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• Developed website concept “Celebrating Leaders of the Past, Present and Future” to market Asian Leaders magazine and NAAAP 100 award.
• Developed plan to capture site analytics specifically page views, landing pages and traffic source to cultivate sponsorships.
• Redesigned the Asian Leaders feature on NAAAP’s national website to increase visibility and click through to the magazine site.

• Collaborated with committee chair to develop project concept that would attract high profile professionals to become involved in the organization as well as create exposure for the organization.
• Pitched magazine and awards concept to feature accomplished Asian leaders.
• Launched the 1st issue of Asian Leaders for NAAAP 100 Leadership Awards at NAAAP’s 23rd National Convention.
• Interviewed and authored a profile on The Honorable Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor, which was published in Asian Leaders.

• Reviewed components of the rebate reserves analysis to identify factors that contribute to variances between actual and forecasted reserve requirements.
• Coordinated with procurement and production plants to project standard costs for the 2009 business plan and analyzed projections to determine key cost drivers in 2009.
• Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to capture P&L on the brand level and built specifications for IT to develop an application solution to track brand P&L.

• Designed a budgeting tool in Excel to simplify the tracking of budgets.
• Trained clients to use budgeting tools to forecast annual budget and manage expenses.
• Recommended areas for revenue growth and cost cutting to create budget for new staff.

• Co-founded company importing and retailing fashion accessories.
• Developed branding and product strategy using focus group feedback and survey studies.
• Collaborated with the manufacturer’s designers to translate branding and product strategies into designs for the jewelry line.
• Managed cash flow and prepared budget for the company.

• Managed corporate loan portfolio of 100 borrowers covering agency and distressed loans.
• Resolved major cash exceptions with corporate clients. In one month period, resolved 150 cash exceptions over 60-days old.
• Assistant Manager of a team of three providing trade support to foreign exchange, options, money markets and futures.
• Implemented an options support desk in New York to reconcile trades against conversations in Reuters.
• Prepared monthly report of trading statistics to capture trade activities and recommend areas for process improvement for reoccurring sources of trade discrepancies.

• Managed a three person team dedicated to building relationships with their portfolio of high net worth clients.
• Managed internal processes to minimize the turnaround time on resolving cash breaks and highlighted the Unit’s value to the business by estimating the potential cost of trading errors resolved by the team.
• Negotiated with banks and clients to collect and reduce annual interest claims by $300,000.
• Produced annual FX workshop where clients participated in bank sponsored FX product training and provided overview of the Unit’s value to the client.

• Managed a portfolio of the bank’s 100 high net worth and most active clients consisting of fund managers and international corporations.
• Targeted client calls for relationship building and reviewing client’s business processes.
• Developed custom solutions to enhance the alignment between the bank’s procedures and the clients’ operations.

• Managed and resolved daily cash exceptions, trading discrepancies and settlement issues for eleven currency accounts and determined cause for exception to evaluate the validity of future interest claims.
• Advised client of cash exceptions to determine the most efficient method of resolution.
• Investigated interest claims to determine a settlement at minimal cost to the bank.

Mba, Marketing, Product Management & Finance

Activities and Societies: Vice President of Events, Stern Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association; Member, Graduate Marketing.

Ba, Economics, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Member, Omicron Delta Epsilon International Honor Society in Economics • Awarded New York University’s Trustee.