Michael G. Prus

** **** ****** ****, **********, SC 29492 • 617-***-**** (cell) • acxe9z@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

A successful financial, investment and business professional with 20+ years of experience with an established record of high performance and exceeding expectations. A team player able to accurately handle the details as well as see the big picture. Winner of a prestigious award from the Mayor of Boston for exceptional work.

Skills

• Portfolio management • Investment analysis

• Financial planning • Financial modeling

• Variance analysis • Budgeting

• Accurate forecasting • Microsoft Office

Experience

President and Registered Investment Advisor 5/2000 – present

MGP Capital Management - Boston, MA and Charleston, SC

• Fashioned a unique, highly successful investment strategy based on fundamental and technical analysis.

• Analyzed market, financial and earnings data to find suitable individual equity investments for clients.

• Maintained an unblemished regulatory record with State securities regulators in a highly regulated industry.

• Authored and published detailed monthly newsletters to clients which included performance statistics, charts and qualitative as well as quantitative analysis.

• Handled all aspects of running a business including payroll, taxes, and marketing.

Director of Revenue and Fiscal Analysis 9/1994 – 5/2000

City of Boston - Boston, MA

• Developed a continuous detailed operating forecast that became the $1.5 billion revenue side of the City of Boston Operating Budget.

• Chosen from 20,000 employees for the first Parkman Award from the Mayor of Boston for my outstanding work driving the City’s budgeting success.

• Monitored daily revenue collection from more than 400 sources and created monthly variance reports.

• Analyzed a variety of economic factors to determine the impact on city revenues.

• Created the City’s very first interactive 5-year budget model. Advised the Mayor on policy choices.

• Wrote the City’s annual bond prospectus incorporating all information relating to the City’s budget.

• Prepared over 100 pages of documentation and analysis for State approval of the City’s annual Tax Rate Budget. Published an annual Tax Rate budget book that became very popular as a vital reference tool.

• Overcame institutional resistance and changed the presentation of the City of Boston Budget to make it easier for the public to understand and more useful for analysis. Created the City’s first Budget in Brief.

President 6/1990 – 9/1994

American Sports Photographs - Brookline, MA

• Started company to create and market collectable sports photographs.

• Sold nearly 1,000 photos of classic ballparks through mail order campaigns.

Investment Advisor Associate 1/1990 – 5/1991

Smith Barney - Boston, MA

• Assisted two top-performing investment advisors with all aspects of running their business including analyzing companies using fundamental and technical analysis, making investment recommendations, explaining changing market conditions to clients and analyzing client portfolios for proper asset allocation.

Education

M.B.A., Finance, Boston College, Carroll Graduate School of Management, Boston, MA, May 1993

B.S., Marketing, Boston College, Boston, MA, May 1990

Uniform Investment Advisor Examination, Series 65

General Securities Registered Representative Examination, Series 7

Uniform Securities State Law Examination, Series 63

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