Project Manager Management

XUE YAO

** ***** ******, *** *, Waltham, MA *****

610-***-****, *********@*****.***

EDUCATION

May 17, 2009

BRANDEIS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

Master of Arts, Finance (GPA: 3.54/4.0) WALTHAM, MA

Global Leadership Award

Marketing research project with PUTNAM INVESTMENTS to promote financial products in diverse ethnic markets

Marketing research project with MIMOCO to evaluate prices of character flash drives

Second Place, Best Marketing Research Presentation Award

July 1, 2005

SHANDONG ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science, Economics (GPA: 3.5/4.0) JINAN, CHINA

First Class Merit Scholarship

CLASSES

Financial Statement Analysis Econometrics Options and Derivatives Corporate Finance

Credit Risk Analysis Statistics Fixed Income Securities Financial Modeling

EXPERIENCE

May 2008 - Present

Equity Research Analyst

TRAUB CAPITAL MANAGEMENT NEEDHAM, MA

Assist hedge fund manager in managing $14 million in assets

Update quantitative models and financial data for analyzing 3000 stocks in US stock markets

Perform financial statements analysis and credit analysis to evaluate strength of listing companies

Research market, industry and company information for management briefs and updates

Calculate and report hedge fund performance and assets under management

Respond to corporate actions and proxies

September 2007 – May 2009

Web Analyst

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER WALTHAM, MA

Solved 200 internal customers’ technical requests about editing Brandeis University’s web pages

Maintained Brandeis University website using HTML and CSS

Prepared monthly reports to supervisors to analyze more than 30,000 web stats

January 2006 - July 2007

Business Analyst

E5 SYSTEMS, INC. SAN FRANCISCO, CA & JINAN, CHINA

Monitored work flow of an 11-person team consisting of developers, QA, project manager and customers

Extended a consulting project from 2 months to 2 years, which was 3rd client in company

Managed software development life cycle of 10 applications in 1.5 years

Served as a key liaison between IT technicians in China and customers in US

Drafted project plans, designed project milestones and estimated project costs

Defined customer requirements and business work flows

Designed system solutions to meet customer requirements

Designed test cases, test plans and executed functional tests for compliance with requirement specifications

Executed User Acceptance Tests, created user manuals and conducted user trainings

OTHER

Computer Skills: C, JAVA, HTML, SQL, SPSS, Stata, Excel, Dreamweaver, GoLive, MS Office

Financial Systems: Merlin, Morningstar, Reuters, Zacks

Languages: Native Mandarin and Fluent English

Member of Association of Latin Professionals om Finance and Accounting (ALPFA), Brandeis IBS, 2008-9

Member of Brandeis Business Consulting Club, Brandeis IBS, 2008-9

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