Michael Mina

Current

• Member, Advisory Committee at United Way 211/First Call For Help
• Instructor at Cleveland State University
• Fiction writer at Self - Employed (Self-employed)

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Past

• Senior Customer & Market Analyst, AVP, Customer Analytics dept. at National City Bank
• Data Warehouse Business Analyst, CSB Database Services dept. at National City Bank
• University Data Administrator, Strategic Planning dept. at Cleveland State University

• Business Technologist, Data Administration dept. at Antares Management Solutions
• Senior Statistical Analyst, Medical Business Systems dept. at Medical Mutual of Ohio
• Underwriting Analyst at Medical Mutual of Ohio
• Actuarial Analyst at Mercer
• Actuarial Analyst at Watson Wyatt

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Education

• Cleveland State University
• Cleveland State University
• Case Western Reserve University

• Brooklyn High School

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Recommended

10 people have recommended Michael

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Website
• My VisualCV
• My Facebook page

Michael Mina’s Summary

I am a business analytics professional with a proven record of creating solutions in banking, consulting, insurance, healthcare management, benefit services, and academia.

I am seeking new opportunities in business analytics in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Feel free to send me a connection request--I'm an open networker.

Michael Mina’s Specialties:

business analytics, project management, database marketing, marketing research, data administration, data modeling, data analysis, business intelligence, data warehousing, metadata management, database design, data flow diagrams, business process mapping, software instruction, instructional design, SQL, SAS (including PROC SQL, macros), Brio, DB2, QMF, HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft Query, Oracle, SQL Server, OLAP

Michael Mina’s Experience

• Member, Advisory Committee

  United Way 211/First Call For Help

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  Evaluated impacts of business agreements with other organizations, planning proposals, etc.
  
  - Assisted with build-vs-buy decisions for mission-critical applications.
  - Reviewed RFPs for technology projects, evaluated and scored proposals sent in response.
  - Reviewed and evaluated XML schema for data interchange between information and referral agencies nationwide.

• Instructor

  Cleveland State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Instructor in the following Continuing Education classes:
  
  - Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing concepts
  - LinkedIn for Professionals
  - Database Marketing
  - SQL
  - HTML, introduction and advanced
  - Javascript, introduction and advanced
  - XML, introduction, intermediate and advanced

• Fiction writer

  Self - Employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Internet industry)

  September 1991 — Present (18 years 3 months)

  I've been writing speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror) since 1991. My work has been published in ComputorEdge, D.C., Eclipse, Fiction Forum, Figment, Haunts, Lost Worlds, Medusa's Hairdo, MindFlights, Mystic Fiction, Next Phase, Once Upon A World, Outer Darkness, Skyline Voices, Sorcerous Magazine, Talers Tales, The Cosmic Unicorn, The Nocturnal Lyric, as well as the poetry anthology Once Upon A Midnight.
  
  The awards I've won include:
  - First Prize for Fiction at the 1995 Skyline Writers’ Conference with the story Flinging Down The Moon. Award-winning novelist Maureen McHugh was the contest judge.
  - First Prize for Science Fiction at the 1996 Skyline Writers’ Conference with the story Cybernetic Angels. Novelist S. Andrew Swann (a.k.a. Steve Swiniarski) was the contest judge.
  - First Prize (tie) for the Pat Poling Memorial Award in 1998 with the story Blood Money.
  
  I appear in the Locus Index to Science Fiction (http://www.locusmag.com/index/s522.htm#A12297), and the Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase hosted by the Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection and Institute for Scientific Computation at Texas A&M University (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Michael_Mina). Both of these databases seriously undercount the number of works I have had published.

• Senior Customer & Market Analyst, AVP, Customer Analytics dept.

  National City Bank

  (Public Company; PNC; Banking industry)

  September 2007 — September 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  Prepared data-intensive analysis of campaigns related to savings portfolio (3.6 million accounts, $51 billion), and some campaigns related to checking portfolio (3.4 million accounts, $14 billion).
  
  - Developed money market savings targeting model yielding $32 MM in new deposits v. $21 MM planned.
  - Coordinated implementation of customer scoring algorithm and segmentation strategy for $11 Billion, 270K household bank acquisition. Modeled and validated application used to manage related customer calling campaign. Prepared detailed analysis of campaign for senior management.
  - Developed process to analyze telemarketing campaigns - 15.5 million phone calls per year.

• Data Warehouse Business Analyst, CSB Database Services dept.

  National City Bank

  (Public Company; PNC; Banking industry)

  May 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  Developed reporting to enable analysis of checking accounts, money market, brokerage, credit cards, lines of credit, loans, mortgages for direct marketing, fraud investigation and statutory reporting. Managed and enhanced Data Warehouse data quality reporting.
  
  - Received Champion Award and Excel Award nomination for business process design and preparing 70 page requirements document for corporate-wide CRM project expected to earn $90 million over 5 years. Celent recognized National City as a "Model Bank" for this project.
  - Developed complex SQL for Best In Class corporate initiative consisting of 33 projects and received two Champion awards.
  - VIP Award winner by identifying 80K customers with incorrect privacy data from 2 acquired banks.
  - Developed data quality process to correct misreporting of 1099 forms and reduce accounts requiring manual correction from 14,000 to 6 by creating queries to correct deletions, map data to correct format, and reinsert data into tax form files. Received VIP Award.
  - Developed methodology to compare account data and household data and identify data anomalies via SQL queries and Visual Basic modules as part of the Data Warehouse Remediation project.
  - Developed an automation-assisted process to validate the Household Profitability Audit Report previously validated manually.

• University Data Administrator, Strategic Planning dept.

  Cleveland State University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2001 — May 2005 (3 years 9 months)

  Managed staff and developed analyses, reporting and databases for departments such as Admissions, Affirmative Action, Assessment, Campus Police, Financial Aid, Institutional Research, and Mentoring. Chaired 25 member Data Stewardship Committee to manage university data and ensure university possessed required data. Served on Deans' IT Council, University Web Committee, HIPAA Compliance Committee to establish university-wide information and technology policies.
  
  - Recognized by President and CIO for outstanding contributions to two-year PeopleSoft 8 upgrade project.
  - Managed the seven-month Ohio Board of Regents Enrollment and Financial Aid Audit involving 8 departments, 8 college deans, and a team of 30 people. Favorable results pleased the President of CSU and averted more extensive audit.
  - Ensured proper funding from State of Ohio by leading team to develop new business process for setup of flexibly scheduled courses.

• Business Technologist, Data Administration dept.

  Antares Management Solutions

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1999 — September 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Consulted with business units and partner corporations. Developed reporting from multiple data warehouses and metadata repository for business units and partner corporations. Developed and taught courses in BrioQuery, DB2, QMF, SQL, and CA metadata repository for corporate data warehouse users in business units and partner corporations.
  
  - Developed web-enabled GUI front-end to CA (Platinum) metadata repository / data dictionary.
  - Represented both user and IT perspectives during corporate data warehouse redesign project.
  - Imagined and developed Quality Assurance methodology for maintenance of dimension tables.
  - Analyzed business needs and assisted in the development of data marts and reporting for Sales, Financial Investigations, and Network Management departments.

• Senior Statistical Analyst, Medical Business Systems dept.

  Medical Mutual of Ohio

  (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

  July 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 6 months)

  Designed and developed many SAS, DB2, QMF, SQL and MS Access applications for the Medical Business Systems, Clinical Credentialing, and Clinical Quality Improvement departments.
  
  - Recognized by CEO for efforts resulting in NCQA accreditation by developing patient targeting and outcomes reporting process, and data mart for disease management programs.
  - Prevented the incorrect billing of 10K customers by developing DB2, QMF, SQL procedures to update the managed care system.

• Underwriting Analyst

  Medical Mutual of Ohio

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

  October 1991 — July 1998 (6 years 10 months)

• Actuarial Analyst

  Mercer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MMC; Human Resources industry)

  April 1990 — October 1991 (1 year 7 months)

• Actuarial Analyst

  Watson Wyatt

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WW; Human Resources industry)

  September 1988 — March 1990 (1 year 7 months)

Michael Mina’s Education

• Cleveland State University

  Training Certification , 2005 — 2005

• Cleveland State University

  M.S. , Mathematics , 1988 — 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Cofounder, CSU Math Club

• Case Western Reserve University

  B.S. , Mathematics , 1983 — 1987

  Activities and Societies:

  Founder, CWRU Math Club

• Brooklyn High School

Additional Information

Michael Mina’s Websites:

• My Website
• My VisualCV
• My Facebook page

Michael Mina’s Interests:

Project Management, Database Marketing, Marketing Research, Data Administration, Data Modeling, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Metadata Management, Database Design, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Process Mapping, Software Instruction, Instructional Design, Writing Nonfiction, Writing Fiction

Michael Mina’s Groups:

Member - American Statistical Association (Cleveland Chapter), Member - Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Member - Greater Cleveland PC Users Group (GCPCUG), Founder, SIG leader - IT Careers SIG (GCPCUG), Founder, former SIG leader - Data Warehousing SIG (GCPCUG), Member - Cleveland SAS Users Group, Web Manager and Technical Consultant - TCB Association (commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's breakout performance in Brooklyn, Ohio, in conjunction with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame).

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    Executive Suite
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    Business Intelligence
•    Business Intelligence Group
•    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
•    Facebook.com
•    Credit Cards and Consumer Banking Professionals
•    Data Manager
•    Duct Tape Marketing
•    CRM
•    Healthcare Technology Alliance
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Speakers and Panelists
•    Cleveland State University
•    Business Intelligence & Analytics Group
•    Courseware Development
•    Banking Connects
•    Case Western Reserve University ~ Alumni Association
•    Case Western Reserve University
•    Business Analytics
•    NEOSA
•    "Write It Down"-A Website for Writers
•    Social Media Marketing
•    Quantitative Analysis Professional
•    NE Ohio IT Professionals
•    Direct Mail Group
•    Customer Analytics Group
•    Watson Wyatt Worldwide
•    Greater Cleveland PC Users Group
•    LinkedWorking Cleveland
•    Mercer Alumni Group
•    National City Bank- Alumni and Current Employees
•    DataShaping Certified
•    Medical Mutual of Ohio - Alumni and Current Employees
•    Cleveland SAS User Group
•    Brooklyn High School Alumni
•    Career Change Central
•    Competing On Analytics
•    Midwest SAS Users Group
•    Grace Job Seekers NetWORK
•    NCDM Conference *Official Group of the National Center for Database Marketing Conference*
•    St. John Neumann Job Network
•    Right Management Cleveland
•    NEO Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

Michael Mina’s Honors:

National City Bank:
- 3 Excel Award nominations (Excel Awards are "National City's highest honor" and are "designed to recognize and celebrate extraordinary people and exceptional accomplishments")
- 3 VIP Awards
- 7 Champion Awards
- 3 Certificates of Recognition

Cleveland State University:
- 1 Certificate of Appreciation from President and Vice President of Information Services

Medical Mutual of Ohio:
- 1 Letter of recognition from the CEO
- 2 Recognition & Reward from the Vice President of Underwriting
- 1 Red Bead award from the CIO

Fiction Writing:
- First Prize for Fiction at the 1995 Skyline Writers’ Conference with the story "Flinging Down The Moon". Award-winning novelist Maureen McHugh was the contest judge.
- First Prize for Science Fiction at the 1996 Skyline Writers’ Conference with the story "Cybernetic Angels". Novelist S. Andrew Swann was the contest judge.
- First Prize (tie) for the Pat Poling Memorial Award in 1998 with the story "Blood Money".

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