Analytics professional with 5+ years of experience working with data, identifying trends, and building/improving models.
Data Scientist @ From February 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) Business Intelligence Analyst, Senior MicroStrategy Developer @ • Managed a multi-faceted Microstrategy environment which included 6 different servers for development, production and QA processes.
• MicroStrategy was leveraged by ITG as the front-end for reporting on their massive database. The tool requires expertise in a variety of areas including: designing reports and creating metrics, optimization of SQL queries, security roles and troubleshooting.
• As a member of the umbrella Analytic Products and Research division, specifically Post-Trade Analytics, report development focused on ITG’s flagship product, transaction cost analysis (TCA). By calculating cost and aggregating over a wide variety of dimensions, from individual ticker, trader and broker, to country and portfolio manager, TCA reports provided clients with insight on the cost drivers of their trading activities.
• Daily responsibilities included the design and maintenance of these ad hoc reports on the transaction costs for equity trading flowing from the largest banks in the US, Europe and Canada. From September 2009 to January 2013 (3 years 5 months) Senior Analyst @ •As a Senior Analyst at a fast-paced recent entrant to the credit card market, work included exposure to a sundry of job functions such as program management, operations, and modeling & analytics.
•As an analyst, project results were directly utilized, with the aid of senior staff, in the formulation of strategies to increase the value of First Equity's $1 billion credit card portfolio.
•Diverse project experience included work on risk modeling, credit line increase targeting, balance transfers, retention strategies, activation, and underwriting.
•Analytic work required regular queries from a large customer database followed by SPSS dataset manipulation / preparation for creating and presenting reports and projections to senior management.
•Manager of the Credit Protection program, which generated $300K per month in net revenue. As the contact point between First Equity and the third-party insurance provider responsibilities included: developing and organizing data transfers between parties, monitoring performance of marketing campaigns, and devising methods for increasing program participation and profitability. From June 2006 to August 2009 (3 years 3 months) Greater Philadelphia Area
MS, Statistics @ Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) From 2010 to 2012 BAS, Applied Science, Mathematics @ University of Pennsylvania From 2003 to 2007 BA, Economics, Mathematics @ University of Pennsylvania From 2003 to 2007 Daniel Gustafson is skilled in: Databases, Analytics, Business Intelligence, SAS, Data Analysis, Statistics, SQL, SPSS, Data Mining, Analysis, Optimization, Problem Solving, Microstrategy, Statistical Modeling, Business Strategy, R, Agile Methodologies, Financial Modeling, Program Management, Project Management, Software Development, Microsoft Office, Hadoop, Hive, Apache Spark, Python, Tableau