Mark Phillip Simon
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EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN August 2012 – May 2016
•Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Minor in English, 3.5/4.0
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
T. Rowe Price, Owings Mills, MD June 2018 – June 2020
Business Solutions Analyst Consultant
•Business Analyst on the IC technology team responsible for supporting Financial Intermediary Services using an Agile framework
•Leads enhancement projects involving requirements elicitation and documentation, discovery work, analytical problem solving and QA testing using Kanban and Agile methodologies
•Owns quality assurance for team applications involving regression and smoke testing, coordination of User Acceptance Testing, database querying and defect resolution
•Facilitates communication between developers and business partners, putting technical concepts into easily understood language
•Nominated for Consultant of the Month in recognition of strong work ethic
T3 Trading Group, LLC, New York, NY September 2016 – March 2018
Proprietary Equity Trader
•Equity Trader responsible for industry and company fundamental and technical analysis to find trading opportunities
•Learned how company fundamentals interact with investor growth expectations to establish stock price multiples
•Communicated best trading ideas to colleagues in daily pre-market rap sessions
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Miami, FL June 2015 – August 2015
Market Research Intern
•Composed, programmed and distributed a questionnaire to 10,000 past guests designed to gain insight on how to improve the customer experience
•Analyzed the data to find statistically significant results, interpreted the findings and developed a 60-slide PowerPoint presentation
•Presented results and analysis to Celebrity Cruises’ marketing department and deployment team
KEY SKILLS
SQL, Rally, JIRA, ServiceNow, DB Visualizer, HP ALM, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Qualtrics
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Cloud Practitioner, CFA Investment Foundations, CFA level 1 Candidate
HOBBIES and INTERESTS
Reading, Chess, Travelling, Stocks, Pro Football