His wife says he's a loving husband, his son says he's a compassionate father (in baby language of course), his parents would say he's a respectful son, his simblings would say he's a risk taker, his friends would say he's encouraging and loyal, his ex-empolyers/peers would says he's a diligent worker, and he would say he's a dreamer and has an optimistic outlook on life.

• run around chasing his 10 month old son Max, who crawls really really really fast and as of Sep. 30 started walking!
• drink beer with his beautiful wife Emily and play devil's advocate even though he agrees with her 99% of the time
• having friends over, smoking meat on his big green egg and starting a conversation with... remember the time when...
• golfing, then contemplating on why he still plays because he's not very good at it
• hanging out at the YMCA outdoor pool watching his son dip his face in the water and regretting it, then repeating a hundred more times because... babies right?

• Empathy - Golden Rule “Treat others the way you want to be treated”
• Decisive - perform without fail what you resolve (what you set out to do)
• Peaceful - don’t be disturbed at unimportant things, or at random accidents

Segment and rank accounts by likelihood of payment using Machine Learning for Collection Agency

• Merged five different datasets, cleaned and explored data, 12+million records and 46+ columns
• Utilized dimensionality reduction, clustering, classification, and neural network models on imbalanced data
• Created a scoring system and manipulated data to segment and rank accounts
• Presented findings to executives, highlighting areas of potential improvement

Text classification using NLPs to detect sarcasm using news headlines

• Used word embeddings to retain semantic relationship within words
• Utilized recurrent neural network (RNN) with a pre-trained embedding layer GloVe
• Defined plotting function to visualize model performance

Testing if discounts have a statistically significant effect on the number of products customers order

• Checked for data normality visually using Q-Q plot and statistically using SciPy’s normaltest
• Performed Welch’s T test and examined effect size using Cohen’s d
• Summarized results with p-value, confidence level and the significance of effect size

Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

Responsible for trading operations, portfolio management and execution, assist portfolio construction on equities and equity options. Responsible for managing institutional partner relationships. Collaborate with CIO on research, trade ideas, and products. Contributes to business development, marketing, social media content and overall vision of the company. Managed and created internal database. Communicated critical data/information to partners and clients to ensure best practice and result.

Feb 2017 - Jan 2018

Reports directly to CIO, CEO and Investment Committee. Responsible for portfolio construction (equities and options), market letter construction, data screening and time sensitive research material. Generates equity / index options for covered call and custom collars for portfolios and clients. Portfolio manager for in house Index Options Strategy. Trades Institutional SMA, and in house SMA strategies. Communicated critical data/information to department heads to ensure best practice and outcome.

Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

Researched equities with a base of Graham and Dodd Security Analysis. Equity screening using sell / buy side research and other publicly available information (regulatory filings). Assists in portfolio construction (equities), data screening and time sensitive research material.

Oct 2015 - Oct 2016

Managed personal portfolio, income generating strategy, using equity options.

Aug 2009 - Oct 2015

Generated 60% of sales to breakthrough $1MM of revenue. Managed North American operations for global furniture manufacturing company. Reported directly to CEO, and directly managed plant managers to achieve the highest quality product. Oversaw financial management and logistics, and created systems to improve information flow, planning and logistics management.