Matthew Kufta

About Matthew Kufta

Data analytics manager with operational, strategic, and technical expertise. Highly skilled in creating, analyzing, and communicating predictive data for strategic, data-driven decision making.• Business- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) through use of marketing analytics - Targeted Marketing Acquisition and Retention campaign development and implementation - Financial Analysis identifying risk and financial exposures and automating financial record keeping - Data Analytics extracting and analyzing data to identify patterns and trends to evaluate program effectiveness - Forecast Modeling for accounting reserves from loan behaviors, and product inventory from usage trend analysis - Executive Report Development and Automation of dashboards, KPIs, campaign insights, and operations metrics - Effective Communication aligning marketing, legal and cross team messages and directing customer outreach • Project & Technical- Agile methodologies and JIRA project management tool - Predictive analytics predictive modeling development and implementation SAS and R programming - Relational database tools & programing and Data Mining Teradata, Oracle SQL Developer, MS SQL Server, RDBMS - Digital process automation, customer engagement, and Real Time Decision (RTD) tool PEGA - Web application and graphical user interface (GUI) development Visual Basic and ASP.NET - Reporting, data visualization, and presentation tools Tableau, MS suite PowerPoint - Spreadsheet, graph, and pivot table creation in Excel

Experience

1. Associate Director Business Intelligence & Analytics

   Verizon

   Jul 2019 — Present · Basking Ridge, NJ, US

   Managing a cross functional team to provide advanced analytics and data insights to Verizon Credit Strategy and Asset Backed Securitization (ABS) Program- Host monthly strategic meetings to actively analyze $20 B Verizon Device Payment Loan Program and $12 B Verizon ABS debt- Verizon Device Payment loan program subject matter expert, providing strategic analytics and insight to B2C, Treasury, FP & A, Accounting, IT, Legal, and Marketing- Supported inaugural Master Trust ABS public deal, launching with a record high securitization of $1.7B in device payment loan balance in May 2021- Supported securitization of $9.1 B in Verizon loans from over 220 unique investors from June 2019 to September 2021- Supported launch of Verizon Keeping Americans Connected and Stay Connected program in 2020 to provide COVID-19 impacted accounts with continued service, waived late fees, and flexible rebilling- Manage Enterprise Data Warehouse Loan Sum Fact and Account Sum Fact tables as data trustee, SME, and SQL logic developer- Manage loan loss forecasting AI/ML model for improved loss reserve accuracy and risk management

Education

• Penn State University

  Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems

  2006 — 2010

• Seton Hall Preparatory School

  High School Diploma

  2003 — 2006

• Rutgers University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategy and Analytics

Skills

• Sql
• Visio
• Asp.net
• Database Development
• Sap R/3
• Database Design
• Excel
• Database Management
• Cloud Computing
• Project Management
• Database Administration
• Xml Databases
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Teradata
• Supply Chain Management
• System Architecture
• IT Operations
• Data Analysis
• Object Oriented Modeling
• Crm
• Procurement
• Financial Forecasting
• Information Analysis
• Erp
• Information Gathering
• Information Systems Strategy
• Inventory Control
• Information Management
• Rational Xde
• Tableau
• Databases
• Relational Databases
• Supply Chain Operations
• Sap
• Forecasting
• Uml
• Access
• Rdbms
• Executive Reporting
• Visual Basic