
Intern at Kayak.com
Greater Boston Area

Intern at Kayak.com
Greater Boston Area
My passions are investing and computer technology. I have worked in an eclectic set of financial service environments: sales/trading floor, buy-side (hedge fund) research, sell-side research, and quantitative risk analysis. I have also worked in technology development through my web design business and within a major hospital's web application development group.
I like to explore big problems and work on solving them.
investment research, consumer electronics, financial market instruments, web application development and design
(Privately Held; Investment Management industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 2000 — May 2009 (9 years 5 months)
I construct and maintain all back-end and front-end web applications and manage all technical infrastrcture for the organization.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Investment Banking industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Working on the Quant/Financial Engineering desk at Measurisk, LLC, a former subsidiary of Bear Stearns.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ING; Banking industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Mainly worked on the Hedge Fund Event-Driven and Relative Value Sales desk, but also spent time on the emerging markets equity research desk.
• Analyzed trade settlement data for equity sales desk
• Performed fundamental equity research for auto manufacturing and banking sectors in Turkish emerging market; conducted interviews with corporate executives
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
• Constructed Excel-VBA applications used every day by options, agency, and government traders
• Collected historical market data and suggested revisions of proprietary options pricing model
• Created code libraries and exploratory scripts for new Q/KDB+ database
• Studied theory on futures, swaps, and options pricing and edited options-trading training materials
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)
• Analyzed new market trends in telecom industry and presented to principal and analysts.
• Collected automotive marketplace data by phone and email for quantitative and qualitative market analysis.
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
Developed ASP web database applications with Clinical Trials support team.
A.B. , Computer Science, Economics , 2005 — 2009
Harvard Computing Competition Prize Contest I,
Sarcoma Foundation of America 2004 Outstanding Service Award