1. Adam Alden
aldenadam@yahoo.com
Chicago, IL. 60640
(773) 225-9732
Objective: To launch a vigorous and progressive trading career that can enrich the lives of my clients
and drive profitability.
Employment Experience
Personal Trading (September 2010- Current)
 Initially learned about fundamentals and applied it to penny stocks while studying the difference
between gambling speculatively and investing responsibly.
 Learned the value of emotional detachment pertaining to investments.
 Discovered pattern recognition through technical analysis.
Cash America
Pawnbroker (August 2014- October 2014)
 Negotiated sales prices for clients maintaining a company goal margin of 30%.
 Calculated loans based on rudimentary mathematics related to proportions pertaining to used prices.
 Read customers’ body language and tonality in order to determine whether or not they were
trustworthy in relation to giving out loans
 Organized and maintained inventory of products.
Trading Advantage
Inside Sales (March 2014 - July 2014)
 Commenced daily outbound dials of 400 to 500 calls in efforts to secure web demonstrations of
proprietary electronic trading platforms.
 Secured sales through one call closes averaging $3,000 to $6,000 in revenue per sale, at about a 45
minute sales cycle.
 Ramped up in one month of training and was promoted to Education Consultant which granted access
to some warm inbound leads.
 Became very user friendly with the CRM: Salesforce, which was used heavily to monitor sales
campaigns and pipeline information.
State Representative: Toni Berrios
Political Campaign Representative: (January 2014 -February 2014)
 Made high volume phone call surveys, canvassed and helped to make a political campaign
commercial.
 Influenced campaign results by way of prospecting for voter support.
Dreamaker Mattress
Store Manager: (June 2011 - September 2012)
 Secured retail sales brought in by walk-in traffic and consistent craigslist / twitter ads campaigns.
 Drove profitability above goaled profit margins, every month finishing at 45% GP.
 Coordinated logistics and delivery methods to consumers as well as re-order inventory from factory.
 Maintained store operations and volume growth goals under direct training from owner.

2.  Telemarketed past clients in efforts to secure referrals and/ or upgrades of high end mattress and beds.
Vitamin Shoppe:
Retail Sales Associate (April 2009 - June 2010)
 Constantly researched the science behind old and new products in an effort to generate new sales by
using a comprehensive, holistic consultative approach.
 Time and again applied scientific knowledge of products to optimize results both for customers and
the bottom line of the company.
Education
B.A. in Urban Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
 Was leading member of a team research project relating to the Illinois Food Farms and Jobs Council.
Collected data for a GIS map of all local farms, warehouses and other access points in Illinois in order
to identify and connect producers to consumers.
Diploma from St. Ignatius College Prep Highschool
University of Illinois at Chicago, Sustainability Office
Internship (Fall 2013)
 Outreach to student organizations on campus.
 Prepared literature in regards to bike routes, informational material and events.
 Scheduling of meetings, drafting the agenda for meetings.
LETS GO CHICAGO, Summer of Solutions
Internship (Summer 2012)
 Worked on a collaborative team that designed its own norms and values in the work environment.
 Designed a bike rack in collaboration with a carpenter then led a team of teenagers to build it. The
bike rack is still in use, two years later, no thefts.
 Helped to maintain and grow an urban garden while learning about permaculture.
 Helped to build a chicken coop and compost bin in Rogers Park for a sustainability non-profit
organization in conjunction with a Methodist Church on Morse and Ashland.
Professional references available upon request