Sales Assistant

John A. Holodnak

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EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business

Los Angeles, CA

Master of Business Administration

May 2011

Amherst College

Amherst, MA

Bachelor of Arts, French

May 2003

. cum laude

. Varsity Squash Team: 2-year captain, 4-year member

. Varsity Soccer Team: 2-year starter

EXPERIENCE

Prudential Bache Commodities (Foreign Exchange)

New York, NY

Currency Trader, Asia Desk

2008 - 2009

Co-managed all activities related to trading of the following currencies:

Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, and the Australian

Dollar.

. Analyzed and interpreted deluge of daily market data in order to

predict short-term market movements and devised and implemented

buy/sell strategy.

. Actively traded currencies at my discretion from the Bache proprietary

account. Year-to-date total revenue generated: $275,000.

. Forecasted and analyzed all G-7 currencies and presented all relevant

information to clients directly.

. Responsible for the training of a junior FX assistant in the

fundamentals of trading procedure.

Currency Trader, New York Desk

2007 -

2008

Quoted competitive prices at which clients could buy or sell the Swiss

Franc and Canadian Dollar.

. Traded from Bache proprietary account in limited capacity. Net revenue

generated: $20,000.

Sales Assistant, New York Desk

2006 - 2007

Provided clerical support by answering phones, processing paperwork and

organizing meals for office.

New York Model Management (Men's Runway Division)

New York, NY Professional Fashion

Model

2003 - 2006 Achieved extensive working knowledge of the fashion

industry.

. Appeared in Korean Vogue Magazine (09/2005) and Cosmopolitan Magazine

(01/2004, 12/2004, 01/2005).

Credit Agricole Cheuvreux

New York, NY

Equity Sales Intern

Summer 2003

Supported institutional sales in this specialist brokerage Focused on

European equity sales to US based money managers (emphasis on the luxury

goods sector) through diligent market research and the establishment and

development of client relationships.

Fidelity International Limited (FIL)

Paris, France

Marketing Intern

Summer 2002

Coordinated and led a variety of projects in database management, market

research, and product management in support of FIL's in-country activities

for France.

. Helped devise marketing plan to recruit French high net-worth retail

banking clients to Fidelity from competitors and gained grasp of

international banking regulations.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

. Computer: Microsoft, Excel, PowerPoint, Word,

PageMaker, Word Perfect, basic Java Script.

. Professional Certification: National Association of

Securities Dealers (NASD) Series 7 (Passed, January

2004), NASD Series 3 (Passed, August 2006)

. Cycled in Pan-Mass Challenge: a two-day bike race in

support of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute for the

last five years, team raised over $100,000 for cancer

research.

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