Versatile financial professional with extensive experience, proficient in driving strategic outcomes through strong analytical skills and meticulous execution
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Business Unit FP&A
PenFed Credit Union
08.2021 - Current
Conduct Consumer Banking budget and monthly outlook forecast
Identify key business drivers & review P&L performance on regular basis
Perform segment profitability and cost allocation
Improving Consumer business unit risk adjusted return via deposit structuring and loan pricing optimization
Review credit policy and loss forecast
Engage in PenFed Capital Planning and Stress testing
Manager, Credit Review
Capital One
01.2020 - 08.2021
Reviewer in Charge on Kohl's (Partnership) underwriting and Credit Line Increase Program
Reviewer in Charge on Mainstreet and Upmarket Credit Card Underwritings
Reviewer in Charge on Auto Underwritings
Credit Intent Management & Underwriting Control
Script based automatic end-to-end testing on Credit Intents and Transactions at account level (Risk Management Award winner of Capital One, 2021)
Review and Challenge Enterprise-wide Ability-to-Pay and NPV logics
Review Risk drivers and Implications under Baseline/Stressed Scenarios
Manager, Capital Markets & Risks
Capital One
01.2018 - 01.2020
Quarterly valuation of FAS107 Assets (Cards, Auto, Consumer and Commercial loans) and Liabilities (Retail & Wholesale CDs, FHLB advance)
Quarterly SEC 10Q/10K Fair Value Disclosure Table review and report
Liquidity Premium calibration and review
Acquisition and Joint Venture Investment Valuation & Review (Walmart, Mariah North etc.)
Python automation of valuation process across multiple platforms.
Senior ALM analyst, Financial Risk Management
Navy Federal Credit Union
01.2014 - 01.2018
Tracking and analyzing credit risk of NFCU credit card and consumer loan portfolios (20+ Billions)
Modify and develop behavioral (curtail, disbursement, prepay, charge-off) models within and outside QRM framework.
Balance Sheet simulation under various assumption sets (Pro forma, Implied forward, Deterministic and etc.)
Engaged in NFCU Annual Financial Planning, CCAR and Stress Test.
Conduct data validation and cleaning from multiple sources, optimize and streamline operation and decision making process.
Propose/Develop/Implement NFCU Credit Card Loss model using proportional hazard regression with time varying macroeconomic variables used in 2016, 2017 Federal Reserve and NCUA Stress Testing. (CECL friendly)
Scorecard performance review.
Evaluate economic implications on TDR (Troubled Debt Restructuring) practice using VECM (Vector Error Correction Model), first of its kind in NFCU.
Develop/Implement Early Withdraw Model for Term Deposits (17+ Billions).
Manager, Marketing Decision Management
Citi
01.2011 - 01.2014
Tracking and evaluating multi-channel campaign performance and marketing creative performance
Fine tune, update and develop predictive models for 150+ million customers (Canada and US combined)
Integrate campaign, HR, Finance information to provide operation advice to field offices
Customer engagement and survey analysis
Tri-Bureau (Equifax, TransUnion, Experian) attributes alignment (Single Stream), customized and trending data selection.
Conduct Audit and QC both internally and externally to fulfill FCRA and CFPB regulation requirements
Geographic based selection optimization for CANADA direct mail prospects (In production): Identified 2 + million incremental and profitable population annually and provides strong lift to existing models
Canada Ontario renter incremental population selection (In production): Penetrate deeper on selected renter segments, $7 million advance being made on flight basis.
Canada Customer Base Early Payoff Model (In production): Integrated into Lead Management system to prioritize customer contact and predict renewals
Canada Marginal Population re-mail (Pilot Test): Selected previous responders with riskrank fail but will migrate into riskrank average and above, existing results indicating comfortable risk performance yet 4X conversion rate comparing with BAU population
CANADA ITA population SimUCR model (Pilot Test): Will be the primary selection model for Bureau No-hit population if testing result inline with expectation
US Employee Turnover impact on Marketing Campaign performance: first quantitative benchmark of US Employee Turnover analysis, provided to Finance and HR
US prospect response model
US customer base best contact time model for lead management
Research Analyst
Capital Market Trading Lab (A Premier Partnership between NASDAQ Market Group and George Washington University)
01.2003 - 01.2009
Develop pairs trading strategy based on implied volatility dispersion of correlated equity pairs for TraderStation using Easy-Language. Conduct robust analysis for various equity trading strategies via back-test, in-sample/out-of-sample testing
Apply simulation models for projecting returns of different fixed income sectors, examine the co-integration relationship between the bond's yield curve and the swap curve to find effective hedging strategies
Extend structural models to analyze corporate creditworthiness across business cycles
Present training seminars to MBAs and undergraduates about financial software application
Education
Ph.D (ABD) - Finance
George Washington University
Washington, DC
01.2011
Master of Science - Finance
George Washington University
Washington, DC
01.2004
BS - Chemical Engineering, International Business Administration
Dalian University of Technology
P.R. China
01.1998
Skills
Financial modeling and forecasting
Credit risk assessment
Budgeting and stress testing
Financial valuation
Enterprise risk control
Finance operations and regulations
Quantitative risk management framework
Bloomberg
Programming in Python, SAS, C
Data warehousing with Snowflake
VBA automation
Timeline
Senior Manager, Business Unit FP&A
PenFed Credit Union
08.2021 - Current
Manager, Credit Review
Capital One
01.2020 - 08.2021
Manager, Capital Markets & Risks
Capital One
01.2018 - 01.2020
Senior ALM analyst, Financial Risk Management
Navy Federal Credit Union
01.2014 - 01.2018
Manager, Marketing Decision Management
Citi
01.2011 - 01.2014
Research Analyst
Capital Market Trading Lab (A Premier Partnership between NASDAQ Market Group and George Washington University)
01.2003 - 01.2009
Ph.D (ABD) - Finance
George Washington University
Master of Science - Finance
George Washington University
BS - Chemical Engineering, International Business Administration