William Shi

630-***-**** ac6fpm@r.postjobfree.com

**** ******** ****, *********, ** 60517

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