Michael Guckes Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Giving construction industry leaders powerful and profit-generating insights thanks to my building and analyzing of ConstructConnect's proprietary data.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Cincinnati, Oh.

● Provide business strategy, market forecasting, business cycle, and data-driven manufacturing insights to clients. ● International speaking

● Built forecast models describing the industrial and manufacturing industries using Gardner's proprietary data. This will give Gardner's clients exclusive insights to what is and will be happening in their industries.

Cincinnati, Oh.

● Leading the operational change management efforts at Great American in order to bring predictive analytics to the many profit centers within the company.● Developing market insights for Great American business units.

Columbus

● Managed simultaneous projects under tight deadlines.● Generated monthly economic and interest rate outlook reports.● Built time-series econometric models (ARIMA, ARMA, Auto-Regressive, MLS, OLS) that relate macro-economic performance to income and balance sheet items and company value.● Designed, built and maintained segments of the bank’s CCAR stress-testing models and process.● Built data validation tools using SAS and Excel.● Managed the Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) calculations of the bank.

● Primary economist for the Ohio Department of Transportation's $1.5 billion program.● Designed and monitor critical metrics used by ODOT's executives to assess the Department's overall performance.● Combined economics with geographic information systems (GIS) to address the specific needs and attributes of each market area. Once market areas are defined it is possible to analyze the unique attributes of each area and how to best service that area's needs. ● 2+ years of management experience as team-leader● Produced 5-year econometric forecasts. This information is shared with revenue and budget departments to create holistic and strategic financial and operational plans for ODOT.● Designed and maintained software for use by ODOT and ODOT's consultants.● Responsible for understanding the macro and micro economic factors affecting the cost of construction projects (labor, materials and energy) and then communicating that information to ODOT's executive management to drive informed decision making.● Provided in-depth market statistical analyses for specific construction products including concrete, oil, steel and machinery equipment.● Used SAS to create pricing models for items that lack traditional markets.● Used data-mining and statistical research tools to assist in making data-driven decisions.● Created economic impact and economic development reports for assessing the impact of potential legislative bills.

Revelation Ventures owns the rights to the registered name Revelation Cycling. Revelation Cycling researches, designs, develops and patents bicycle accessories and then works to promote these inventions to industry manufacturers.● Patent Pending # 2008/0296329 - Article Transportation Rack● Multiple other inventions not under patent protection.● Worked with engineers and manufacturers to produce cost-efficient designs without sacrificing quality or product utility.

First Sophomore at Kenyon to ever assist with introductory economics classes.

● Provided data and statistical support for professorial research of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory.● Wrote my senior economics thesis on the correlation between educating women in developing countries and improved family health and well-being.● Instructed and assisted students in introductory economics classes

Managed the college bicycle repair shop and four volunteers.Supervised fund raising and asset allocation for the club, raising over $5,000.

Mba, Strategy & Operation

Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Club

Master, Business Administration; Marketing And Operations

Motorsports Welding - Level 1, Tig Welding

Earned Lincoln's level 1 welding certificate for TIG welding Aluminum and Steel

Ba, Economics, Political Science

Education record