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OBJECTIVE To use my education, work knowledge, acquired skills and accomplishments toward furthering my career within the financial services industry.
RELEVANT Lord, Abbett & Co., Jersey City, NJ May-Present
EXPERIENCE Head Trader/High Yield Research Group Oct-Present
• Regularly trades for various high yield bond funds. Systematically executes a high volume of trades for large cash fund redemptions or contributions. Trades Opportunistically for high grade, high yield and CDO account(s).
• Compares year CDS versus corporate bond issues we currently own and suggests potential trade ideas based on these valuations. Regularly Executes CDS Trades.
• Updates relative value spreadsheet daily to identify trading patterns or undervalued and overvalued credits.
• Examines market conditions, earnings and significant credit related news that may impact portfolio holdings.
• Analyzes trade history, credit default swaps and price fluctuations for high yielding bonds and recommends a proposed action. .
• Communicates with sales coverage, traders and analysts daily to discuss credit situations, new issues coming to the market, company news and the merits of investment ideas.
• Oversees trade support staff and delegates trading issues/operations their way.
Trade Assistant May-Oct
• Supported convertible bond and emerging markets desk and executed FX transactions for bonds denominated in other currency’s.
• Assisted high yield investment managers in the daily maintenance of portfolios and operations
Prudential Global Asset Management, Newark, N.J. Jan-May
Sr. Operations Investment Representative:
Representative for Global Funding Hedge/Collateral Desk Jan-Dec
• Handled all principal & interest disbursements on all collateral and security positions held by PGF.
• Tied out daily accounting reconciliation on U.S. treasury positions held by PGF to the income statement.
• Evaluated each collateralized counterparty’s NPV under the credit support annex for margin call purposes.
Representative for Global Funding Rate/Reset Desk Dec-May
• Uploaded FX rates and performs a consistent snapshot of the market on a daily basis for reasonability.
• Set rates on all deals that are resetting and checks that all information is maintained accurately and updated.
EDUCATION B.S. Pennsylvania State University, Dec. ‘
Major: Finance & International Business
Minor: Economics
Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan Aug-Dec
Foreign Exchange Student:
• Studied Japanese language, reading and writing while living with a Japanese family.
Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Plainsboro, NJ. (Internship) Summer
Summer Associate/Business Analyst.
Corporate Financial Analyst Assistant:
MetraHealth Insurance Company, Hartford, CT. (Internship) Summer
Corporate Financial Analyst Assistant:
• Developed the budget request sent out to HCFA and created workload models for the Government contracts.
• Analyzed historical data to forecast future money allocations for budget.
• Managed special projects and created database management systems for internal departmental needs.
HONORS Series , &
AWARDS & NYC Marathon ’
ACTIVITIES AIEJ Scholarship Recipient
Deans List
Phi Chi Theta: Arranged speakers & planned professional events for national business fraternity.
RELEVANT Financial Markets, Derivatives & Services International Marketing, Accounting & Finance
COURSES Financial, Managerial & International Accounting Macro, Micro, & Intl Economics
Computer Science Business Law
COMPUTER Proficient in all Microsoft Office Software, Lotus, Turbo Pascal, Netscape, Lotus Notes,
SKILLS Minitab, Windows, America Online and Word Perfect. A conceptual understanding of working with macros.
*References Furnishable Upon Request
