VLAD GOTLIB

3 Weyman Lane, Sharon, MA 02067 || 617.818.8098 || vladgotlib@gmail.com

Qualifications Summary
Quantitative analyst with 9 years experience in econometric modeling, statistical analysis, and SQL.
Web-tool developer creating interactive data visualization applications for over 10 years.
R&D data miner of trends and patterns within time-series and spatial data from large Commercial Real Estate datasets.
Skills
SQL: MsSQL, MySQL, MS Access Statistics / math: R, Stata, Python, Mathematica, Orange
Visualization: PowerBI, Tableau, Excel/VBA Web: PHP; Javascript, jQuery, d3.js, React, Highcharts.js
Professional Experience
Senior Quantitative Analyst 2007-Present
CoStar Group Boston, MA
● Developed a submarket forecasting web-tool which allowed a team of 30 market analysts to view and alter 10,000+ forecasts.
Model inputs included real-estate fundamentals for each submarket, as well as analyst opinions on rankings. Calculations handled
in javascript for realtime feedback. Data pulled from / pushed to SQL Server stored procedures using PHP.
● Converted multiple workflow processes, models, and forecasting techniques from Excel to SQL, Stata, and R. Wrote views and
stored procedures to standardize data retrieval for other analysts. Optimized existing tables to perform faster by adding indexes
and primary keys.
● Automated and maintained econometric model for retail CRE forecasts for major US metros. Led design, testing, and execution of
quarterly retail subclass forecasting model. Tested and validated model in Stata, automated running in Excel/VBA, and automated
uploading the output to SQL Server.
● Built a web-tool which allowed analysts to easily override modeled supply and demand with interactive charts using d3.js.
● Designed and created retail clustering algorithm, and an accompanying visualization web-tool. Back end linked to SQL Server,
cluster analysis performed in R. Visualization created using Google Maps API.
Technical Developer 2005-2007
State Street Boston, MA
● Began career as a fund accountant, promoted to technical developer within 4 months after a self-initiated effort to automate daily
accounting tasks between the bank's proprietary accounting system and Excel using VBA.
● Mitigated risk of manual data entry mistakes for 45 fund accountants by automating general ledger bookings in VBA for Excel and
Access; increased operating efficiency within teams by streamlining accounting procedures.
● Reduced month-end work for 8 group managers by hours through creating an Excel macro which automated reconciliation of client
data feeds with bank’s records and generated reports which clearly identified inconsistencies.
Personal Web Projects
● incaseofdata.com - a natural language data analysis web-tool using Javacript, PHP, MySQL. User inputs such as "rank countries
by average life expectancy" are parsed and calculated within the browser. Utilized WebWorkers for handling data processing in
separate browser process without blocking front-end UI. Dynamically loading javascript files at runtime to reduce load times.
● vladgotlib.com/search_by_drawing - a graphical web-tool that allows searching for drawn patterns in time series data; utilized
sylvester.js for matrix calculations.
● vladgotlib.com/circular - analysis of a hand-drawn circle using a least-squares regression.
Education
Northeastern University 2012-2015
Courses in M.S., Computer Science program Boston, MA
● Database design, Algorithms, Data mining, Programming design paradigms
University of Massachusetts 2005
B.A., Economics Amherst, MA
● Select courses: Microeconomics, Game theory, Probability/Statistics, Corporate finance, Managerial accounting.