Akiva Poppers Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Elmwood Park, New Jersey, United States

• Produced footage which was featured on The Associated Press, Amazon Prime Video, Overtime, CNN, CNBC, NBC New York, Fox5NY, WDIV Detroit, NY1, SlamU, D3hoops.com, JLTV, Highlights from Heaven, and other media outlets
• Designed and planned extensive broadcasting equipment upgrade project
• Successfully pitched project to numerous Yeshiva University donors and departments, and secured $47,000 to be used towards new equipment
• Dedicated 20-35 hours every week in the months leading up to the 2021 basketball season to ensure that our production was fully ready to go for the first broadcast of the year
• Managed 28-student production crew, 15 of whom were involved in a typical game, handling responsibilities in 9 different fields
• Led staff of 80 in massive broadcast and content operation during 5-day, 52-game Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament

• Completely redesigned the MacsLive.com website to promote a professional appearance
• Innovated and broadened YU men’s basketball coverage
• Served as the chief editor for all articles on the MacsLive website
• Led our team of writers and video editors and divvied up assignments
• Worked as the beat reporter for the nationally-ranked men's basketball team
• Announced (as color commentator) two NCAA Division III Tournament games, becoming the first ever YU student to do so

• Worked together with the Office of Student Life and over 20 members of both SOY and other councils to enhance campus life for over 1,000 undergraduate students
• Administered $57,000+ budget set aside for both club and student council events, activities, and giveaways
• Chaired 15-person committee responsible for planning and organizing over 125 weekly prayer services on campus, ensuring that student requests and preferences were taken into account while still adhering to COVID-19.
• Established incentive program aimed at improving Shabbat life on campus while placing students in an environment designed to limit COVID-19 spread, resulting in, on average, 15% more people staying on campus for the.
• Organized and ran 4-day Chanukah Sale at which nearly 450 items were sold to more than 175 students at discounted prices
• Authored or co-authored over 25 pages of amendments, along with explanations to assist the student body in voting, which were ultimately ratified to the Wilf Campus Constitution

• Assisted compliance team in preparation for HITRUST CSF Assessment
• Created detailed spreadsheet which simplified and categorized HITRUST requirements
• Helped manage and organize required documents and other evidence
• Converted numerous ELLKAY policies to a new document format and corrected various typographical errors
• Learned basics of data mapping and migration, including how to query sample patients and match source data to screenshots

• Collected S&P 500 firm ownership data and created descriptive statistics for shares held by different types of investors
• Read various research papers, and summarized Fung and Hsieh’s (2004) paper regarding their Seven-Factor ABS Model
• Produced correlation tables, a correlation matrix, and descriptive statistics for 14 hedge fund indices and ran regressions on each index
• Presented findings to Syms Professors

• Tutored fellow Syms students in Statistics for Business and Introduction to Information Systems for up to 15 hours/week
• Individualized sessions based on the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of the student
• Nearly all students reported at least a 5% increase in test grades, with many seeing improvements of 10%

• Handled phone calls from incoming students, typically regarding the application process and campus life
• Executed stressful procedures during move-in and move-out to ensure that these processes ran smoothly
• Coordinated and efficiently implemented a new system for identifying and arranging more than 1,000 room keys
• Organized supply closets and notified supervisors of inventory levels
• Sorted and distributed all incoming mail

• Provided supervision and direction of activities and programs to incoming first graders
• Collaborated with junior counselor so that daily activities operated effectively

• Compiled a database which helped Congressman Lance's campaign manager identify and communicate with potential donors
• Transferred data from records and made it usable so realistic voting goals could be determined

• Wrote two chess articles which received over 11,000 combined views analyzing videos Norowitz made
• Norowitz’s revenue increased by 40% while working for him, including a three-week span in which profits doubled

Double Major In Business Analytics And Finance, Minor In Management, 3.97 Gpa

• Dean's Award for Scholastic Achievement in Business Analytics • President Emeritus Richard Joel Award for Presidential Leadership •.

New York State Regents High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Chess Team (Captain of Championship-winning team in 12th grade); Stock Market Club—President; The Academy.