Sean Thurston Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Spearheaded communication and collaboration between business, compliance, operations, risk, and data strategy teams to ensure operational readiness of trading application• Drove backlog revision and management, creation of product roadmaps, prioritization of iterations and releases, production mitigations, and executed monthly production installs• Engaged in quality assurance testing and user acceptance testing to ensure product quality

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Managed a team of 8 full-stack developers to build out an internal cloud-based fund of fund trading application in the portfolio management space of Strategic Advisers• Built various Tableau dashboards to fit business needs; included building the query, designing the dashboard, and presenting to business

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Managed multiple projects spread across two separate development teams (India and US based) while executing independent ad-hoc requests• Led the design and implementation of automated monitor ratings; 25% reduction in a Research Associates workload• Partnered with multiple external vendors to fully automate a fund manager meeting packet; transformed a 2–3-hour manual process into a 5-minute manual process• Developed a fully automated excel based tool using VBA and SQL for the Fixed Income research analysts; provided insight on a fund’s attribution breakdown within seconds

Boston, Massachusetts

• Provided support for the Fundamental Research team in the Strategic Advisors managed accounts space• Worked directly with senior and mid-level business partners to define new business capabilities• Prioritized work within an agile team and drove backlog management at an iteration and release level• Ensured quality assurance through defining acceptance criteria and performed functional testing at a story sign off level • Developed tactical research/visualization tools embedded in Tableau and Excel utilizing SQL and VBA• Drove the design and implementation of a capital gains distribution model; increased reliability of tax conscious decisions for new and current clients• Led the design and implementation of a web-based dashboard for research analysts to organize and track day-to-day activities

Raleigh, North Carolina

Merrimack, Nh

- Summer internship for three summers in a row- Ensured vital physical aspects of data was securely stored with Iron Mountain- Took inventory of asset tags and physical equipment- Ran XIV erasures to certify all information was successfully expunged according to the NIST data erasure standards - Presented an innovation idea, each summer, to improve the workplace and Fidelity as a whole to upper management

- Maintained physical appearance of outside and inside areas before opening each day. This included: mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, emptying trash bins, picking up litter, power washing the ground, cleaning picnic tables, and sometimes fixing minor potholes

- Advertised business in the local newspaper for landscaping and odd jobs - Personally developed and maintained a clientele for the bulk of the summer

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Intramural Soccer, Basketball, and Volleyball

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High School Diploma

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance And Financial Management Services

Master of Science in Financial Management concentration in Investment Analysis