DATA SCIENTIST
WILLIAM
HILL
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william-hill-cfa
WillHill63
Wayland, MA 01778
Education
Univ. of Chicago
Booth School of
Business
MBA in Finance and
Accounting
Harvard College
AB, cum laude, English
Skills
PYTHON
Pandas
NumPy
Scikit-learn
Beautiful Soup
Jupyter Notebook
MACHINE LEARNING
Linear Regression
Logistic Regression
Decision Tree Models
Random Forest Models
SVM Models
KNN Models
k-Means Clustering
Natural Language
Processing
Neural Networks
DATA MANAGEMENT
PostgreSQL
Amazon Web Services
DATA VISUALIZATION
Matplotlib
Seaborn
Tableau
D3
FINANCIAL
CFA Charterholder
Intex
Yield Book
Excel
Visual Basic
Experience
Metis New York, NY
Data Scientist Jan. 2019 to Mar. 2019
Completed a 12 week immersive data science bootcamp focused on Python, machine learning, statistical modeling and data visualization. Selected projects include: Play Ball! Using Linear Regression to Model Baseball Wins. Scraped data from baseball-reference.com and bootstrapped a linear regression model via stepwise regression to forecast team wins from commonly available baseball statistics. Bank On It! Predicting Consumer Loan Defaults.
Built and tested logistic regression, decision tree and random forest models to forecast consumer loan defaults based on information provided in loan applications. Says Who? Authorship Attribution Via Natural Language Processing. Used Bag-of-Words, Parts-of-Speech and other NLP methods to classify whether an edition of the Federalist Papers was written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison or John Jay. A Virtual Virtuoso: Classifying 19th Century Artwork with Convolutional Neural Networks. Trained a neural net model on images scraped from museum websites to match Impressionist / early Modern paintings with the appropriate artist. The PrinceRidge Group, LLC New York, NY
Managing Director Feb. 2011 to May 2011
ABS sales specialist covering institutional investors in the US and in Europe. Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd. London, UK
Director, Fixed Income Sales Aug. 1999 to Nov. 2010 Member of UK structured solutions team providing sales coverage to banks, insurance companies, money managers and hedge funds in the UK and in Ireland. Consistently one of the firm’s top sales producers in Europe for structured products. Expanded the distribution footprint of Credit Suisse’s ABS, RMBS, CMBS and CDO platforms with European institutional investors.
Prospected for new accounts, developed small clients into meaningful producers and improved market share with large investors.
Identified and pursued new investment opportunities through consultative dialogue with clients. Focused on strategic transactions with large commercial impact to Credit Suisse. Worked collaboratively with the research, trading, structuring and origination teams to bring a complete suite of resources to my clients.
Leveraged client relationships to secure deal mandates for Credit Suisse and generate significant fee income above and beyond my sales production. Won a cross-selling award for directing client business to other divisions of the firm. Colonial Management Associates Boston, MA
Vice President and Portfolio Manager Nov. 1996 to June 1999 Member of a portfolio management team that ran $1.9bn in mutual funds. Formulated investment strategies to maximize total returns of the Group’s mutual funds. Performed on-site due diligence of ABS and non-Agency RMBS issuers and made investment recommendations for team portfolios.
Worked with Group Manager to develop new investment products for institutional investors. Volunteering
Wayland Weston Rowing Association ·
Director (Treasurer from Nov. 2015 to Nov. 2017)
Nov. 2015 to
Current
Good Shepherd Parish · Member, Finance Committee May 2015 to Current Wayland Youth Soccer / Basketball Nov. 2013 to June 2015 Coached several boys middle school soccer and basketball teams.