My Professional Experience

I completed a 4-month internship with EY's Financial Services Office in San Francisco during their annual busy season. During that time I worked primarily on compliance tax work for their private equity and hedge fund clients.

Through filing tax extensions, calculating client's tax liability with financial models, and working on multiple client projects at the same time, I not only gained a deeper understanding of tax, but most importantly, strengthened my attention to detail, pushed my boundaries of learning, and enhanced my workflow management.

ICG is an internal consulting group in my business fraternity, Phi Chi Theta. I served as their director with two primary goals in mind: improve the organization through a careful analysis to push for new initiatives and engage members who are interested in project management and consulting

I oversaw two projects as director: 1) improve our annual philanthropy event 2) bolster senior member involvement. I'm proud to say that as a direct result of those two projects, PCT created a new broom philanthropy event this fall to replace our annual Trivial Night. Also, as a direct result of one my previous project as a project manager, PCT created a senior-board that enhanced senior participation. Also, I organized the creation of a case chain to help members with case interviews during recruiting season.

Crowe gave me an opportunity to spend a summer in the Big Apple and to fly across the country to learn and engage with clients in their regulatory compliance practice.

I worked primarily in banking fraud and created a model with fictitious profiles to help banks with their anti-money laundering practice. I gained a comphrensive understanding of banking financial crimes and measures to prevent such practices.

B-101 is a course on business professional responsibility that I teach as a section leader that is required for all incoming students at the College of Business at the University of Illinois. I guide students through a 14-week course on understanding their personal professional, corporate, and societal responsibility that all accumulates in a capstone project at the end of the course. It is my responsibility to make sure that my students develop a strong grasp of professional responsibility at the start of their careers. As a teacher and mentor, I am always discovering new ways to engage students to make business ethics and corporate responsibility applicable to their everyday decision-making process.

I strongly believe that a strong sense of professional responsibility is what makes the U of I College of Business community so great and do my best to continue spreading those values.

Illinois Business Consulting is the largest student run consulting organization in the country. As a former student consultant, my experience in IBC was fundamental in peaking my interest in management consulting by fully immersing me in project management, business research, slide deck creation, but most important of all, in how to be an efficient story teller.

On my first project, I worked on researching biotechnology start-ups that would be fit for an international acquisition or partnership for my client. Out of the 200 companies potential investment opportunities presented by our team, 2 of the companies that I presented was taken by the client to initiate outreach.

Prime is an introductory investment banking 9-week program that immerses students in a merger and acquisition stimulation to teach them the fundamentals of valuation and strategy.

As a sell-side analyst for a company in the stimulation, our team performed financial due diligence on our target company, came up with valuation strategies, and ultimately crafted a discount cash flow model to properly appraise the premium and synergies that will be generated by the deal. At the end of the program, my team negotiated a successful deal during our mock stimulation with the buy-side.

During my freshmen year, I worked as an intern in the financial planning department, helping prepare financial reconciliations of accounts, yearly financial analysis, and budgeting tasks.

It was my first foray in the professional world and I learned quickly how to be an effective communicator and worker between different cross functional teams in the F&P department.