Amanda Lou Gentry
Chapel Hill, NC ***** – Email: ************@*****.*** – Phone: 919-***-****
Profile
** ***** ********** ** * strategist, caregiver, problem solver, marketer, business developer, standardized process
developer, and team builder serving in multiple industries and work environments servicing multiple communities
providing outstanding profitable results. Proven ability to coordinate fundamental analytics and strategy with inter
personal skills to create and provide an in depth assessment on commerce trends in correlation to behavioral
science. Recognized for having an infectious personality and recognized for outstanding leadership within multiple
professional roles. Analytical example format can be viewed at http://angelinvestmentconnection.blogspot.com.
Ideological example format can be viewed at http://scoopofthefinancialindustry.blogspot.com.
Self Assessment Profile
Job Skills: Extensive use in cost benefit analysis techniques
Personal Skills: Social Perceptiveness, coordination, negotiation, service orientation
Workplace Skills: Applied Mathematics and Technology, Locating Information, Reading for Information,
Listening, Observation
Work Interests: Investigative, Artistic, Enterprising
Work Importance Values: Recognition, Independence
Education
Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bachelor of Science, May 2007
Major: Business Administration, Concentration in Finance
Centered Studies: Studies in Religious Philosophy and Intercultural Communication
Eligible for CFA Institute regular membership
Eligible for preparation for CPA designation
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Example – Profitable Results from Strategic Actions:
1. In 2008 regulatory implementations required individual managed discretionary portfolio to be linked to a
model and validated.
Role to work with administrative team, Personal Asset Management Model Team, to link the accounts
code on system per portfolio manager request
Assumed responsibility to design a pattern for the administrative right personnel to channel requests
through a centralized email address, PAM.MODEL
Design saw transparency in requests to validate linked codes
Results from administrative link design pattern
Minimal coding errors, pattern recognized error source
Met investment coding deadline in 2009
In 2010 regulatory 9 questions were not up to date on securities that were restricted on daily security buy
and sell list for wealth and investment management portfolios.
Assumed responsibility and programmed in excel a worksheet that depicted assets in portfolio that was
congruent with daily security buy and sell list
The spreadsheet formula was derived from a personal attribution research found in search of a formula
from the internet
Used formula found on internet to program excel column to read tickler in column A from tickler in
column B and would copy in column C if match and would not copy in column C if not a match
Results from daily programmed excel security list
Sold security before regulation 9 questions were due as a result reduced regulation 9 questions
Proactively portfolio managed as a result reduced under sight from relying on regulation 9 system
questions
Worksheet separate from trading system as a result minimized trading errors
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Agriculture Product Management and Marketing Experience
Multiple roles throughout thirteen years experience
CFO, Strategist, Designer, Blue Moon Meadows
Hillsborough, North Carolina, 2011 Present
Co Founder Blue Moon Meadows farm with the established presence at The Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market, a
local venue organization
Compose and assess financial statements and expenditures statements
Analyze non profit and for profit farm options similarities and differences
Analyze and reconcile bank statements and make cash inflow and cash outflow forecast assessments
Design and create merchandize from raw material
Community outreach in serving in volunteer roles and in contributing to commerce in merchandize
donations
Extensive use in volunteer work for non profit organizations
Volunteer, Non Profit Organizations
Continue Involvement in Community Outreach
Chapel Hill/ Carrboro City Schools in encouraging students to read campaigns
Chapel Hill Service League
Chapel Hill City Town in Locally Grown social uplift campaigns
Clerk, Village Charter School
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1999 2001
Managed daily office operational and administrative duties
Managed hard files and reconciled, reviewed, and audited financial statements for committee review
Assisted principal with unsupervised projects performed in timely manner
Marketed and participated in school functions, helped prepare for functions and cleaned up afterwards
Financial Experience
Total nine years in progressive roles serving at one establishment.
Trust Advisor Officer, SunTrust Wealth & Investment Management, Atlanta Advisory Center,
Atlanta, Georgia, 2011
Discovered in 2011 fee change language in 2011 disclosures, the due diligent oversight saved bank from
future litigation
Implemented standardize Investment Policy Statement into specialized industry group to lead and captivate
objectives and constraints that had not previously been recorded, end result, to forecast cash flows relative
to their stated asset allocation guidelines and strategies
Restructured weekly bill pay investment account cash forecast table to reallocate investment account
rebalance priorities, the strategic assessment gave teammates an in depth analysis of fixed distributions to
be able to predict future cash forecasts
Designed regulatory data management process plan for account acceptance forms for 2011 acquisition, the
design lead auditors to better understand Atlanta Advisory Center administrative responsibilities and
obligations to monitor the new account 2011 acquisition
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Investment Portfolio Specialist, SunTrust Wealth & Investment Management, Personal Asset Management,
Atlanta, Georgia, 2008 2011
In 2011 met Investment Policy Statement asset allocation project deadline, wrote objectives and constraints
in database for future asset allocation reconciliation alignment
Team contributor in 2010 for customizing new business investment presentations capturing the prospective
client’s current asset by displaying company’s viewpoint investment reviews
Reduced regulatory oversight time for determining restricted securities in 2010, formulated excel worksheet
to depict restricted securities in investment portfolios to examine portfolios risk tolerance on a daily basis
In 2009 and 2010 crafted PowerPoint presentations to examine and explain current allocation structure, fee
charges, and revenue income for clients that held constraints in privately held and closely held investment
vehicles
Developed administrative management processes in investment model group in 2008 and in 2009, the
process saved time for auditors in monitoring the coding requests
Coached offshore investment group in 2009 in providing the team with beneficial curriculum courses, what if
investment presentation scenarios, help full internal investment links, and trained on specific presentation
pages
First internal colleague to report to Atlanta, G.A. for Investment Center implementation
In 2008 met investment coding project deadlines, completed time sensitive investment coding tasks while
multi tasking with implementing fiduciary oversight regulations, the coding methods used were in depth
validation checks and balance and reduced minimal investment coding errors and enhanced fiduciary
management governance
Administrative Assistant, SunTrust Wealth & Investment Management, Personal Asset Management,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2007 2008
Managed 6 portfolio managers’ client review cycles, created presentation and process that incorporated
annual performance data and monitored regulatory data, the process drove client satisfaction and
established a process for fiduciary oversight and was enacted in 2008 as a standard process for Investment
Portfolio Specialist responsibilities. The packet included performance, asset allocation portfolio presentation
slides and regulatory documents, the packet reduced operational cost in obtaining prudent information once
on an annual basis and eliminated confusing client mailing interpretations. After the packet was endorsed
by the client the packet of information was transmitted into central database for all team members to
retrieve. The oversight enhanced fiduciary management and brought transparency in communicating
investment management guidelines.
Evaluated Investment Policy Statement asset allocation to system investment code, conceptualized on
teammate investment oversight by uploading documents onto central teammate database
Introduced performance review optimization, studied performance measurement manual script to
strategically analysis client requests to software functions. Implemented enhancement tools to improve
performance measurement and satisfy client requests
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Financial Service Representative, Commercial Retail Banking, SunTrust Bank,
Orange and Durham Counties, North Carolina, 2002 2007
Ordered foreign currency for clientele and client money in purchasing power
Established and built trusted client relationships upholding consistency in providing branch representation
service for five consecutive years
Met brokerage branch goal in 2007 in cross selling brokerage division, a total of $500,000 fee base income
for branch. Did not receive incentive from new business.
Awarded in February 2007 for providing excellent customer service
Mentored new teammates on bank procedures, operations, and sales
Internship at SunTrust Mortgage in Fall 2006, learned loan documentation oversight process
Awarded April 2005 for executing high volume of transaction in a short time frame with minimal errors in
National Bank of Commerce and SunTrust Banks, Inc. acquisition in 2005
Managed and audited daily responsibilities in non traditional banking environments, counted money orders,
cashier’s checks, traveller checks and cash drawer
Awarded superior service quality in 2005 for client retention and customer service
Received solid rating performance in sales activities and customer service throughout the five years in
traditional and non traditional roles
Established well known relationship with managers in my understanding of bank regulatory guidelines, sales
achievements, and customer service enthusiasm
Participated in operation training, team building, and product marketing training seminars at SunTrust
University in Durham, North Carolina
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