Barry Grushkin (5,700+) -- LION TopLinked.com -- Business data analyst, data miner, statistician, modeler and forecaster
Greater Chicago Area
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- Board Member at HVX, Inc., Tech Bank
- Board Member at Biopathway Pathology Research
- Board Member at Buzz Analytics
- Medical Data Consultant at M.I. Strategic
- Transportation Consultant at M.I. Strategic
- Insurance Data Consultant at M.I, Strategic
- Retail Data Consultant at M.I. Strategic
- Manufacturing Consultant at M.I. Strategic
- Institutional Financial Consultant at M.I.Strategic
- Government and Intelligence Consultant at M.I. Strategic
- Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning at M.I. Strategic
- Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning at M.I. Strategic
- Director at M.I. Stratergic
- Director at M.I. Strategic
- Director at M.I. Strategic
- Reasearch, Development, Sales at M.I. Strategic
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- Analytic Solution Columnist at Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
- Faculty Seminar Leader at Boston University
- Sr. Consultant at Condor Technology Solutions
- Professor at Stewart School of Business
- Selected Writings at Selected Magazines
- Communication Skills at M.I. Strategic
- Communication Skills at M.I. Strategic
- Technological Skills at M.I. Strategic
- VP Investment Strategy at First Chicago NBD
- Education
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- Cornell University
- Brown University
- University of Michigan
- Cornell University
- Cornell University
- Cornell University
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Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Summary
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
> Innovative, results-oriented business and data analyst, data miner, statistician, modeler and forecaster
> Strong record of creating multi-million dollar value for corporations through insight into their needs, capabilities and potential, and identification of high ROI solution opportunities
> Twenty years experience building and leading analytic teams, building superior numbers backed day-to-day precise decision processes, developing new supporting technologies
HOW I WORK
I let your data tell its story. We learn from your history. Then we live a power play – part two of your corporate novel. In it, you are the hero. Behind the scenes are strong new methods or instruments for optimal action plans and decision making.
I work with you to understand your business, your needs, your data. We partner to develop a process whereby your data, as a window into your customers, suppliers, and internal processes, becomes the input to uniquely customized, intelligent decision-making systems and approaches which drive focused, high-value day-to-day action plans.
SAMPLE PROJECT AREAS
Medical – Analysis of technology efficacy trials, laboratory and patient statistical analyses, data mining of complex causal disease classes
Transportation – Demand forecasting, product/market mix optimization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) forecasting
Insurance – Pricing optimization, customer segmentation, portfolio growth and quality improvement strategies
Retail financial – Customer Relationship Management (CRM), personalized marketing optimization, cross sell, up sell, marketing channel analysis, customer segmentation
Retail Catalogue – Target marketing optimization, optimal solicitation mix
Manufacturing – Manufacturing problem early warning, Quality Assurance and warrantee analyses
Institutional Financial – New derivatives development, strategy optimization, money management
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Specialties:
Institutional Financial – Technology product management, dual marketing analysis for major credit card
Government and Intelligence – Intelligence technology consultation, forecasts and econometrics for Congressional Budget Office and Department of State
Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning – Search, data mining, visualization, OLAP, text mining, text categorization, and integrations
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Experience
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Board Member
HVX, Inc., Tech Bank
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Board Member
Biopathway Pathology Research
(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
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Board Member
Buzz Analytics
(Privately Held; Market Research industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
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Medical Data Consultant
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Medical Devices industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Medical – Analysis of technology efficacy trials, laboratory and patient statistical analyses, data mining of complex causal disease classes
> Executed a large scale analysis of patient data for a 30-branch hospital chain to determine relations between disease classes, diagnoses and fees paid relative to sociological, cultural, economic, gender, age and other groupings of patients.
> Produced a groups clustering, segmentations and analyses of laboratory tests of neurological and other disorders for a physician-led research study to find classes and types of abnormal representations and treatment response. Results backed improved personalization and precision of medical interventions.
> Carried out detailed statistical analyses of data from independent clinical trials of products for international medical device manufacturer. The exciting results showed strong patient improvement and product efficacy. -
Transportation Consultant
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
December 2003 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Transportation – Demand forecasting, product/market mix optimization, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) forecasting
* Implemented a customer-segmenting and expected demand in new markets model for a large transportation company, and then developed a product/market/advertising mix optimization strategy.
* Dramatically improved a large transportation company’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) process by creating better forecasts of resource need dependencies and mean time between major overhauls.
* Created an inventory management system for a truck sales company that tracked all the details of negotiations, customer needs and requirements and offered demand projection by category. -
Insurance Data Consultant
M.I, Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry)
November 2003 — Present (4 years 11 months)
Insurance – Pricing optimization, customer segmentation, portfolio growth and quality improvement strategies
* Built a pricing, customer segmenting, and marketing and sales support process for a major insurance company that helped them build an optimal customer-mix portfolio in a changing, competitive product and financial markets environment. The approach maximized return while minimizing long- and short-term risk exposures. -
Retail Data Consultant
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 2003 — Present (5 years)
Retail financial – Customer Relationship Management (CRM), personalized marketing optimization
* Architected and implemented a multi-channel, optimal customer interaction process for a major bank, multiplying ROI for new product closings seven-fold. $1.8 billion in new sales in the first year alone were attributed to this new customer-motivating and targeting approach.
Retail Catalogue – Target marketing optimization, optimal solicitation mix
* Put into operation an optimal solicitation expenditure mix process for a major retail catalogue company that accelerated and helped realize the company’s revenue and profit potential. -
Manufacturing Consultant
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
September 2003 — Present (5 years 1 month)
Manufacturing – Manufacturing problem early warning, Quality Assurance and warrantee analyses
* Instituted an early warning system for rapid response to patterns of part sourcing contradictions for a major computer manufacturer. System found previously unknown contradictions between input commodity components from differing lots and manufacturers. -
Institutional Financial Consultant
M.I.Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Capital Markets industry)
August 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Institutional Financial – New derivatives development, strategy optimization, money management, technology product management, dual marketing analysis for major credit card
* Architected a new class of financial derivatives for an up-and-coming independent online trading exchange that could change how important projects are financed.
* Designed a strategy and multi-strategy optimization approach for major Wall Street trading groups that one called “best ever seen.”
* Product managed critical events monitoring, automated text analyzing, and news categorization technologies for trading risk mitigation for an innovative technology firm and developed a quantitative modeling of market reaction to qualitative statements in the news.
* Identified pairs of corporations that tend to share the same customers for a major credit card company, in support of dual-branding advertising campaigns. -
Government and Intelligence Consultant
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Law Enforcement industry)
July 2003 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Government and Intelligence – Intelligence technology consultation, forecasts and econometrics for Congressional Budget Office and Department of State
* Consulted with the CIA on methods for predicting terrorist activity through mass integration of traditional and financial market and transactional information.
* Forecasted 20-year multibillion dollar demand patterns used in major asset allocation projects by The Congressional Budget Office.
* Designed, demonstrated, sold, and supported installation of new information integration technologies for government intelligence lab.
* Developed econometric and statistical models used in economic aid decisions for US State Department group. -
Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — Present (5 years 4 months)
Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning – Search, Data Mining, Visualization, OLAP, Text Mining, Text Categorization, and integrations
* Extrapolated new approaches to integrating data mining, text mining and OLAP to create a powerful solution backing capability for an innovative well financed start-up.
* Developed and defined new automated text categorization approaches for an established search engine company that add substantial value to the user experience.
* Implemented an extensive competitive and comparative analyses of text mining and visualization technologies for top international microchip maker. -
Technological Product Advancement, Management, Consulting and Strategic Planning
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Industrial Automation industry)
May 2003 — Present (5 years 5 months)
* Implemented an extensive competitive and comparative analyses of text mining and visualization technologies for top international microchip maker.
* Produced a detailed step-by-step analysis of each feature of a statistical, analytic and visualization technology developed by a subsidiary of a major telecommunications research group. Reported on what customers would find exciting and valuable. The result was a highly acclaimed new version with widespread press and sales.
* Analyzed and recommended data mining extensions to its OLAP product for the world largest software company that are now in use worldwide.
* Developed techniques for large increases in hit precision for multi-key word search for an established innovative technology and text analysis company. -
Director
M.I. Stratergic
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; MDIC; Banking industry)
March 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)
RECENT PROJECT SAMPLE
> Critical events monitor for defense and financial applications
> Customer choice forecast models for new product and marketing mix decision making
> New forecast approaches for targeted marketing, trading, investment and business process optimizations
> Independent exchange futures and derivatives products
> Statistical analysis of biochemistry of neurological disorders: biomarkers
> ERP intelligence: Demand flow dependency forecasting
> New intelligence tools: Fraud and money laundering detection, competitive intelligence -
Director
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — Present (5 years 9 months)
SAMPLE WORK HIGHLIGHTS
• Predicting terrorist activity through mass integration of traditional and financial market information for CIA
• Trading strategies called “best ever seen” by Goldman Sachs. Major brokerages compete over use of methods that boost Sharpe Ratios
• Multi-pronged investment strategies obtain 7% over benchmarks each year for over five years on billion dollars for major international bank (unleveraged, risk adjusted excess returns)
• Financial engineering and pattern recognition techniques applied to customer targeting and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) generating $400 million annually in new sales for major international bank
• Instituted client and consumer cross promotion campaign for major credit cards. -
Director
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Market Research industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
SAMPLE WORK HIGHLIGHTS
• 20-year multibillion dollar forecasts used in major asset allocation projects for Congressional Budget Office
• Input forms large part of highly acclaimed new versions of visualization technology for Lucent Technologies
• Econometric and statistical models used by US State Department
• Text mining OLAP integrations offer multi-million dollar savings with manufacturing and medical problem early warning systems
• The latest analytic solutions expounded upon as columnist for Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
• Automated text categorization for major search engine company. Text mining and visualization analyses for Intel -
Reasearch, Development, Sales
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; MDIC; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)
M.I. Strategic develops, implements and supports decision support, decision analysis, business intelligence, intelligence and analytic methods, technologies and processes for the government, major corporations, and high technology firms. Its methods are often behind the scenes in high ROI corporate and product initiatives. Its clients range from banks, Wall Street firms, transportation firms, major manufacturers, technology giants, innovative market entrants and intelligence agencies.
• Principle in firm with substantial responsibilities for growing firm, business development as well as product creation and development.
• Designed and developed models and products. Wrote key software modules. Grew, managed and motivated team of rocket scientists. -
Analytic Solution Columnist
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CMP; Publishing industry)
January 1998 — March 2004 (6 years 3 months)
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RELATED EXPERIENCE
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine
Analytic Solutions
San Francisco
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Faculty Seminar Leader
Boston University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Faculty Seminar Leader 2000 – 2003
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Sr. Consultant
Condor Technology Solutions
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; CNDR; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 11 months)
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Condor Technology Solution
Sr. Consultant
Boston - Wash DC
1996 – 1999
A medium-size consulting organization offering financial solutions, data mining, forecasts, analysis, visualization methods, business analytic and business intelligence solutions to major institutions including major credit card companies and banks, The Congressional Budget Office, intelligence agencies, Microsoft, Intel and Lucent Technologies
• Produced in-depth forecasts and data analyses used in multimillion or multibillion dollar strategic decisions.
• Generated multimillion-dollar value gains for a range industrial and government problems.
• Compared, analyzed and found new business areas of application for data mining, OLAP and visualization technologies and their integrations. Implemented creative analytic solutions repeatedly generating multimillion dollar saving.
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Professor
Stewart School of Business
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; SSB; Higher Education industry)
January 1991 — January 1996 (5 years 1 month)
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Stewart School of Business
Professor
Chicago
1991 – 1996
The Illinois Institute of Technology Business School offers a unique collaborative environment where tested industry professionals lead classes on practical hands-on approaches, street smart ways of thinking and current industry best practices.
• Taught classes on business planning, strategies and decision approaches. Hands-on case study approaches dominate, with rigorous quantitative underpinnings. Class topics included statistical approaches, information flow, modeling, evaluation, simulation, strategy development, risk management and pitfall watch, economic trends, management and psychology. Also trading and investment approaches including statistical arbitrage, fundamental and sector approaches, evaluation, simulation, market drivers, strategy testing.
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Selected Writings
Selected Magazines
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)
January 1990 — 1995 (5 years)
1. Business Modeling: No Spreadsheets Required, Lumina's Analytica rends the veil that has kept business managers from collaborating with analysts on complex business models. March 2005
3. The Enigma of Similarity: Similarity judgments lie at the very heart of good decision-support capabilities. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine September 3, 2002
4. Validation Victory: Which of many data mining algorithms and options are best for your solution? With validation techniques you can make a solid decision. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine April 16, 2002
5. To Believe or Not to Believe: You can smoke out false data mining prophets with a solid empirical approach. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine March 8, 2002
7. Meaningful Encounters of the Second Kind: Although technology still can't mimic complex human relationships, understanding the way your customers think may be the next step in personalization. Intelligent Enterprise Magazine September 18, 2001 -
Communication Skills
M.I. Strategic
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 1990 — January 1995 (4 years 10 months)
SKILLS
COMUNICATION
* Excellent writing and presentation skills.
* Can find the metaphors that sell complex ideas.
* Advertising-quality PowerPoint skills.
* Can evangelize new technologies to C-level, business and the technologically sophisticated.
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Communication Skills
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1990 — January 1995 (5 years 1 month)
SKILLS
COMUNICATION
* Excellent writing and presentation skills.
* Can find the metaphors that sell complex ideas.
* Advertising-quality PowerPoint skills.
* Can evangelize new technologies to C-level, business and the technologically sophisticated.
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Technological Skills
M.I. Strategic
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1990 — 1995 (5 years)
TECHNOLOGIES
SAS, C++, C#, FORTRAN, R, S-PLUS, Clementine, Analytica, Polyvista, MS-SQL Services, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visual Insights, Advisor, Metaphor Mixer, InfoSense, Spotfire and many other small but interesting data mining and visualization technologies. -
VP Investment Strategy
First Chicago NBD
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NBD; Investment Management industry)
January 1984 — January 1991 (7 years 1 month)
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First Chicago NBD
VP Investment Strategy
Chicago
1984 – 1991
Boutique Investment Group in Major International Bank
> Produced successful long-term track records in large equities funds using systematically back-tested strategic quantitative methods often combining trading, fundamental and statistical methods.
> Managed multi-pronged investment portfolios for a major international bank and institutional investors that obtained 7% growth over benchmarks each year for over five years on a billion dollar portfolio (unleveraged, risk adjusted excess returns). Used systematically back-testable quantitative approaches.
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Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Education
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Cornell University
Ph.D., Mathematics, 1954 — 2005
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Brown University
Mathematics 1978 — 1979
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University of Michigan
Mathematics 1977 — 1978
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Cornell University
Ph.D., Quantitative Products, 1972 — 1977
- Activities and Societies:
- UNIQUE RESULTS IN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
* Higher order derivatives
* Improved multiple information source integration in visualizations
* New approaches to integration of predicative variables
* Method for creating tracking index for any financial instrument
* “Kind of market” typology via trading agent simulations
* Improvements over correlation methods
* New data mining algorithms
* Conditional relation methods for market type dependent strategy cycling
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Cornell University
Ph.D., Mathematics, September 1972 — June 1977
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EDUCATION
Cornell University
Mathematics BA, a.b.d. Ph.D.
Ithaca, NY
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Cornell University
Ph.D., Mathematics, September 1972 — June 1977
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EDUCATION
Cornell University
Mathematics BA, a.b.d. Ph.D.
Ithaca, NY
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Additional Information
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Websites:
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Interests:
Quantitative Skills: Active quantitative investment strategies+Advanced statistical methods+Agent+based market analysis methods, simulation and modeling+Aggregated quantitative approaches+Algorithmic equity trading strategies+Back testing+Baskets+Bayesian Techniques+Chaos theory+Computer+generated logic+Correlations extensions+Cross market arbitrage trading strategies+Cutting edge decision and learning algorithms+Data mapping strategies to assess risk and return opportunities+Decision and learning algorithms+Density Estimation Methods+Designed systematic back testing and validation methods+Developed and applied risk models+Developed software for data analysis+Econometrics, micro economic, macro economic approaches+Efficient cost+effective program trading strategies+Financial time series data+Forecasting and interpreting volatility+Forecasting models, including for active quantitative investment strategies+Fundamental analysis and inputs+Genetic algorithms+High frequency trading+
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Groups:
MLFP -- Strategic planning -- Performance and productivity improvement -- organizational design -- Infrastructure development -- Internet -- E-commerce -- Change management -- Team-building -- Leadership -- Competitive market -- Product positioning -- Investor and board relations -- Oral and written communications -- Problem-solving and decision-making -- MBA Program -- Project management -- Customer retention -- Business development -- Corporate vision -- Long-range planning -- Cost reduction -- Regression -- Decision Trees -- Clustering -- Segmentation
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Executive Suite -
Basho Technologies -
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EPM - Business Intelligence -
The Convergence Technology Council -
International Network of Social Entrepreneurs -
SOX Professionals -
Marketing Executives Group -
Gmail Users -
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers) -
The Economist -
DCA Business -
Leading International Open Networkers (LION) -
Liquidity Management Network -
Financial Risk Management Network -
GroupLinked.com -
Global Trade Network -
Friends of Long Island Sound -
Cloud Computing -
Business Intelligence Experts -
RedBreed Consulting Network -
Financial Engineering Group -
Random Walkers -
Quant Finance -
Cornell University Alumni Networking -
Time Management Skills
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Honors:
Index Arbitrage+Linear Discriminant-based methods+Mean regression, convex, concave and hybrid approaches+Microstructure of equity markets+Model development+Momentum+Monte Carlo Simulation+Multi+strategy, multi+time frame integration and multiple input variable integration and optimization+Multi+factor and mean reverting strategies+Multiple times series approaches+Neural networks+New analytic methods and algorithms+Numerical methods+Pairs+Pattern recognition+Portfolio construction+Predictive analysis+Predictive models+Relative performances+Risks+Simulation+Statistical arbitrage+Statistical pattern recognition techniques+Stock selection+Support Vector Machines+Systematic arbitrage strategies including execution+Systematic back testing and validation methods+Systems implementation+Term structures+Testing new theories+Tick+by+tick, short+, medium+ and long+term properties and approaches+Trade implementations+Visualization methods
Barry Grushkin (5700+) (BLG23 @ Cornell.edu)’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- job inquiries
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