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Briana Love Walker Whylie — established creative professional

I am an established professional presenting selected projects and skills that reflect my hands-on experience.

Work samples

A curated set of projects, case notes, and presentations that show the work I led, tools I used, and the results I delivered.

  • Financial Stress Early-Warning System
    Financial Stress Early-Warning System

    Developed hypotheses linking volatility, rates, inflation, employment, and sector behavior to future market stress. Engineered 18 features using SQL CTEs, window functions, rolling metrics, and publication-lag controls. Backtested 986 out-of-sample observations, achieving 0.625 ROC-AUC and documenting look-ahead bias controls.

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  • Quantitative Research Virtual Experience Program
    Quantitative Research Virtual Experience Program

    Automated commodity contract valuation with Python, reducing processing time from 45 minutes to under five. Modeled 50,000+ borrower records, improving default-prediction accuracy 20% over baseline.

About me

I am an established professional presenting selected projects and skills that reflect my hands-on experience.

I am Briana Love Walker Whylie. I am firmly established in my career and focus on hands-on work that shows what I can do. I write and present my experience through a curated portfolio that highlights projects and skills.

Experience

Data Scientist Apprentice, Finance Department

Seentio Financial Software · March 2026 - Present

Data Science Summer Intern

Kvadrat · Summer 2026

Union Ironworker Apprentice

Local 580 · June 2021 - April 2025

Accounts Payable, Finance Department

Universal Music Group · March 2019 - March 2020

Education

Pace University, Seidenberg School - New York, NY

Master of Science in Data Science | Concentration: Quantitative Research and Data Science | GPA: 4.0

Berkeley College - New York, NY

Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business | Concentration: Finance | GPA: 3.6 · Class of 2018

Harvard Online

Data Science with Python Coursework · Class of 2022

Skills

Portfolio presentationProject writingPublic speakingCurating case studiesData Analytics

Financial Stress Early-Warning System

Developed hypotheses linking volatility, rates, inflation, employment, and sector behavior to future market stress. Engineered 18 features using SQL CTEs, window functions, rolling metrics, and publication-lag controls. Backtested 986 out-of-sample observations, achieving 0.625 ROC-AUC and documenting look-ahead bias controls.

PythonSQLSQLitescikit-learn
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Quantitative Research Virtual Experience Program

Automated commodity contract valuation with Python, reducing processing time from 45 minutes to under five. Modeled 50,000+ borrower records, improving default-prediction accuracy 20% over baseline.

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