About
I'm currently part of the operations team for Citi Community Investing and Development, we are an organization within CitiBank. I lead systems and reporting for Citi's Charitable Contributions. I am passionate about helping out my community and am inspired by the work we do. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, surfing, traveling and playing piano. In February 2022, I went on an incredible backpacking trip through Patagonia.
Data Engineer & Analytics Professional
- Phone: (516) 729-9750
- City: Carlsbad, CA
- Degree: Masters of Science: Information Systems
- Email: mrende@gmail.com
In 2014, I was introduced to my first enterprise data warehouse. Since then I have become a student of the art, constantly studying everything from data visualizations to databases and warehouses. I am extremely passionate about the data industry and am always learning more skills.
Facts
I have been working for Citibank since the start of my career. I first stepped in the door in 2009 as a contractor and was hired on full time 18 months later. I first worked in Citi Technology Infastructure (CTI) where I learned the importance of customer support. In 2014, I saw an opportunity to join Community Investing and Development (fka Community Development). I've been working in this organization ever since, I am responsible for leading systems and reporting for our charitable contributions.
Years Professional Experience
Years of Enerprise Data Experience
Years of Enterprise Data Project Experience
Years of Python Experience
Skills
Through the power of atomic habbits I have been building up my skills for 4 years now. Five days a week I spend at least one hour developing new skills. I use services such as Udemy, Codecademy, Codewars, books and many others to develop my skills. Sometimes I might be learning how to write fast consise emails, othertimes I could be deep into application development.
Resume
Sumary
Matthew Rende
Innovative and deadline-driven Analytics Professional with 9+ years of experience wranging enetprise data sets. Specializing in using data to tell a powerful story of impact.
- Carlsbad, CA
- (516) 729-9750
- mrende@gmail.com
Education
Master of Information Science
2015
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
Bachelor of Information Systems
2010
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
Professional Experience
Senior Operations Manager
2017 - Present
Citi, Carlsbad, CA (Remote)
Citi Community Investing and Development
- Promoted to current role.
- Led the design and implementation of a CRM system resulting in an increase performance of 75%. Including the design and development of business processes, technical workflows and data integrations.
- Reduced analytical reporting time by over 95% by building dashboards in Power BI, Excel and Python.
- Designed, built and presented reports highlighting impact, financials and other KPIs to executive management.
- Manage regulatory analytics to create customer experiences, anticipate customer needs, conduct experiments, discover roadblocks and solve them. Implemented a system to prevent regulatory errors from occurring, led to a 90% time save.
Senior Data Analyst
2014 - 2017
Citi, New York, NY
Citi Community Investing and Development
- Ran the management of data warehouse architecture and analytics tools.
- Led analytics reporting for $35 million in annual investments.
- Automated ETL processes across thousands of rows of data which reduced monthly manual workload by 65%.
- Worked closely with business teams to define a methodology for measuring ROI of contributions, led to an average increase of 800% per each transaction.
- Translated business needs into actionable reports in Excel and Power BI saving 12 hours of manual work each week.
