HAROLD TOBIAS ADU-TWUM

adu7p9@r.postjobfree.com +1-330-***-**** Youngstown, Ohio

EDUCATION

Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH

Master of Science Expected Fall 2023

Mathematics & Statistics GPA: 4.0

Master of Arts Fall 2022

Economics GPA: 3.9

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology Kumasi, Ghana Bachelor of Arts Fall 2020

Economics GPA: 3.84

CFA Level II Candidate Fall 2023

CFA Institute Charlottesville, VA http://basno.com/girg6jnr EXPERIENCE

Purdue Data Mine West Lafayette, Indiana, Remote

Data Mine Researcher January 2023- Present

Collaborating with Nuvve through Purdue’s Data Mine to forecast energy needed for electric vehicle, plug in and plug out times for individual vehicles to help decrease the ownership cost of electric vehicles while supporting the integration of renewable energy for scalable and sustainable green society.

Employ and explore models like Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS), Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), Bayesian Optimization, Multivariate Regression, Lasso Regression, Support Vector Regression in solving Nuvve Data Mine project Youngstown State University Youngstown, Ohio

Research Assistant August 2021 - Present

Utilized SAS and python to analyze the impact of investor sentiment on stock market returns that serve as a guide for portfolio allocation.

Created and analyzed financial portfolios to make investment recommendations with SAS and python.

Employed SAS for time-series analysis and forecasting demand for Generocorp widgets with a mean squared forecasting error of 0.0021.

Employed SAS to calculate the 1% value at risk on a $1,000,000 portfolio. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana Research Assistant September 2020-July 2021

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Employed Stata to assess the impact financial deepening have on growth in Ghana

Employed Stata and SAS to preprocess and analyze data on financial sector development and growth project

Collaborated with the senior research team to administer surveys on public debt levels and social welfare

Reviewed literature, collect data and analyze data with Stata, python, and tableau for faculty for publication. Global Startup Ecosystem London, UK

Data Analysis and Research intern May 2020-July 2020

Selected as 1 of 15 out of an applicant pool of 210 to engage in data analysis and research training.

Employed Microsoft excel to collect and clean data on tech ecosystems in the UK, Ghana, Nigeria, Bahrain, and Aruba

Visualized data using Microsoft excel on projects in the UK, Ghana, Nigeria, Bahrain, and Aruba PROJECTS

Generocorp Forecasting Techniques Project:

Employed simple exponential smoothening, Holt-Winters multiplicative method, and Decomposition analysis on the demand for Generocorp widgets: Tiny, Standard, and Jumbo to recommend a better forecasting technique relative to the initial random walk technique and provided a demand forecast from March to December 2019. Predicting the value of cars:

Utilized Python to create a model that predicts the value of a car based on year, engine size, and mileage Portfolio Value at Risk Project:

Used ARCH and GARCH Models to calculate the 1% value at risk on a $1,000,000 portfolio Amazon Project:

Utilized Tableau to create a dashboard that shows how revenue and cost affect profit levels in Amazon and how revenue could be improved and cost could be reduced focusing on states and categories of goods purchased.

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SKILLS

Python SAS SQL Tableau Excel Stata Financial Analysis Quantitative Forecasting

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