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Skyworks Solutions Inc.
Sales & Marketing
Financial Analyst, Pricing
September 2008 - Present
- Develop and implement system to constantly track pricing changes on thousands of products under regular contract negotiations
- Track and manage expenditures of cost centers with worldwide regional management
- Learn how to use SAP, Hyperion, Business Warehouse financial database applications
- Please contact me for more information regarding my role
Bank of America Corp.
Countrywide Legacy (buyout December 2007)
Home Equity & Mortgage Banking and Investments,
Reverse Mortgages
Financial Analyst II
June 2007 - September 2008
- Improved efficiency of accessing, modifying, and troubleshooting data as a database programmer, administrator, and financial analyst, all in one role; Improved data quality and consistency
- Very experienced in creating pro forma models for various scenarios: secondary pricing change, product change, breakeven profitability, etc.
- Analyzed market segment competition and viability of pricing margins for management’s decisions
- Created complex financial models to accurately break down processes for budgeting and forecasting
- Took ownership to automate important daily and weekly reports; Optimized efficiency and output of team
- Regularly troubleshot compensation issues with sales team and sales team partners
- Responsible for creating and publishing official monthly department financial statements book
- Worked closely with executive management, sales management, and partnering departments
- Experienced in minor accounting work: general ledger entries, receivables, forecasting
- Investment banker-trained Excel skills: shortcuts, functions, pivots, server connections, OLAP cubes
- Created individual, automated database projects for exclusive employee access to information
- Able to work in a competitive, fast-paced, deadline-oriented, frequent-overtime, team environment
Aegon insurance group
Intern to CEO/President's Office
Interdepartmental Vocational Instructor
June 2006 - September 2006, Taipei, Taiwan
- Worked under the CEO/President. Oversaw all other departments of the 300+ person office. Studied LOMA and studied how one of the largest international insurance corporations in the world works from an executive standpoint
- Managed two classes, each over twenty students. Trained employees in business strategies and how to conduct business using English
- Acquired marketing experience: advertised classes to busy employees, arranged 50+ interviews – about 1/6 of home office staff, taught various departments English terminology pertaining to their line of work (finance, actuarial, etc.)
- Gained consulting experience: analyzed and taught worker efficiency techniques in classes and discussions, troubleshot around employee/company scheduling conflicts, planned classes for optimal attendance, created numerous presentations and reports, helped to resolve problems that employees would encounter
- Worked full time with marginal overtime
ucla human resources
Benefits Analyst/Assistant
October 2002 - June 2007
- Gain an exceptional handle on Excel and Access by regularly utilizing the database
- Created databases, reports, and applications which allow restricted access to documents of confidential information
- Manually document over 500 employee insurance plans to annual IRS audit
- Efficiently process over 100,000 requests and documents into database
- Regularly audit and compare interdepartmental record of earnings with payroll department for consistency
- Create presentation information for retirement counselor presentations
- Manage jobs of up to three benefits analysts during job-turnover times; Help out at employment and training
- Work longer hours during intensified work season (e.g. open enrollment)
UCLA Care Extenders
Intern
June 2004 - January 2005
- Completed two rotations at one of the top-rated hospitals in the country
- UCLA Medical Center Renal Transplant Department, Six West
- Gained understanding of how hospitals operate
- Helped doctors and nurses with patients
- UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital Pharmacy, Basement 1
- Worked alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to understand what they do
- American Red Cross CPR-certified
los altos academy of engineering
Design Team LeaderSeptember 2000 - June 2002
- Designed and presented marketing plan to Daimler-Chrysler and other top industry executives in alternative energy vehicle design and marketing competition (annual BYDV competition); Won over $5,000 in grants from two consecutive years’ regional and national competition in Detroit
- Designed four production-level alternative energy vehicles using AutoCAD; Three of which were produced
- Extensive experience working with machining, electronics diagnoses, and composites; Proficient with lathes, mills, sanders, table saws, welders, solder, crimps, carbon fiber, fiberglass, resin, etc.
Ameripark Co.
Parking ValetMay 2002 - September 2002, Summer Job
- Helped customers park their vehicle at Old Spaghetti Factory, Hollywood
- Administer customer service in a timely manner: ask customer about their experience, sprint to vehicles, open passenger and driver doors
- Able to drive any land-based vehicle: Class A, Class B, Commercial, M1, M2, manual transmission, and go-karts
- Troubleshoot vehicle security systems and hidden swipe keys
- Trustworthily divided funds on a honor-based system