PHAT NGO / ANALYTICS & INVESTMENT RESEARCH

Phat Ngo

Atlanta, GAphatngo@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, 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.

Equity Research Initiations: NVIDIA, AMD, SpaceX, Even Realities, Rivian

Oct 2026

Personal research, published on this site

  • Built a driver-based DCF from SEC filings for Rivian (deliveries × price, separate software & services line, stock comp expensed) with bear, base and bull cases, a reverse DCF and a WACC-by-multiple sensitivity; rated Neutral with a $14 probability-weighted fair value.
  • Initiated NVIDIA (Bullish, $240 fair value) and AMD, SpaceX and Even Realities as labeled conviction calls, each shown beside the model’s probability-weighted value ($313, $54 and $0.40B) on one shared DCF kit: AI revenue as gigawatts × revenue per gigawatt, warrant dilution, segment builds and reverse DCFs.
  • Delivered an Excel model for every report (699 live formulas for Rivian) with a source note on every input, reconciled to the published web report to the cent.

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