• Produced 8 actionable annual reports, researching the impact of industry and macroeconomic conditions on loan portfolio performance, which were used to inform our team’s senior vice president of business insights. • Eliminated 3 days of work every month, by automating the extraction and transformation of data from the enterprise data warehouse and by loading the results into more than 5 summary tables for the concentration risk team (SQL in SAS). • Served as liaison between the concentration risk team and the reporting analytics group, by defining data analytic dashboard requirements and by replicating analytic dashboards using data warehouse tables. • Reduced our senior vice president's required presence by coordinating with the senior management of Credit Reporting Analytics and Quantitative Analytics Modeling teams to implement the senior executive’s decisions.

Zions Bancorporation | Oct 2014 - May 2018

Quantitative Modeling Analyst

• Produced 10 production statistical models to forecast financial line items for the bank’s biannual stress test (SAS and R). • Ensured models were fit-for-purpose by conducting advanced time series statistical tests, out-of-sample tests, variance analysis, model sensitivity, and forecasts analysis (SAS and Excel). • Engaged the internal risk and corporate finance (FP&A) teams biannually, to ensure stress test regression-based models were fit-for-purpose, properly implemented and produced expected forecast results. • Created 4+ main datasets through the extraction, transformation, and loading of data (ETL) from the enterprise data warehouse (SQL) and Oracle Hyperion Essbase databases (Excel). • Developed 9+ program scripts used for data management (2; SQL in SAS), variable selection and model fit (1; SAS), reporting (3; R, RMarkdown, and LaTeX), and visualization (3; R, SAS, and Excel).

My Education

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Masters of Science (MS), Financial EconomicsUtah State University | 2015

Bachelor of Science (BS), EconomicsUtah Valley University | 2012

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