Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Sánchez Pazmiño

Burnaby, BC, Canada

Master of Arts in Economics (c)

Data Analytics & Causal Inference

dsanchezp998@gmail.com

English (TOEFL 119/120) & Spanish (Native)

R, Python & SQL

Summary

Experienced data analyst and applied researcher skilled in R, Python, SQL and more. Focused in providing data-oriented insight through clear and effective communication.

Education

  • Simon Fraser University, Master of Arts in Economics (August 2022 - April 2024)

GPA 3.89/4.33. Awarded full funding through a merit scholarship and teaching assistantships, among 100+ applicants.

  • Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Bachelor of Arts in Finance (Jan 2019 - May 2022)

GPA 3.81/4.00, magna cum laude. Second major from USFQ.

  • Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Jan 2017 - Dec. 2021 (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

GPA 3.82/4.00, magna cum laude. Capstone Project: *Honesty by Convenience: Corruption Tolerance in Ecuador. Awarded best Fall 2021 capstone project.

Industry Experience

Junior Data Analyst, Natural Resources Canada

June 2023 - December 2023

  • Co-op student at NRCan’s Innovation Branch in the Clean Technology Economic Analysis Unit, supporting the economic, financial and statistical analysis of the clean technology sector for the implementation of business-oriented policy.

  • Produced data analysis, reporting and visualization pipelines with R, Python and Power Query/Mashup, following industry standards for code formatting, connecting to APIs for data access using statcanR, wbgapi, rvest, Bloomberg, PitchBook, S&P Capital IQ, among others.

  • Developed 5+ Power BI and Tableau dashboards to be deployed in the team’s website. Documented programs, scripts and dashboards for future use, focusing on reproducibility and best coding practices.

  • Created and presented reports to top officials in the organization, implementing dynamic updating using R and Python pipelines with RMarkdown, Quarto and Jupyter.

Corporate Finance Consultant, LVM Consulting

March 2022 - April 2023 (occasional)

  • Assisted in corporate finance consulting for 10+ projects with large companies in Ecuador.

  • Supported the creation of discounted cash flow (DCF) and comparable multiples valuation models in MS Excel.

  • Developed business research in the Bloomberg Terminal, S&P Capital IQ and EMIS platforms to calibrate valuations.

Data Analyst, Milmoh S.L.

May 2022 - April 2023

  • Transformed, analyzed and visualized data with Power BI, Tableau and R, creating 20+ dashboards and 50+ analytical/reporting pipelines for a Europe-based data analytics consulting company.

  • Managed and structured data models with PostgreSQL to deploy and maintain assets in Power BI, Tableau and R, implementing coding best practices.

  • Reviewing and improving prior company assets, validating existing methods with expectations and new methodologies. Developed periodic reports, documentation and presentations in a client-facing team.

Finance Intern, Produbanco

May - July 2018

  • Supported the project finance team in the Finance division of one of Ecuador’s largest financial institutions.

  • Created dashboards of the Bank’s financial performance at the aggregate and branch level

  • Developed periodical reports using bank data which eased the communication of bank’s results to the chief financial officer and various department leaders.

Accounting Intern, Baker Tilly Ecuador

May - July 2017

  • Participated as an intern in the Outsourcing division of an international Top 10 Auditing/Financial Consulting firm. Aided in the reporting of the clients’ financial information to numerous public entities.

  • Attended meetings and training sessions on accounting and finance concepts to be used in the company’s day-to-day activities.

  • Translated financial documents from English to Spanish and Spanish to English.

Technical Skills

  • Multiporpose Scripting:
    • R (3+years): base, tidyverse, infer, caret, ranger, tidymodels, tidytext, etc.
    • Python (1 year): pandas, polars, numpy, matplotlib, scipy, xgboost, etc.
  • Spreadsheets/Office software:
    • MS Excel (4+years), including VBA macro programming.
    • MS Office suite: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.
    • Google Workspace: Sheets, Docs, Slides, Calendar, etc.
  • Data Science/Econometrics:
    • Supervised learning: logit/probit classification, decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, regression (OLS), GLS, GAMs, GMMs, etc.
    • Unsupervised learning: PCA, clustering, k-means, etc.
    • Causal inference: A/B testing, matching, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, instrumental variables/TSLS, randomized control-trials, synthentic control, etc.
    • Time series: ARIMA, VAR, VECM, GARCH, etc.
    • Statistics: hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, ANOVA, experimental design, bootstrapping, sampling, surveys, etc.
    • Text analysis: sentiment analysis, topic modelling, etc.
  • Dashboarding & Visualisation:
    • Power BI (1 year)
    • Tableau (1 year)
    • R: shiny/flexdashboard, ggplot2, plotly, dypgraphs, higcharter
    • Python: seaborn, matplotlib, plotly.
  • Data Management & Wrangling:
    • PostgreSQL/SQL Server (1 year).
    • Power Query/Mashup.
    • R: dplyr, data.table, bigmemoryr, tidyr, zoo, lubridate, etc.
    • Python: pandas, polars, etc.
  • Document Markup
    • LaTeX
    • Markdown
    • Quarto
    • RMarkdown
    • Knitr/Sweave
  • 0thers: Julia, Stata, Git, GitHub, EViews, Minitab, MATLAB, Unix (Shell scripting), IBM SPSS. API access using selenium, quantmod, wbstats, Quandl, spotifyr, geniusr, lastfmR, yfinance, wbgapi, etc.

Research Experience & Affiliations

Research Associate, (Laboratorio de Investigación para el Desarrollo del Ecuador)

June 2022 - Present

  • Co-authorship of research papers with organization members, including a work in progress to be submitted to The Gerontologist.

  • Established the first DataCamp Donates partnership in Ecuador in 2022. DC Donates provides free data education to disadvantaged individuals and communities through partners.

  • Assisting in the implementation of projects, including US Embassy-financed New Dimensions (business intelligence education for women) and the upcoming US Embassy-financed Young Researchers Fellowship (social science and quantitative research education).

  • Reviewer and mantainer for the organization’s blog-type website, El Quantificador, developed with R and Hugo

Research Intern, Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros Ecuador

January - April 2022

Research

  • Sánchez Pazmiño, Daniel. (2023). Honesty by Convenience: Corruption Tolerance in Ecuador. The Philosophy, Politics and Economics Review. https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/pper/chapter/article-5/
  • Sánchez-Pazmiño, D.H. (2022). Immunizing the Economy: A Causality Discussion on Vaccines and Economic Recovery1. In X-Pedientes Económicos. https://daniel-ec.netlify.app/files/research/immunizing-the-econ.pdf

Other publications

  • Quijano, A. & Sánchez, D. (2023). Homosexuality: what do Ecuadorians think about it? (Original in Spanish: Homosexualidad: ¿que piensan los ecuatorianos?). ISSN 2953-6456. https://elquantificador.org/post/valores/2023-07-02-homosexualidad-qu-piensan-los-ecuatorianos/

  • Marchán, A. & Sánchez, D. (2023). Three problems for the quantitative analysis of femicides in Ecuador (Original in Spanish: Tres problemas para el análisis cuantitativo de los femicidios en Ecuador). ISSN 2953-6456. https://elquantificador.org/post/valores/2023-03- 07-tres-problemas-para-el-an-lisis-cuantitativo-de-los-femicidios-en-ecuador/.

  • Sánchez, D. (2022). A quantitative perspective on the Ecuadorian protests. ISSN 2953-6456. https://elquantificador.org/post/valores/perspectiva-cuantitativa-protestas-ecuador/

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University

Sept. 2022 - Present

  • Cooperated with SFU Economics as a TA in ECON310 Money & Banking (Fall 2022), ECON355W Economic Development (Spring 2023) & ECON103 Principles of Microeconomics (Summer 2023) as a result of full funding package due to top applicant status in MA Economics program.

  • Coordinated with professors and co-TAs to prepare class seminars, managed the course LMS, create and grade assignments and exam for 200+ students per semester.

-Taught one-hour seminars to 20+ students four times a week, leading class discussion, teaching complicated quantitative concepts, reviewing written contents and working with students during weekly office hours.

Private Tutor

January 2018 - Present

  • Aided students across several majors with tutoring sessions in microeconomics, econometrics, statistics, business economics, calculus, R, Stata, SPSS, finance, among others.

Teaching Assistant & Instructor, New Dimensions/LIDE

April 2023 - August 2023

  • Assisted instructors for the Business Analytics for Women education program, New Dimensions, in the SQL and Power BI modules.

  • Taught a four hour module on Data Visualization using Tableau.

  • Coordinating with professors and co-TAs to prepare class seminars, manage the course LMS & attend students during weekly office hours. Creating and grading assignments.

Teaching Assistant, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2021

  • Cooperated with USFQ Economics as a TA for courses in Introductory Economics & Austrian School Economics.

  • Prepared class seminars, managed the course LMS & attended students during office hours.

  • Created and graded assignments and exams and held tutorial sessions 4-5 times a semester.

Instructor, ECEL Research Group

April 2021

  • Developed and taught Introductory LaTeX course through ECEL Research Group, a USFQ-related academic student body.

  • Lectured for 7 hours about LaTeX, facilitating the transmission of complicated programing concepts and exercises to 15-20 participants, using the Overleaf LaTeX interface.

  • Developed course materials with LaTeX, available on GitHub including applications of the markup language with R and Stata.

Extracurriculars

Financial Analysis Volunteer, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

June 2022

  • USFQ Gerontology Community Outreach Project to develop a network of senior-friendly cities in Pichincha, Ecuador.

  • Assisted the project leader in the economic and financial studies of several products offered by the organization, as well as market research and sales forecasting.

Full member, ECEL Research Group

  • Participated as a member for an experimental economics oriented academic club based off USFQ’s School of Economics.

  • Discussed papers weekly and supported organizing events for the university community.

  • Organized and taught an introductory LaTeX course on April 2021.

Volunteer, Angeles de Guadalupe Foundation

  • Supported the care of children and the preparation of their daily academic and didactic activities.

  • Proposed and developed a didactic long-term project of didactic activities for the children, to be implemented in the Foundation starting August 2019.

Other training

Footnotes

  1. The link to the journal’s version is usually down, but you may find it here.↩︎

  2. See full list of certificates here↩︎