This document is a resume for Abdul Qureshi summarizing his qualifications, education, related work experience and additional work experience. It highlights his skills in cost benefit analysis and investment analytics from working for Environment Canada, as well as his business planning skills from running a successful math tutoring business. It also lists his education at the University of Toronto Mississauga where he studied economics, and provides details on relevant projects and work experience, including creating a user manual for a cost benefit analysis application and researching the link between food aid and market prices.

1. Abdul Qureshi
2874 Gardenview Cres.
Mississauga, ON, L5M 5T4
(416) 738-3663
abdul.qureshi@mail.utoronto.ca
SUMMARYOF QUALIFICATIONS
 Exceptionally skilled at Cost Benefit Analysis, Investment analytics, Microsoft Word, Excel, report
writing, and problem solving acquired while working for Environment Canada as an Economic
Research Assistant
 Excellent business planning skills acquired through 3+ years of running a successfulmath tutoring
business with up to 25 clients
 Outstanding Leadership and communication skills demonstrated by meeting sales target and training
staff at Bell Canada and while operating a self-owned business
EDUCATION
University ofToronto Mississauga (UTM) 2012-2016
Economics Specialist
Relevant courses: Advanced Macroeconomics and Microeconomics; Econometrics; International
Monetary Economics; Money, Banking & financial markets; Economic Development; Public Policy
Department ofEconomics 2014-2015 Honour Roll (Third & Fourth Year Economics)
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Economic Research Assistant, Environment Canada 2015-2016
 Critically analyzed an application to perform the cost benefit analysis (CBA) of phosphorus
management in order to make wiser investment decisions
 Developed a project plan to create user manual/training material for a CBA application called
Phosphorus Management Decision Support System (PMDSS)
 Successfully produced a 35 page user manual/training material that greatly aided senior decision
makers to use the application in order to create optimal investment scenarios and perform cost
benefit analysis
 Performed the sensitivity analysis for PMDSS to access and estimate different cost benefit scenarios
to assist senior management to better allocate Government of Canada’s 16 million dollar funding to
reduce phosphorus outflow in the Grand River Watershed
RELEVANT RESEARCH/ACADEMICPROJECTS
“Food Aid and Market prices: 1989 – 2013”, Econometrics
 Performed an econometric analysis on the markets of the most aided countries in the past ten years;
Ethiopia, Sudan (former), Bangladesh, Kenya and Afghanistan
 Extracted economic data from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the
World Bank to perform regression analysis using STATA and Excel and wrote a 30 page research

2.  Examined the effects of food aid on the local markets of recipient countries using a cross-country
panel data set from 1989-2013
“Linking Graduates with the Job Market”, Public Economics
 Investigated the factors effecting the Canadian youth unemployment rate
 Extracted data from “National graduate survey (2013)” and “Access and Support to Education and
Training Survey (2008)” to examine the potential causes of the youth unemployment rate using
STATA
 Suggested and presented a public policy to overcome the gap between the educationsupplyand
workplace demands
“HowCanadian Banks Survive the Subprime Meltdown”, Money, Banking & financial markets
 Researched the factors that caused the recession in America
 Compared and contrasted the banking laws in compliance to BaselII and BaselIII regulations
 Understood and pinpointed the differences between Canadian and American policies that could have
prevented the meltdown in America and created a 20 page report.
ADDITIONALWORK EXPERIENCE
CEO, Tutor Staff 2013-Present
 Planed and implemented marketing strategies for Tutor Staff which resulted in 20-25 students
 Negotiated the rates and the term of the contract
 Taught students needing math help in groups or individually from grade 6 to 12
 Developed 18 worksheets for each grade to tutor students to build Math Skills
 Evaluated students to measure skill progression and determine improvement areas
 Reported and discussed student’s progress with parents
Sales Representative, Bell Canada Summer-2012
 Recognized as one of the leading sales representatives of a multi-media promotions company, Media
Shack running Bell Canada campaign
 Managed to exceed the expected number of sales on a daily basis
 Generated new business leads and created advertising solution
 Identified and understood the trends among customers and met the target revenue
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Teacher’s Assistant, Stephen Lewis Secondary School September 2010-June 2011
 Helped grade 10 and 11 students with math problems