Yuchen Steven Ren

805-***-**** ad21wk@r.postjobfree.com 9473 Olive Blvd, St. Louis

EDUCATION

Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School St. Louis, MO Master of Science in Business Analytics, Financial Technology Track; GPA: 3.71 / 4.0 August 2022 - December 2023

• WashU Olin Scholarship Recipient (Spring/Fall 2023)

• Relevant Coursework: Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Predictive Analytics, Options/Futures University of California, Santa Barbara Goleta, CA Bachelor of Science in Financial Mathematics and Statistics; GPA: 3.72 / 4.0 September 2019 - June 2022

• Honors: Dean Honors (All quarters 2020; Spring 2021) SKILLS & INTERESTS

• Languages: Chinese and English (Fluent); Spanish (Limited)

• Technical Skills: Word, Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Table), PowerPoint, SAS, R (ggplot, mysql), SQL, Tableau, PowerBI

• Volunteering: World Police and Firefighter Games, Local Environment Improvement PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Southern California Edison Pomona, CA

Grid Modernization Portfolio Intern, Asset Strategy and Planning May 2023 – August 2023

• Data Visualization: Visualized Grid Mod financial data in OU, tower, and workstream level by month in doughnut chart, pie chart, combo chart, and matrix in PowerBI

• Dashboard Development: Developed 12 interactive performance dashboards using PowerBI from monthly financial data, connected with external excel, added slicers and filters to customize by month, funding type, towers, and workstreams to monitor budget utilization and forecast future cash flow requirement for projects under Grid Mod governance

• Risk Management: Assisted management risks and issues associated with Grid Mod projects by updating the SharePoint Risk/Issues log while maintaining continuous communication with tower leads to track the progression of challenges, ensuring timely resolution and minimizing impacts on project timelines

• Strategic Planning: Participated in Asset Strategy and Planning and addressed high-impact risks and issues by heading a 2-hour Monthly Program Status Review meeting and collaborating with 7 tower leads to disseminate month-end updates

• Project Management: Supported Grid Mod Senior Specialist to manage ongoing Modernization projects by revising and maintaining the Grid Mod program schedule, and planning using the Waterfall Model to keep all Grid Mod activities on schedule and aligned with the established timeline

• Cross-Functional Teamwork: Collaborated with 7 senior managers in the creation of 20+ slides for the Monthly Status reports, facilitated meetings between the Grid Mod team and principal managers to enhance and finalize the report, and subsequently released the Monthly Status Report to an audience of 100+ individuals within the company Finovax New York, NY

Data/Quantitative Analyst Intern June 2022 – August 2022

• Data Extraction: Extracted crypto data from the company’s existing data stores by writing SQL join, group by, and having queries

• Investment Analysis: Calculated ROI based on the company’s past 100+ transactions in the crypto market to predict future cash flow needs for potential crypto investments

• Margin Analysis: Conducted research on margin ratios within cryptocurrency market exchanges, with a particular emphasis on examining the unique calculation methodologies utilized by various crypto market platforms, and identifying the margin ratio thresholds for forced liquidation on each exchange

• Industry Research: Led a group of 5 on the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry project regarding the future and popular trend, employed Python to perform trend analysis, simulated the historical funding rate to compare with the current funding rate RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Business Analytics Theory and Practice based on Data Science June 2021 – November 2021 Advisor: Stephen Coggeshall, Marshall School of Business, USC Published Paper: The Development of TikTok’s Global Market https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211209.452

• Researching: Guided a team of 3 to gather 10+ research sources for a comprehensive literature review to examine the economic repercussions resulting from TikTok’s global expansion, and facilitated the recruitment of participants for the experiment phase focused on user feedback while using TikTok

• Statistical Analysis: Performed customer demographic distribution statistical analysis to determine the correlation and the impact of Tik Tok’s Customer Value Algorithms on customers’ preferences and spending habits using R

• Customer Analysis: Assessed customer content preference regarding demographics, age such as online survey, delved into the influence of the Customer Value Measure algorithm in sustaining its customer retention

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