Email: | Phone: (804)-709-7705 | Richmond, VA

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Summary

Product manager with over 5 years of experience in defining product strategy and vision, managing full product lifecycles, and leading cross-functional teams. Proven expertise in incubating software solutions to address large-scale business problems. Skilled at integrating customer insights into product requirements, fostering engagement across technical and non-technical stakeholders, and delivering innovative solutions. Currently pursuing a part-time Master’s in Information Technology at Virginia Tech with a focus on big data and software, and leading diversity and inclusion efforts.

Career Journey

Career Timeline

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Certifications & Skills

As a passionate advocate for continuous improvement and staying at the forefront of the tech industry, I have cultivated a diverse set of certifications and skills to deliver exceptional value to both my team and customers. My commitment to staying up-to-date with the latest industry developments has been a driving force in my career success.

Quantitative

  • Structured Data Analysis
  • Unstructured Data Analysis
  • Exploratory Data Analysis (Python, R)
  • Econometric Modeling
  • Economic Modeling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Linear Algebra
  • Multivariable Calculus

Programming

  • API development and testing (Postman)
  • Data Modeling (SSMS, MySQL, PowerBI)
  • Python
  • Java
  • R
  • RMarkdown
  • JavaScript
  • M Code (PowerBI)
  • DAX (PowerBI)
  • SQL
  • Hadoop, MapReduce (Hive)
  • Mongo DB (NoSQL DB)
  • Neo4j (Graph DB)
  • CSS
  • Bash (basic)

Software Platforms

  • Azure DevOps (deployment)
  • Azure Function App
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • PowerBI
  • Tableau
  • Monday.com
  • Bloomberg Data Terminals
  • Tamarac Integrated RIA & BI Platform
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • AtlasFive & related portals

Financial

  • Credit Risk Transaction Analysis
  • Credit Insurance Risk Transasction Analysis
  • Market & Securities Research
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Portfolio Management
  • Fixed Income & Equity Valuation

Qualitative

  • Strategic thinking
  • Organizational agility
  • Platform innovation lead
  • Effective stakeholder communication
  • Stakeholder and client relationship management
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Creative Problem-Solver
  • Perpetual Learner
  • Self-starter
  • Detail-oriented

Languages

  • Fluent in Russian
  • Fluent in Romanian
  • Conversational in Spanish

Relevant Experience

Product Manager at Eton Solutions

Richmond, VA (Remote) | June 2021 - October 2023

At ETON Solutions, I had the privilege of contributing to the success of a platform responsible for overseeing client assets exceeding $425 billion, serving over 1,200 users, and processing 3.2 million transactions annually. As an integral member of a dynamic 15-person Product Management team, my primary responsibility revolved around elevating the platform’s reporting capabilities and expanding customer options for custom integration via APIs.

My role encompassed leading technical teams to design and implement end-to-end solutions, including the ideation, roadmap design, development, rigorous testing, and, ultimately, the successful sale and implementation of platform enhancements. Through this experience, I demonstrated my proficiency in product management and my commitment to delivering innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of our clients.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Product advisor to C-suite leaders within the wealth management industry.

  • Developed innovations on a B2B SaaS fintech platform managing $425 billion in assets, 1200+ users, and 3.2 million transactions annually.

  • Led a technical team through a company-wide BI platform transition, from conception to implementation across 30+ clients to deliver a scalable and unified data model and data warehouse.

  • Bridged the gap between technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization and facilitated communication between stakeholders to ensure a cohesive software development process.

  • Managed API development and integrations crucial for supporting joint solution offerings and platform integration for scalable adoption within the partner ecosystem.

  • Developed the product roadmap and led a team of developers to transition the platform to industry-standard Single Sign-On (SSO) libraries and interfaces (MSAL, OWIN)

Skills

  • Product advisor to C-suite leaders within the wealth management industry
  • Technical liaison between technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization
  • End-to-end product management from design to deployment
  • Customer relationship management
  • Team Management
  • Data modeling (SSMS, Power BI)
  • Data analysis and ETL (Python, R)
  • Power BI (Dashboards, Reports)
  • Power Automate (Connectors and automation)
  • Power Query / M Code (data manipulation and API integration in Power BI)
  • DAX (measure creation in Power BI)
  • API design
  • Azure Function App (API management)
  • Postman (API testing)
  • Javascript (API testing)
  • Java (API design)
  • CSS (Front-end UI work)
  • Azure DevOps (Deployment management)
  • JIRA (SCRUM team management, ticketing, documentation)
  • Technical documentation writing

Senior Associate of Modeling and Valuation at KPMG

Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA (Remote) | November 2019 - June 2021

Consulted C-suite and upper management stakeholders within Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 customers, leading partners to build new practices and offerings based on KPMG’s suite of technology solutions. Developed and implemented CECL-compliant models and analytics solutions. Beyond a hands-on technical role, I assumed a pivotal position overseeing the end-to-end model evaluation process, including managing and mentoring the team and building customer relationships to expand strategic accounts and go-to-market innitiatives.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Product advisor and consultant to C-suite and upper management stakeholders in Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 customers in the finance industry.

  • Worked to align customer technology roadmaps and services with KPMG’s technology offerings.

  • Actively engaged with stakeholders across all levels of the organization, inlcuding technical analysts, upper management, and C-level.

  • Managed end-to-end go-to-market efforts (research/design, marketing pitches, new product demos, engagement and Statement of Work (SOW) contract drafting)

  • Validated financial models and code for compliance with industry Model Risk Management practices (SR11-7)

  • Worked with Linear and Logistic Regressions, Migration and Vintage Analysis, and Scorecard models.

  • Partnered with internal teams to provide free Microsoft Azure certification program for the Risk team.

Skills

  • Go-to-market initiatives
  • Product advisor lead
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Team Leadership
  • Team Management
  • Product development
  • CECL expertise
  • Technical documentation writing (audit memos)
  • Workflow automation
  • Statistical modeling
  • Python (data analysis, ML modeling, ETL)
  • R (data analysis, ETL)

Financial Economist at Federal National Mortgage Association

Washington, D.C. | June 2019 - October 2019

Maintained responsibility for upkeeping and adding new data and capabilities to Fannie Mae’s data analytics platform called Data Dynamics, created for investors in credit risk and credit insurance risk transactions.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Automated legacy monthly reporting processes by leveraging R to unify siloed data sources (manually calculated Excel workbooks, Netezza databases) into a consolidated deliverable. Used packages such as tidyverse, zoo, RODBC, lubridate, DT.

  • Created a Credit Insurance Risk Transaction dashboard for an internal client using Shiny to display the performance over time of key metrics used to compare investment offerings. Examples include prepayment rates, potential future exposure, conservatorship capital requirements, stepdown occurrence. Leveraged plotly and flexdashboard for visualizations.

Skills

  • Product development
  • Product advisor lead
  • Effective stakeholder management
  • Team Leadership
  • Process automation
  • Stakeholder relationship management
  • Technical documentation writing
  • Python (data analysis, ETL)
  • R (data analysis, ETL, dashboarding)

Research Analyst at Godsey and Gibb Wealth Management

Richmond, Virginia | June 2017 - March 2019

Responsible for daily financial analysis and reporting of companies comrpising 60% of the firm’s $1 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM). Performed financial analysis, due diligence, valuation, quarterly earnings reporting, issued buy/sell/hold opinions and consulted Portfolio Managers and Advisers on client-specific questions.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Responsible for creating daily significant updates and weekly internal strategy updates for the Investment Committee comprised of analysts, portfolio managers, advisers and company executives.

  • Performed market research and data analysis using the Bloomberg Data Terminals, Excel and VBA to identify and recommend new long-term equity and intermediate-term fixed income additions to the investment portfolio.

  • Drove significant process improvements by reducing the quarterly performance reporting workload from 192 hours to 3 hours by automating reporting processes using VBA automation.

  • Organized and participated in quarterly meetings with sell-side researchers from Goldman Sachs and Vanguard Group.

Skills

  • Stakeholder relationship management across all levels of the organization
  • Financial analysis (technical, fundamental)
  • Process automation
  • Technical documentation writing
  • Excel, VBA

Honors Undergraduate Researcher at NYUAD Economics Dept.

London, United Kingdom & Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | July 2016 - May 2017

One of two undergraduate students at NYU to earn a competitive grant of $6,500 from the Department of Social Sciences and Economics supporting experimental research in London, UK.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Explored the effect of how information bias affects opportunity cost as it relates to an individual’s decision to enforce the social norm against littering on the U.K. public transportation system.

  • Completed 212 field experiment trials and collected 144 surveys, within 15 days on site, exceeding target expectations.

  • Utilized difference-in-difference estimators, logit regressions, and interaction & proxy variables in STATA to discover new statistically significant findings submitted for review to the NYUAD journal of social sciences.

Research Assistant at NYUAD Economics Dept.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | August 2015 - January 2016

Investigated the effects of human capital on economic development across 147 countries using literacy rates as proxy variables in log-level multiple linear regressions within STATA.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Served as a Research Assistant under Prof. Abdoul Noury and T.A. Jeffrey Marshall.

Resident Assistant at NYUAD Office of Residential Education

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | August 2014 - May 2015

Co-managed the yearly budget of $10,000 designated for campus-wide events. Led monthly professional, networking, educational, and entertainment events and programs for residents. Negotiated with the student body on behalf of ResEd.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Cooperated with on-campus security, other R.A.s and staff to ensure a safe environment for residents.

  • First-responder to emergency situations.

Education

Masters in Information Techhnology, Software Development and Big Data Specializations

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) | VA, U.S.A.

Honors B.A. in Economics, Finance Minor

New York University | New York, U.S.A. & Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

  • Graduated with honors with a 3.7/4 GPA.

  • Minored in Finance with coursework completed at NYU Stern School of Business.

  • Received a four-year full academic merit scholarship to attend NYU Abu Dhabi - NYU’s global campus with a less than 5% acceptance rate.

Leadership, Awards & Activities

  • Phi Kappa Phi honor society member.

  • Merit-based VT MIT Scholarship Recipient.

  • KPMG Women of Risk Committee Lead focused on sponsoring women’s advancement within the practice.

  • “Standing Ovation” award for dedication during KPMG’s first FASB CECL standard implementation season.

  • Received a “We Serve Our Partners” award from Fannie Mae for an exceptional client-facing presentation.

  • Led G&G Research Team in placing 1st in terms of lbs/person of food donated to Feed More Hunger Relief Org.

  • NYU Founder’s Day Award for Academic Excellence.

  • Finalist of the U.A.E. Undergraduate Research Competition (selected in the top 10 out of 260 contestants).

  • Volunteer at the NYU Moses Center for Students with Disabilities.

  • President’s Education Awards Program for Academic Excellence, signed by the President of the U.S. and the Secretary of Education.

Recent Research & Publications

Group Membership and Altruistic Punishment in the Field (Honors Thesis)

In human interactions, group membership plays a significant role, but we have limited real-world data on how it affects people’s willingness to enforce rules by penalizing rule-breakers. This research aims to explore the impact of group membership on norm enforcement. Specifically, we have gathered field data to determine if individuals are more inclined to punish those from their own social group or outsiders. This investigation provides insights into the factors that drive cooperation among strangers in today’s societies.

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Quantifying Human Capital as a Factor in Measuring Economic Growth

This research project explores the connection between a country’s economic development and its literacy levels. I use GDP per capita as a measure of economic development and growth. In this study, my dependent variable is a country’s GDP per capita in 2014, while the independent variable is the literacy rate in 2014, measured as the percentage of the population aged 15 and over who can read and write.

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References

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Clay Reimer

Chief Development Officer at Eton Solutions

Clay was my direct superior at Eton Solutions.

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Robert Mallernee

CEO at Eton Solutions

Rob and I have worked together on ideating back-end and front-end platform improvements.

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Rob’s LinkedIn Profile

Kyle Sickles

Product Owner at Eton Solutions

Kyle and I have worked closely together on the BI platform migration.

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Kyle’s LinkedIn Profile

Arthena Mayfield

Product Manager at Eton Solutions

Arthena and I have closely collaborated as part of the Spark Team, dedicated to tackling the most complex challenges encountered by the business.

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Arthena’s LinkedIn Profile

Alexander C Smith

Partner at PwC

Alex was my direct supervisor at KPMG and is now a partner at PwC. With Alex’s mentorsip, I co-led the ADAPT project that created an automated data cleansing and preparation tool in Python is Machine Learning algorithms.

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Abigail Boor Holden

Managing Director at KPMG US

Abby was my direct supervisor at KPMG.

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Abby’s LinkedIn Profile

Uros Milojkovic

Senior Software Engineer at Fannie Mae

Uros was a colleague at Fannie Mae.

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Uros’s LinkedIn Profile

Ephraim Ulmer

Wealth Management Advisor at Godsey & Gibb Wealth Management

Ephraim was my direct superior at Godsey & Gibb.

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Ephraim’s LinkedIn Profile

Jean McGowan, CFA

Director of Investments at Godsey & Gibb Wealth Management

Jean was my direct superior at Godsey & Gibb.

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Jean’s LinkedIn Profile