Zhizhong (Tom) Peng

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EDUCATION:
Marquette University May 2022
Bachelor of Science Cumulative GPA: 3.506 / 4.000
Double Majors in Finance (3.502) and Business Analytics (3.666, STEM eligible); Minor in Mathematics (3.750)
College of Business Administration Dean's list (2020 Fall, 2021 Spring, 2021 Fall)
SKILLS
● Technical Training: Excel-modeling & VBA, Risk Analysis, Asset Valuation, SQL DB, MongoDB, Power BI, and Tableau
● Programming Language: Proficient in R, Working language in PYTHON and MATLAB.
COURSEWORK:
● Finance: Strategies for Institutional Investing; Alternative Investment; Fixed Income Security; International Finance; Investment
Analysis; Advanced Financial Management; FinTech Foundations and Applications.
● Business Analytics: Business Analytics 1 & 2; Advanced Business Analytics; Unstructured Data Analytics.
● Mathematics: Calculus 1, 2 & 3; Statistical Methods; Regression Analysis; Bayesian Statistical Learning; Intro to Python Software
Development.
EXPERENCES:
Product Manager Internship GF Securities Huacheng Ave, Guangzhou, China Jul. 2021 – Aug. 2021 (2 mos.)
• Learn about customer service, make customer visit-calls through CRM system.
• Assist to prepare 2 Hedge funds' sale-pitchs (Equity Long+CTA, and Index-Enhanced) in a Non-Technical approach for clients.
• Assist files/paperwork preparation (Custodian Services) for private equity institutions’ new funds.
• Analytics two principal protected index linked floating income notes and use the actual distribution to do Monte Carlo Simulation, then
estimate and visualize the probabilities of the total return at maturity under different situations.
• Write a PYTHON code to get mutual funds data (JSON format) includes historical NAV, asset holding and other information like fees
and manager etc. then export to Excel for colleagues.
• Using R to make optimal asset-allocation models and performance-evaluation ratios, (includes Mean variance optimize under constrains,
Risk-parity), and integrate into Risk/Return Profile plot, and export key measurements about funds and portfolios to Excel for
colleagues for decision making.
PROJECT:
Financial Advisor Volunteer Variety Children’s Charity (Tent 14), WI Sep. 2021 – Dec. 2021
● Provide a portfolio analysis and consulting for a non-profit organization - Variety Children’s Charity, based on the Statement of
Investment Policy (IPS), Daily and Monthly NAV, Morningstar Portfolio Snapshot, and Morgan Stanley Portfolio Aladdin. The all-
ETFs fund has $522,473.00 (Sep. 2021).
● Analysis Time horizon, Risk tolerance, Cash flow needs, IPS, Current situation & Investment design, Asset allocation, and Risk
measurement, then provide Mean-variance optimization (MOV) model, Risk parity optimization models, Stress test & risk analysis.
● Using R to make all the performance evaluation, optimization models and graphs, as results provide more client-focused and actionable
insights. Provide the fund practical changes and considerations in achieving both short- and long-term expectations.
1978 Crime Rates in Boston Area Marquette University, WI Apr. 2021 – May. 2021
● Dataset from Kaggle and a 1978 article. Methodology based on Cross-industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) process.
● Used NumPy, pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, and scrikit-learn packages.
● Practice in Random Forest Regressor and Multi-Layer Perceptron models to predict the crime rate.
● Apply Hyperparameter tuning/optimization (StandardScaler and GridSearchCV) for better model fitting.
● The prediction/testing result of Random Forest Regressor with 93.13% accuracy, and MLP with 96.53% accuracy.
● Generated Feature importance to find the key influencer of the model for insight.
2020 US Voting Intentions Marquette University, WI Oct. 2020 – Nov. 2020
● Dataset from FiveThirtyEight’s 2020 U.S. voter survey (5000+ Observations).
● Constructe hypothesis test (Chi-square test and ANOVA test) to find which survey questions could explain the voting intentions.
● Practice the K-Nearest Neighbors, Logistics Regression, Classification Tree, and Random Forest to classify those three categories of
voters who Always, Sporadic or Rarely/Never vote.
● The best explainable model was Classification regression tree (with 3 depth).
● The key determinants of voting intentions are identified and the analytical research and insights were explained in technical as well as
broadly non-technical as perspective of both two parties.
ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES:
FMA Participant Marquette University, WI Oct. 2019 - Present
● Invite financial professionals to speak. And organize and visit financial firms for real workplace experiences.
Investment Club Member Marquette University, WI Jan. 2020 - Present
● Team-manages an ETFs portfolio with amount of funds is over $40k with about 20 ETFs.
● The portfolio has 60% equity ETFs, 30% fixed income ETFs, and 10% alternative ETFs, with Benchmark - Russell 2000 TR index.
● Organize presentations and discussions every 2 weeks for portfolio adjustments. Topic includes: ESG, COVID, Fintech, Commodity.
Volunteer & Event: Guangdong One Heart Foundation; MU Neighborhood Kitchen (MUNK); “We Got This” urban garden project (2018-2019
Anniversary), Variety Children’s Charity Wisconsin.