William Shi
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EDUCATION
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduation Date: May 2018
B.S. Information Systems Management, Operations Management GPA: 3.21
Tsinghua University February 2016-June 2016
Study Abroad Program
WORK EXPERIENCE
Octopus Network
Advisor December 2017-Present
Advised the team about investor relations, marketing, and ecosystem governance
Provided early investors with a strong understanding of Octopus Network’s goals by editing and clarifying Octopus Network’s whitepaper and mission statement
Revised Octopus Network’s token metrics and developed a framework for its token economy, which convinced angel investors to invest over $300,000 in Octopus Network
ACTIVITIES
Students For Environmental Concerns August 2014-May 2018
Treasurer May 2015-May 2018
Organized special finance-related meetings with other officers and committee chairs on a regular basis
Planned the budget and wrote a balance sheet for the organization’s monetary transactions
Acquired funding for the organization by organizing fundraisers and communicating with alumni donors
Left the organization with 50% more cash than when I started and developed a standardized ledger format for future treasurers to use
Jump Genesis Blockchain Start-Up Competition April 2018
First Place Team – TokenSim
Proposed developing token simulation software for cryptocurrency ecosystems and presented it to a panel of Jump Trading judges
Created charts to illustrate how variables affect one another in the ecosystem, which demonstrated how the software would simulate a cryptocurrency ecosystem
Wrote TokenSim’s business needs and requirements documentation
Price Velocity Application Development Team January 2017-December 2017
Proposed using the velocity of the price of a commodity to predict the future trend of the price by one iteration
Defined the requirements for the project for the project’s developer and completed the project in 6 months
Wrote the testing plan and executed the test cases after development was complete
SKILLS
Technical Skills: SQL, HTML and CSS, R, Tableau, MS Word, and MS Excel. Basic level of Python, JavaScript, Linux Console
Languages: English, Chinese
Strong understanding of relational databases, business requirements documentation, functional design, software testing, and blockchain technology