William Holland
Santa Monica, CA 90403
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EDUCATION
UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Los Angeles, CA
M.B.A., Finance June 2010
. GMAT: 720.
. Membership: Investment Finance Association (IFA); Management
Consulting Association (MCA).
. Activities: Vice President - John Anderson Golf Club; Riordan
Scholars Mentorship Program; Anderson Baseball Team.
. Teaching Assistant: MGMT 413a: "Personal Computing for Managers:
Application Development with Excel/VBA"
THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART New York, NY
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering May 2005
. Honors: Received four-year, full-tuition academic scholarship;
Inducted into Cooper Union's inaugural chapter of The National Society
of Collegiate Scholars; School Dean's List.
. Membership: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), New York
Water Environment Association (NYWEA), Cooper Union Alumni Association
Representative.
. Activities: Cooper Union Varsity Basketball Team, Cooper Union
Varsity Baseball Team.
EXPERIENCE
L-NUTRA, INC. Los Angeles, CA
Financial Planner June 2009 - September 2009
. Finalized L-Nutra's business plan by improving financial statements
and developing a detailed valuation that determined the ownership
allotments of the initial investors of the firm's first product,
ChemoLieve.
. Created a Monte-Carlo financial simulation model that determined the
firm's operations strategy by identifying the most cost-efficient
methods of production, marketing, and human resourcing.
. Presented L-Nutra's revenue and cost projections to senior members of
the USC Department of Innovation in order to negotiate a licensing
agreement with the University.
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN LP New York, NY
Associate Portfolio Manager (APM), Fixed Income Department July 2007
- July 2008
. Mitigated client risk in $20 Billion of US multi-sector institutional
and private client portfolios by managing portfolio analytics and
ensuring that returns exceeded the performance of Lehman Aggregate
benchmark indices.
. Constructed trade orders and communicated with the various Fixed
Income trading teams to ensure that the strategic directives of the
portfolio management teams were effectively executed within each of
the client portfolios.
. Implemented daily monitoring process that tracked cash positions in
all client portfolios, prevented overdraft penalties and allowed for a
100% improvement in the completion of client withdrawal requests.
. Trained Senior Portfolio Managers during worldwide training program to
adopt the monthly portfolio security selection process created by the
New York Fixed Income APM teams. Reduced process phase time by 200%
in external offices.
VOLLMER ASSOCIATES LLP/STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES INC. New York, NY
Junior Civil Engineer July 2005 - July 2007
. Designed private utility relocation and created construction drawings
currently used by the NYC public agencies involved in the preliminary
phases of the $4 Billion "Atlantic Yards Arena and Redevelopment"
Project.
. Managed three junior employees in the creation of project
documentation and preliminary cost estimate for a $10 million NYC
Department of Design and Construction project and successfully
completed project prior to internal deadlines.
. Modeled new storm sewer layout and calculated cost valuation for NYC
Department of Environmental Protection's Whitestone Storm Sewer
Improvement Project.
ADDITIONAL
. Software Proficiency: Microsoft Excel/Crystal Ball, Latent Zero
Minerva fixed income trading platform, Bloomberg, Lehman Point, and
AutoCAD 2006.
. License: Fundamentals of Engineering (F.E.) Professional (April
2005).
. Activities: Joined the Cooper Union Athletic Association in Fall 2004
and actively participate in numerous annual fund-raising events.
. Awards: Received four-year, full tuition academic scholarship to
Regis High School in New York, NY.