Life Insurance Sales

Shirley Zhang

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Chicago, IL 60615

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Permanent resident of USA

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EDUCATION

September 2009- June 2010 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois.

Master of Science in Financial Mathematics GPA: 3.8

Coursework includes: Option Pricing, Portfolio Theory and Risk

Management, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income Derivatives, Numerical

Methods, Stochastic Calculus

January 2006 – March 2009 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington.

B.S., Applied and Computational Math Sciences GPA: 3.7

Minors: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics

EXPERIENCE

Academic Projects

Jan – Mar 2010 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Factor Model and Trading Strategy

• Broke down the trend of an asset using factors

• Built a model to maximize the information ratio and alpha

• Backtested the predictive power

Mar – June 2007 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Diffusion Models for the Process of Entry into Marriage

• Derived a differential equation for a social diffusion process

• Examined Hernes’ diffusion models and hazard rate models

Jan – Mar 2008 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

The Zero-memory Strategy in Blackjack

• Used Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the success rate

• Designed the strategy table for a game of multiple decks

Experience

Current Brown&Joseph Ltd., Rolling Meadows, IL

• Assistant to the sales and marketing team

• Generate and research leads

March – Augest 2009 Great Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

• Studied the structure of an insurance company

• Calculated the expected earnings and tested the risks of the product

LANGUAGES AND SKILLS

Languages Native Chinese, proficiency in English

Computer skills Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PPT,Outlook

Programming : Java, MATLAB, R, C#, SAS

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