PHAT NGO / ANALYTICS & INVESTMENT RESEARCH

Phat Ngo

Atlanta, GA678-622-1376phatngo@gatech.edulinkedin.com/in/phat-ngogithub.com/pngo5U.S. Citizen

Senior technology consultant and CFA Level I candidate moving into investment research. Five years at EY applying AI tools, automation, and data-driven workflows to real production processes for a Fortune 50 client, managing multiple workstreams with acute attention to detail. Completing an M.S. in Analytics at Georgia Tech (ML for trading, optimization, simulation); runs live systematic futures strategies in Python monitored on risk exposures, attribution, and drawdown.

Professional experience

Ernst & Young (EY)

Sep 2021 – Present

Senior Technology Consultant · Atlanta, GA

Global SAP S/4HANA transformation, Fortune 50 pharmaceutical client

  • Applied AI and anomaly-detection models to production monitoring workflows, flagging access anomalies and role misassignments to cut errors 65%; partnered with client risk stakeholders on complex control problems.
  • Designed predictive KPI models and attribution reporting across a $487M program; identified workflow inefficiencies and automated reporting processes, cutting issue-resolution time 10+ days.
  • Built Power BI dashboards and analytical reporting serving 300+ daily users globally; scaled best practices across teams, and insights contributed to $103M in program revenue.
  • Presented model methodologies, assumptions, and performance results to senior executives including the CFO and SVP, defending quantitative approaches under scrutiny.
  • Drove firmwide adoption of AI and agent-based workflow automation across the SAP practice, improving how work is generated, reviewed, and executed; mentored 16 consultants on analytics tooling.

Quantitative finance & research projects

Systematic Futures Trading & Portfolio Optimization

2024 – Present

Personal, live capital

  • Design, backtest, and run automated equity-index futures strategies in Python: regime filters, session-based risk limits, and simulation-first execution.
  • Monitor performance, risk exposures, and attribution daily: Sharpe and Sortino ratios, maximum drawdown, drawdown duration, and out-of-sample stability, with hard loss limits enforced in code.
  • Built a mean-variance portfolio optimizer in Python (Pandas, NumPy) applying modern portfolio theory to size and rebalance allocations across strategies subject to volatility and drawdown constraints.

Energy Output Forecasting Models

2026

Georgia Tech

  • Developed and validated regression models on EIA, weather, and CAISO market data; ran residual diagnostics and benchmarked Elastic Net (R² = 0.945) against gradient boosting (R² = 0.964).

NLP Pipeline on Corporate Earnings Announcements

2026

Georgia Tech

  • Built an end-to-end NLP pipeline on earnings-announcement text: tuned LDA topic models, fit Lasso regression linking disclosure language to firm outcomes, and documented the model lifecycle.

Research published on this site

Education & credentials

Georgia Institute of Technology

Expected May 2027

M.S. in Analytics — all three tracks completed (Computational Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Analytical Tools)

Coursework: Deterministic Optimization · Machine Learning for Trading · Simulation · Probabilistic Models · Computational Data Analysis

Georgia State University

July 2021

B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems, Data Analytics & App Development

Certifications

CFA Level I candidate (exam scheduled) · AWS Cloud Practitioner · Lean Six Sigma Green Belt · SAP Activate Project Manager · SAP Generative AI Developer

Technical skills

Quantitative & programming
Python (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn), SQL, R; optimization, simulation, regression, anomaly detection; model validation & documentation
Finance & markets
Portfolio construction & rebalancing (mean-variance), performance attribution, risk monitoring (Sharpe/Sortino/drawdown), backtesting, futures execution; fixed income fundamentals via CFA Level I curriculum
Platforms & tools
Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, financial modeling), Power BI/DAX, Tableau, AWS, Docker, Git, SAP S/4HANA, Azure DevOps