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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Candidate for a doctoral degree in Applied Economics

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Subject matter expert in determinants of socioeconomic disparities, inequities, and injustice. Three years of experience leveraging applied microeconomic theory, econometric methods, and key literature and methods in the fields of policy analysis and labor economics to conduct policy relevant empirical analysis. Identifying and analyzing data to provide evidence of the opportunities presented to or barriers faced by the socioeconomically disadvantaged and suggest policy solutions to promote inclusion, equity, and justice.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

The primary objective in this role is synthesizing key applied microeconomics ideas and concepts to a diverse set of students to increase their chances of succeeding in the course and applying the tools they learn in their academic and everyday lives. Responsibilities vary, but include: draft and grade weekly problem sets and term exams, plan and conduct weekly discussion sessions, develop supplemental practice exercises and solutions for students, provide additional support to students via weekly office hours, and assist instructor during lecture times as needed.Courses:Applied Microeconomic Theory - Consumer Choice and Consumer Demand (PhD Graduate Course)Applied Microeconomic Theory - Production and Choice Under Uncertainty (PhD Graduate Course)Applied Microeconomics - Consumers, Producers, and Markets (Undergraduate Course)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Collaborating with and supporting the director of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute on research projects which aim to promote and influence policies and programs which provide disadvantaged individuals, households, and families with employment opportunities and financial wellness and security. One such project evaluates the effectiveness of a statewide high school work readiness program certification on improving students' employment and post-secondary education outcomes.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Independently executing key projects for Supervision, Regulation, and Credit - System Analytics and Support - LFBO Analytics. Projects include automating a high priority quarterly report for an audience of executive managers and bank examiners to enable quicker decision making in the midst of a large-scale economic shocks, such as a pandemic, and identifying timely data sources for key risk and performance metrics to enhance monthly and quarterly reporting.

Greater New York City Area

Independently leading and executing high priority CCB Data & Analytics projects for key business partners across the line of business and firm. Projects included creating weekly spending series from transaction data for economic analysis, weighting customer transaction data to be representative of the U.S., applying unsupervised learning to improve call routing, and analyzing customer spending data to aid prediction of financial distress for commercial bank clients. Responsibilities included delivering insights about consumers, businesses and investment firms from a variety of data sources; working with complex data sets, and using statistical and data exploration techniques to drive insights; planning, leading and collaborating with internal business partners; and managing the lifecycle of an analysis project while providing periodic communications.

Greater New York City Area

Supporting Data Insights & Science group for the Intelligent Solutions organization. Projects included analyzing customer deposit inflows to create a retirement flag to aid in understanding retirement transition spending patterns and trends, analyzing credit card transactions identify product marketing opportunities, and developing data products to business partners to aid in analysis of key business metrics. Responsibilities included delivering insights about consumers, businesses and investment firms from a variety of data sources; working with complex data sets, and using statistical and data exploration techniques to drive insights; planning, leading and collaborating with internal and external business partners; and managing the lifecycle of an analysis project while providing periodic communications.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Implemented and tracked a pilot to test a new branch payoff process for mortgage loans in California branches.Consolidated and restructured six customer service procedures to allow for ease of use and eliminate the need to search multiple procedures to provide the customer their needs.Analyzed and trended payment and payoff complaints monthly and educated the business on the impacts to their functions; identified process improvements that would lead to complaint reduction.Managed complaint root cause action tracking and became the liaison between root cause teams and the business partners.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Rotation 1: Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigations - Projects Team Main Function: Bringing AML Investigations processes and procedures up to AML StandardsRotation 2: Mortgage Banking - Continuous Improvement Team Main Function: Metrics and analysis for Servicing Customer Direct ComplaintsRotation 3: Global Business & Document Services (GBDS) - Risk Management Team Main Function: Identifying and managing key risk indicators and activities for strategic business locationsRotation 4: Mortgage Banking - Cash Operations Main Function: Improving key business processes in Payments and Payoffs operations with cross impacts with Branch and Customer Service functions

Columbus, Ohio Area

Implemented Global Threat Model to allocate risk factors to strategic GBDS business locations internationally based on the level of risk exposure.Coordinated resiliency testing and tracked metrics for resiliency; built a monthly resiliency overview for senior management.Managed Virtual Control Center and Resiliency SharePoint sites to provided continuously up-to-date information to the business.Submitted risk and controls in Phoenix for key business activities in various GBDS organizations.

Columbus, Ohio

Strategized, coordinated, and managed project to improve the MIS program surrounding Mortgage Bank complaints across the organization and built a new metrics package to implement controls to identify signals, trends, and shifts in Customer Direct complaints.Conducted projection analysis using numerical impact from recent complaint events, historical Servicing complaint volumes, and historical & forecasted Servicing portfolio volumes to support the first proposal for new thresholds for the Servicing Key Risk Indicator.Produced weekly and monthly reporting and analysis to present views of Customer Direct complaints under Servicing for management to understand the business and completed ad hoc analysis for additional information.Aided an MIS effort for SCRA/Military Processing to replicate reports previously generated in Florence, and moving to Columbus for them to be validated and automated into the appropriate business reporting tools.

Columbus, Ohio

Managed project to implement process and procedure enhancements to the AML Account Closures Team and designed and presented current state and target state process flows in Microsoft Visio.Conducted and presented gap analyses to enhance language and define processes for Global Investigations Baseline, regional, and Triage/Routing Procedures against Global AML Standards and proposed revisions to procedures.Tracked and implemented changes to revision of Global AML Standards and gathered evidence for AML QT Escalations & Analysis implementation for KEYS presentation.Constructed a catalog of 175 Livelink procedures for AML Investigations to determine retirement and compiled an inventory of processes and functions for regions to assess current state and interim state gaps.

Greensboro, North Carolina

Attended class and was available to assist Calculus, Pre-Calculus, and Algebra students for several hours a week; provided students additional help with problem solving skills; communicated with math professor to determine best approach to help students succeed in class; attended conferences to enhance skills to mentor students.

Columbus, Ohio

Coordinated the transition of User Developed Business Application (UDBA) ownership and resources and maintained communication between UDBA Governance and LOBs regarding risk remediation.Designed a project SharePoint site for coordinating and storing documentation for a tactical Investor Reporting initiative for Private Investor Payee Code Comingling of Funds automation process.Analyzed the Aging through Demand Management process utilizing statistical functions within Microsoft Excel and presented findings to management.Updated status reports for senior leadership and story cards for SCRA program initiative with legal and regulatory implications.

Northbrook, Il

Performed indications for Illinois Auto, Wisconsin Auto, and Oklahoma Renters and presented Illinois Auto indication recommendations for peer review.Determined the net cost of reinsurance for Tennessee Property and submitted filings for the net cost of reinsurance for Tennessee Owners.Implemented a flat rate change for New Hampshire Encompass Property.

Downer'S Grove, Il

Shifted mortality factors from annual to monthly basis for major firm change initiative.Ran models for individual life factors within Tillinghast Actuarial Software (TAS) and reconciled model numbers to recorded numbers.Built a macro in Microsoft Excel for generating tables for mortality factors.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Applied Economics, 3.946/4.000

Research Fields: Labor Economics (JEL J), Applied Microeconomics (JEL D), Health, Education, and Welfare (JEL I) Teaching Fields.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics; Economics, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Sisterly Relations Co-Chair / Awards Chair - Alpha Phi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Pi Mu Epsilon.