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Equity Research Analyst covering the US IT Services sector.• Analyst on the top ranked US IT Services team covering the Consulting & Outsourcing and the Transaction Processing sectors. Stocks covered included Accenture, Cognizant, CGI, CSC, Visa and Mastercard.• Tech Strategy: Responsible for the bimonthly publication of the GS IT Spending Survey report and the GS IT spending forecasts.• IPOs and Initiations: Worked on the Vantiv IPO and Moneygram secondary offering.

Equity Research Analyst covering the US Software sector.• Analyst on the US Software team covering stocks such as Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, salesforce.com, Akamai, Autodesk, Check Point, Limelight Networks, SolarWinds and TIBCO. • Single Stock Research: Responsibilities included financial modeling, forecasting, valuation and writing research reports. • Thematic Research: Authored reports on Technology investment themes and Technology Strategy reports.• IPOs and Initiations: Worked on the SolarWinds IPO and launched coverage of Autodesk. Responsibilities included building the financial models, valuation and writing the initiation reports.

• Worked on a project to streamline payroll processing by analyzing existing capabilities and relative usage statistics of different payroll payment methods.• The final report included suggestions to improve payroll processing methods and enhance straight through processing of payments.