Project Manager

WEN ZHANG

Address: *** * **** ** *******, Chicago, IL 60616 Phone: 608-***-**** E-mail: ***.************@*****.***

Objective:

Detail-oriented professional with extensive background in quantitative analysis and statistical analysis is

looking for internships and full-time job. Hands-on experience in Risk Analysis, Statistical Analysis,

Operation Research, Data mining, Data Analysis, Decision Analysis, Portfolio Analysis and Capital

investment. Highly versatile; can quickly master new roles, responsibilities, technologies, and

environment.

Education:

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iversity of Wisconsin - Madison Sept 2012 – May 2014

M.S in Industrial and System Engineering – Operation Research (GPA: 3.6/4.0) Madison, WI

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njin University of Finance & Economics Sept 2009 – Jun 2012

M.S. in Finance (GPA: 3.7/4.0) Tianjin, China

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njin University of Finance & Economics Sept 2005 – Jun 2009

B.S. in Finance (GPA:3.6/4.0) Minor: Accounting Tianjin, China

Research & Project Experience:

• Data Mining in Credit Risk Project Analyzed massive amount of client’s feature and loss data to find

the key features based on Principle Component Analysis and classification algorithms, and used

linear model to predict the loss severity in R.

• Portfolio Management Project: Tested performance of portfolios cross different structure methods and

criteria using simulation techniques, improved Sharpe Ratio of portfolios by eliminating bad

performance constituents before constructing portfolios.

• Risk Management Project: Performed large scale simulation calculating downside risk and value at risk

of portfolios of ETFs in MATLAB using parallel computing.

• UW Hospital Urology Preoperative Labs Project: Analyzed the historical scheduled surgery

cancellation data in UW Hospital, developed and implemented forecasting models to predict future

scheduled surgery cancellation rate by using SAS and logistic regression.

• Machine learning Project: Applied support vector machines in classifying disputed articles in

MATLAB and analyzed numerical algorithm solving linear equations and optimization problems.

• Department of Natural Resources (DNR) of Wisconsin Project: Implemented Integer programming

techniques in solving facility location and human resource allocation problem in GAMS.

• Queuing problem Project: Using simulation modeling and analysis techniques to reduce the patient

waiting time in the hospital and maximize patient’s satisfaction by Arena.

• Toyota' Engine Block Production Line Project: Modeled and evaluated line performance, designed lean

buffers, identified bottleneck, provided continuous improvement recommendations for improve

throughput by 5% and reduce work-in-process by 50%.

Internships:

Bank of China (BOC), Head Office Sept 2011 – May 2012

Analyst of Personal Banking Department Beijing, China

• Participated in developing automatic analytical system to analyze and report operation performance of

branch banks and handled the performance decision problem using regression analysis and hypothesis

testing

China Development Bank (CDB), Tianjin Branch Mar 2009 – Aug 2009

Analyst of Risk Management Department Tianjin, China

• Provided quantitative and technical support for predictive modeling group handling credit risk, market

risk, loss forecast reporting and large-scale data base

Certificate:

• SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Certificate No BP032987v9

• SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 Certificate No AP009123v9

• Financial Risk Manager(FRM) Certificate (Level 1& Level 2)

Skills: SAS, SQL, R, Excel, VBA, MATLAB, Tableau, GAMS, Arena, EVIEWS and Visual Basic

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