Skills & Experience

The work behind the numbers

Actuarial science, data analytics, and financial expertise — backed by measurable results across every role.

Professional experience

Specialist

Aug 2025 — Present
Apple Inc. · London, UK · Part-time

Driving above-benchmark sales performance and customer experience in Apple Retail:

  • Delivered 100 business introductions in one quarter at 57% conversion — nearly 3× the benchmark
  • Sold 400+ units (benchmark 250), above benchmark in AppleCare, accessories, and Trade In
  • Achieved 92%+ customer satisfaction by leading with solutions, not products
  • Awarded the Apple Applause Award and earned 7 leadership/peer recognitions in one quarter
  • Coached 2 colleagues to +25–30% performance through floor coaching and feedback
  • Provided the store's first Russian-language support; 99% on-time daily ops at ~1 min vs 2 min benchmark

Financial Assistant

Sep 2024 — May 2025
Bobo&Wild · London, UK · Part-time · Hybrid
  • Managed daily financial records with best-in-team tracking accuracy
  • Built budgeting and forecasting models for weekly/monthly expenses and profit
  • Ran cost-control analysis on inventory, reducing product waste
  • Delivered insights on expense-to-profit ratios to optimise budget allocation

Operations Data Manager & Process Analyst

May 2023 — Aug 2024
TLScontact (Visa Application Centre) · Tashkent, Uzbekistan · Full-time
  • Processed and quality-checked 1,500+ visa applications at ~99% accuracy
  • Redesigned the internal reporting system, cutting data-entry errors by 20%
  • Promoted to direct daily embassy communication and reporting
  • Handled sensitive applicant data with strict confidentiality; voted for Supervisor promotion

Office Manager

May 2021 — Aug 2022
Study Guide (Universe Group) · Tashkent, Uzbekistan · Full-time
  • Grew student support from 200 to 300 and satisfaction from 75% to 90%
  • Secured 2–5 year contracts with 10+ international institutions
  • Co-created a communication/tracking/data system, decreasing expenses and stabilising profit
  • Promoted from assistant to back-office manager in under 2 years

Assistant

Mar 2020 — May 2021
Bekzod Bek Baraka · Tashkent, Uzbekistan · On-site
  • Increased company sales by 14% via data-driven budget allocation
  • Built a plans/budgets tracking system that accelerated delivery
  • Analysed ad spend to build optimised per-campaign budgets; sourced international partners

Education

MSc Actuarial Science & Data Analytics

Queen Mary University of London (Russell Group)

Sep 2024 — Sep 2025

Actuarial Risk Management · Machine Learning & Time Series · Financial Data Analysis. Dissertation: dynamic hedging of equity-linked variable annuities (Monte Carlo, PDEs, Solvency II).

BSc (Hons) Economics with Finance

Westminster International University in Tashkent

Sep 2021 — May 2024 · First Class Honours (75/100)

Corporate Finance · Investment Risk Management · Probability & Statistics. Hands-on Excel, Python, and STATA across modelling projects.

Certifications

Programming with Python

Harvard Online (CS50P)

Jul — Aug 2024

Python fundamentals, data structures, automation.

Data Analysis with Python

Harvard Online

Aug — Nov 2024

pandas, NumPy, statistical modelling, visualisation.

Cloud Analytics

Google Cloud

In progress

Cloud data pipelines, scalable computing, GCP deployment.

Technical skills

Programming & analysis

PythonAdvanced
RIntermediate
SQLIntermediate
ExcelAdvanced

Financial & analytical tools

Bloomberg TerminalIntermediate
TableauBasic
STATAIntermediate
Risk ManagementAdvanced

Core competencies

Analytical ThinkingAdvanced
Leadership & CoachingAdvanced
Process OptimisationAdvanced
Cross-functional CollaborationAdvanced

Languages

UzbekNative
RussianFluent (C1)
EnglishProfessional

Leadership & projects

Team Captain — Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge

Oct — Nov 2023

Led a team of 4 managing a $1M virtual portfolio. Ranked Top 20% of 1,000+ global teams through systematic analysis and disciplined decisions.

Python Backtesting Automation

Python (pandas, NumPy)

Built a script to automate market data retrieval, signal calculation, and backtesting — cutting manual analysis time and improving repeatability.

Ready to work together?

Always excited to take on new challenges and collaborate on interesting problems.