Nathan C. Standifer

Education

Chemical Engineering - Graduating May 2021 2018 – Present (GPA: 3.3/4.0) Wayne State University – College of Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Graduated Dec 2013 (GPA: 3.4/4.0) Eastern Michigan University

Employment

Schoolcraft College - Livonia, MI Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 Physics TA

- Host weekly study sessions in calculus-based physics; create study guides for 15+ students.

- Lead or facilitate laboratory experiments.

Helm Promotions - Plymouth, MI Dec 2015 – Mar 2017 Financial Analyst

- Create financial tools for executive management; collaborate with supervisor and CFO suggestions and decisions to be made by executive management.

- Profit and loss (P&L) statement analysis: Forecasting, budgeting, trending of sales and expenses.

- Innovation and optimization of accounting and reporting processes.

- Monthly reporting: sales and expense, trend creation, assist with month-end and year-end accounting.

- Create and curate business intelligence dashboards – utilize programming and MS Excel macros.

- Field problematic items (negative margin tool), report to sales, marketing, supervisor and upper management.

Willis Towers Watson - Southfield, MI Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Service Center (ASC)

- Reconcile large data for year-over-year benefit analyses, listings, liability summaries pertaining to annual pension valuations.

- Utilize Excel and company programming software to forecast population growth/movement, benefit accrual, funding and payment scenarios, plan design changes.

- Report to consulting actuarial supervisors; create client deliverables of Funding, Expense, Disclosure, Government forms.

- Assist Pension and Group Benefits (PAG) department with Bulk Lump Sum (BLS) windows.

- Optimize/automate processes, created new tool for benefit calculations. DADCO Inc. - Plymouth, MI Mar 2012 – Jan 2014

Factory worker

- Assemble components for Nitrogen gas springs, working in ‘Micro’ & ‘Housings’ departments.

- Maintain tolerance requirements of components and tooling equipment.

- Quality assurance of parts assembled, report defects to engineering department. Projects

Business intelligence tool - Helm promotions

- Collaborated with several departments to initiate flagship monitoring system used by sales and marketing.

- Tied daily Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) sales to marketing events; automatically update with Excel VBA Macro and other programming.

- First instance of SKU-level trending in company history. Disaster recovery model - Helm Promotions

- Primary developer in multimillion dollar insurance claim to recoup lost product, disruption of business.

- Utilized page thickness, inventory counts, proportion techniques and coding to estimate product value. Software Proficiency: MATLAB (Mathematica), SolidWorks, Intuit Quickbase, Minitab, MS Office.