Mark Jayson M. Farol
Summary
I was born in a rural area in the Philippines, where ambition often grows alongside uncertainty and where education can feel deeply personal because of what it makes possible. Moving to the United States and continuing my education here reshaped my world. It demanded adaptation, resilience, and the ability to keep building while learning a new environment, a new academic culture, and a new sense of what my future could become.
Over time, that journey became the foundation of who I am today. I grew into someone who moves across disciplines with purpose: economics, statistics, research, teaching, and communication. My path through high school in the United States, undergraduate study at UNLV, and graduate training in quantitative economics gave me more than credentials. It gave me a way of thinking grounded in rigor, curiosity, communication, and a strong belief that analytical work should stay connected to human lives.
This page tells that story through the experiences, education, and roles that shaped me.
Education
My educational journey began in the Philippines and continued in the United States, where attending high school marked a major turning point in my life. That transition meant adjusting to a different culture, a different school system, and a different set of expectations while learning how to carry my own story with confidence. Those early experiences built the resilience, adaptability, and drive that would later define how I approached college, research, and professional life.
At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, I pursued my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration while also completing a minor in Theatre. My undergraduate years were formative because they allowed both sides of me to grow at the same time: the analytical side drawn to economics, data, and systems, and the public-facing side that found meaning in communication, performance, and expression.
Graduate study in Quantitative Business Economics deepened that foundation through economic theory, statistics, applied quantitative analysis, and econometric methods. It also gave me more experience lecturing, supporting students one-on-one, collaborating with faculty, participating in conferences, and carrying research into broader academic and professional settings.
Master of Arts
Quantitative Business Economics, University of Nevada, Las VegasAdvanced graduate training in economic theory, applied statistics, quantitative research, and econometric methods. Recognized as Commencement Speaker for leadership, academic dedication, and contribution to the program.
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Economics, University of Nevada, Las VegasBuilt a foundation across business, economics, and communication, with early research development and a first undergraduate publication.
Minor in Theatre
University of Nevada, Las VegasTraining that strengthened presentation skills and public-speaking confidence alongside the economics coursework.
Advanced Diploma
Liberty High SchoolThe transition into U.S. schooling built the adaptability and persistence that later shaped how I approached college and professional life.
Experience
My experience spans academic research, teaching support, and customer-facing leadership. Across those roles, the common thread has been taking something complex and making it usable — whether that meant helping students understand regression output, structuring a dataset for reproducible analysis, or communicating results to people who needed to act on them.
That focus sharpened further as my faculty began to recognize my research output. I presented work at symposiums, published my first article, expanded smaller analyses into larger empirical projects, and built the habits that carried me into graduate study and longer-form infrastructure work.
UNLV Department of Economics
Graduate ResearcherFaculty-supervised research collaboration focused on higher-education finance, tuition-setting, and college pricing. Built institution-year data infrastructure using Python, SQL, panel econometrics, and validation workflows.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Graduate Teaching AssistantSupported instruction across five economics courses, built lecture materials, led review sessions, and mentored students through quantitative concepts, empirical projects, and final presentations.
Kate Spade New York
Lead Sales AssociatePromoted into a leadership role driving strong revenue performance, customer experience, and day-to-day floor execution while overseeing opening and closing operations.
Kate Spade New York
Sales AssociateBuilt a strong sales record through deep product knowledge, repeat client outreach, and consistent service across a high-traffic floor.
Projects
My project work centers on research infrastructure, data engineering, and practical analytical tools. Each build is designed to reduce friction, improve data quality, or make economic evidence easier to produce and use.
Research
Working papers and empirical studies on higher-education finance, pricing, aid, and policy analysis.
Open portfolioProjects
Data pipelines, utilities, and tooling built to support reproducible econometric and institutional analysis.
Open portfolioPublications
Published work and public-facing writing that translate technical analysis into readable argument.
Open portfolioPublic Writing
Public-facing essays and analysis that translate technical work into readable argument.
Open portfolioCertifications
My certifications reflect a broader pattern: I treat learning as something that continues past the classroom. After the econometrics and research training, I kept going with structured programs in data science, analytics, and finance — tools that build directly on the quantitative foundation and stay usable in practice.
The Securities Industry Essentials (SIE)
FINRAA foundational securities-industry exam covering core products and their risks, market structure, regulatory agencies, and prohibited practices.
Environmental, Social, & Governance Specialization
Corporate Finance InstituteFocused on sustainable finance, stakeholder expectations, and the risks and opportunities shaping investment and strategy decisions.
Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)
Corporate Finance InstituteFocused on how global markets operate and how securities are traded, valued, and analyzed across major asset classes.
Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)
Corporate Finance InstituteBuilt practical financial modeling, forecasting, valuation, dashboarding, and analytical presentation skills.
Data Scientist Associate
DataCampStructured training in Python, data analysis, visualization, statistical reasoning, and applied analytical workflows.
Skills
My skills came from different directions — research, teaching, and professional work — but they reinforce each other. The economics gives me the right questions, the data engineering gives me the means to answer them, and the communication side means the results can actually be used.
Economics, Finance & Policy
- Higher-education finance
- Pricing and aid systems
- Market analysis
- Policy interpretation
Statistics, Econometrics & Research
- Panel econometrics
- Fixed effects
- Instrumental variables
- Causal inference
Data Science, Programming & Engineering
- Python
- DuckDB
- PyArrow
- Reproducible ETL
- Data validation
Communication, Teaching & Leadership
- Lecture design
- Student mentoring
- Public speaking
- Stakeholder translation