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Miami, Florida, United States

• Led project to monetize dealership inventory system from conceptual to pilot phase
• Spearheaded payment processing framework implementation by gathering system integration requirements, outlining assumptions in Visio, and working with stakeholders and SMEs to iteratively improve system design
• Gathered vehicle data and image requirements, sourced data, and received contract approval for an ongoing ETL of critical new data to system
• Handled a wide variety of other milestones such as quality assurance work, application release, integrations, and reporting solutions
• Tracked work on Monday.com board, coordinating among project members in weekly sync meetings

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Responsible for analyzing client requirements and converting them into fully fleshed out user stories on Jira
• Led team meetings including the standup, Discovery sessions, Refinement sessions, and Change Control Board meetings
• Performed Dry Run testing of tickets and worked with developers to address defects, minimizing bugs found during UAT
• Maintained a daily-updated backlog on SharePoint, communicated through email and in Backlog Prioritization meetings to ensure correct ticket priority

Owings Mills

-Business Solutions Analyst in GBS DMS responsible for supporting the Financial Intermediary Service department's tech needs using an Agile framework-Ownership of quality assurance for FIS applications including executing regression tests, resolving defects, creating test cases, overseeing UAT, and implementing enhancements-Worked with several teams to.

Greater New York City Area

-Analyze news and review stock charts each day before the market opens to find opportunities with the best risk reward ratio-Studied how market participants think and react to news, events, and changing market conditions-Assess market vulnerability and volatility to adjust open-market risk-Gained proficiency in technical analysis-Traded over 1.5 million.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-Initiated a project designed to discover how to improve market share and customer satisfaction-Composed, programmed and distributed a questionnaire to 10,000 past guests-Analyzed the resulting data and condensed findings into a 60 slide presentation-Presented results and analysis to the entirety of Celebrity Cruises’ marketing department and deployment team

Vanderbilt University

-Recruited experiment participants and organized participant information to ensure proper testing -Tested participants and entered resulting data electronically

University Of Miami

-Organized and set up all materials required for the experiment -Ensured proper data entry vital to results

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

-Prepared presentations for major grocery chains such as Whole Foods -Helped with supply chain management to replace conventional ingredients with organic ones-Corresponded and complied with Quality Assurance International in order to receive their organic certification

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, 3.5/4.0

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity- Founding Father and Intramurals Chair

Education record

Activities and Societies: Debate, Basketball, Tennis