InFocus Financial Advisors is one of the best organizations I have ever had the opportunity to work for. Tough lessons were learned, but I can appreciate my time spent at InFocus. I started as a simple Intern who knew very little about finance, financial planning, or professional work. As I progressed through my internship experience I found that my knowledge grew exponentially and so did my quality of work. I learned new things that I could easily translate into the classroom and that excited me. It pushed me to want to learn more. One time my immediate supervisor said I was working too much. As an intern, my main responsibilities were based primarily on Excel. Due to this, I became extremely proficient in Excel and would take on challenges to improve InFocus' processes. This kind of work was exciting and I looked forward to each day. By the end of my internship experience, I had accumulated so much knowledge that it open a door to a frightening amount of knowledge that I did not know. It was a humbling, and surreal experience, that I wish to continue in future employment opportunities. To keep learning. That is one of the main skills I learned during my tenure at InFocus Financial Advisors.

It was a pleasure to work for PSI Pax. There, I was a jack of many trades, and best known by my colleagues and employers as a young, charismatic, and head strong individual who would take detailed and extensive notes during important client meetings. Notes that would then be translated up the chain and to the finished product. During my internship I was vetted by the United States Department of Navy so I could interact with PSI Pax’s clients. During my time out of meetings, I was assigned data analysis tasks to enhance their internal processes. I built mass excel files, databases, and helpful macros that helped PSI Pax’s client, the U.S. government.

This role was a place holder position as I awaited my security clearance to work with PSI Pax. I am glad that during my time waiting on that security clearance I was hired by ACE hardware. Here I learned of the importance of customer service, and how to deal with people. Day, in and out, we would have customers with special requests, and each day I grew better at completing tasks that met the clients expectations or exceeding them.