Professional & Academic Background

I want to start off by saying that I believe we are in an era where everyone has access to an incredible amount knowledge. The barrier of entry to any field is primarily limited by curiosity, determination and the ability to ask the right questions.

LLM’s feel like having unlimited access to a professor in any field. Rather than needing to read through a whole research paper, or watch an entire video to retrieve the tiny piece of information, I now need to type just a few sentences. The models do an incredible job of gauging where my understanding is lacking and giving a very deep to response to a narrow question. As someone who cares little for memorization but rather for the hows/whys/intution, this is incredibly valuable for me.

Chartered Financial Analyst Charter holder

Gold Standard Finance / Valuation Designation

  • B.S. Aerospace Engineering - 149 credit hours

    • Concentration in Rocket Propulsion and Controls/Programming (including M.S. / PhD coursework)

  • Full Time MBA

    • Dual program with M.S. Business Analytics & Information mgmt.

    • Finance club president

    • Teaching Assistant for General Finance

    • Representative for the School’s Consulting Center for Machine learning

  • VP Product Manager for Crescendo (Entity-Resolution platform)

    • Work with 2 different sprint teams (POC & implementation teams)

    • Creator of Graph Visualizer

      • used by validation team for straight through processing

    • Creator of attribute change log (processes > 1TB data using scala/EMR)

    • PM for industry classification (LLM that sits on top of ER data)

  • Post MBA Strategy Consultant

    • Transferred to ‘new client’ accounts (most important accounts)

    • Airdropped to replace existing manager on a failing account

    • Created business cases for F500 companies

    • Decks presented to C-Suite / BOD

    • Top performer, offered generous retention bonus upon leaving

  • Financial Engineer / Quantitative Analyst

    • FHLBDM is the largest of federal home loan banks by AUM

    • Responsible for market risk valuations across the portfolio

    • VaR, NII, Capital Ratios, Duration Profiling, etc.

    • Migration away from black-box to in house software solutions

Interests

Non Academic:

  • Gym

  • Chess (add me)<—not very good

  • Go Birds!

Academic (things I like to read/watch/listen):

  • AI/ML

  • Physics

  • Mathematics

  • Economics (Macro, financial, and Behavioral)

  • Finance (Valuations and stock market)