Work Experience

  • DSC_0223Summary
    • I’m a finance professional with a desire to learn more than just finance
    • Finance
      • I’ve been in finance for 7 years, focused early on in investment banking and now in corporate finance
      • I know accounting very well, which has really helped me in my career
      • Finance Related Skills
        • Excel – i would call myself an excel master
        • PowerPoint/Word
        • Business modeling in excel with VBA
    • Currently learning web development, photography, and graphic design to do freelance work in the future
  • Toolshed – Huntington Beach, CA
    • Under apparel company (think under armor)
    • Equipment was the real deal, but never got the funding and critical mass to make this a very successful business
    • Wrote the business plan and tried to raise money for the company, but started my finance career before I could do anything with it
  • Credit Suisse First Boston – San Francisco, CA
    • Large Swiss bank
    • Analyst in biotech / medtech space
    • Got into investment banking to learn finance, but after working here that I wanted to be on the corporate side
    • Left after a year to try and start a company
    • Highly valuable experiencing that gave me a highly valuable toolkit in finance, excel, and presentation/formatting that I’ll use throughout my career
  • ARC (athletic recruiting central) – Huntington Beach, CA
    • Name I would of given the company if I got it off the ground
    • Goal was to create a monster.com type database for college coaches to recruit high school athletes
    • Tough business model – who pays? coaches may not feel they need it, and if you charge players, then only the wealthier kids are on there. Tough to make it work
    • Tried it for a month and realized it may have been ahead of its time, but based on recent front page WSJ article, maybe it wasn’t ahead of its time
  • HireRight (now USIS) – Irvine, CA
    • Pre-employment background screening company that went public in August of 2007
    • Learned the fundamentals of business and accounting
    • Key participant in the public process
    • Great team of people and developed some great friendships that I will have my entire life
    • Focused primarily on financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting, but I ended up as a jack of all trades and helped most functions with whatever analysis they needed
    • Developed advanced reporting packages that helped increase the overall value of the company when sold to USIS in 2008
  • HID Global – Irvine, CA
    • Market leader in delivering secure identity
    • Main business focused on security solutions for physical access and now logical access
    • Still in finance, but focused more on business analytics
    • Currently analyzing data warehouse solutions, and trying to develop a metrics framework for improving decision making
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    1. #1 by mystery man on December 29, 2008 - 9:23 pm

      what a great site…i just love it!

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