Launch Ventures

I lead the North American business for Launch Ventures.

Launch Ventures partners with promising teams to build and launch their products from concept to scale.  We engineer products from MVP to scale, provide strategic product consulting, design the product experience, and setup analytics to provide business insights.  We have worked with a range of startups to Fortune 500 companies on over 100 products.

President of North America

Dimensional Fund Advisors

Associate

Edelweiss Financial Services

Asset Management Company Investments Team
• Created database and migrated all fund, performance, and company data from Excel spreadsheets to SQL Server
• Performed quantitative research using Excel, VBA, Bloomberg, and the Prowess Database to identify new investment strategies
• Generated rebalanced portfolios for the Balanced Advantage and Large Cap Funds every month

Multi-Strategy Funds Team	
• Managed and automated the Quantitative Asset Allocation strategy, resulting in greater scalability and fewer trading errors
• Conducted quantitative research for fixed income and commodity equities
• Led SQL database management ensuring all price, client holdings, AUM, and trade data are accurately loaded

Assistant Manager

• Performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of special event investing in Australia

Investment Analyst Intern - Forefront Capital Management Hedge Fund

Red Panda Innovation Labs

• Developed features of an informational financial bond web application using Ruby on Rails and SQL
• Communicated with international customers to develop user stories for an event management iOS mobile application

Software Engineer

American Express

• Developed features for the Client Profile Management tool, a web application that manages travel client profiles
• Developed device and middleware functionality for corporate travel and expense applications following the Agile methodology
• Created business and technical use cases for a business travel mobile application

Software Developer

Honeywell Aerospace

• Updated ground-level aircraft software in C++
• Implemented and performed testing of real-time operating system in C

Engineer Intern

ADTRAN

• Updated operational support system software in Java
• Debugged and solved command-line interface problems in C++

Software Engineer Intern

Arizona State University

• Utilized communication, listening, and writing skills to help students improve their writing abilities

Writing Tutor

With a strong engineering and quantitative finance background, and powerful business management skills, I am motivated to help businesses grow with the right product and engineering team.  Currently, I am the President of North America at Launch Ventures, a technology consulting company that builds software products for start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.  I have independently built the North American business for Launch Ventures, and I work with clients directly to solve their technology needs.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA.  I have worked as a software engineer at American Express, done portfolio operations and research for emerging markets overseas, and performed investment analytics at Dimensional Fund Advisors.  Along with my technical background, I have strong verbal and written communication skills.

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