Daryush Parsi, MBA, CFA, M.Sc.
Huntington, NY 11743 |-| - | linkedin.com/in/daryush-parsi
Objective: Business Analyst + Data Engineer seeking to contribute and grow in financial services, healthcare, and cybersecurity in New York. I deliver end-to-end data-driven solutions to benefit all stakeholders. My chief competitive advantage is serving as interpreter between business executives and technical teams to unlock the enterprise’s full potential using data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence:
Understand the true problem statement
Communicate teams’ needs, logic, language to each other
Access, organize, analyze, visualize, interpret data
Utilize full range of statistical and programming skills
Design, implement, maintain solutions
Collaborate and coordinate closely with stakeholders
Draw on 25 years data analytics experience
Professional Summary
Created valuation and trading solutions for two fund management companies with combined AUM $3 billion
Advised fund managers, family offices, and private investors on $17 million in equities and derivatives
Automated financial reporting for major hospital system, saving 32 staff hours per month
Developed comprehensive data analytics expertise in Excel, Python, R, SQL, SAP, SAS, Stata, MS Power Platform
Trained in relational database/warehousing, econometrics, prescriptive/predictive analytics
Specialized in data and information system solutions for investment management and healthcare
Technical Expertise
Data Modeling: Supervised/Unsupervised Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Regression Analysis
Data Mapping: SAP HANA, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, SQLAlchemy, PowerQuery, Python (Pandas, Polars)
Data Analysis & Reporting: Python (Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn), R, SQL, Power Query, BigQuery, Azure ML, SAP Business Objects (SAP BOBJ, WEBI), SAP Cloud Analytics, Power BI, Excel/VBA
Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Automation Anywhere, Ui Path, Power Automate
Cloud Platforms: AWS Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
Statistical Packages: Stata, SAS
Microsoft Office Suite
Degree Programs
M.S., Cybersecurity, University of Houston, GPA: 4.0 (anticipated December 2026)
M.S., Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Texas at Dallas, GPA: 3.64, August 2024
M.B.A., Finance, University of Houston, GPA: 3.33, December 1998
Languages
English, high professional proficiency in French, German, Persian, Spanish
Certification
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), CFA Insitute, 2009, Member #782545
Graduate Certificate, Applied Machine Learning, University of Texas at Dallas, 2022 – anticipated 2025
Professional Experience
HCA Healthcare, Remote, Huntington, NY Jan 2022 – Present
Fortune 500 Company, Revenue Cycle Solutions
Financial Data Analyst, Quantitative Researcher – Full-time – 45 hours per week
Developing, testing, implementing data processes (ETL, web-scraping, transforming, storing data) for masterfiles patient accounting by writing Python code (playwright, os, datetime, openpyxl)
Automating critical monthly reports with Power Automate and Python, saving 32 staff hours per month
Authored over 160 ad hoc analytical reports uisng GCP BiqQuery SQL and SAP Business Objects (SAP BOBJ, WEBI)
Creating Power BI dashboards for revenue cycle and payment compliance
Identifying insurer payment patterns with machine learning models in Python (scikit-Learn, matplotlib)
Preparing accounting data and financial analysis for monthly reports of operations for 59 hospitals
Parsi Capital, LLC, Dallas, TX Sep 2013 – Dec 2021
Private Wealth Advisor, Business Analyst – Full-time – 60 hours per week
Advised trades on $17 million for 14 clients: fund managers, family offices, high net worth investors
Authored and sold 90 equities research reports advising clients for profitable stock trades
Developed trading algorithms using Python, Excel, Bloomberg, FactSet
Created quantitative models for valuations and derivatives strategies for risk management
Clients: AZValor (Spain), Dynamic Holding (US), Privatinvestor (Germany), more avalable upon request
Der Privatinvestor, Zug, Switzerland Jan 2008 - Aug 2013
Fund Manager, Business Analyst, Quant Trader – Full-time – 45 hours per week
Generated annual net returns 11% for Global Value Fund and 21% for Focused Fund (AUM $120 million)
Made investment decisions to buy/sell and executed trading orders
Researched and authored over 100 equities research reports
Established firm’s investment research process:
Authored firm’s investment research process handbook
Three-tier value investing research process
Authored monthly newsletters for private wealth clients in German
Trained, supervised two associate research analysts
Business Analyst (2008 – 2010) – Full-time – 45 hours per week
Researched and authored 24 equities research reports
Created quantitative financial models to project earnings and free cash flows with Python, Excel
Scored investment quality of stocks with proprietary qualitative/quantitative system
Parsi Capital, LLC, Dallas, TX Jan 2006 - Dec 2007
Private Wealth Advisor, Business Analyst – Full-time – 60 hours per week
Advised trades on $4 million for four clients
Authored and sold 20 equities research reports advising clients for profitable stock trades
Created quantitative models for valuations and derivatives strategies for risk management
Clients: Alvaro Guzman Family Office (Spain), Dynamic Holding (US), private investors
FM Fund Management, Mallorca, Spain Oct 2001 - Dec 2005
Hedge Fund Manager, Quant Researcher/Trader, Founding Employee – Full-time – 85 hours per week
Led company in generating $58 million in profit for clients and $13 million in fees for shareholders
Launched and comanaged two equities/fixed income funds totaling $500 million and oversaw other funds
ARE Fund total returns 75.7% (vs -12.8% benchmark) and EC Fund total return 50.2% (vs. 22.7% benchmark)
Won Top Fund Manager Award from HedgeFund Intelligence in 2002 (long/short, euro based)
Provided critical performance, research, and marketing support to raise AUM from $2.7 million to $3 billion
Established and coordinated Front Office, Trading Desk, Back Office, Marketing, Client Relations, and IT
Hired, trained, supervised 3 traders, 5 research analysts, 3 fund marketers, and the IT director
Authored over 100 stock research reports with fundamental and quantitative analysis
Managed portfolio risk with shorting, derivatives, and currency hedging using Python and Excel to optimize position weights, stop-loss/take-profit: Sharpe Ratio 2.28 for ARE Fund and 4.52 for EC Fund
