Michael Strazzo
New London,CT
Summary
Skilled in conducting comparative fiscal and monetary policy research across Latin American economies, with a strong understanding of regional economic dynamics and trends. Experienced in analyzing exchange market data to provide insights into domestic and global foreign exchange trends.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
AI Hackathon
Unum Insurance Company
Portland, Maine
03.2026 - 03.2026
- Diagnosed the root causes of a $225M year-over-year loss by analyzing regional hubs and product segments, specifically identifying Washington D.C. and Portland, Maine, as high-loss areas.
- Utilized Gemini AI to perform automated data validation, identifying and correcting truncated office names, inconsistent date formats, and value errors that prevented accurate YOY comparisons.
- Attributed significant losses to interest-rate sensitive industries, such as the Mortgage, Real Estate, and Broker verticals, which were suffering from high interest rates and a liquidity crisis.
- Proposed a strategic reallocation of marketing spend away from volatile small business channels, which saw a 48.8% decline, toward counter-cyclical sectors like Healthcare and Engineering.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews to identify process friction points, such as the fragility of manual Excel templates and the lack of historical data alignment due to organizational changes.
Monetary Programming and Exchange Market Intern
Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo, D.R
05.2025 - 07.2025
- Spent the first month as a monetary programming intern, where I worked 3 days in each of the five subdivisions and later spent two weeks in the fiscal policy division.
- Learned vastly about the impact of monetary policy on shaping the economy.
- Became adept at making/organizing balance sheets, Income statements, cashflows, and minimal statistic through Stata.
- Wrote a paper for the fiscal policy subdivisions regarding fiscal policy in Latin American countries, their success, reasons, and if a country like the D.R should adopt them.
- Spent the second month as an exchange market intern under a different dynamic, as I stayed in the same subdivision the entire month and job-shadowed substantially more.
- Worked on actualizing data sets and researching specific articles regarding the exchange market domestically and globally.
Education
Bachelor Of Science - Finance concentration with History minor
Bryant University
05-2025
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Stata
- Problem-solving
- Modeling/analyzing markets
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
- Research methods and analysis
Timeline
AI Hackathon
Unum Insurance Company
03.2026 - 03.2026
Monetary Programming and Exchange Market Intern
Central Bank of the Dominican Republic
05.2025 - 07.2025
Bachelor Of Science - Finance concentration with History minor
Bryant University