Founder of a boutique media content production company, providing services for fiction film, documentary and journalistic projects.• over 5 years partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, created video content with significant increase in social viewership over baseline (from 5K average per video on their channel, to 100K-1M views per video for our content)• wrote, directed and edited over 30 print, video and television pieces• investigated 13 television segments with Deutsche Welle, KRO Holland, Channel 4 UK, Buzzfeed News• designed and executed the transition to video journalism for leading Bulgarian print news portal Dnevnik.bg (2.3M unique impressions monthly)• trained journalists and activists in storytelling and data journalism in series of workshops• gained a vast knowledge of the Central and East European economic and political landscape

• priced and traded in Alt-A mortgage loans securitized into Collateralized Mortgage Obligations or sold as whole-loan portfolios• built up the loan sourcing capacity, while maintaining a level headed approach to loan pricing, facilitating adequate risk-management at the trading desk going into the financial crisis of 2007-2008

• priced and traded in Alt-A mortgage loans securitized into Collateralized Mortgage Obligations or sold as whole-loan portfolios. Trade sizes from $10 million to $4 billion• built a custom pricing tool incorporating rating agency algorithms, securities market trends and Treasury yield curve data to handle more than 10 bids per day• helped build and monitor an innovative pricing matrix used by a conduit subsidiary to source loans directly from smaller originators• forged client relationships with the most significant regional and national banks and mortgage originators to bridge the needs of the borrowers and those of the investors in mortgage securities

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory - Caltech• researched and co-wrote a report on aberrations caused by thermal distortion of LIGO optics• created a model for evaluating the rainfall component of seismic noise on the first generation of LIGOinstallations