AMIT PATEL

401 Summit Ave. Apt 3C, Jersey City, NJ 07306 E-mail: ap94463n@pace.edu |Tel: (732) 983-6664

Education: LUBIN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, PACE UNIVERSITY New York, NY Master of Business Administration, Financial Management GPA: 3.53 CFA Level II candidate Dec 2011

NIRMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NIRMA UNIVERISTY Ahmedabad, India May 2009 Bachelor in Instrumentation and Control Engineering Secured first place at a robotic competition Technofora-2007 Secured first place in a project presentation by presenting self-designed automated bottle filling plant Experience: PACE UNIVERSITY, New York, NY Present Graduate Research Assistant Performed Monte Carlo Simulation of hedging and speculative strategies on commodities Extracted research oriented data and information from Bloomberg for ad hoc research on Equity and Fixed Income markets Designed and built professional webpage for the supervising faculty Researched on behavioral finance and its effect on the Equity markets Lectured on financial topics such as options, futures and strategies in investments to undergraduate classes Sep 2009- Dec 2012

WITHINVESTORS LLC, Englewood, NJ Summer 2011 Research Analyst Prepared advisory reports and letters for individual clients in commodities and real estate investments Researched on commodities and prepared general investment reports on gold and silver and correctly predicted the highly bullish movement of the two metals at the time Created and managed database of real estate investments of the company and communicated with clients Researched on US economic forecasts based on financial data and created reports for the companys monthly magazine

SHAKTI TRANSFORMERS, India 2007- 2009 Operations Analyst Worked in Procurement Department of Transformers Created monthly reports on the inventory and sales and analyzed the trends Ordered supplies monthly within the budget constraints of the company Represented Shakti Transformers at trade fairs and symposiums and acquired several large institutions as new clients Additional: Nirma University Soccer Team, Team Captain, (2006 - 2009) Instrumentation Systems and Automation, Treasurer Rotaract Club of Nirma University, Social secretary. Organized blood donation camps on campus Jointly lectured the secondary classes with a group at schools in rural areas with a goal to spread IT education Computer Skills: Advanced knowledge of Statistical software - @risk, Stat tools, MS Office, MS Project Intermediate knowledge of SQL and programming Languages: C, C++