Engineer Management

PALLAVI MADAKASIRA

** ******* **. **** ******, NJ 07052; Email: **********@*******.***; Phone: 646-***-****

OBJECTIVE____________________________________________________________________________________

Seeking a position where I can leverage my skills at numerical modeling and qualitative analysis of companies and effects of macro

industry trends that affect end market demand for a product.

STRENGTHS_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Financial analysis, qualitative product analysis, strong communication and interpersonal skills, proven record of providing reliable

information to management to enable informed and effective decisions about company and industry trends, skilled at interviewing

companies and their customers to better understand pricing and end-market demand for a product, ability to work in a fast paced

and dynamic environment

WORK EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________________________________

Piper Jaffray & Co. (Aug 07 – March 09) New York, NY

Equity Research Associate - Cleantech and Alternative Energy Group

Financial modeling and analysis: Experienced in building comprehensive financial models and writing company and

industry reports for companies under coverage including solar, smart grid and energy storage companies. Supported the

modeling of solar demand driven by internal rates of return and solar subsidies (feed-in-tariffs) worldwide to better

understand the supply-demand dynamics of the solar industry.

Qualitative market research skills: Responsible for establishing key relationships with thin film solar cell manufacturing

companies worldwide and evaluating their technologies as it relates to grid parity. Conducted competitor analysis and

identified key differences between various solar cell technologies developed by private and public companies worldwide.

Assisted with performing cost analysis of various manufacturing technologies.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills: Assisted in hosting Piper Jaffray’s annual global solar and cleantech

conferences and presented in numerous international conferences.

Licenses: Series 7, 63 and 87

Investment Banking Training

Completed a four week intensive course on financial analysis, valuation methodologies and advanced financial modeling.

Built fully-integrated financial statement projection models, LBO models, accretion/dilution merger models; including the

ability to run operational and capital structure sensitivities within these models.

Daystar Technologies Inc. (Aug 06 – Jul 07) Halfmoon, NY

Failure Analysis Engineer – Head of Failure Analysis Group

Device Modeling and Characterization: Performed numerical modeling and applied sophisticated analytical tools and

custom software to model defect influences on thin film solar cell performance. Developed innovative data collection

procedures.

Data Analysis and Technical Report Writing: Performed data analysis and presented findings to senior management

through technical reports on a weekly basis. Established a protocol for defect assessment of thin film solar cells.

Miasole (Jun 05 – Aug 06) Santa Clara, CA

Research Engineer – Process and Module Development Team

Assisted in developing a procedure to document overall process improvements. Helped analyze experimental module

development testing results and established internal controls to help isolate and troubleshoot issues.

Closely worked with numerous vendors and maintained logs of pricing and service offerings. Interviewed industry

experts to better understand and identify process related issues.

Responsible for writing operating procedures for thin film solar cell characterization tools in the lab. Initiated

development of process logging procedures to help streamline R&D efforts in the lab and in pilot production.

EDUCATION____________________________________________________________________________

University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, Texas

Masters in Physics (M.S.) - May 2005

Department of Nanotechnology: Developed organic solar cells on flexible substrates (plastic) and developed experimental

encapsulation techniques. Teaching Assistant with Full Tuition Waiver. Authored research papers that were published in

a special edition of Journal of Synthetic Metals.

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India

Integrated Masters in Physics (M.Sc. Hons.) - June 2003

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