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DFS Army Inc. is a leading Daily Fantasy Sports organization providing its members state of the art analysis and content including projections, articles, and research in order to give our members a competitive edge. • Lead contributor of the WNBA product providing daily updates to projections and research to give our members an edge. Also developed and implemented a model to predict both player and team performance as well as the score and outcome of each game.• Developed two models that projects the score and winner of Men’s College Basketball games with a focus on March Madness. The first model was designed to detect upsets in the first round and the second model to forecast winners past the first round. • Write Data Analytics articles analyzing advanced statistics in NBA, NFL, WNBA, and Game Theory.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Second Rotation - Small Cap Equity Analyst - Chicago IL September 2017- Present• Developed a multi-factor model that predicted the performance of small cap biotechnology companies. • Developed a model that looks at the alpha models our team uses to determine whether or not a stock is going to perform better if our models rank the stock at the top for an extended period of time or if the models only ranks it at the top for a short period of time. • Created multiple models to forecast, using fundamental factors, whether or not the entire market is going to go up or down over the next month and more specifically if our models are going to be in favor with the market or not.• Manage and trade our portfolios in Charles River.• Understand and create paper portfolios using Axioma Portfolio Optimizer.First Rotation - Institutional Asset Management Analyst - Columbus OH June 2016- September 2017• Create and maintain quarterly reports for over 50 clients and various consultants by linking data from FactSet and other performance databases into Excel and Powerpoint to increase efficiency. • Research and analyze mutual funds on PNC’s platform by asset class and present recommendations to Investment Advisors.• Led a data-mining project into PNC’s RFP team. Investigated how to maximize capacity by choosing what types of RFPs to accept, whom to accept RFPs from and how to decrease the time it takes for an RFP to be written and submitted. Presented to executives my analysis on ways to improve the costs and future key performance indicators of the members of the RFP team.• Completed a 4-week training program that consisted of learning about the markets, building financial modeling, and conducting sales presentations.

•Developed and implemented an algorithm (p-value < .05) analyzing biotechnology companies in advance of a catalyst that projected whether or not the event will be successful and the expected value of the catalyst on the stock price. •Analyzed the stock market daily identifying investment opportunities for upper management to act on.•Presented comprehensive stock reviews weekly to upper management that analyzed both the fundamentals of the company as well as the technical analysis utilizing published SEC documents and data in addition to information from investor calls.•Reviewed and provided comments on J2KR Investments successful debt offering documents.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Engaged in entire sales process that involved calling leads, scheduling clients, determining the needs of the clients and how to properly address those needs, and presenting solutions to the clients in an effective way that ends with a successful investment in life insurance. After the summer was over, I was ranked in the top 50 interns across the nation in premium and lives. (Approximately 15,000 interns in company)

Rancho Santa Margarita, Ca, Us

I developed a working knowledge of the manufacturing, quality and distribution capabilities. I also leveraged the knowledge gained by developing and presenting to executive management an alternative shipping methodology that is projected to bring annual cost savings to Applied Medical of $40,000

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration

Study Abroad, Commerce

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