The weblog you just came from is a personal project, but it’s also meant as a marker for people to find me / find out about me via the Web.
What’s your business problem? How can I help?
I’ve worked with clients in a variety of fields, not just finance. I’ve found myself helping political consultants, advertisers, online retailers, lawyers, investors (private markets), traders, hedgies, brick-and-mortar distributors, and “purely online” internet start-ups—across a wide range of industries.
My consulting work has mostly involved things of this nature:
- recommendation engine design
- custom risk metrics
- what I would call “Design me a functional that does X”.
- analysis/development of trading strategies / signals / algorithms
- statistical analysis of past trades
- “What’s the underlying (logical) structure of my situation?” What I would call “helping clients translate from practical knowledge into programmable, mathematical, logical language”.
- group decision-making problems
- voting / aggregation problems
- analysing or aggregating customer preference data
Also some “regular statistics” stuff such as:
- data exploration
- which machine learning technique should I use?
- modelling
- data visualisation
- I have this idea, do you think it’s going to work?
That said, I’m not a total egghead. After working in private equity & venture capital for a few years, I’ve looked at a lot of companies. And as mentioned above, I’ve worked on a wide range of business problems for clients. I also ran a small business (not a website or iPhone app, an actual company with actual employees) for a few years, so I have Actually Been There™—or at least a crude facsimile. Sometimes people want to ask me:
- strategic / long-view questions
- hey can I get your opinion on something
- will you look at my deck
- what do you think of this user interface
- etc.
I don’t want to post my name, email, or phone number so please get at me via one of the following methods:
- εmail húмility døt conşultîng äт gee mail.com (just use the regular English characters, the Unicode is for spammers)
- isomorphismes.tumblr.com/ask — You must have a tumblr account, and my reply will come through tumblr.
- tweet @isomorphisms, and follow @isomorphisms so I can direct-message you my telephone number in reply.
- leave a disqus comment below with your contact details (email; phone & a good time to call; lat/long of your hardiest carrier pigeon)
How can I help you?
