About Dan

• Dan is a data analyst and business writer who creates data-driven content for technology, financial and professional services companies.
• He builds datasets, develops surveys, creates static and interactive visuals, and writes copy ranging from 270-character tweets to 8,000-word white papers.

Publications

• Derivatives Engineering (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
• The Derivatives Engineering Workbook (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
• Active Bank Risk Management (McGraw-Hill, 1995)
• Tools of Risk Analysis (The Globecon Group, 1996)
• Reading the Markets (The Globecon Group, 1996)
• How to Free Blocked Funds, Vols. 1 and 2 (Business Int’l Corp., 1985)
• Corporate FX Strategies, Vols 1 and 2 (Business Int’l Corp., 1986)
• Created Royal Bank of Canada’s certification program for middle-market bankers, 1999
• Shorter pieces published in The New York Times, The Economist and Newsweek

Certifications

• Financial Risk Manager (Global Association of Risk Professionals)
• Tableau Data Analyst (Tableau Corp.)

Past Employers

• Senior Consultant, Deloitte (Federal Data Analytics Practice)
• Senior Editor, The Economist Group
• Director of Research, IT Services Marketing Association
• Managing Director, The Globecon Group (financial education firm, destroyed 9/11)
• Foreign Exchange Manager, Pacific Telesis
• Page Editor, Mainichi Newspapers (Japan)

Education

• MBA in Finance and Research Methods, Columbia Business School
• MS in Geography, State University of NY
• Additional coursework in statistics and data mining, Eastern CT State University
• Completed Columbia Journalism School’s bootcamp in data journalism

Some Name-Dropping

• Barack Obama’s editor at Obama’s first job after college. (See NYTimes article.)
  
• Developed Tableau dashboards for Anthony Fauci at NIH.