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Ivana Jovicic
San Jose, Spring 2016
Statistical Finance Analyst - Intern Brocade Communications Systems
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• How to find an internship? • About Brocade • Work in Brocade – Some of the projects I was assigned for • Coursework • Advice
Agenda
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• LinkedIn • Networking • Job Fairs • Job portals (such as : Indeed, Dice, Glassdoor…) • Staffing agencies
How to find an Internship?
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• Technology company specialized in data and storage networking products
• Brocade was founded in August 1995 • Headquarters in San Jose • Portfolios : Storage Area Network (SAN) and Local Area
Network (LAN)
About Brocade
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• Assisting on quarterly forecasting products’ revenue/units on different company levels
• Data cleaning • Exploratory Data Analysis • Predictive Analysis (Linear Regression, Time Series
forecasting, Classification trees )
Work in Brocade – Projects I am working on
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• Summarizing and visualization the important characteristics of the data set
• Taking corrective actions • Graphical techniques used to present efficiency of statistical
methods in forecasting revenues/units for a specific categories of Product Types that products belong
Work in Brocade – Exploratory Data Analysis
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Visualization of efficiency of statistical techniques in forecasting revenues of the specific subsets of products regarding the four PLC categories those products belongs.
Revenues vs Forecast Accuracy Q4 2015
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• Decision Tree algorithm to classify product lines in four categories (using rpart and C50 packages in R) :
• 1. SUSTAINING • 2. VOLATILE • 3. EOL (end of life) • 4. NPI (new product lines)
Work in Brocade – PLC classification ( ongoing project)
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• Revenue of SAN vs numerous predictors • Variable selection : (packages in R : MASS and leaps) - Stepwise Procedures - Criterion-based procedures (AIC, BIC, Adjusted R- squared,
Mallow’s Cp Statistic)
Work in Brocade – Linear regression and model selections
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• MATH261A : Regression Theory and Methods • MATH285 : Multivariate Data Analysis • MATH 267: Computational Statistics • MATH 265: Time Series
Coursework
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• Be assertive - do not hesitate to contact people directly • Be active on LinkedIn • Be patient- sometimes it takes time • Be confident
Advice:
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• Sarah Lucas – SearchPros Global Program Director [email protected]
Best of luck in your job / internship hunting!
Contact that can be of a great help:
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Thank You
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