17. Radford University, Radford, VA. GPA: 3.33Scholastic Achievements<br />Top 10% College of Business<br />Dean’s List (2006–2011)<br />Founder & President, VCU Investment Club<br />Senior Analyst, SMIPO Investment Club<br />Vice President, FMA<br />Honor Fraternity Member, IE<br />Experience<br />2009 - 2011Research AssistantVCU, Richmond, VA<br />Tools & Technologies: Windows 7, Excel 2007/10–Macros/VBA, Word 2007/10, Bloomberg Terminal Certification<br />Roles & Responsibilities: Comptroller of $100,000 endowment and founding President of the VCU Investment Fund, yielding 16% ROI. Designed and implemented an automated financial model with the use of Macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel. This enabled superior asset allocation and stock selection for current and future members and consistently outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of 650 basis points, achieving positive alpha. While orchestrating this production environment, I set in place a mentorship for the fund’s succession. <br />2008 - 2008Research AnalystCassaday & Company Investment Bank, McLean, VA<br />Tools & Technologies: Morningstar Workstation, Windows XP, Outlook 2003, Excel 2003, PowerPoint 2003 <br />Roles & Responsibilities: Constructed optimal investment portfolios that reduced risk and resulted in significant cost savings. Presented risk reduction techniques to the Portfolio Manager. Developed a methodology and converted Outlook data with conditional formatting and pivot tables into a more efficient storage utility.<br />2007 - 2007Digital Imaging Technology AnalystDTIC, Fort Belvoir, VA<br />Tools & Technologies: TruScan Titan Atlas Wide-format Scanner, Windows XP, Photoshop 2003, Excel 2003<br />Roles & Responsibilities: Enhanced business collaborations by devising a robust library of confidential information using Excel’s data consolidation tools: filters, pivot tables, text-to-column, etc. Mastered Adobe Photoshop while developing an integrated system to catalogue and provide networking accessibility. <br />