Nicholas Smith Email & Phone Number

Seattle

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Conducting data research, collection and mining for analytics projects to enhance client's marketing capabilities.
• Developing Power BI dashboards for universities, offering insights for alumni's professional journeys post-graduation.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Performed data mining and analysis for a client to identify $32M in performance improvement opportunities. Designed functions and visuals in Excel to highlight areas for improvement and to help client prioritize quick.
• Analyzed financial statements and performed valuation analysis and modeling in support of a client's bid to acquire a new business.

Seattle

• Gathered and analyzed information for a constrained business process and partnered with IT to design an automated solution, resulting in a reduction to report processing time by 66%.
• Developed financial models with resource allocation recommendations, go/no-go decision analysis, and risks and opportunities in support of strategic decision making.
• Interviewed cross-functional teams to help design databases. Leveraged SSMS to help automate the manual process of pulling data from these databases for analytics purposes, reducing process flow by 75%.
• Leveraged SQL and Tableau to manage databases and visualize statistical analysis.
• Designed a sophisticated change-tracking model in Excel which relied on thorough details and documentation to enable successful configuration and cost control for a large engineering project.
• Built a data-driven model in Excel, which was used to evaluate recurring investment costs, reducing prep time for senior leadership reviews by 30%.

Puget Sound, WA

• Interviewed and selected for a highly competitive three-year rotational development program.
• Generated financial reports, models, and statistical analyses in Excel in support of pricing bids for new business.
• Managed comprehensive financial forecasts and performance tracking for 12 small research and development projects, which helped achieve no year over year budget overruns.
• Conducted root-cause analysis with mechanical engineering teams and factory floor staff to identify and document problems and implement solutions for schedule and cost issues, resulting in meeting 95% of our EVM targets.
• Volunteered to implement budgets and to lead cost tracking for the enterprise’s new employee engagement teams, resulting in no annual budget overruns for all 17 offices.

Master'S Degree, Business

MBA Class of 2021

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance And Operations Management

Course, Foundations Of Programming - Python

I am practicing basic programming concepts using Python. I'm gaining a rapid and practical introduction to computer programming and.

Course, Foundations Of Databases & Sql Programming

In this course, I learned the technical and practical concepts underlying databases. I gained experience using relational database.