Project Assistant

ARCHITA BHATT

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Investment Research Intern

May 08 - Aug 08

Global Wealth Management - Strategic Asset Allocation, Citigroup, New York

. Successfully designed and implemented risk budgeting and analysis

models which involved VAR calculation using Monte Carlo simulation,

Correlation matrix and other risk budgeting techniques (worked on

Excel/VBA, MATLAB, SQL).

. Generated portfolio performance reports on monthly basis for strategic

asset allocation of Citi and Smith Barney standard portfolios (using

Excel/VBA, SQL).

Research Assistant

Aug 07 - Jun 08

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

. Collected and analyzed Venture capital funded companies' data for the

research.

. Research mainly focused on VC firm's operations and success ratio of

the funded companies with respect to market scenario and their IPO &

M&A activities.

Financial Assistant

Jan 06 - Jun 07

Atul Bhatt & Company, Ahmedabad, India

. Analyzed financial statements & visited different companies as a part

of technical economical viability analysis for loan syndication.

. Actively contributed in Corporate Planning for small small/medium-

sized firms.

Project Leader and Programmer

Jul 05 - Dec 05

Padma Technology, Ahmedabad, India

. Managed a team of four people working on C/C++ embedded electronics

project as a project leader.

. Projects completed: USB card reader, Bluetooth card reader and

Bluetooth key-stroke logger.

Project Intern

Jan 05 - May

05

SIEMENS India Ltd., Mumbai, India

. Assisted in Programmable Logic Control (PLC) Automation and

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) programming for

Hindustan Unilever Tea Plant, India.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Financial Engineering (GPA- 3.6)

May 09

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

. Mathematics - Mathematical finance, Numerical methods for finance,

Linear statistical modeling, Probability, Stochastic processes,

Statistics.

. Business - Financial derivatives, Fixed income, Credit risk, Asset

management, Economics of corporate strategy, Corporate finance,

Financial accounting.

. Awards and achievement: Received the "Student of the Year" Award.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication (GPA- 3.7)

May 05

Government Engineering College Gandhinagar, Gujarat University, India

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Pricing and hedging of Options(Using C++ and VBA)

. Compared the performance of various option pricing methods like Monte

Carlo simulation, Finite difference, Binomial/Trinomial tree.

. Calculation of option Greeks.

Asset management practicum (Using VBA and Matlab)

. Successfully applied various stock-picking strategies for university

endowment fund.

. Calculated portfolio statistics and applied portfolio optimization

techniques including Markowitz' efficient frontier method.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

. Voluntary work: Currently working as an analyst in AM&AA (Alliance of

Merger and Acquisition Advisors) market research committee on

voluntary basis.

Freelancing work: Working as a freelancer for providing VBA-Excel

support in Business valuation models for BEAR Inc, CA.

. Fellowship: A recipient of MSFE - Fellowship, provided by Claremont

Graduate University.

Computer skills: C, C++, VBA, MATLAB, Microsoft Office, SQL.

Interests and Activities: Sangeet Visharad (BA in Indian Classical

Music), Yoga and Swimming.

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