Project Assistant

SUDHARSAN VASU

** ******** *** *** *-s Ossining NY 10562

********@**.*** / +1-619-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. MBA graduate with an emphasis in dual Finance - Corporate Finance, and

Investments and Financial Services and a strong academic record

. Creative problem solver with an engineering background, strong

analytical skills, fundamental accounting knowledge (U.S GAAP and

IFRS), and a record of success in the technology industry for three

years

. Good understanding of financial modeling tools and techniques,

financial statements, MATLAB and Minitab statistical software

packages, Bloomberg Terminal, databases, and structured query language

(SQL)

EDUCATION:

. Master of Business Administration (Finance)

May 2010

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. GPA - 3.9/4.0

. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)

June 2005

Anna University, India. GPA - 3.8/4.0

CERTIFICATIONS:

. Cleared - Level I in the Chartered Financial Analyst

(CFA) program

. Certified - Bloomberg Global Product Certification in Fixed

Income and Equity

SKILLS:

. Financial Tools : Cash Flow Analysis, Financial Statement

Analysis, NPV, P/L, Pro Forma

. Databases : MS Access, MS Excel, XML, SQL, MySQL, SQL

Server

. Operating Systems : Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux (Red

Hat), VxWorks

. Languages : C, C++, Visual Basic, MATLAB, Minitab

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

* Financial Analyst, Better Agreements Inc.

Sep '09 - Apr '10

. Volunteered at a local non-profit mediation firm to help with the

financial analysis

. Analyzed past 5 years of financial statements and suggested revenue

improvement measures

. Performed demand forecasting based on census data and recommended

new pricing for mediation services to improve revenues by more than

15%

. Automated volumes of case-management reports using Excel, Access

and SQL to reduce the data entry effort significantly

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech

Aug '08 - May '10

. Worked 22 months as a teaching assistant under Dr. Terry Rakes for

more than 80 students from three different courses simultaneously

. Assisted the professor on several Linear Programming (Excel Solver), and Decision Support Systems (Excel-VBA, Excel Macros, and SQL)

projects

* Business Analyst, Wipro Technologies (NYSE:WIT)

Aug '05 - Jul '08

Project: Cisco Systems Inc. (Client) - C/C++ on Unix/VxWorks

. Headed an onsite business meeting, representing the development

team, with the customer in Saudi Arabia to review a critical

network solution and helped the client sustain a multi-million

dollars contract

. Consulted on network design issues for different customers across

industries such as retail, telecom, and construction and vastly

improved the performance of the systems

. Developed productivity tracking tools using MS Excel and

participated in lean meetings that reduced the service turnaround

time by a third

. Led a knowledge transfer initiative and educated more than 50

colleagues on the technology and best practices followed in the

project

. Mentored new employees on the various proprietary tools and

techniques used in the project

Project: Center of Excellence (Internal) - C/C++/XML on Linux/Windows

XP

. Developed proof-of-concept network configuration tool called

'Netconf', by tracking the requirements from the Request-For-

Comments and successfully implementing those requirements

. Demonstrated the product successfully to multiple telecom clients

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

. Worked under Dr. Vijay Singal, Professor (Finance), helping in his

research on stock market indices and Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) with

(i) data gathering using Bloomberg terminal, and CRSP website and (ii)

analysis using Excel spreadsheets. Performed return metrics and

tracking error calculations on the collected data which consisted of

3000 stocks per year over a period of 10 years.

. Performed regression analysis to calculate beta, and correlation

values for stocks and generated reports and charts for an academic

project using Minitab

. Self-learned MATLAB using online tutorials and used it in analyzing

stock data for learning purposes

AWARDS AND HONORS:

. Received three Customer Awards (from client Cisco Systems Inc)

. Received three Feather-In-My-Cap Excellence awards (from Wipro

Technologies)

. Member - Beta Gamma Sigma - Honoring academic excellence in business

education

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