Finance, Growth and Strategy, Sales Opportunity Management, Cloud Data Architecture and Human Resources.- Developed, tested and implemented advanced analytics solutions utilizing techniques such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), neural networks, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, clustering algorithms, classification and regression modeling.- Coordinated data storage transformation to cloud based data lake in Google Cloud for internal stakeholders

Chicago, Il

- 84.51 is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Kroger Company (Fortune Top 20 Corp)- Independently delivered high-impact data science projects and play a large supporting role on large exploratory projects to support strategic Consumer Packaged Goods Clients and Kroger Grocery objectives - Recruited, supported and developed new and junior team members across the Data Science & Research Function on 84.51 analysis skills and techniques - Proactively contributed to developing or improving 84.51 ways of working, processes, products, services, tools and initiatives

Chicago, Il

- Led algorithmic trading team in quantitative research strategies enabling the use of machine learning and financial modeling.- Mentored junior traders to develop, test and execute successful model-based algorithmic strategies.- Coordinated search for potential buyers of proprietary trading software and hardware.

Glenview, Il

- HC Technologies, LLC purchased International Trading Group in December 2015 - Coordinated and led a team of data analysts, software engineers, and traders to develop multiple fully automated statistical trading strategies.- Led end-to-end development and testing for new proprietary trading products that increased strategy revenue by 90%- Created and optimized data-driven predictive models leading to performance in top 10% of the firm.- Mentored new traders on trading strategies, risk management, market fundamentals, and proprietary models and products.

Chicago

Formerly INTL FC Stone - rebranded to StoneX Group in 2020- Developed new traders on basic trading strategies and risk management valuations.- Analyzed regression statistics to develop strategies for market-cap weighted equity index spreads as well as European yield curve spreads.- Executed a quantitative analysis strategy based on a mean reversion hypothesis to initiate relative value positions using various combinations of interest rate derivatives and cash instruments.

Chicago

- Coordinated a programming team in the development of a new proprietary options valuation model. Pricing accuracy rose by 20%.- Trained and mentored new options clerks and junior traders on market fundamentals, options strategy, and portfolio risk management.- Assisted in managing risk valuations for an options book worth over $40,000,000.- Learned to manage volatility spreads and dynamically hedge risk exposure

Master Of Science (Msc), Applied Data Science

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of the Analytics Trading GroupCoding in Python, R, SQL, PySpark, and HiveQL for projects in Machine.

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Contributor to The Chicago Maroon newspaperElements of Economic Analysis under Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas Jr..