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Austin, TX78751
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Education / The University of Texas at Austin, McCombsSchool of Business / Austin, TX
May 2009 / Master of Business Administration, Full-Time Program
Concentrations in Finance and Global Business; GMAT 710
SYLFF Fellowship recipient for international business studies
University of Chicago / Chicago, IL
June 2002
June 2001 / Master of Arts in Middle East Studies
Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Experience / Tourism Development and Investment Company
Summer 2008 / Financial Analyst Intern / Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Developed a comprehensive analytical report on the UAE real estate sector, outlining patterns of sector development, drivers, and likely future development
- Created a multi-variable statistical model of UAE real estate prices, using time-series analysis, multiple regression, and forecasting to examine over twenty different factors’ effects over time on real estate prices. This was the first real quantitative studyof UAE real estate prices
- Directly advised the CFO on a strategy for managing interest rate risk on over $3 billion in financing. Modeled cash flows and analyzed different interest rate swaps to come up with an optimal allocation of company assets into swap products in different currencies and time frames
9/06 – 8/07 / Lange Translations / Chicago, IL
Founder/Freelance Translator
- Founded a freelance translation business providing French and Arabic linguistic support
- Translated documents in a wide variety of genres, as well as giving private tutoring
- Worked in the spring/summer of 2007 translating Arabic documents for government contractors L3 Communications and Calnet, Inc. in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
1/05 - 9/06 / Great Point Capital, LLC / Chicago, IL
Proprietary Equity Trader
- Electronically traded equity securities, primarily intra-day, managing an account of $100,000
- Fully analyzed the U.S. equities market, examining economic and political conditions, global market movement, and company/industry reports to form a picture of expected trading conditions
- Developed expertise in confronting and managing risk in high-pressure situations
- Obtained NASD Series 62 and 55 licenses
6/04 – 9/04 / Jenner & Block, LLP / Chicago, IL
Project Assistant
- Supported family law and corporate litigation divisions in all aspects of procedure and litigation
- Played an integral role in the successful asylum bid of a refugee client from Congo-Brazzaville, performing detailed research and acting as a French interpreter for the client and attorney
Additional /
- McCombs: Co-President of Net Impact, member of the Graduate Finance Association
- Fluent in French and Arabic, advanced command of Turkish, intermediate Uzbek
- Volunteer translation services for non-profits in order to help refugees and asylum seekers
- Performed with an improvisational comedy troupe as part of a year-long sequence of acting and improvising classes at Chicago’s famed Second City Theatre
- Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship in Cairo, Egypt, 6/026/03 (Awarded most prestigious and selective grant from Fulbright/Hayes foundation forintensive advanced Arabic language study)
- Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, France, 9/19996/2000 (Studied alongside French students at France’s top university for nonEuropean language study)
Work Status /
- Citizenship:United States