This page breaks down my education, full-time work experience, and general skillset. See my freelance work page for what I've done as a freelancer.

If you want, you may also download PDFs of my Europass CV and my one-page resume.

Formal

University of Pittsburgh	GPA: 3.554	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
BSBA Finance & BS Mathematics		Graduated April 2013

Continued Education

Online classes, language programs, and general reading plus a lot of self-teaching. This is section more about my interests (and drive to learn) than my credentials.

• Coursera (with certificates)
  • Data Science (Intro, At Scale, Fundamentals, ML in Python)
• Coursera (no certificates)
  • Google's Basics of Networks
  • Cryptography I
• Language Programs
  • 3-week intensive Korean course (Korea)
  • 10 weeks (3x/week) Russian classes (Ukraine)
• Self-taught
  • VBA programming, starting at BNY Mellon
  • Python, used in data science courses and personally
  • Some Linux and basic server concepts (for my personal home server - it's a Pi!)

Chief Editor	Malta	February 2019 - Present
CityFALCON		Fintech
Content: Writing, reviewing, and/or approving text: user, educational, investor relations, marketing and sales Product and Design: UI and UX review and ideation, guiding design team Strategy: Business, finance, and project development and planning, finance model reviewing Marketing and Sales: SEO, social media, sales calls and presentations, pricing proposals, agreements Operations: equity fundraising, contracts, immigration, payment integration, grant applications and claims

Independent Freelancer	US-Based	March 2016- Present
		Writing, Software
Technical and Financial Writing (80%) Researching and writing articles and textbook chapters, crypto whitepaper editing Mostly finance and technology topics, highly autonomous in style, structure, and content Often to educate, but also to bolster marketing, drive sales, and improve SEO rankings   Software Development and Automation (10%) Entirely independent ideation, algorithm development, debugging, and interface design Projects have required data extraction, restructuring, cleansing, and manipulation; web interaction; user option implementation; complete process automation; and client interface design User documentation   Financial Work (10%) Calculating Australian Defined Benefit Pension projections

English Instructor	Kawasaki, Japan	January 2017 - January 2019
Gaba Corporation		Education
Taught adults in highly customizable, 40-minute, one-to-one lessons based on predeveloped curriculum Provided per-lesson feedback, with vocabulary and phrasing directly related to that particular lesson Built a client base (students booked lessons and instructors on demand)

English Teacher	Bucheon, Korea	March 2015 - May 2016
Chungdahm April Institute		Education
Managed classes of six to thirteen students, ages 5 to 13, generally 80-90 per semester Graded and provided feedback on daily quizzes and weekly speaking and writing homework

Derivatives Operations Specialist II	Pittsburgh, USA	July 2013 - December 2014
Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon)		Finance
Worked with Client Services and Derivatives Operations to ensure timely and accurate execution of trades Automated some workflows for the PComm platform and BNY’s mainframe Engaged various systems to enter, verify, and, if required, correct trade instructions and data

Technical

• Advanced
  • VBA and spreadsheet design
  • Research and writing
• Intermediate
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Python, SQL
• Basic
  • Networking, Linux, Server Admin (to set up my home server)
  • HTML, CSS (to build this site)

Other

• Languages: German (B2), Korean/French (A2)
• Managing clients, teaching, very high autonomy
• Cleanly integrating SEO and marketing language