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San Francisco, California, US

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

New York, NY, US

• Led alternative payments portfolio authorization risk strategies. Partnered with business units and developed industry top capabilities and products.American Express 2017 FRM Leadership in Action Award recipient.
• Designed industry’s first alternative payments Instants Customer Notification (ICN) alert system. Expected ROI of 380% with estimated annual saving of $1.2M within first year
• Enhanced Gradient Boosting Model (GBM) performance using new fraud attributes, reducing transaction level false positive hit rate. The model decreases alternative payments cards fraud rate by 19%
• Developed weekly/monthly tracking framework, enabling rapid adjustment to potential merchant risk. Successfully identified and actioned on multiple fraudulent merchants with annual savings of $2.1MM
• Implemented new alternative payments charge verification, authorization rules and CPP/CPT strategy using binary trees, random forest and data manipulation, reducing fraud by $2.5M
• Proposed innovative testing strategy leading to fraud mitigation increase X10, compared to average portfolio performance

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Enhanced mathematical and optimization models for operational and strategic initiatives. Developed metrics to evaluate actual performance and predict future reliability. Performed scenario based work frame to reduce.
• Led testing and implementation of Probabilistic Resource Integrated Staffing Model (PrISM) – strategic optimization model to determine company’s crew operating requirements. Formulated optimization framework and.
• Developed large-scale discrete simulation planning model to automatically update crew liability based on FAA (FAR117) requirements and regulations. Presented at 2013 Fall NACU conference.
• Participated in Department of Justice (DOJ) merger requirements analysis; worked directly with senior leadership on planning departments’ merger proposal
• Created new BI processes and tools, and automated existing reports for greater efficiency. Created new performance metrics and enhance existing KPIs
• Implemented reporting work frame for senior leadership. Provided periodical operational updates to Managing Directors level and above

Malvern, Pennsylvania, US

• Implement data clustering and sensitivity analysis as part of CRM BI initiatives. Use forecasting models to analyze supply and demand requirements of production planning decisions.
• Saved two weeks of production time for top 20 items by implementing a new Lead-Time strategy
• Reduced 10% from Time-To-Market schedule via re-arranging the production supply chain
• Increased deliveries by 11% by executing new miss-promise reduction program

• 2002 Honors, Southern Command. Led 20+ active and reserve service members.
• Directed reserves unit ops deployment, brigade armory, arsenal and training
• Revamped ops readiness, leading to 30% time saving on a quaterly training support

Master’S Degree, Economics

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial Engineering