Mohammed Rashad

05 · selected projects

A growing body of work. One throughline: decisions from data.

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FinanceValuationDCFWACCSensitivity AnalysisExcel

M&A Investment Proposal: Netflix ⇢ Paramount

problem · Determine strategic viability and fair value of a $30B+ media acquisition to expand content infrastructure.

implied
$18.58
bid
$14.49
market
$13.16
  • Aggregated 5 yrs of 10-K / 10-Q data to baseline revenue stability and debt obligations.
  • Built a dynamic 5-year forecast model; normalized non-recurring items → 9.27% projected revenue growth.
  • Ran DCF + sensitivity on WACC & Terminal Value, identifying 41% undervaluation ($18.58 implied vs $13.16 market).
  • Recommended a $14.49/share final bid, defended the buy-side thesis in a faculty pitch deck.
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DerivativesRiskFinanceOptionsSharpe RatioTechnical Analysis

Quantitative Portfolio Management: StockTrak Simulation

problem · Generate alpha against S&P 500 while managing systemic risk during a high-volatility election cycle.

  • Built a high-alpha options strategy on MicroStrategy and Broadcom that delivered a 2.72 Sharpe ratio.
  • Used RSI / MACD technical signals to time NVDA & TSLA entries; weekly rebalancing at portfolio Beta 0.59.
  • Managed $1M active equity + derivatives book; 1st place finish, outperformed S&P 500 by 145% in 6 weeks.
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SQLDashboardsFinanceJoins & CTEsViewsRisk Metrics

Investment Portfolio Analytics & SQL Data Pipeline

problem · Consolidate fragmented high-net-worth asset data into a single source of truth for real-time risk monitoring.

equities
fixed-income
alts
cash
  • Engineered a relational pipeline using Joins, CTEs, and Views to aggregate disparate asset classes.
  • Computed Sigma (volatility) and risk-adjusted return to benchmark asset performance.
  • Shipped a dynamic dashboard (12M / 24M returns) and a risk-bubble chart to isolate underperformers for rebalancing.
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SQLLabor EconomicsAzure MySQLWage Modeling

U.S. Labor Market & H-1B Sponsorship Analysis

problem · Quantify real purchasing power of STEM roles across U.S. cities to optimize job search ROI for international graduates.

Austin
Atlanta
Boston
SF
NYC
  • Processed 500K+ FY2024 LCAs on Azure MySQL to identify high-probability STEM sponsors (Amazon, Infosys, etc.).
  • Engineered a cost-of-living wage model that flipped the ranking, showing Austin and Atlanta beat traditional tech hubs on real wage.
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PythonMLPandasSeabornEDA

Telecom Customer Churn Prediction

problem · Diagnose root causes of customer attrition and build predictive logic to trigger retention interventions.

at-risk cohort

4+ service calls

retention window

  • Python EDA (Pandas / Seaborn) surfaced a critical churn threshold, with users making 4+ service calls exiting at far higher rates.
  • Proposed a feature-bundle retention play for International Plan users, targeting the highest-risk segment.
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StatsOpsHypothesis TestingRCorrelation

Statistical Analysis of MBTA Transit Efficiency

problem · Evaluate service reliability gaps between transit lines to propose operational efficiency improvements.

  • Hypothesis testing (N = 80+) proved the Orange Line consistently outperformed the Green Line despite higher demand.
  • Recommended real-time frequency modulation to mitigate bottlenecks, backed by crowd-vs-delay correlation.
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OptimizationLinear ProgrammingOpsExcel SolverSensitivity AnalysisScenario Modeling

Logistics Network Optimization: Lavazza Coffee

problem · Redesign a global coffee producer's distribution network by siting a second warehouse to minimize annual transport and handling costs across 17,600 tonnes of demand.

L1
L2
L3
L4
L5
L6
  • Built a linear programming model in Excel Solver minimizing LTL + FTL + handling costs across 6 candidate warehouse locations vs. a central-only baseline.
  • Modeled the 40% FTL discount on inter-warehouse transfers and per-tonne LTL rates across 6 distribution-center customers; solved 7 scenarios with sensitivity reports.
  • Identified Location 4 as optimal: total annual cost dropped from €10.10M to €8.55M, a €1.55M (~15.4%) reduction.
  • Routed Customer 4's 5,500-tonne demand through the new satellite (FTL backbone); kept the other 5 customers on the central warehouse.
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Power BIBIComplianceDAXStar SchemaAnomaly Detection

Workforce BI: JW Marriott San Antonio

problem · Bridge two disconnected workforce systems (WhenToWork scheduling + Kronos punch clock) at a luxury hotel to detect compliance risk before payroll close.

  • Built a 5-page Power BI dashboard plus an executive narrative on a star-schema data model spanning 8.5 months and 18 bi-weekly pay periods.
  • Implemented DAX measures for 7-minute punch rounding, weekly overtime (Sunday to Saturday, 40-hour threshold), missed-punch detection, and night/marathon-shift anomalies.
  • Built compliance trackers for the 19-hour weekly cap and 1,000-hour cumulative-tenure ceiling, flagging part-time student workers approaching benefit-eligibility thresholds before a breach.
  • Layered anomaly detection for rounding-rule gaming (consistent 6-7 minute punches) and impersonation (identical-time punches across consecutive shifts).
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Power BIBIMarketingMySQLDAXSMART Goals

Olist Sales Funnel Insights (Brazilian E-commerce)

problem · Help a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace cut client acquisition cost while protecting merchant revenue as post-pandemic tailwinds reversed.

Paid
Direct
Social
Display
Email
  • Built a Power BI dashboard from a MySQL extract of 8,000 leads and 842 converted merchants, mapping a 10.5% overall conversion rate across acquisition channels.
  • Surfaced Paid Search (12.3%) and Direct Traffic (11.2%) as the strongest channels vs Social (5.6%) and Email (3.0%); recommended reallocating 30% of underperforming spend to lift conversion to 13%.
  • Quantified revenue concentration risk: construction tools generated R$50.7M (~80% of merchant revenue), with manufacturers outperforming resellers 5 to 1.
  • Diagnosed 4 ETL data-quality issues (text-typed fields, Portuguese-locale dates, blank segments, broken one-to-many join on reviews) constraining causal funnel analysis.
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OptimizationPythonPower BIOR-ToolsVRPBin Packing

RH Furniture: Route Optimization + BI Pipeline

problem · Cut delivery cost and CO₂ for a furniture retailer by solving the daily Vehicle Routing Problem and feeding optimized routes into a live Power BI dashboard.

  • Built a Python pipeline using Google OR-Tools to solve a capacity-constrained Vehicle Routing Problem on customer orders pulled from SharePoint Excel.
  • Engineered a bin-packing scheduler with time-window feasibility, splitting oversized orders across multiple delivery nodes.
  • Computed cost and CO₂ for each route vs. a naive baseline and exported 4 CSVs powering a single-refresh Power BI dashboard.
  • Designed for live disruption testing: edit order status in SharePoint, hit Refresh in Power BI, and the optimizer reruns end to end.
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NLPText MiningRTF-IDFSentiment AnalysisBigrams

Airbnb Listings: Text Mining & NLP

problem · Decode why some Airbnb listings outperform others by mining 3,985 listings across 12 markets and isolating which content signals (not pricing) drive guest satisfaction.

  • Ran TF-IDF, bigram extraction, and Bing-lexicon sentiment scoring across listing descriptions and reviews to surface the vocabulary that separates top-rated from low-rated stays.
  • Showed that content quality, not tone, drives review scores: high-rated listings used markedly different vocabulary while sentiment polarity was nearly flat across rating groups.
  • Compared 12 markets and room types side by side; entire-home listings carried both higher prices and stronger review consistency.
  • Delivered 6 chart-ready visuals and 7 analytical CSVs as a reproducible R pipeline.
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