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Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Rutgers University - Camden | Arlington, Virginia

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Importing & Cleaning Data

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Introduction to Python

My New Track

Importing & Cleaning Data

Numbers enthusiast, translating data into meaningful insights.

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Introduction to R

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Introduction to Python

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Intermediate Python

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Introduction to R

My Certifications

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Other Certificates

CFA Institute Data Science for Investment Professional Certificate

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Introduction to SQL
Introduction to R
Intermediate Python

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Dec 2023 - Present

Senior Financial Analyst

• Design Python and R programs to execute Call Report queries and efficiently produce quarterly financial templates, interactive charts, and graphs analyzing the insured depository institution industry. • Design, update, and maintain multiple FDIC internal Tableau and PowerBI dashboards to interactively visualize market trends, such as commercial and residential real estate loan portfolios. • Conduct and present quarterly and ad hoc financial research findings to senior directors and stakeholders, which will inform policymaking decisions regarding bank regulation and the banking industry’s financial conditions. • Lead team in publishing the United States banking industry and community bank quarterly financial analysis for FDIC Board Members and financial media sources. • Manage and organize the team’s GitHub code repositories for program development, model validation, version control, and reproducibility. • Audit and validate the data of community development financial institutions and minority-owned depository institutions using Python to ensure the accuracy of formulas, models, and data displayed in quarterly publications. • Independently draft the FDIC’s Quarterly Banking Profile Community Bank Performance publication and provide answers to FDIC Board Members and financial media sources. • Provide financial expertise to the FDIC’s Financial Risk Committee meeting to address emerging banking industry risks. • Draft and edit written testimonies and press releases for the FDIC Chairman to present during quarterly media briefings. • Received FDIC mission achievement award for improving and modernizing FDIC’s process to develop financial data templates using Python and PowerBI.
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Rutgers University - Camden | Jan 2015 - May 2024

Adjunct Assistant Professor

● Prepared and delivered weekly online lectures about economic theory and its applications to 40+ college students. ● Evaluated college students' performance in class participation, assignments, and research papers. ● Incorporated the latest economic developments into the classroom and fellow facility discussions. ● Maintained regularly scheduled virtual office hours to advise and accommodate students. ● Taught undergraduate courses such as Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, and Financial Markets & Institutions courses. ● Awarded outstanding and inspirational undergraduate student survey reviews.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority | Jul 2022 - Dec 2023

Principal Research Analyst

● Independently devised, modified, and developed new procedures to solve complex data analysis problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and the form of desired results. ● Delivered expert technical support and analyses of the financial markets, specifically the intersection of regulation and policy in fixed-income markets. ● Provided FINRA staff with data and information and reported on various financial products, services, and marketplace issues, including regulatory policy research and developments. ● Summarized and outlined FINRA staff findings and research in various written products, including tables, charts, short summaries, and longer analytical policy memos and reports. ● Created and prepared economic analyses, written materials, briefing or issue papers, and memoranda for senior management and financial industry members. ● Managed department-wide research projects in Domino Data Science Platform to streamline analytical processes using RMarkdown and Jupyter Lab files to implement natural language Processing (NLP) and other machine learning models. ● Created SQL code to process and analyze 30+ million Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) transaction data for FINRA and SEC rulemaking policies. ● Designed and managed machine learning models to classify and identify broker dealers’ fixed-income trading behaviors based on multiple variables, including trade size and time. ● Led FINRA's Annual Industry Snapshot project, a publication overviewing the broker/dealer industry, covering the number of FINRA-registered individuals, firm revenues, trading activity, and how firms market their products and services. ● Awarded multiple FINRA-wide accolades for exceptional work showcasing project collaboration, innovative ideas, and expertise in financial data analytics.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Financial Analyst

● Managed team to collect, compile, and disseminate daily capital markets-related news articles to 300+ FDIC employees, including FDIC leadership. ● Published and distributed weekly FDIC-internal presentations summarizing capital market activities and emerging issues to 300+ FDIC employees, including FDIC leadership. ● Accessed Bloomberg Anywhere terminal application to obtain breaking market news, analyze trending market data, and create visual Bloomberg financial/economic charts. ● Utilized SQL, SAS, R, and Python to extract and manipulate large time-series financial data containing 100,000+ observations and 50+ variables for ad-hoc analyses. ● Created FDIC Databank SQL queries to extract insured depository institutions and bank holding companies' FFIEC financial and structural data for ad-hoc requests. ● Measured and forecasted financial institutions' total asset and deposit growth related to COVID-19 fiscal and monetary stimulus policies. ● Developed capital stress-testing templates using Excel VBA and R to analyze insured depository institutions' financial conditions. ● Supported team with creating agency-wide U.S. Debt Ceiling Dashboard by automating processes to collect and analyze daily U.S. Treasury Yields, Repo and Reverse Repo Operations, and short-term interest rates. ● Supported team with developing quarterly Community Bank Leverage Ratio (CBLR) eligible-banks analyses to inform FDIC's Board of Directors about emerging trends. ● Worked with team to analyze and present quarterly asset and deposit growth trends of banks receiving temporary relief from Part 363 of FDIC Rules and Regulations requirements. ● Developed R scripts/programs that measure and graph the financial performance of cryptocurrencies' real-time returns, market cap, volume, and volatility compared to other stock indices, equities, and commodities. ● Coauthored FDIC's Annual Risk Review's Financial Market section to summarize Treasury, municipal, and corporate bond issuance trends. ● Received multiple FDIC Individual Mission Achievement Awards for utilizing data science expertise to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and systematic stress testing related to insured depository institutions.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

Economic Analyst

● Generated Python, R, SAS, and SQL program scripts to statistically analyze and manipulate large datasets for Summary of Deposits, Research Information Systems, and HAVER data related to financial institutions' asset quality, capital and earnings, and liquidity and sensitivity. ● Utilized Excel VBA, SAS, Databank queries, and Tableau to automate quarterly FDIC State Profiles and internal FDIC State Rankings to evaluate regional economic and financial conditions. ● Developed and maintained agency-wide Tableau dashboards for FDIC's Summary of Deposits and quarterly State Profile trends. ● Created interactive economic and financial charts to identify risks and trends in the FDIC Quarterly Report for the Summary of Deposits data. ● Independently composed and edited the quarterly publication for the economic trends of the Summary of Deposits. ● Performed ad-hoc testing to evaluate defects in corporation-wide information technology systems. ● Coordinated and monitored corporation-wide project management teams' progress to achieve objectives promptly. ● Facilitated FDIC's annual Interagency Data Inventory with the Office of Financial Research. ● Managed quarterly Call Report data series and assigned line item reportability rules to follow FFIEC guidelines appropriately. ● Utilized Salesforce to address promptly and document FDIC's Public-Facing Data Application inquiries. ● Received two FDIC STAR Awards for supporting division-wide system testing and improving business processes by implementing an agency-wide Tableau Server Dashboard. ● Received the FDIC Division Team Award for teamwork success in testing and data-validating FDIC's Public-Facing Applications.

Bureau of Labor Statistics | Oct 2014 - May 2018

Economist

● Administered labor market surveys to collect economic data utilizing technologies like the internet, client-server computer systems, and wide-area networking. ● Inspected and analyzed labor market activity data using specialized statistical estimations and techniques. ● Fact-checked labor market data to prepare for public release. ● Prepared technical reports, press releases, and articles about economic labor conditions. ● Developed training and presentations for State, Bureau, and public officials. ● Contacted States regularly to monitor progress, investigate data issues, and maintain good relations. ● Developed and presented economic research publications on labor market trends.

Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs | Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

Project Assistant II

● Assisted the Executive Director with regional economic development research projects presented to New Jersey government officials. ● Analyzed New Jersey's municipalities' economic performance indicators using STATA and SPSS to identify clustering tendencies. ● Consulted research findings with New Jersey government stakeholders to improve economic conditions. ● Implemented social and economic programs to significantly enhance New Jersey's local economy.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | May 2011 - Sep 2014

Business Analyst Intern

● Conducted economic research to identify trends affecting the performance of commercial banks. ● Drafted quarterly memos on minority-owned banks' financial conditions under the Federal Reserve's Partnership for Progress Program. ● Assessed commercial bank examination reports on financial performance, such as assets, earnings, and liabilities. ● Analyzed financial institutions' corporate structures in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

My Education

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Masters of Science in Applied Financial EconomicsThe Johns Hopkins University | 2022
Master of Public Administration - MPA, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational in Public Management & FinanceRutgers University - Camden | 2014
Bachelors of Arts in EconomicsRutgers University - Camden | 2013

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