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Evan ZhangBusiness Analyst / Product Manager / Consulting

I turn what banks ask for into what engineers ship.

At FIS I worked between banking clients like Barclays and the engineers behind their core platform: gathering requirements, writing specifications, and getting fixes into production. I'm now studying for an MS in Management at Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business.

How a request moves through my hands
  1. The client asks

    “Show us our products running in your system before we sign.”

  2. I write what “done” means

    • Scope and timeline agreed by BAs, developers, and sales
    • Client data collected through a Power Apps intake tool
    • Products configured from the Model Bank framework, not custom built
  3. The team delivers the demo, and presales gets a repeatable path for the next client.

I’ve worked both sides of the counter: serving bank customers, then building the systems behind them.

I started at a Wells Fargo teller window, handling more than a hundred transactions a day and learning how much a bank's rules shape what a customer experiences. Then at FIS I worked on core banking for clients like Barclays, where those same rules live in code.

Most of that job was translation and triage. I gathered requirements for prospective client demos and wrote the specifications that kept BAs, developers, and sales agreed on scope. For Barclays, I traced recurring incidents to their root cause and cut the typical fix cycle from three days to a day and a half.

I studied computer science at Georgia State and I'm now adding the business side through Georgia Tech's MS in Management. On the side I run Tennis by Evan, a racquet stringing business, and play tournament tennis and competitive Valorant. I speak English and Mandarin natively.

Evan Zhang in front of Tokyo Tower at night

Analysis

  • Advanced Excel
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • Root cause analysis

Product and delivery

  • Requirements gathering
  • Business process documentation
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Agile and Scrum
  • SDLC

Automation and tools

  • Microsoft Power Apps
  • AI-assisted analysis and workflow automation (Anthropic API)
  • React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL

Each role has moved me closer to the client’s actual problem.

Professional Services Engineer I, FISJun 2025 to Aug 2026Requirements, client demos, and production support on core banking for clients like Barclays.
  • Designed a reusable Model Bank framework that replaced custom build work with standardized product configurations, cutting time to demo and giving presales a repeatable path to onboard prospective clients.
  • Supported requirements gathering for 2 prospective client demos: wrote 5 specification documents and built a Power Apps intake tool that exported client data for system import, aligning BAs, developers, and sales on scope and timeline.
  • Ran root cause analysis on 20 recurring core banking incidents for Barclays and shipped 5 MUMPS and PSL fixes to production, cutting the typical fix cycle from 3 days to 1.5.
  • Triaged and resolved 50+ client-reported defects over 6 months with a 2 to 3 day average turnaround, coordinating status, priorities, and trade-offs between client stakeholders and FIS engineering.
  • Documented recurring issue patterns and resolution playbooks in an internal knowledge base, cutting response time for known incidents by an estimated 30%.

Atlanta, GA. Visit FIS

Teller, Wells FargoFeb 2024 to May 2025Front-line banking: transactions, digital enrollment, and product referrals.
  • Processed 100+ transactions and about $30K in cash daily, passing every audit with 98% all-time drawer accuracy.
  • Led the branch in digital enrollment, moving 10+ customers a week to mobile and online banking by coaching elderly and tech-hesitant customers on ATMs, mobile deposit, and the app.
  • Referred 10 to 15 customers a day to bankers for new accounts and products, and completed 80%+ of system-prompted product conversations, well above branch expectations.
  • Resolved account issues at the counter and became a trusted point of contact for repeat customers.

Tucker, GA. Visit Wells Fargo

Leadership and activities

  • Founder, Tennis by Evan

    Launched a racquet stringing business that reached 20+ customers and 35+ racquets in its first two months with a 24-hour turnaround. About 90% of customers came through Facebook Marketplace and groups, and 25% came back. I built the booking platform in React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.

  • Lead and organizer, FIS University Social Committee

    Planned and ran 10+ events for a 20-person cohort on a $250 monthly budget with a two-person team, in partnership with the campus manager.

  • Member, Technology Club, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

  • Family restaurant

    I help operate my family's Chinese buffet in Athens, TN, handling customer service and day-to-day operations.

I’m adding a business toolkit on top of the engineering one.

MS in Management

Expected May 2027

Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business

Coursework in operations strategy and project management. Member of the Technology Club.

BS in Computer Science, concentration in Data Science

May 2025

Georgia State University

Coursework in machine learning, big data programming, database systems, and algorithms.

Business Analytics Certificate

Harvard Business School Online

McKinsey Forward Certificate

McKinsey & Company

If you need someone between the client and the code, write to me.

I'm always open to conversations about business analysis, product, and consulting work. Email is the fastest way to reach me.