Marcus Sharp, MBA, MSF, MST

Primarily responsibility to gather, analyze, document, and validate the needs of the business stakeholders for Aladdin customization for customer service department. The Business Analyst serves as the principal conduit for managing system requirements between the business and the software development team throughout the duration of the project.

Built and evaluated machine learning models using Airbnb data and many other datasets. Used several classification algorithms, including k-nn, naive Bayes, and classification trees. Understand how distance between records can be measured and know that there are multiple valid ways to perform tasks. Understand the key concepts behind unsupervised learning techniques such as clustering and association rules. Familiar with text mining model and know how such a model could perform sentiment… Show more

Built and evaluated machine learning models using Airbnb data and many other datasets. Used several classification algorithms, including k-nn, naive Bayes, and classification trees. Understand how distance between records can be measured and know that there are multiple valid ways to perform tasks. Understand the key concepts behind unsupervised learning techniques such as clustering and association rules. Familiar with text mining model and know how such a model could perform sentiment analysis on a body of written words. Understand why data partitioning is a fundamental step in building a machine learning model and have partitioned datasets in R. I am comfortable opening R, bringing in a data files, exploring data and creating visualizations. Show less

Converted $1.4 trillion of mutual funds as part of the Global Implementation Team. Used Agile methodology and submitted JIRAs. Participated in daily meeting by bringing up issues, answering questions and resolving issues. Utilized Excel, Invest One and internally developed client on-boarding tool. Developed & utilized test scripts during QA phase to confirm system requirements and used system during conversion phase.

Cleaned data, developed methodology, used visualization tools to display findings and made recommendations to project sponsor. Used R, SQL, Power BI and Tableau.

Determine profitability by sales channel, focus firms and product type. Used Excel, Essbase and worked with numerous subject matter experts.

Planned, analyzed, designed, tested, implemented and maintained large-scale billing/accounting system project (project was completed on time & within budgeted resource levels). Coordinated & led the efforts of 7 functional areas: finance, compliance, client service, information technology, shared billing unit, portfolio accounting and software vendor. Developed system, utilized system and moved work processes to other departments and geographic locations.

Wrote processes and trained employees in Chennai via phone/webex.

Served as finance lead on a dozen projects.

Recommended process improvements, wrote specs and performed training.

Confirmed that new billing system matched contract pricing after conversion.

Tested and ran pilot program.