CHARLIE “2bored” VARGAS
Charlie on a stadium stage during a soundcheck, headset on
Charlie on a subway platform, towel over one shoulder
Mirror selfie with a friend
Charlie with crewmates in a studio, arms around each other
Full crew group photo in an arena stand

HELLO!
I’M CHARLIE

I’m a data analyst, product designer, and loudest hypeman in NYC.

CHARLIE “2bored” VARGAS

ANALYST. DESIGNER. PERFORMER.

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© 2024 CHARLIE VARGAS

Figure in a fur coat suspended mid-air against a pale ground

NEW YORK, NY / PORTFOLIO

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01 — experience

qualified? hell yeah.

DANCE

  1. Sept ’26 – PresentGen X Crew MemberBrickhouse NYCMade the 26–27 competition and performance crew (40+ at my audition date alone); 28 hours of training a month.
  2. Feb ’26 – PresentTeam ToroNew York Red BullsMade the team at tryouts; pre-game and halftime activations at Sports Illustrated Stadium, plus community appearances.
  3. Sept ’25 – PresentWOO! CrewNew Jersey DevilsRe-auditioned and made it two seasons running (~80, then ~50 trying out). Shirt tosses, Zamboni rides, fan moments all game.
  4. ’21 – ’22Head Martial Arts InstructorCesar-Kai AcademySecond-degree black belt. Taught classes of 3 to 25, ages 4 to 17: forms, sparring and discipline.
  5. Sept ’20 – June ’24Company DancerUCVTS APAFour years of conservatory training: the Cat in the Hat in Seussical, and host of the 2022–23 Art of Creation concert.

DESIGN

  1. Mar ’26 – PresentProduct DesignerMedaraThe site, moved off a WordPress template to custom code; pitch decks, research figures and marketing for a pre-FDA imaging startup.
  2. May ’26 – PresentWeb DesignerKindling Education PartnersTheir first website, start to finish — built custom instead of on Squarespace, kept current as they add schools.
  3. Aug ’25 – Dec ’25Web DesignerRossitech LTDContract designer for a UK web agency: Figma designs for a venison supplier and a soccer coach.
  4. OngoingSelected Projects / PracticeClearCore Protein, SpeedReader, and this site — self-directed, start to finish.

DATA

  1. Oct ’23 – May ’26BI + Data Analytics InternApple Montessori SchoolsKPI dashboards for 20+ schools, and a verified student count behind the enrollment projections.
  2. 2026McKinsey Forward ProgramCompleted, with certificate: structured problem solving, strategy and execution, and communication.
  3. OngoingSelected Projects / PracticeA distance-based fare analysis, NYC enrollment forecasting and subway event detection.

02 — education

learning? yeah that too.

  • Union County Vocational-Technical Schools seal

    UCVTS

    Academy for Performing Arts — four years of conservatory dance training.

  • Kean University Cougar mark

    KEAN

    Dual enrollment through senior year — college credit while still at APA.

  • Northeastern University Husky mark

    NORTHEASTERN

    B.S. Business Administration, New York. Treasurer, Fashion Organization.

03 — dance

sitting still?never that.

BELIEVE : RECEIVE Juwaan Walker
Drinking and Driving Juwaan Walker
Looking Dumb Deshawn Da Prince
RBNY
RBNY
Clear Juwaan Walker
Devils ice selfie
Devils ice selfie
Red Bulls, on the stage
Red Bulls, on the stage
Worst Behavior Juwaan Walker
Red Bulls, 26 Defender
Red Bulls, 26 Defender
Pop Smoke Juwaan Walker
Worst Behavior Deshawn Da Prince
WOO! Crew on the ice
WOO! Crew on the ice
Attention Juwaan Walker
Team Toro tunnel
Sirens tunnel
Sirens tunnel
Hot Dog Toss, Prudential Center
Hot Dog Toss, Devils
Hot Dog Toss, Devils
On the big screen
Vanessa + I
Vanessa + I
A night honoring John MacLean
A night honoring John MacLean
Too Many Women Deshawn Da Prince

04 — design

drawing a blank?not once.

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Web

medara

Took them off a WordPress template onto custom code, updated weekly since. The latest push: calmer hero images, and copy rewritten to sound like people. Every news story gets its cover from me.

Web

Kindling Education Partners

Their first website, start to finish. They asked for Squarespace; I built it custom so they got the site they actually wanted, and I keep it current — a new page each time they add a school.

ClearCore Proteinopen the live site ↗

Web

ClearCore Protein

Self-directed, start to finish.

SpeedReaderopen the live site ↗

Web

SpeedReader

Self-directed, start to finish.

This site — hero and navbar

Web

This site — hero and navbar

Designed in Figma first, then built to move.

Graphics

medara — news covers

Sixteen covers, one system.

Motion· spec, not commissioned by the club

New Jersey Devils — goal graphic

A 7.6s goal graphic for Dougie Hamilton, built to the beat of the arena horn. Five passes; the fifth is the one that lands.

Motion· spec, not commissioned by the club

New Jersey Devils — logo sting

A 4.5s sting: the mark arrives, holds, and burns off.

A figure mid-stride casting a long shadow, with the words RUN FOR COVER set into purple perspective rays that meet at him; signed CHARLIE2BORED Vol. 1.

Illustration

RUN FOR COVER

Charcoal and colored pencil.

A poster on green: STÜSSY in heavy block letters, a hand lining up a pool cue at an 8-ball cube and a die, headed “HUH? 8-Cube Drop”.

Illustration

Stüssy — 8-Cube Drop (spec)

Colored pencil.

Akashi Seijuurou, red-haired, drawn as a winged figure in black, red and white, reaching forward against a dark pencil ground.

Illustration

Akashi Seijuurou

Colored pencil.

A jagged red sky spreading down through grey masses of forest.

Illustration

red sky forest

Colored pencil.

guessing? not here.

05 — data

A two-and-a-half-year internship and three projects. The dashboards and figures below are the real ones.

01

Internship · 2.5 years

BI + Data Analytics Intern

Apple Montessori Schools · Oct 2023 – May 2026

Problem
Across 20+ schools, senior people were spending their hours on routine reporting, and the enrollment count was unreliable: one child could sit in several systems, or be missing from one.
What I did
Built Power BI KPI dashboards that took the recurring reporting off leadership. Went through every system — CRM, billing, the schools’ own — to confirm each student existed once, and built next year’s enrollment projections on that count. Compiled the regional directors’ work on families who left into dashboards and a record of why.
Result
Leadership got its reporting hours back for the work that needed them. Projections now rest on a verified headcount, and the reasons families gave for leaving went back to the schools as changes to make.
  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Excel
  • Tableau

20+

schools on one set of KPI dashboards

~15 hrs

of reporting a month off leadership, by their estimate

Every kid

matched across CRM, billing and school systems

3+ yrs

of CRM and billing data cleaned and joined

Why

families left, compiled from the regional directors’ work

2.5 yrs

in the role, working with the CFO and regional directors

The dashboards are internal to Apple Montessori, so the numbers stand in for them.

02

Personal project · solo

NYC distance-based fare analysis

Research, modeling and the site

Problem
Would a distance-based subway fare change who pays and who saves? Fare debates live in spreadsheets riders can’t use.
What I did
Modeled ~1M MTA origin–destination records in Python, routed every trip along the real subway network, and built a site where readers test their own commute.
Result
Surfaced a $913M revenue gap — after catching my own crow-flies error ($280.5M) and publishing the correction. 14.8% of trips would cost less.
  • Python
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • matplotlib
  • TypeScript

the site ↗code ↗

The site — the case, the method, the correction and what it means.

03

Personal project · solo

NYC District 2 enrollment forecasting

30 elementary schools, three years out

Problem
COVID broke a six-year plateau (~15,800 → ~12,400 K–5 students). Two data points can’t support one confident ML forecast.
What I did
Stitched 12 years of DOE and NYSED data, fit a piecewise model with a 2020 break, bounded the future with three scenarios, and shipped a Power BI dashboard.
Result
Back-tested against the real 2022–25 numbers: 8.71% error against Prophet’s 19.20% — 2.2× more accurate.
  • Python
  • pandas
  • statsmodels
  • Prophet
  • Power BI

code ↗

Power BI, executive summary — 30 schools, 12 years of actuals and the three-scenario forecast.
Power BI, backtest — the base scenario against Prophet once the real 2022–25 numbers came out.

04

Personal project · solo

NYC subway events from ridership data

Hourly MTA ridership, 2024

Problem
Can you tell when a big NYC event happens — a game, a parade, a concert — from subway ridership alone, with no calendar?
What I did
Built seasonal baselines per station and hour, scored the residuals, fingerprinted each event on five dimensions and clustered them.
Result
Recovered 495 of 513 known 2024 events — 96.5% recall — without ever giving the model the calendar.
  • Python
  • pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • Socrata API
  • NOAA

code ↗

Knicks vs Pacers, Game 7 — Penn Station ridership against its baseline. The event is visible in the data alone.
Every event’s fingerprint — peak intensity against arrival/exit asymmetry, clustered.
Yankee Stadium, day games against night games — the same venue, two different signatures.
Charlie on a stadium stage during a soundcheck, headset on
Charlie on a subway platform, towel over one shoulder
Mirror selfie with a friend
Charlie with crewmates in a studio, arms around each other
Full crew group photo in an arena stand

06 — contact

still scrolling?let’s talk.

Jobs, gigs, collabs, or just to say hi — email is the fastest way to reach me. Based in New York; NYC, NJ & CT, hybrid or remote.