About Me

I work to leverage my extensive full time professional background, quantitative foundations, and economic analysis skill-sets to become a valuable asset to a company or organization. For consulting inquiries, please contact me using the information below.

Contact Details

Myles Bouren
859.582.5878
mylesbouren@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/mylesbouren

Experience

FICO

Software Strategy and Pricing, Senior Manager Aug 2021 - Present

Rolling up within the Corporate Strategy business unit, I manage, develop, and implement pricing and packaging strategy for FICO's software suite. My focus is to create a material competitive advantage for FICO in the marketplace through adjustments to software product mix, innovative pricing techniques, and a "360 degree" view of our value proposition to customers.

Hillsdale Furniture LLC

Senior Manager, Pricing Analytics Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

In this role, I rolled out a price elasticity analysis across entire product line within first 30 days of employment (25,000 individual SKUs and ~$150M in revenues), recommending price optimizations tailored to market demand, and responsive to exogenous market factors (such as rising raw material price levels, labor costs, and Suez shipping blockages); modeled price calibration projected to increase bottom line EBITDA by 11 percent before year-end 2021.

Additionally, I presented pricing enhancements and optimization to C-Level management, then directly to the Board of Directors following implementation.

Hogan Lovells

Manager, Strategic Pricing May 2019 - Feb 2021

I functioned as a principal advisor to firm Partners regarding the optimization of pricing, the defining and setting of scope for engagements, and the understanding of deal negotiation impacts to revenues and profitability at a $2B/yr global law firm.

Inclusive of all my responsibilities as a Senior Analyst, my role as a Manager of Strategic Pricing additionally led to the direct management, hiring, and training of Pricing Analyst team members, leading to an expansion of the team’s ability to deliver powerful insights directly to firm leadership.

Initiatives I worked on included the creation and utilization of Monte Carlo models, which enabled the firm to build a portfolio of litigation contingency agreements valued in excess of $50M.

Senior Pricing Analyst May 2018 - Apr 2019

As a Senior Analyst, I worked as the global pricing team's lead analyst for engagements that required a robust statistical understanding of profitability and revenue realization.

My primary responsibilities included consulting firm Partners and senior management on the economics of legal engagements, laterally training inter-departmental coworkers on currency complexities and quantitative analysis, and directly negotiating complex pricing arrangements with firm clients across the globe.

Pricing Analyst Jan 2017 - May 2017

I specialized in developing pricing recommendations through quantitative analysis of large data sets. My primary roles included financial forecasting and model development in Excel, researching for actionable, statistically significant evidence to maximize firm revenue realization, and presenting findings directly to firm Partners and Executive C-level leadership.

Education

Indiana University, Kelley School of Business

Master of Business Administration Graduated Spring 2020

22nd Ranked MBA Worldwide (The Economist)
22nd Ranked MBA (US News)
25th Ranked MBA (Poets & Quants)

Electives in Machine Learning, Consulting Process and Management, Performance-Driven Pricing

Machine Learning Projects:
- Built a model to predict if individual credit-card holders would default on their payments (k Nearest Neighbors)
- Created a model to predict flight delays or cancellations for airlines (neural network)
- Evaluated and identified ‘market segments’ of universities, modeled on student performance metrics (cluster analysis)
- Selected securities to quantitatively diversify investment portfolios based on financial returns, volatility, industry and market capitalization (cluster analysis)
- Predicted consumer purchase behaviors through a supervised learning model (random forests)

University of Kentucky, Gatton College of Business and Economics

Bachelors of Science, Economics, 3.3 GPA, (3.87 major) Graduated May 2017

Quantitative foundations in Applied Econometrics, Excel (macros, VBA), and Time-series Forecasting (ARIMA, Exponential smoothing). Electives in computer programming for data analysis (Python), Financial Modeling, and Calculus II. Undergraduate thesis paper: Monopsony Market Structures and Pharmaceutical Cost Drivers Within International (OECD) Health Care Systems.

Skills

Software foundations: Microsoft Excel (VBA, macros, pivot tables, index+match, vlookup, hlookup), SAS, Python 3.5 (numpy, pandas, matplotlib), and Stata.

Statistical foundations: Time-Series Forecasting (Univariate/Multivariate ARMA, ARMIA, Holt Exponential Smoothing, Unique Events), Applied Econometrics, Time-Series Trend Analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and (Advanced) Multivariate Regression Analysis.

Academic foundations: Financial and Managerial Accounting (GAAP), Corporate Finance, Calculus II, Mathematical Probability, Linear (Matrix) Alegbra, and Business Operations Analysis.

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Python
  • R
  • Stata
  • SQL

Quotes

  • Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

    Steve Jobs
  • Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

    Albert Einstein
  • The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

    Elbert Hubbard

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