SUMMARY:

• Financial Professional with over 15 year’s knowledgeable experience in the financial industry and 6 years in managerial positions.
• Mentor with patience and efficiency when working with a wide range of diverse employees and clients.
• Recognized for concise verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational and time management skills.
• Highly analytical; ability to solve complex and unstructured issues for many unfamiliar settings.
• Known for working well with others, and bringing stability and integrity to the organization. Service oriented with a focus toward strengthening both internal and external customer relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Financial Advisor

Emeryville, CA

• Strategically developed quantitative and qualitative financial models, back tested, evaluated, and implemented financial planning.
• Tactically collected, analyzed, planned, and advised ultra - high end clients through portfolio analysis to manage asset allocations and investment planning.
• Managed $83 Million in assets and developed an assigned book of business of clients’ (approximately 350) across Valic products and services while complying with all regulatory requirements.
• Advised valuable clients in the scholastic, health care, and government sectors by attaining, cultivating, developing, and nurturing sales opportunities. Including, acquiring, expanding, and maintaining new professional relationships with business networks.
• Hosted business financial seminars to government entities, private sectors, and non-profit organizations.
• Counseled participants on their pension plans, tax deferred annuities, asset management, facilitated new investment purchases, and provided authoritative information upon which important personal financial planning decisions were based.
• Participated in institutional clients’ events in preliminary registration and completed retirement plan contracts.
• Attended business community affairs to build a strong relationship as the lead representative for the company and the surrounding areas.

Senior Financial Consultant

San Mateo, CA

• Coordinated effectively with Pershing LLC, Fidelity Investment, and Franklin Templeton wholesalers with cohesive sales strategies to lucrative potential clients.
• Maintained daily and monthly communication with brokers, institutional sale traders, executives, and public companies.
• Discovered, acquired, developed, and cultivated sales opportunities among current and potential business customers through extensive community interaction and financial business seminars.
• Engaged business owners in a consultative dialogue, by identifying business and organizational issues in response to questions, research, and resolve issues within the scope of knowledge and authority. These included, probing questions to ensure understanding, and provided thorough, thoughtful and creative financial advice to resolve issues; including affluent clients.
• Managed Alpha strategies short and long, and marketed neutral equities in Global fixed income, Global market strategies, multi-strategy funds, and external funds on hedge fund strategies.
• Monitored indices, created trading test indices, ensured data integrity on indices’ composition, and portfolio holdings.
• Quantitative investment analysis on corporations, mutual funds, and equities verifying internal calculations on portfolio returns.
• Assisted in ad hoc internal and external client requests by preparing portfolio attribution reports and collaborated with other departments’ projects.

Senior Business Banking Specialist

San Francisco, CA

• Hosted business financial seminars to new and existing business owners and provided support to help them to succeed financially. Attended business community affairs to build a strong relationship as the lead representative for the company and the surrounding areas.
• Worked closely with executives and investment managers to meet clients’ partnership deals.
• Created and coordinated sale opportunities with current business partners and potential business owners in order to meet clients’ financial goals and company quarterly objectives.
• Gathered, analyzed, identified, and advised on retirement plans for small and medium business owners.
• Expanded and retained high end commercial clients by providing objective, realistic recommendations on a wide variety of products, ranging from equipment, terms, commercial loans, business credit lines, treasury management, and payroll services.
• Solicited, developed, and maintained profitable business accounts with gross sales of $824K to $2 million per quarter.

Financial Consultant

San Francisco, CA

• Asset management decisions monitoring electronic and verbal order executions with dynamically tracked portfolio positions.
• Analyzed index changes and created test indices for trading; ensured data integrity on index composition and portfolio holdings.
• Managed equity portfolios, mutual funds and indices accounts.
• Applied technical indicators, fundamental analysis, economic statistics, and quantitative analysis with acute detail in executing high volumes in short and long term trading.
• Communicated effectively and examined clients trading strategies, effects of liquidity, volatility, and opportunity costs in the stock market.

Army Assistant Instructor

Columbus, GA

• Secured, transferred, and disseminated highly sensitive information to higher management.
• Collected, analyzed, monitored and advised on opportunities to improve the quality, performance, modification, and efficiency of different test projects on equipment from private companies.
• Managed and trained multi-million dollar highly sensitive equipment, developed tactics, procedures, tested, and refined personal protection in an extremely threatening operation environment.
• Effectively evaluated, instructed, advised, and identified potential candidates to become leaders.
• Supervised, motivated, and appraised the performance and development for a team of eight members, organizing and delegating tasks with higher management.

Equity Trader

San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated in developing, modeling, back testing, implementing and enhancing systematic, quantitative, and high frequency trading strategies.
• Used technical indicators, fundamental analysis, economics, statistics, quantitative models with extreme sense to detail in executing high volumes in short and long term trading.
• Partnered with managers and team members, which in turn generated trading ideas, cost measurements, and effectively balanced between costs and risks in multiple asset classes.
• Maintained daily and monthly P/L records, included communication with institutional sales traders, research sale executives, and public companies.
• Developed and maintained strong relationships with buy and sell side, operations, compliance, and marketing.