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NEVIN MCDONALD

Charlotte,NC

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quantitative Data Analyst

Pip Catchers LLC
02.2021 - 10.2023
  • Engineered machine learning datasets using Python, SQL, and meta editors for diverse financial sectors, including risk management, asset markets, and real estate.
  • Applied advanced analytics to project financial trends, contributing to optimized trading protocols and informed decision-making for hedges funds with over 100,000 clients.
  • Ensured data integrity and reliability through meticulous data cleaning and manipulation, resulting in enhanced model performance.
  • Created data connections, manage Excel data queries, automate and execute data refreshes, to maintain integrity of automated corporate risk & validation project tracking tool to promote greater advancements to risk, validation & control testing projects
  • Analyzed transactions to build logical business intelligence model for real-time reporting needs.
  • Deployed predictive analytics models to forecast future trends.
  • Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.

Data Analyst Intern

World Financial Group
02.2018 - 07.2019
  • Tracked prices, yields and other trends to correctly interpret impacts on investment programs using Excel data sets through data cleaning and modeling.
  • Cooperated with multiple departments to implement industry research initiatives, determine competitive trends, and gather and document essential information for incisive financial analyses
  • Elevated client retention rates by delivering exceptional customer service to increase policy renewals and client referrals
  • Created and executed a risk assessment framework by performing detailed analysis to tailor insurance coverage to client needs and fortify clients' financial security with data management controls Python, SQL

Education

Bachelor of Science - Data Science, Software Information Systems

University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
05.2023

Associate of Arts - Arts

Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC
11.2018

Skills

  • SQL Databases
  • Python
  • Java
  • SAS
  • Excel
  • Power Point
  • Microsoft Access
  • Financial Modelling
  • Data Visualization and Presentations
  • Data Acquisition
  • Tableau
  • SQL and Databases
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Analysis
  • R Programming

Certification

Housing First To End Homelessness; Employed linear regression modeling techniques in the context of homelessness alleviation strategies, particularly focusing on "Housing First" initiatives.

  • Integrated Python programming to develop predictive models aimed at estimating housing prices.
  • Key variables included the year of construction, renovation, average bedroom count, and overall housing quality.
  • Facilitated data-driven decision-making to support efforts aimed at ending homelessness.
  • Provided valuable insights into housing affordability and accessibility.


Contractual Work in the City of Charlotte

A question into the costs, allocations, and distribution of contractual work within the city of Charlotte


  • Utilized various data modeling techniques, including regression analysis and time series analysis, to dissect budget allocation trends.
  • Implemented scatter plots, trend lines, and heat maps as visualizations to illustrate correlations, spatial patterns, and temporal trends in budget data.
  • Integrated interactive dashboards and storytelling techniques to present comprehensive insights and recommendations to stakeholders effectively.
  • Employed various data modeling techniques beyond clustering, such as regression analysis, to further dissect budget allocation trends.
  • Utilized regression analysis to identify relationships between different variables within the budget data, such as the impact of economic indicators on spending patterns.

Timeline

Quantitative Data Analyst

Pip Catchers LLC
02.2021 - 10.2023

Data Analyst Intern

World Financial Group
02.2018 - 07.2019

Bachelor of Science - Data Science, Software Information Systems

University of North Carolina At Charlotte

Associate of Arts - Arts

Central Piedmont Community College
NEVIN MCDONALD