Hi I’m Spencer! My family and I live in Arizona, and I currently work remotely for Zions Bancorporation in Model Risk Management (2020-present). I enjoy extracting meaning and insight from data and building models that reflect this understanding. My extra-professional interests include volleyball, Rocket League, heavy metal music, game development, and singing.
Work Experience
Zions Bancorporation
Model Risk Manager (2025 - Present)
Collaborate with Model Risk Director to align team priorities, assess capacity, balance workloads, and coordinate new initiatives.
Conduct regular 1-on-1s with direct reports to manage and support individual project progress.
Perform tasks required of Model Risk Analysts, as described below.
Model Risk Analyst (2020 - 2025)
Conduct comprehensive model validations and annual reviews according to pertinent regulatory guidelines.
Present validation results to model developers and key stakeholders.
Assign, track, and follow up on findings identified during the validation process.
Brigham Young University (Provo)
Adjunct Instructor (2021 - 2022)
Teach evening sections of STAT 121: Principles of Statistics
Graduate Research Assistant (2018 - 2020)
Developed MCMC methods for efficient sampling from Bayesian nonparametric mixture models.
