Jack of all trades, master of Excel.

Quantitative Analyst and Product Manager @ From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaProduct & Operations Analytics @ Applying scientific rigor to the intersection of product and process. Specific projects include: • Machine learning investigations on topics such as predicting retention, identifying churn causality, customer segmentation, and lead routing optimization • Consulting on internal process redesign efforts • Working with numerous teams to redefine & establish tracking for key operational metrics • Capacity planning models • Leading the efforts to consolidate internal tools or in some cases rebuild them entirely (most notably a full reconstruction of LearnVest's Salesforce CRM system) • Defining, launching, and analyzing pilot programs and product tests Primary technologies: Python (pandas, sk-learn), Excel, Salesforce, Redshift, MySQL From March 2014 to May 2015 (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaVBA Developer @ Over a three month period led the full specification, hiring, rearchitecture, development, and deployment for a critical component of LearnVest's financial planning software. Final work product was comprised of over 315,000 individual Excel formulas and 15,000 lines of VBA code. During this redesign process, owned all changes to the in production financial planning model ranging from minor bug fixes to major overhauls of the calculation systems and customer facing interface. From October 2013 to March 2014 (6 months) Greater New York City AreaData Science Expert in Residence @ Taught the basics of data science starting with an introduction to Python, experimental design, predictive modeling, and the application of statistical methods to real world problems. Machine Learning principles discussed include (but were not limited to) Principal Component Analysis, Support Vector Machines, Linear and Nonlinear Regressions, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees, and various Ensemble Methods. Contributed to a substantial curriculum redesign by creating new lesson plans through the period and providing feedback to General Assembly HQ. From August 2013 to November 2013 (4 months) Greater New York City AreaIntern @ A long/short emerging markets hedge fund Primary project was leading the development of an analytical toolkit designed to assist in the quantitative analysis of over 1700 emerging markets companies. Additionally assisted fund principals by maintaining and expanding current Excel models, preparing investor correspondence, and developing data visualizations From December 2012 to May 2013 (6 months) Greater Nashville AreaMasters of Science in Finance @ Focus: Analytics and Entrepreneurship From July 2012 to May 2013 (11 months) Greater Nashville AreaIntern @ Instructed and assisted early stage companies in financial modeling, strategy, and analytical methods From September 2012 to December 2012 (4 months) Greater Nashville AreaForex Trader / Model Strategist @ Acted as liaison with Unified Global Solutions to design, test, and implement a high frequency algorithmic trading system based on market microstructure theory After completing the development phase of the model, accepted a position as the sole trader responsible for using the developed system to trade fund capital During this time personally managed currency trades with total volume in excess of $2.5B From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaIndependent Retail Day Trader @ Developed and executed a discretionary commodity futures trading model focusing on short term technical analysis strategies Achieved a portfolio return in excess of 30% over a seven month period From 2010 to 2010 (less than a year) Argentina

Master of Science (M.S.), Finance, 3.5 @ Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management From 2012 to 2013 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General, 3.3 @ North Carolina State University - College of Management From 2006 to 2009 Michael Williams is skilled in: Data Analysis, Financial Modeling, Microsoft Excel, Financial Analysis, Portfolio Management, SAS, Python, Investments, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, FX trading, R, Eviews, Equities, Quantitative Analytics