Colin Thomas
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Experience
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GCM Grosvenor
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United States
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Financial Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Analyst
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Oct 2022 - Present
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Finance Department Intern
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Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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DePaul University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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eLearning Data Graduate Assistant
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Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Chicago, Illinois, United States Created and maintained 8 data dashboards for senior management using staff performance data by creating numerous insightful and powerful visualizations using PowerBI. Created a master data workbook in google sheets by connecting 11 live spreadsheets to a master file that could be used by senior staff for analysis. Resolved level 2 helpdesk tickets relating to DePaul’s integrated learning platforms including: D2L, Zoom, and Panopto.
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DePaul Driehaus College of Business
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Assistant
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May 2021 - Sep 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States Co-lead a research project, the goal of which was to show how implementing a measured input of ethics into social media recommender system algorithms can be beneficial to multiple stakeholders. Analyzed a twitter dataset of over 90,000 observations and 35 variables in R, including the use of packages such as: dplyr, ggplot2, and recommenderlab. Created a recommender system algorithm that recommends tweets to users with the lowest “fake score” possible. The algorithm clustered users… Show more Co-lead a research project, the goal of which was to show how implementing a measured input of ethics into social media recommender system algorithms can be beneficial to multiple stakeholders. Analyzed a twitter dataset of over 90,000 observations and 35 variables in R, including the use of packages such as: dplyr, ggplot2, and recommenderlab. Created a recommender system algorithm that recommends tweets to users with the lowest “fake score” possible. The algorithm clustered users together based on similar interests using user based collaborative filtering, then recommended 5 tweets to a user based on their assigned cluster with the lowest “fake score”. This reduced the “fakeness” of recommended tweets by 95%.
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Student Tutor
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Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States Lead a discussion group of over 10 prospective and current DePaul MSBA graduate students. Assisted students with questions about the MSBA program. Taught and reinforced the basics of programming and statistical analysis using R. Provided critical feedback on how to improve the design of future bootcamp sessions to MSBA faculty.
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Member Services Representative
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Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Provided customer service to participants of the SURS organization. Provided guidance on Illinois public pension benefits, distributions of 401(a) accounts to outside institutions, and provided verification letters of member’s pension benefits for Social Security and various other organizations. Trained new hires of the member services division of SURS on the SURS core principles and other necessary knowledge to perform work duties. Received two performance awards for developing a new… Show more Provided customer service to participants of the SURS organization. Provided guidance on Illinois public pension benefits, distributions of 401(a) accounts to outside institutions, and provided verification letters of member’s pension benefits for Social Security and various other organizations. Trained new hires of the member services division of SURS on the SURS core principles and other necessary knowledge to perform work duties. Received two performance awards for developing a new training process to improve the efficiency of training new hires and for providing critical feedback on the progress of new hires to their respective supervisors. Show less
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Education
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DePaul University
Master's degree, Business Analytics -
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Economics