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South Jordan, Utah, US

South Jordan, Utah, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Alexandria, VA, US

• Awarded Best in Show Prize, the top prize of the competition, against 17 teams, in both DataFest 2022 and 2023
• Collaborated with 2 teammates to profile 3 different behavioral patterns of participants in a substance intervention game using K-Means Clustering, providing researchers with insights into improving the game.

Brooklyn, New York, US

• A Series B tech-enabled real estate startup that helps renters build wealth like owners. Backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and strategic angels from Opendoor, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Millennium
• Built and pitched to senior management a predictive model to identify neighborhoods with potential for high home price appreciation in order to accelerate underwriting and improve investment quality
• Created a dynamic model incorporating housing market activity to identify high-potential neighborhoods and collaborated with stakeholders to tailor the presentation of model results for a non-technical audience
• Defined metrics and created funnel dashboards for the acquisition team to contribute to a dashboard tracking company performance indicators, used by executives to inform decisions
• Revamped legacy reports on a new analytics tool and streamlined code to decrease dashboard latency by 50%

St. Paul, MN, US

• Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Teaching Assistant for:
• STAT 155 - Statistical Modeling
• STAT 125 - Epidemiology

Worldwide, OO

• Cloud migration and data modernization to Google Cloud Platform for ONE - a logistics conglomerate Our work for ONE was featured as an outstanding Case Study on Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/customers/one
• Built and integrated a parallel execution system into client's data workflow using Workflows and Data Fusion on Google Cloud Platform, reducing expected engineering time by 40% and optimizing process runtime by 70%
• Implemented 20+ validation checks to update outlier dashboard in real time using Python, Cloud Run, and BigQuery, improving data input quality for ML models forecasting client’s logistical demand
• Leveraged BigQuery and DataStudio to create an interactive dashboard monitoring business trends and identifying anomalies
• Identified ports with similar business patterns using Dynamic Time Warping, reducing the number of ML models needed

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• A 5-year strategy project for a leading private bank in Vietnam & a media due diligence projectProject 1: Strategy and analysis for a leading private bank in Vietnam
• Improved data analysis time by 50% by shifting from Excel to SQL and R. Developed sales model redesign insights from analysis of a database of 600,000+ companies in Vietnam
• Analyzed industry data to stress test key model assumptions, boosting model robustness
• Assisted in constructing a cost component framework and capital expenses analysis, outputting different expense optimization scenarios for the 5-year financial modelProject 2: Due Diligence Project for a leading media.
• Profiled programs from 15 TV channels to create a 10K-row database. Identified characteristics of popular shows to evaluate target company’s market potential
• Researched competitive landscape and content strategies for various media platforms to assess the effectiveness of target company’s strategies

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, VN

• Data and Customer Insights rotational internship at MoMo - #1 fintech company in Vietnam with 20M users (20% Vietnam population), top 50 leading global fintech by KPMG, backed by Goldman Sachs, Warburg Pincus, and.
• Built a real-time cinema occupancy dashboard for product owners to observe users’ purchasing behaviors, informing new product features for the cinema booking service and contributing to a potential 15% revenue increase
• Supported the reduction of loss by $9M (10% of total loss) from fragmented loyalty initiatives by providing segmentation insights of 3000+ merchants to help PMs optimize the point reward system for the new loyalty.
• Synthesized a report on the successful features of popular sticker sets from Asian social conglomerates, providing insights for the product team to improve and launch MoMo’s official sticker set to 25M users

Nha Trang, VN

Product Strategy and Fundraising for Xao - a startup producing the first entrepreneur toolbox in Vietnam that helps young entrepreneurs build a viable startup idea from scratch in 30 days

St. Paul, MN, US

Resume and cover letter advisory

St. Paul, MN, US

Enhancement and enrichment of the Macalester career platform for 2000 undergraduates

St. Paul, MN, US

Inventory and system management

Promotion strategies for Vietnamese cultural club, increasing the member base by 100%

Fundraising, experiential learning, and design thinking for camp education

London, England, GB

Consumer green-purchasing strategy

Soft skill education

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Major: Applied Mathematics And Statistics, Minor: Computer Science

International Baccalaureate