Experience

Cornerstone Research

Research Associate (2023–2026) · Senior Analyst (2022–2023) · Analyst (2021–2022)

A leading provider of economic and financial analysis in litigation and regulatory proceedings.

Healthcare data analytics & project leadership

• $6B+ off a client's settlement obligation. Directed 20+ analysts analyzing millions of claims lines in R and SQL to test pharmaceutical collusion allegations.
• A $2B medical device merger, cleared without multi-year FTC litigation. Oversaw 15+ analysts in preparing analyses for FTC staff. Ran a lot of regressions and made a lot of maps.
• Made CMS/Medicare, IQVIA, and commercial claims analysis-ready. Defined data requirements and validated quality for pharma, payer, provider, and medtech matters. Learned how each claim line tells an often confusing, but always fascinating, story.
• Built the team's healthcare data infrastructure. Co-authored wikis on reading and quality-checking claims data, wrote reusable templates for claims investigations, geospatial analyses, and Git issues, and standardized project trackers.
• Translated claims and regression findings into plain language. Briefed firm officers, experts, and clients on insurance disputes and healthcare mergers, and coordinated with DOJ economists challenging UnitedHealth's $13.8B Change Healthcare acquisition.

Strategic operations & innovation

• 50%+ market share in securities matters. Designed and led an AI/LLM process assessing market competition and surfacing prospective clients.
• 40+ hires into the San Francisco office. Read 150+ applications, sat 100+ interviews, trained 50+ analysts.
• Started the office's first advising survey. Paired it with an analyst and manager lunch program (which folks were very excited about).

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Policy Analytics Intern

Independent central governing agency of the United States banking system.

• Investigated whether major banks circumvented capital surcharge rules. Studied derivative notional balances at systemically important financial institutions and delivered recommendations to Division leadership.
• Learned SAS and T-SQL on the job. Queried intraday trade and quote data to build new systemic risk measures.
• Presented an hour of graphs to division supervisors. Answered "is anything going wrong with the banks?" with "we don't really know..."
• Told that story as a speech and won. Delivered it to the then Ford School Dean, later Fed Vice Chair, and the Fed still recruits interns with it. Watch it on the Education page →

Rocket Mortgage

Capital Markets Intern · Collateral Team

A premier financial technology platform and digital consumer-direct lender.

• Cut projected wrongful loan denials 8 to 10%. Devised new property valuation procedures for the collateral team. Learned to begrudgingly love Comic Sans.