Maria Kanakidi

**** **** ** *** ** Astoria, NY **103 347-***-**** ac8nrb@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-kanakidi/

EDUCATION

Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business New York, NY Master of Science in Statistics, GPA: 3.9 12/18

• Courses include: Machine Learning for Data Mining (R), Multivariate Statistical Methods (SAS), Programming for Analytics (Python) The State University of Management Moscow, Russia

Bachelor of Business Administration, GPA: 3.99 06/08

• Recipient of the Presidential Scholarship for excellence in studies (9 semesters)

• Moscow Mayor Scholarship Recipient (10 semesters) TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), Programming: Python3 (Spyder, Jupyter Notebook, libraries: Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Beautiful Soup etc.), R/ RStudio, SAS, SQL, MATLAB/Octave, Tableau. Languages: Fluent in Russian, conversational Spanish EXPERIENCE

E-Commerce Small Business Owner New York, NY

Self-Employed 09/10 – 12/18

• Managed buying and selling goods online via third party sales venues such as Amazon.com and eBay.com

• Leveraged analytical tools of Seller Hub such as traffic, impressions, CTR etc. to create advertising and promotion campaigns that led to overall 70-80% sales increase per campaign

• Increased yearly revenue by over 50% after the first 2 years of operation

• Managed customer service, issue resolution and ensured high satisfaction for customers

• Facilitated and performed procurement of new inventory PromLogistic LLC Moscow, Russia

Purchasing Manager of Ferroalloys (alloys of metal(s) and iron used in steel production) 03/06 – 02/09

• Negotiated with suppliers and forwarding agents on price, and delivery options of cargo

• Communicated with various entities to ensure smooth logistic process of delivering materials

• Proceeded demurrage claim settlements which saved company up to over USD $30k in total

• Facilitated quality expertise of material with contracted surveyors from London based firm

• Participated in formation of cash flow budget with six colleagues from purchasing department RELATED ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Applied Regression Analysis: Analysis of Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages in NY State Per County 09/16 – 12/16

• Using SAS implemented multiple regression analysis, polynomial regression, model selection, regularized ridged regression in a study of business establishments, levels of employment and wages correlation for all 62 counties of the state of NY. Financial Statistics: Trading Bitcoin and Time Series Models 09/17 – 12/17

• Used Python to analyze Bitcoin stock market, performed time series modeling and forecasting of future prices. Programming for Analytics: Python Code Implementation: Equities vs S&P500 Analysis in Python 09/17 – 12/17

• Used Python to import and process the data using various python libraries. Conducted regression analysis on each of the 5 chosen equities against the S&P 500 to determine if there is any correlation. Produced visualization plots and graphs. Time Series Forecasting and Statistical Modeling 09/18 – 12/18

• Using R built an ARIMA + GARCH models for predicting the S&P500 stock volatility, estimated parameters and performed diagnostics of the model. Supplied 5-days forecast of stock volatility. Machine Learning for Data Mining: Classification Analysis of Spam E-mail Database 09/18 – 12/18

• Used R to perform logistic regression, ridge, lasso and elastic net regressions, random forest, support vector machines classification methods on a real dataset to classify spam and non-spam e-mails. Calculated various types of misclassification errors for each method for comparison, tuned the hyperparameters using cross-validation.

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