Successful project outcomes make me thrill – I appreciate the knowledge the most when the moment numbers and formulas intertwine and lead to a positive result. Being a utilitarian person, I love to utilize theories in subjects, such as mathematics, statistics, and computer science, and work out the problems. Even for most of the time, I was only asked to enhance product performance, and I would challenge the traditional ways of thinking and try to revolutionize our current business practices drastically.
Currently, I am a graduate student in the Master of Science in Business Analytics at USC Marshall School of Business. I consider myself an enthusiastic and analytical thinker with great ability to quickly understand or learn any statistic/machine learning models and apply them to solve real-world problems while utilizing powerful tools like Python and Excel.
I am interested in securing an internship in the data analytics field or any other area related to data. I wish to find a place where I will be able to leverage my knowledge gained from academic training to make realistic contributions while learning more advanced skills or techniques during the internship!
Zihao Zhao
3600 Ronald Ct
Fremont, CA 94538 US
(510)396-8852
zihao.zhao.2021@marshall.usc.edu
Master of Science in Business Analytics • May 2022
Top 10 Global Ranking (QS World University Rankings 2021 - Masters in Business Analytics)
Department of Data Science and Operations - Coursework:
∙ The Analytics Edge: Data, Models, and Effective Decisions
∙ Business Analytics
∙ Data Driven Decision Making
∙ SQL Databases for Business Analysts
∙ Statistical Computing and Data Visualization
Bachlor of Science in Management Science • June 2019
Top 20 Global Ranking (QS World University Rankings 2021 - BS in Economics)
Department of Economics - Coursework:
∙ Operation Research
∙ Econometrics
∙ Corporate Finance
∙ Financial Accounting
∙ Marketing
∙ Business Forecasting
∙ Financial Markets
∙ Decisions Under Uncertainty
∙ Microeconomics
∙ Macroeconomics
∙ International Trade
Business Development Intern • Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
• Analyzed consumption pattern of consumers in the Bay area and made optimized development plans for 4 cities
• Negotiated with more than 50 small business owners and established cooperation relationship with over 20 of
negotiated owners
• Monitored sales data and coordinated small businesses to implement promotion plans lifted overall sales by 15%
• Reported price and policy changes weekly and predicted market growth based on seasonal data
Co-Founder&Operations Manager • Feb 2015 - Jan 2017
• Led initiation and establishment of Ohlone Chinese student association
• Raised initial fund of 2500 dollars and managed to publicize association via multiple media
• Designed advertising posters and flyers attracted more than 40 students to join
• Coordinated leader team to plan and operate 4 college-level events to enhance the association's influence
I have worked on complex and analytical projects in school and during my previous internships.
Through my academic training, I learned financial accounting, linear optimization, concept of microeconomics & macroeconomics, statistics and analyzed complex set of data using excel and programming.
My technical skills cover but not limited to:
• Led team to be one of top 50 teams with a high model f1-score of 0.85
• Explored and transformed Humana's longitudinal data with 800+ features and 60,000+ observations into a cleaned dataset
• Built a binary classification model to predict 16000+ members' possibilities of having a transportation issue
• Proposed targeted recommendations and future considerations for Humana according to prediction to better provide members in trouble with needed support
• Analyzed marketing data from over 50 properties and 70000+ observations using Python and SQL in a team of 6
• Identified key variables driving sales, and utilized hypothesis-testing to determine the significance of digital marketing campaigns
• Built a linear regression model capable of explaining 81.9% of the variation in ROI of marketing tactics
• Created a dashboard that visualized the volume sales boosted by each of 9 marketing activations across all the products
• Estimated theoretically the mathematical function of a product’s possible profit return
• Corrected the theoretical approximations by using Excel to determine the actual cross-profit
relationship for the product within its budget line
• Calculated by using the results from the corrected cross-profit relationship in Excel to determine
certain critical values of the product: its break-even, optimal profit margin, etc
• Drafted independently the outline proposal for the project concerning the particular business entity,
substantial questions, formal methods, relevant logistics, etc
• Designed the survey for acquiring the specific information required for the project
• Analyzed the econometrics of the data gathered by using Stata and offered strategic suggestions on
the basis of my interpretation of such results
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I will respond as soon as possible.
