Engineer Computer Science

Rishabh A Sharma

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Projects

Analyzed companies from Harvard case study files. Examined financial statements &

performed analysis for company valuation.

Performed qualitative and quantitative research on the causes of underdeveloped Corporate

Debt in India.

Performed valuation using Discounted Cash Flow, Free Cash Flow to Firm and comparable

company analysis.

Modeled Efficient Frontier with stock weight constraints to help optimize the returns from the

portfolio using minimum variance technique.

Implemented model for calculating Value-at-Risk for portfolios using mean variance method,

historical simulation and Monte Carlo simulation.

Developed a Derivatives toolkit to price options using Black Scholes model, Finite Difference

methods and Binomial Tree expansion.

Education

2007 - May‘09 Master of Science in Finance

Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

Coursework: Corporate Finance, Financial Statement Analysis, Enterprise Risk Management,

Investment Banking, Financial Modeling, Time Series Analysis

2001 - 2005 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

Punjabi University, Patiala, India

Experience

2005 - 2006 Polaris Software labs, Mumbai, India

Technology Engineer

Enhanced Stock Administration Plan platform by developing AJCA module, which calculated the

tax effects in different income groups

Worked on the End of Day (EOD) process and query optimization of the module.

Managed Error Framework for SAPPHIRE version control team.

Spring ‘05 Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited, Mumbai, India

Technology Trainee

W orked in the development of syntax driven TTCN-3 Editor for testing communication protocols.

Summer ‘03 Global Tele Systems, Mumbai, India

Trainee Engineer

Assisted in Global-I, the global intranet, managing the networking of the company.

Skills

Tools: MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint), MATLAB, VBA

Database: Bloomberg

Programming: C++, Java (Core)

Activities

& Honors

Recipient of Stuart Merit Based Scholarship.

Member: Stuart Investments Club, an investment fund managed by graduate students

Paper Presentations:

1. “An Empirical Example of Relationship between Computer Related attitudes and

st

Locus of Control.” Presented at 91 session of Indian Science Congress Association.

2. “Cyber Violence: Measures to Prevent.” Presented at the International Seminar on

‘Coping with Violence in Today’s World’.

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