UCLA

University of California, Santa Cruz

Santa Monica High School

Lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles

Zeal Reserve

Chief Executive Officer

A frictionless way to compliantly raise capital for companies using blockchain. Helped obtain multiple partnerships including the Beverly Hills Family Office Association.

Raze

Strategic Advisor

Founded the UCLA Quantlab. Using Economic fundamentals we directionally forecast currencies and commodities. Backtested, designed and cloud deployed all current strategies.

University of California, Los Angeles

Associate Director of Laboratory

Curriculum taught: AWS, Tableau, Python, Smart Contract Business Applications, Solidity, R, Tradestation, Excel, VBA, calling APIs, Building APIs with Flask, PowerBI, Alteryx, Google Cloud, Azure, Algorithmic Trading, Web scraping/crawling, Recurrent Neural Networks and Ensemble Learning.

Created and taught eight graduate courses in the fields of Applied Data Management for Economists and Financial Forecasting.

Quantitative Economics Professor

Assistant to Professor Tornell, Director of Masters of Applied Economics.

Web scrape, data mine and create visualizations of financial data to produce insightful economic metrics.

Upkeep a GPU lab. Build out machine learning based forecasts to continuously run.

Assist the MAE team on market analysis of the program.

Research Assistant

Designed a consumer-facing ROI calculator with 37 modules;  I coded the math engine in JavaScript

Used industry demand curves and company cost curves to create profit maximization models that output actionable pricing insights

Served as the CEO's right hand; point person on projects between web developers, sales team, lab technicians, laborers and clients; hired and terminated employees

On call to work between 65-105 hours a week in multiple roles.

Interstitial Systems

Business Analyst

Founded music production brokerage. Leased in-house music producers

Fulfilled client needs by orchestrating audio engineers, videographers, musicians, studios and locations to satisfy their requests

Business development through in-person connection and negotiation. Skills in leveraging connection to find sponsors of projects

Moshi Management

Manager / Founder

Supported Environmental campaigns including Ban on Plastic Bags, Save the Bees and Controlling Antibiotic use in Factory Farms

Competitively pitched and sold donation packages totaling $35,000

Training in non-profit sales and team delegation

Sam Borghese