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Phoenix, Arizona Area

Responsible for management and oversight of the daily activities of Investment Department’s back-office operations as it relates to accounting and custody positions, transactions, portfolio reconciliations, performance and risk reporting, financial database/document management, and general workflow. Coordinates across various departments to ensure timeliness and accuracy of settlement for all trades and all investment back-office related processes and works proactively to address any exceptions. Accountable for all aspects of the day-to-day relationships with multiple third-party service providers, including the custodian bank. Engages in continuous review of investment back office policies and procedures, and provides recommendations to senior leadership on increasing efficiencies. Serves as a resource for ad hoc requests involving various aspects of back office functions, working closely with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including outside consultants, in-house and externally contracted legal professionals, the Board of Trustees, and investment team.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

- Responsible for all material investment support functions performed for and on behalf of the Trust, including portfolio accounting, performance reporting, and investment account maintenance.- Accountable for delivering highly customized and responsive support to Portfolio Managers, CIO, and the Board of Trustees. - Specific job functions include: treasury management (internal investment activity, external investments, banking relationships, cash management), manager relations,portfolio performance analysis, trade processing, risk control, and general financial management.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Supporting the Chief Investment Officer, the Deputy Chief Investment Officers, the Investment Portfolio Managers, and Investment Analysts by providing analytical data on developed performance metrics. Financial accounting, preparation of financial and performance reports and presentations, portfolio risk analytics, organization of financial documents, monthly written and oral communication with the publicly appointed Board of Trustees

Denton Tx

Dissertation topic: "STRATEGIC PATH TO FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY: REVENUE DIVERSIFICATION AND THE USE OF DEBT BY U.S. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS"My recent research effort concentrates on municipal governments, constrained by their position at the bottom of the fiscal chain, and the use revenue diversification as a strategy to enable borrowing and to maintain their fiscal capacity in the long run. A diversified revenue structure tends to stabilize revenue levels by balancing income-elastic and inelastic revenue sources. Since it is well known that debt payments are fixed in the short run, they require sufficient revenue adequacy through economic highs and lows. It could therefore be argued that local governments with more diversified revenue structures are better able to utilize debt financing since revenue diversity mitigates the risk of borrowing by providing for greater fiscal predictability in the long run. My research design proposes to test this hypothesis on the two samples - a large sample of cities in Massachusetts from 2000 through 2009, as well as a cross-state sample, encompassing cities from the majority of the U.S. states. While the first sample provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between revenue diversity and debt over time, capturing potential “feedback loops” between variables, the cross-state comparison allows for inclusion of state-imposed institutional constraints as determinants of the government debt.Greater methodological significance of this work is in development of an analytic framework that incorporates both municipal government debt and revenue diversification, using a prism of institutional and fiscal interactions, with a potential to explain strategic patterns of government borrowing and revenue structures at any level of analysis.

Denton, Tx

• Data collection and organization • Revenue forecasting• Quantitative finance, statistics • Cost benefit analysis• Variance, correlations analysis • Drafting and presenting research findingsPerforming independent research with main focus on municipal governments and their revenue structures. Providing assistance to faculty members with conducting subject interviews, writing research reports, collecting and processing data for quantitative research projects and case studies. Independently teaching upper-level undergraduate courses in quantitative finance and policy analysis• PADM 3000 “Introduction to Public Administration” (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)• PADM 3000 “Financial Aspects of Government” (Summer 2010-Summer 2011)• Have successfully completed various budget analysis projects for several local municipalities in Dallas area, TX.

Chicago, Il

Administration of the city-sponsored residential security program contract for the Marquette Park Special Service Area # 14 in Chicago (please visit http://www.mp-security.org/ ):• Monitoring and analyzing program budget and outcomes, writing and submitting reports to the City authorities• Organizing public meetings and coordinating community input; acting as a liaison for the Planning and Development Department of the City of Chicago• Creation and routine maintenance of the web site for the program, managing content, moderation, customer support• Provision of all the major financial management procedures for the organization, including preparation of financial reports and implementation of payroll procedures • Planning and conducting regular fund raising events for the organization, maintaining productive relationships with the financial donors; organization of the centralized database of donors

St Louis, Mo

• Provided one-on-one tutoring and assistance to undergraduate and graduate students with policy analysis• Research design• Quantitative statistical data processing projects (STATA, SPSS, MS Access)

Lemont, Il

- Annual grant evaluation process preparation and organization- Wide donor database management (FoxPro, MS Access)

Ph.D. (May 21, 2012), Public Finance / Public Administration, 3.8

Activities and Societies: One of the founding members of the PADM-Doctoral Student Association at the University of North Texas, serving.

M.P.P.A., Public Policy Administration, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Lithuanian-American Community (East St Louis Chapter)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Health Psychology / English Literature

Activities and Societies: Member of l'Association Lituanie-France, Kaunas Chapter (1998-2001).