I am a graduate from California State University, Sacramento where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship. While at Sacramento State, I was a member of their Business Honors Program, a cohort style-program where 24 academically-inclined students engage in real-world team projects with local organizations and undergo a challenging curriculum with focuses on topics ranging from innovation, SAP ERP systems, and project management.During my education, I was involved in Sacramento State's Student Investment Fund where students manage an investment portfolio with a market value of over $600,000. As a Security Analyst in the Industrial sector, I analyzed company stocks utilizing technologies like Microsoft Excel and the Bloomberg Terminal while also monitoring stock market trends. After becoming a Portfolio Manager, I assumed additional responsibilities including determining an investment strategy, providing financial leadership to my team of analysts, and delivering stock pitch presentations to the 25-member fund committee. Under my leadership, the Industrial sector generated a 30% ROI through the investment and sale of three securities and saw its portfolio value increase by 12%.I recently completed a finance internship for a digital audio advertising company, AdsWizz, where I helped department managers forecast future results by developing and updating a financial model, and reported changes in budget and employee data files for the Senior Finance Manager. Prior to that, I worked at Folsom's Palladio 16 Cinema where I fostered a positive, productive, and efficient work environment through overseeing operations and providing management with solutions to improve the theater's efficiency and customer satisfaction. My leadership and problem solving skills lent themselves positively to my professional growth, which led to my promotion to a supervisor role.