Colby Wachter

615-***-**** ● https://www.linkedin.com/in/colby-wachter/ ● ac8wdr@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

University of Tennessee BA in Economics Business Administration Minor December. 2018

●Relevant coursework: Econometrics Bloomberg Market Concepts Bloomberg Basics Public Finance Accounting Statistics Fundamentals of Finance Advanced Macroeconomics Advanced Microeconomics

●UTIG (Investment club), Economics club, UTK Note Taker

CERTIFICATIONS/RECOGNITIONS

“University of Tennessee Bloomberg Master” Acknowledgements: Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and Commodities

“Bloomberg Master” title from the University of Tennessee

Less than 10% of University of Tennessee students have received this

Passed all 4 exams issued from Bloomberg with 75% or higher to achieve these acknowledgements

Bloomberg Market Concepts Certification

Issued from Bloomberg

Online course covering economic indicators, currencies, fixed income, and equities

Udemy Financial Modeling and Valuations

Learned how to build a complete P&L model from scratch in excel

Learned how to build DCF models in excel

Learned how to build pivot tables and professional charts in excel from financial data

Securities Industry Essentials, SIE

Issued from FINRA

EXPERIENCE

University of Tennessee Investment Group August. 2016 – December. 2018

University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN

●Learned basic financial modeling skills

●Conducted market research through Bloomberg

●Portfolio management: Traded futures, options, and equities in personal and class simulation portfolios

●Placed top 5 in multiple trading competitions through the university

●Attended meetings with prominent business figures in Knoxville

DoorDash Driver May. 2018 – January. 2019

DoorDash Knoxville, TN

●Delivered to and assisted customers

●Kept up with tight deadlines

●Communicated with customer and restaurant

●Quick and efficient problem solving when issues arose

PROJECTS

Econometrics Capstone Project

Statistical analysis on the significance of free college education on college attendance

Used Stata software for statistical calculations

Collected individual-level panel data at the state level, created multiple OLS regression models, interpreted betas on the coefficients, performed hypothesis testing to determine significance levels, explained economic significance and policy implications of the results, explained away bias and alternative explanations for results

SKILLS

Excel Word PowerPoint Bloomberg Terminal Customer Service

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