Mike Cavanna

**** ******* *****, **********, **. 940-***-**** ab8ivz@r.postjobfree.com

Job Objective: Seeking a long term business analyst position where I can impact a company's

top- and bottom-line growth by applying sophisticated business and data analytics skills to

increase sales, improve operational efficiency, and reduce costs.

Work Experience:

Data Analyst, Investment Products (September 2012 – Present)

Acxiom Corporation

Dallas, TX

A Recognized leader in Technology and Marketing information services to the world.

• Performed research on the financial health of publicly-held companies for investment

manager’s use in the equity and bond market

• Produced detailed reports on corporate risk and profitability ratios, and benchmarked

against industry standards

• Generated actionable business intelligence data for 47 of the Fortune 100 brands

• Provided historical, current and predictive views of business operations using data

mining, predictive analytics, and complex event processing methods

• Delivered competitive intelligence data on company competitors with similar metrics to

include revenue, ROI, ROCE, CROCI

Data Analyst (May 2008 – August 2012)

Maple Brown-Abbott

Sydney, Australia

A leading provider of insurance, investments, and retirement products and services.

• Performed credit risk analysis to create customer database for investment products

• Created data mining algorithms to include clustering, logistic and linear regression

• Led a team of analysts and administered business requirements document for projects in

support of the sales department

• Created and adopted rules protocol on data integrity and governance

• Delivered 85% increase in customer accounts over the previous year due to improved

data accuracy and standardization

Retail Operations-Data Analyst (October 2002 – April 2008)

Sprouts Farmers Market

Phoenix, AZ

Specialty food chain specializing in Organic and Nutritional grocery products.

• Provided analytical support to ensure data integrity in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, POS

accuracy, employee and inventory management

• Analysis of out-of-stock results resulted in a 2% increase in product availability, reducing

missed sales by $180 million versus prior year

• Analyzed 400+ stores sales trends to group stores with similar sales patterns for applying

seasonal indices that improved forecasting accuracy, resulting in improved and accurate

orders by department and reducing companywide shrinkage by $850,000 in fiscal year

2006.

• Led labor costs study which reduced inefficiencies. Saved $1.3 million in excess labor for

year 2006 compared to the previous year.

•Assisted in training field staff in the use of Microsoft Dynamics for front and back office

operations

Summary of Qualifications:

• Expert at creating meaningful, actionable business intelligence from multiple complex

information systems

• Strong track record of finding efficiencies in processes, systems and operations to

increase productivity, reduce waste, and lower costs

• Experienced in the use and application of Microsoft Dynamics CRM

• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Excellent presenter.

• Six years database management and SAS programming experience

• Master’s Degree in Economics

• US Citizen

• Fluent in three languages: English, Spanish, Filipino.

Education:

M.S in Economics, Ateneo University, Manila, Philippines; Jul. 2002

(Philippine equivalent of an Ivy League University)

B.S in Economics, University of the East, Philippines; Jul. 1999

(Dean’s List from Sophomore to Senior year)

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