About
Me, just me, want to be simple and happy
Official Me
Academic
Skills
I love analyzing data, managing process improvement projects and learning new things. I am Founder/CEO of a data analytics consultancy called 3PM Coffee Break. I've lived all over Southern California in the last 15 years now, loved every minute of it and currently make my home in the greater San Diego area, with my husband.
I grew up in India, in a metropolitan town called Baroda. Baroda is best known for its beautiful royal palace, an awesome university and a small-city feel with big city values.
I moved here in my senior year of high school, and except for a year in grad school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have happily made my home in various parts of Southern California since.
These days, I'm working full-time (again) for Warner Bros. as a project manager for tech and process improvement initiatives. It's different from what I've done before, and completely awesome so far. I'm learning first hand how to think strategically about organizational change and the level/scope of communication needed to make the change stick.
Skills
- Project management, data analytics, process improvement, financial analysis
- R - data analysis algorithms, data vis packages, R-Studio
- Tableau, MicroStrategy, Alteryx
- SQL Server Mgmt Studio, tSql, PL/SQL
- Finance DCF analysis, Forecast modeling, Scenario modeling, Financial statement analysis & recon
- Excel pivots, data tables, solver, stats, vba/macros, integrations with access & sharepoint, dashboards & form tools, pretty charts
- ERP Finance software - Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Hyperion Brio Query
- SharePoint 2013, Nintex Forms & Workflows O365, PowerBI
- HTML, CSS, CSS frameworks, jQuery, Javascript
- building Python scrapers
- thinking about best practice design principles for user guides, training materials
- recording training videos, exploring best practices in doing voiceovers, audio recording, video annotation
Publications
- Y. ZHOU(2016), Cardinality Constrained Portfolio Selection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Engineering, Final Year Project Theses and Dissertations Collection [paper] [slides]
- Y. ZHOU(2017), Dynamic Cardinality Constrained Portfolio Optimization with fixed and linear Transaction Costs, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Engineering, Final Year Project Theses and Dissertations Collection[paper][slides]
Reports and Course Projects
- Fuel Hedging in Asian Airlines[Report]