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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Developing and supporting both generic and audience-specific models to enhance clients’marketing and customer acquisition strategies, directly contributing to more than $20M inannual revenue.Establishing a team-wide set of standards and practices for end-to-end modeldevelopment, including data preparation, sampling, model selection, and communication ofkey findings and results.Leading product/model development cycles from end to end with limited supervision;mentoring junior team members to support their technical competencies and cultivatetalent development across the organization.

Vienna, Va, Us

Performed quantitative modeling within the Lending Analytics team to drive internal business and credit policy decisions.Developed survival models in R to estimate lifetime losses within the consumer loan portfolio as part of the implementation of the current expected credit loss (CECL) standard.Deployed and managed existing models for estimating losses and recoveries, communicate results to accounting department in order to allocate reserves.Developed income, expense, and origination forecasting models as part of the company's annual financial planning.

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Performed quantitative analysis within the data analytics work stream of the Air Force Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) team.Developed a package in R (and interface in Shiny) that provides a framework for performing core audit readiness, validation, reconciliation, and exploratory analysis on transactional data.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed a predictive classification model as part of a one-to-many client retention strategy, designed to target customers who are at risk of churning. Implemented and tested different machine learning methods to determine probability of renewal for clients and leveraged appropriate performance metrics and graphs to accurately measure model performance.

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I conduct research in data mining, business analytics, and statistical computing with business applications.

University, Ms, Us

Prepared student-athletes in a variety of mathematics courses, developed students’ quantitative skills and general study habits, communicated academic progress to counselors and learning specialists through detailed reports, helped student-athletes achieve the highest cumulative grade point average (2.96) in school’s recorded history.

University, Ms, Us

Taught Java I and Java II lab sessions. In Java I, I introduced students to problem solving and algorithm development. In Java II, I shifted the focus to computer programming as a systematic discipline (data structures, abstract data types, algorithm design and analysis).

Concord, Ma, Us

Facilitated a research project in natural disaster simulation, developed a game-driven model for quantifying critical decision-making, resulting in a blueprint to be used for future simulation development.Corresponded with fellow interns to design a thorough and realistic game narrative, performed extensive research on multi-criteria decision analysis and emergency response; formulated a variety of natural disaster scenarios to be presented to the user.Programmed a game in Java designed to elicit personal preferences and priorities of the user, devised a system for evaluating each user action in terms of specific post-disaster criteria.

Walldorf, Bw, De

Analyzed a legacy database system for future software development, identified and reviewed essential system components; assisted in the implementation of a new tumor documentation system in Java to be used in hospital cancer registries across Germany.Communicated to supervisor and programmers key system features and segments, interpreted and mapped out different queries being made to a relational database, produced 70 pages of documentation outlining technical specifications.

Master'S Degree, Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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