Broaden My Knowledge of Finance and Network with Other Successful Professionals by Pursuing

George P. Lyons

Objective

Broaden my knowledge of finance and network with other successful professionals by pursuing an M.B.A.

Professional Experience

Rabobank International, New York, NY

Associate

Mar 2006 – Present

Team member responsible for the surveillance of $31 billion in assets across 29 Rabobank investment vehicles. Surveillance includes running cashflow models on Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) and RMBS securities when assessing risks for specific industries, changes in interest rates, or changes in delinquency rates. Coordinate with portfolio managers and IT to enhance proprietary CDO/RMBS surveillance system.

Reuters Loan Pricing Corp, New York, NY

Market Analyst

Oct 2005 – Feb 2006

Responsible for managing six analysts and five interns in the CDO Group. The group is primarily responsible for tracking the CDO industry by modeling and standardizing each CDO. In my first four months in this position, I organized and executed a successful plan to add over 100 new CDOs to our database which exceeded client and management goals.

Reuters Loan Pricing Corp, New York, NY

Analyst

Sept 2004-Oct 2005

Responsible for tracking the assets, liabilities, and collateral quality tests of 50 CDOs on a monthly basis using Access and Excel from monthly surveillance reports. Designed, created, and implemented new methods utilizing VBA programming in Access and Excel to more than double the production level for the group of seven analysts as a whole.

Education

LafayetteCollege, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2004. Mechanical Engineering Major, Finance Minor, GPA: 3.3.

Relevant Courses

Economics and Mathematics - Principles, Micro, Macro, Econometrics, Accounting, Financial Theory, Calculus I, II, III, Differential Equations, Statistics, Probability, and Numerical Applications.

Econometrics – developed an accurate multiple-variable regression model for predicting the price change of biotechnology stocks in a one-year period, currently used by the professor as an example in class.

Technology Clinic - Nominated by faculty for year long team project consulting with the historic Bachmann Publick House, Easton, PA. Developed an unguided audio/video tour for visitors using a Pocket PC, implemented May 2004.

Human Powered Vehicle - ASME national competition, held at U. of Florida, May 2004. Student team designed and constructed entire vehicle. Placed first in endurance race, second overall.

Technical Skills

Math Programs - Mathematica, MathCAD, Matlab

Microsoft Office - Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word

Programming - C++, JavaScript, VBA (for extending Access and Excel).

Conferences

CDO World, New York, NY, March 7-8, 2007

Fitch Training course on RMBS securities, New York, NY, October 10-11, 2006
CDO Summit, Laguna Nigel, CA, December 4-6, 2005

Activities

ASME, QWAFAFEW, and Finance Seminars at the Courant Institute at NYU.

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