Associate Resume

Title
Associate

Primary Skills
E-Discovery,Forensics, SAS, SQL, Data Analysis

Location
US-NY-New York (will consider relocating)

Posted
May-26-09


WORK EXPERIENCE
LECG, New York, NY July 2006 to Present
Associate

? Value businesses and their assets (tangible and intangible)
? Value a broad range of securities including equities, fixed income, and derivative instruments
? Analyze intraday trading data versus corrective disclosures in Event Studies to assign price movements to particular news items to quantify damages awards and to develop or rebut rescission demands
? Conduct regressions, time series, simulations, and sensitivity analyses
? Conduct extensive academic and industry research to shape models and strategy
? Review and analyze public/SEC filings, credit ratings, and analyst reports
? Review and analyze case materials including depositions, exhibits, complaints, and other legal documents.
? Create and manage databases containing client financial and accounting records
? Develop queries and custom reports to detect fraudulent transactions and analyze client financial records
? Construct, maintain and calibrate DCF, market-based models, Real Options, CAPM, WACC, DDM, FCFF, FFCFE, Black-Scholes, Binomial, VaR, MBS and LBO models, Monte Carlo simulations
? Model F-Score, a measure of the probability that a company is manipulating its financials
? Program in SAS to mine and manipulate data in large sets and to perform statistical analyses
? Develop complex queries in SQL and in Access to extract records, cleanse and filter datasets
? Analyze financials and market data vs. Benford's Law
? Research and interpret GAAP and GAAS standards as they apply to cases
? Review contracts, deeds, and other legal documents to determine compliance of transactions
? Analyze general ledger data, reconstruct transactions, trace assets
? Write programs and develop macros to automate complex analyses on large datasets
? Manage teams of Research Analyst, Case Analyst, and Case Assistant level staff and to meet tight deadlines and to produce high quality, accurate workproduct
? Work with expert witnesses to identify, organize, and analyze the data that are key to attorneys' legal strategies. Meet with attorneys to assess the strength of their clients' positions, and provide an objective analysis of the opposition's assumptions and tactics.
? Lead several cross-training sessions for junior analysts on business process and tools

LECG, New York, NY February 2005 to July 2006
Research Analyst
? Researched credit default swaps, sovereign debt, Emerging Markets fixed income securities, and related economic theory and accounting issues.
? Researched and analyzed GAAP and GAAS guidance relevant to cases
? Reviewed client & opposition workpapers, deskfiles, and deposition text/exhibits
? Created PowerPoint presentations and trial exhibits for clients
? Reconstructed financial statements from volumes of hard data
? Analyzed client accounting records in general ledger to trace suspicious transactions, determine & illustrate how fraudulent transactions were engineered
? Audited and analyzed large and complex data sets
? Database architecture, maintenance, and programming in Access
? Financial modeling in Excel
? Ad-hoc research and analysis requests
? Selected to travel overseas to conduct field research regarding sovereign defaults

Taylor Rafferty, New York, NY September 2004 to February 2005
Research Associate
? Researched institutional and retail investment houses and identified market trends through trade surveillance data analysis
? Provided client companies with intelligence on the trading activities of its shareholders
? Compiled findings into proprietary databases and into client PowerPoint presentations
? Performed qualitative & quantitative analyses to inform clients' IR strategies
? Conducted research of public SEC form filings and analyst reports
? Interfaced regularly with Portfolio Managers, Buy Side Analysts, Compliance, and DTCC staff
? Team Lead: U.S. Equity Report


Khandaker Partners, New York, NY January 2004 to September 2004
Research Analyst
? Assisted Analyst team in the valuation of equities using fundamental analysis
? Conducted extensive qualitative evaluation of companies under coverage
? Synthesized data from literature and product reviews, company visits, industry contacts, interviews, and surveys
? Due diligence research of public and late-stage private biotech, pharma, and medical devices companies
? Kept abreast of all news, events, and developments in the sector, and analyzed their impact on trading activity

EDUCATION
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Bronx, NY Bachelors in Accounting
GPA: 3.6 Minor in Italian (2004)

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY Certificate in Forensic Accounting (in progress)

BARUCH COLLEGE, New York, NY Coursework in Accounting, Auditing, and Finance

NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE, New York, NY Coursework in AML, Internal Controls, and
Financial Mathematics Coursework in Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Financ
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Analysis Tools: advanced Excel, advanced Access, SAS, STATA

Financial Tools: Bloomberg, Thomson FirstCall, Reuters, FactSet,
Morningstar, Hoover's, Lionshares, Execucomp,
Markit, AgencyIRChannel, EDGAR, I/B/E/S,
CRSP, Compustat, Accounting Research
Manager (ARM)

Research Tools: Factiva, ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, JSTOR,
EBSCO Host, SSRN


Artifacts Repositories: Doculex, Concordance, DataTrove, DtSearch,
EnCase, LiveNotes, Attenex

Database: advanced Access, SQL

Other Tools: advanced PowerPoint, Visio, Adobe, Word, Works,
Arkadin, PhotoShop, TimelineXpress, Lotus Notes,
Sametime, SharePoint, Soundpath
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Member

American College of Forensic Examiners (ACFEI) Member
New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) Member

Certifications
See above


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