Software Financial

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June 28, 2013

JEFFREY LI

*** **** ** *** *, Union City, NJ ****7 • C 267-***-**** • **********@*****.***

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

NYU Stern School of Business – January 2010

• Double Major in Finance and Information Systems, Minor in Mathematics, GPA 3.5

• Achieved Degree in 3.5 years while simultaneously working most semesters

• 790 SAT I Verbal, 790 SAT II Math I, 800 SAT II Math II

• Relevant Coursework: Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Financial Engineering, Risk Management in

...Financial Institutions, Economics, Statistics, Business Law, Data Mining

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Self Employed, E-commerce & Media Entrepreneur, February 2013 – Current

• Created profitable Amazon and eBay drop shipping system that nets over $1,000 per month

• Launched vradicate (anti-piracy service, vradiacte.com) and TD Journal (news website, tdjournal.com)

Park Avenue Asset Management, Commodities Broker, November 2012 – January 2013

• Made over 300 cold calls per day to prospect for clients, handed leads to senior broker

• Passed National Futures Association (NFA) Series 3 exam with score of 98%

International Business Times, Financial Journalist, January 2010 – October 2012

• Covered financial topics such as corporate earnings, M&A, economic indicators, market forecast

• Curated analyst forex research for FxWire Pro, a forex newsfeed for traders and financial institutions

• Interviewed top experts such as Jim Rogers, Joseph Stiglitz, William Draper, Peter Löscher, Duvvuri

...Subbarao, Dan Fuss, Robert Prechter, Paul Purcell

• Articles cited by other financial media, interviewed twice by Beyond Beijing radio on economic topics

• Was instrumental in turning IBTimes from unprofitability to grossing $10+ million annually by optimizing

resources, hiring at least 40 reporters and training at least 60 reporters

• Twice managed teams of over 20 reporters

Deutsche Bank Forex (dbFX), Operations Intern, September 2008 – December 2009

• Sent Deutsche Bank forex research to clients, helped maintain research database

• Worked heavily with Excel, wrote VBA Macro programs for accounting and operations that automated key

…processes and saved significant time

• Assisted with account opening paperwork

D.B. Zwirn & Co. (Defunct $5B Hedge Fund), Front Office Intern, October 2007 – May 2008

• Curated and compiled news on stocks into reports for portfolio managers using LexisNexis

• Head intern in PwC audit project, coordinated among admins and other interns

SKILLS

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, vlookups, nested ifs, VBA Macros, etc.

• Self-taught programmer, basic knowledge of VBA, HTML, Java

• Proficient in Minitab (statistics software) and Weka (data mining software)

• High proficiency with PC software, very tech-savvy, comfortable with mathematic and statistics

• Fluent in spoken Chinese Mandarin (but US Citizen, will not need sponsorship)