Nicholas Ray Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Product & Project Management: Oversee the back-book customer management segment level valuations model, responsible for sizing the Credit Line Increase Program’s NPV changes due to partner factors and economic forecasting.Model Design & Implementation: Designed and implemented a new front-book account level valuations model for Card Partnerships, while maintaining and improving existing models.Risk Analysis: Conducted ad-hoc analysis to determine the correct risk level for through-the-cycle charge off averages.Technical Development: Utilize SQL (Snowflake) and Python (Jupyter Notebooks) to develop releases for front-book and back-book Card Partnerships account and segment level valuation models.Cross-Functional Team Management: Manage relationships between Data Science, Vertical Finance, Credit Officer, and Model Resource Officer teams to develop and validate model upgrades and execute the full production lifecycle.People Leadership: Coach 1 associate and 4 part-time resources, managing project backlog execution and facilitate skill development for team growth.Enablement Team Leadership: Support LOB associates by designing and implementing job-specific skill trainings, creating and maintaining analysis libraries, addressing burnout and stress factors, and partnering with Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) and Fun Team Leads to foster a sense of belonging.Internship Program Coordination: Coordinate and run onboarding for the Associate Internship Program to the Card Partnerships LOB in conjunction with our Enterprise Onboarding team.DIB Programing: Actively created and deploy DIB initiatives resulting in an increase to our overall belonging metrics quarter over quarter.

Go-To-Market Implementation: Led GTM project supporting a recent M&A to highlight value of newly augmented and scaled product offerings that led to 20% ROI.Market Sizing & Forecasting: Prioritized product backlog, estimated total addressable and obtainable market size, and helped define user stories to build case for new product investment from board members for a real-estate investment media and training client.Product Roadmap Assessment & Planning: Evaluated decentralized clinical trials company’s product backlog to determine development priorities and align leadership on a clear product roadmap and vision.Investment Strategy Development: Supported the financial modeling, forecasting efforts, and overarching monetization strategy for a Fortune 100 financial services and digital retailing business case development project.Labor Strategy Evaluation & Implementation: Assessed and analyzed global R&D product shop for a clinical trials product company to align engineering, product, and leadership on efficient Scrum team design and working behaviors.Global Workforce Optimization: Led labor analysis of global operations workforce to optimize team structures, enhance continuous operations for client delivery, and inform a global hiring strategy.Technical Ecosystem Assessment: Ran current state assessment of client’s technical ecosystem and manual workflows to identify areas of inefficiency and enable better delivery of services to customers while aligning with short- and long-term strategy.Data & Analytics Advisory: Acted as a data and analytics advisor to global CTO to inform key metrics that benchmark against strategy progression and support go-forward decisioning.Culture Team Leadership: Lead internal culture committee initiatives supporting belonging in the workplace.

Pro-bono consulting project lead.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Sendero is a management consulting firm dedicated to delivering impactful results for our clients and in our community. Whether a Fortune 100 company, a local non-profit, or an innovative start-up, we strive to help others unleash their potential while upholding the commitment to live our core values. Our experts provide guidance in strategic planning, technology enablement, and organizational effectiveness across a variety of industries. We partner with our clients by designing practical, high-value solutions to their unique challenges. We enable our clients to grow wisely by defining success with them, not for them.Industry Experience: Electric Utilities, Financial Services, Non-ProfitProject Experience:Advanced Analytics for Electric Utilities ClientData Visualization and Dashboard Development for Electric Utilities ClientIT Policy Management for Electric Utilities ClientVendor Selection for Electric Utilities ClientAnalytics Project Management for International Non-Profit

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Fort Myers, Florida Area

As a Business Development Manager, I was focused on creating a strategic partnership with Emerging & Midsize HTTP vendors in the state of Florida. Delivering Gartner’s trusted research, analysis, and advice helps my clients ensure the success of their key initiatives, get the most value from their business decisions, and grow their business effectively. Initiatives: Identify Growth Opportunities across the IT Market - Develop Vertical-Industry Strategies for Emerging Tech Providers - Monetizing and Managing Emerging Technologies - Innovate in Product Strategy for Technology and Service Providers - Improve Sales Effectiveness for Technology and Service Providers - Improve Marketing Effectiveness for Technology and Service Providers - Build and Market Analytics, Big Data, and Cloud Based Offerings

Frisco, Tx

– Assessed business and household data with probability analysis to develop goal-oriented action plans centered around tax efficiencies, investment planning and risk management– Managed a practice involving P&L statements, expense reduction and business development to grow individual product sales 12% year-over-year– Established a marketing campaign to create a personal brand and generate a new client growth rate of 14% year-over-year– Oversaw 6 college agents where I coached a team one-on-one to improve weekly metrics

Bsba, Economics And Marketing

Cycling Club Vice President Cycling Club Treasurer Student Government Association Supreme Court Justice Oklahoma Intercolligiate.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science