Sharif Tarver

Experience

SoloFunds

Technical Lead, CS 2020 - 2021 (5 months)

Minimized daily open tickets by 40% via efficient support and issue resolution, utilizing Amazon Quicksight to manually push funds stuck in the payment gateway.
Drove business... more

myKaarma

Product Support Analyst 2017 - 2020 (over 3 years)

Help build, support, and set the direction and strategy of our Operations Team.
Assist users with queries (utilizing MySQL and Graylog)
Engage closely with an engineering... more

Business Analyst

Indelable 2016 - 2017 (9 months)

Consult with a functional unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and... more

Database Management, Operations Internship

Intentional Endowments Network 2016 (3 months)

Researched topics related to sustainability, SRI, ESG investing at college and university endowments, including, strategies and tools, trends, best practices, new innovations,... more

Af Square

Executive Production Assistant Intern 2010 (3 months)

Toured with Lady Gaga.Oversaw team of 30 union workers during 30-state U.S. concert tour and reported directly to Executive team
● Prepared dancer/singer dressing rooms... more

Employee

myKaarma, Business Analyst, Database Management, Operations Internship, FDM, Vencapital, shuttle, Wagmo, Interapt, Af Square, SoloFunds

Education

About

Achievements

Founded concert production startup liaising with underground local artist in Philadelphia to provide showcases for exposure including Jay'Z's "Made in America festival "with 70,000+ audience members in attendance. Featured in Ron Howard's "Made in America documentary" (HBO).

Contributor to open source development.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

German Language Management Salesforce Data Analysis Operations Management Slack Microsoft Office ZenDesk Python MySQL Spanish language React.js Node.js Adobe Illustrator Ruby on Rails Adobe Premiere Rust Grpc SQL PostgreSQL TypeScript Numpy Java Looker Vue.Js Angular.JS Bootstrap CSS Rust Pandas AWS Git Hibernate Javascript HTML Spring

Locations

New York City Jersey City Miami Boca Raton Tampa Santo Domingo

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

What's your favorite non-business book?

String Theory by David Foster Wallace on Tennis

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Building Investing algorithms and a EdTech Startup

What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

Currently building a react native iOS project in the Lifestyle category.

Which founders or startups do you most admire?

Courtland Allen

Sharif Tarver

My passion for software engineering and entrepreneurship stems from my determination to identify problems and find the optimal solutions.