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Steve Godfrey

Stephen Godfrey

Technical Product Manager

Name:Godfrey Stephen
Address:Palo Alto, CA, USA
Phone:+1-650-475-6159
LinkedIn:Stephen Godfrey
Product manager and data science practitioner with a proven track record of building quantitative models, employing analytics to inform strategic decisions and driving new initiatives to successful outcomes


Analysis of using Large Language Models in data analysis

Career Achievements

Data science modeling and application

Demonstrated expertise in developing and applying quantitative tools including constructing data science projects, building a groundbreaking financial-risk research service and authoring papers and blog posts

New product delivery

Responsible for successful launches of new products including global payments tools, API suites, online portals, cash-management and trading applications and numerous features

eCommerce leadership and management

Led eCommerce teams for two major banks each generating over $350MM in annual revenue and directed product management, sales, service, trading and research teams of over 50 members

Employment

PayPal

Technical Product Manager - Global Data Science

▪ Oversee the design, development and delivery of datasets and machine learning tools supporting PayPal's servicing business units and internal data science and analytics teams ▪ Product responsibilities include web crawling data collection and structuring applications and customer industry-classification models ▪ Programming work includes a mutli-stage pipeline for automated usage reporting and web-crawling jobs supporting online fraud-detection processes

Veem

Technical Product Manager

▪ Oversaw the ideation, validation and delivery of new functionality for Veem’s global business-payments platform ▪ Product feature ownership included foreign exchange rate locks, virtual wallets, debit cards and optimal payment-rail routing ▪ Built data models (SQL, JavaScript and Python) to incorporate transaction-activity and user-behavior into feature design and for use in production payment processing

Wells Fargo Bank

Head of FX eCommerce

▪ Led product management, domain sales and service for the $350MM-revenue electronic FX revenue division ▪ Delivered user interface and API products to clients ▪ Prioritized, funded and executed the eFX product roadmap ▪ Spearheaded major infrastructure and compliance buildouts

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Co-head of FX eSolutions

▪ Co-led the global electronic trading, cross-currency payment and consumer FX teams generating $400MM in annual revenue ▪ Sold hedging solutions to multinational corporations ▪ Spearheaded launch of the GCIB portal ▪ Co-created a risk-assessment research group to work with clients and publish research

Sanwa Trust Bank

Equity Analyst

▪ Built quantitative models for equity valuation and portfolio selection

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

BS Mathematics/Applied Economics

Bachelor of Science pogram with a major of Mathematics - Applied Economics and course work covering statistics, calculus, linear algebra and micro and macro economics

General Assembly Data Science Immersive

Data Science

Intensive immersive program covering Python and SQL programming, data visualization, statistical modeling, natural language processing and machine learning


An overview of some interesting data science projects





Video overview of a web scraping volunteer project





More detail on selected projects

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Polls and Press

An exploration of the relationship between poll performance and press coverage using the 2016 U.S. Republican presidential primary as a case study

FX STP

A explanation of how the straight through processing (STP) of FX transactions can add value as a fully automated component in other transactions, such as commercial payments (with G. Breiling)

Costs of Capital

A method for incorporating the "total risk" into cost of capital calculations for emerging-market investments (with R. Espinosa; article available upon request)

VAR and Valuation

An illustration of the broader application of VAR analysis in the valuation of a closely held company (with R. Espinosa; article available upon request)

Foreign Exchange Budget Rates

A discussion of why foreign exchange budget rates are important to firms and how they should be set (with A. Miyamoto; article available upon request)

Stephen Godfrey

stephengodfrey223@gmail.com


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