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Daniel Brockman

Developing insights through mathematics. Forecasting business activity with predictive analytics. Leading teams, planning, organizing, delegating.

1-707-543-6814, Petaluma, California 94954 USA
Dan@DanielBrockman.com

 

Qualifications
- Extensive experience developing insights with mathematics and statistics, descriptive and predictive methods, financial modeling, time series, planning, probabilistic assessments, metrics and research.
- Ability to resolve problems effectively and negotiate solutions that balance multiple needs and interests.
- Ability to explain complex business and technical topics to varied audiences.
- Experience leading cross-disciplinary teams, organizing and delegating.

Education and Certifications
- MS Finance, Golden Gate University; BS Mathematics, Eckerd College.
- Marketing Courses at University of California, Berkeley.
- SAS Certification, University of California, Berkeley.
- PMP Project Management Professional.


Statistical Analyst (contract). Wells Fargo Bank, Bank Secrecy Act - Financial Crime Analytics. San Francisco. 1/09 - 08/09.
- Led statistical analysis for improved scoring of AML cases for probable SARs.
- Introduced lift charts and logistic regression for creating and choosing models. Introduced dashboard display of key information for investigators.
- Designed Distance Metric to measure similarity of classes of customers.
- Developed Effectiveness Metric to demonstrate the usefulness of High Risk Customer Surveillance system and to tune the system.

Product Analyst (contract). Wells Fargo Bank, Money Movement Solutions group. San Francisco. 4/07 - 1/09.
- Quantitative analysis of customer enrollments, transaction volumes, channel statistics and claims for consumer and business electronic payments products.
- Liaison among product management, functional business groups, customer service, systems development and systems operations.
- Day-to-day oversight of electronic payments business operations, monitoring business performance, for product management.
- Direct Pay product. ACH payments for small businesses. Doubled in monthly volume in 18 months.
- Transfer Scheduling product. Launched in June 2007, payments increased by 50 percent to 5 million transfers monthly in 12 months.
- Internet Banking Foreign Exchange Online product. Launched in January 2007. Grew 400% in 12 months.
- Led product stakeholder meetings and ad hoc defect resolution teams.

Software Engineer (contract). Amazon.com. Seattle. 10/05 - 6/06.
- As liaison between search engine and development staffs, defined a process for revising binning, allowing multiple currencies and languages and enabling launch of two large websites.
- Documented flow of information to product display page for a major client.

Systems Engineer. Restoration Hardware. Corte Madera, CA. 6/04 - 9/05.
- RFPs and negotiations with vendors for application system enhancements.
- Designed software automating manual nightly batch operation.

Research Associate. Mellon Capital Management. San Francisco. 5/01 - 12/02.
- Wrote and revised programs used to advise traders and portfolio managers. Enhanced input processing, regression analysis, modeling algorithms, metrics and reporting for dividend discount models.
- Migrated investment research time series applications from SAS to FORTRAN.

Systems Engineer. Consultant, Independent Contractor.
Trading Research Analyst. Bank of America. San Francisco.
Senior Systems Analyst. Wells Fargo Investment Advisors. San Francisco.
Financial and Systems Analyst. Natomas Company. San Francisco.
Systems Analyst. Rapidata, Inc. San Francisco.
Actuarial Assistant. Industrial Indemnity Company. San Francisco.


Other information
- Experienced in systems analysis, design, development, and engineering of complex computer applications, using SAS, Unix/Linux, Perl, SQL, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Windows, Teradata and other databases, web technologies, various applications and programming languages.
- GRE: Verbal 760/800, Quantitative 800/800, Analytical 780/800.
- English: fluent. French: competent. Spanish: basic.

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Daniel Brockman
1-707-543-6814, Petaluma, California 94954 USA
Dan@DanielBrockman.com

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