Employment

Managing Director. New York Music Group, New York NY

August 2007 – present

Associate. Greyworks LLC, New York NY

April 2007 – present

• Contract Venture Capital / Angel Groups with start-ups seeking funds.
• Seek new profit-building opportunities, specializing in service-based businesses.
• Research expanding existing markets and develop new ones, particularly in technology/service-oriented space.
• Locate Elvis

Wealth Advisor Analyst. Morgan Stanley, New York NY

July 2006 – March 2007

• Created strategic and tactical investment portfolios for high-net worth and high-profile clients and their families.
• Designed new applications to present portfolio asset allocation, expected portfolio behavior, cash flow analysis, and other reports as needed that simplified financial concepts and portfolio performance for greater accessibility.
• Programed tools that help improve investment selection searches, as well as tools that assist in financial planning.
• Analyzed investment vehicles across all asset classes.
• Supported day-to-day client operations.

Hamilton College Journal Writer. Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Winter/Spring 2006

• Chronicled Hamilton College experience for Admissions.
• “Stories” featured on the front page of www.hamilton.edu.

Technical Crew Manager. Hamilton College, Clinton NY

September 2002 – January 2006

• Manager, Technician, and Trainer for Student Activities Audio/Visual Services.
• Operated, maintained, and purchased audio/visual equipment for performances, speeches, and events across a wide range of venues.
• Trained staff of 15 employees in equipment use, maintenance, and concert sound mixing and support.
• Trained successors. (Worthy, they are!)
• Wrote Employee Handbook, a booklet still issued to all new techies.

National Science Foundation Mobile Communication Researcher. Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Summer 2005

• Worked with two other students to devise and develop a program and method for synchronizing two computers with mobile phones using Bluetooth technology.
• Managed project logistics and reporting, including conference poster creation.

Emerson Scholar Award Winner for Summer Research. Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Summer 2004

• Researched interactive 3D environments for pedagogical applications, drawing from massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and virtual multi-avatar simulation engines.
• Developed recommendations for anthropological modeling and live participation in virtual worlds for the Solsys future studies project, an intercollegiate experiment.
• Lead virtual simulation during the 2006 Solsys iteration at Hamilton using SecondLife.

Global Procurement Intern. Flextronics International, San Jose CA

Summer 2003

• Created interface and database specifications for new price-management tools and database usability/maintenance tools.
• Assisted in global and retained purchase price variance calculations. (In non-technical terms: profit.)
• Maintained and analyzed worldwide databases for Global Commodity Managers and international procurement teams.
• Reported to senior management.

Teaching Assistant, Grader, Tutor. Computer Science Department: Hamilton College, Clinton NY

August 2004 – May 2006

Education

Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Bachelor of Arts degree, Cum Laude.
Major: Senior Fellow / Computer Science
Dean’s List.

Senior Fellowship: Wireless Security in Resource-constrained Mobile Embedded Systems.

• Developed solution using one-time pad encryption and a desktop proxy server to secure data transmission on low-powered mobile devices in arbitrarily-hostile networks.
• Project results presented to academic community.
• Senior Fellowships are awarded to a few outstanding members (four in 2006) of the senior class who forgo traditional senior year coursework for independent research.

Horace Mann High School, Riverdale NY

Honors in Science, Math, Music, and Theatre.

Computer

Programming

• Fluent (though, it's been a while): C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, CSS, and Assembly Language.
• Experience with: Javascript, Lisp, Perl, Smalltalk, Visual Basic, Shell Script, and PHP/SQL.

Applications

• Office Suites: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and FrontPage. OpenOffice.org 2.0.
• Financial: Bloomberg Terminal, Sungard AllocationMaster/FactMaster, and Thompson ONE.
• Creative:
  • Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, GoLive, and Premier.
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash.
  • Discreet 3D Studio Max.
  • Alias Wavefront Maya.
  • DigiDesign ProTools.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and 2005. Netbeans. Emacs.
• Familiar with network security.

Interests

• Social/Cultural Entrepreneurship, Mobile technology, cycling (road and mountain), martial arts, music, Karaoke, photography, writing, traveling, and boating.