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AKSHAT MITTAL3151 Broadway, Apt 5B, New York NY 10027 +1 (718) 564-0431 am3734@columbia.edu

EDUCATION

Columbia University New York NYMaster of Science in Operations Research, Financial Engineering Concentration GPA: 3.8/4.0 Sep 2011 Dec 2012Coursework : Asset Management; Quantitative Risk Management; Computational Finance; Empirical Finance; Algorithmic Trading;Capital Markets & Investments; Simulation; Foundations of Financial Engineering; Stochastic Models; Deterministic Models.

Project Work : Utilized the Local Volatility Model as a tool to estimate future real volatility for volatility trading. Applied real pricing model to observe money-making opportunities such as pinning, hard-to borrows, takeovers, and earnings events.

Manipal University, Manipal Institute of Technology Karnataka, IndiaBachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication GPA: 9.1/10.0 Aug 2005 May 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Betterment New York NYFinancial Analyst Intern Jul 2012 Dec 2012

Designed and build financial models to implement investment projections, comparisons, financial advice & strategic asset allocation. Examined portfolio analytics to implement real-time feedback and strategic investment decisions on customer holdings and behavior

using Excel, VBA and MATLAB. Extracted and transformed data for analytics and perform scenario testing to evaluate historical portfolio performance.

Devised and implemented the social security benefit and retirement income calculator. Researched superiority of passive investing strategy over the active investing strategy with focus on portfolio decisions, investor behavior and index diversification utilizing the CRSP database and programming in SQL and Python.

Amida Capital Management New York NYQuantitative Developer Jun 2012 Sep 2012

Designed and developed automated tools in VBA for performance evaluation of a convertible arbitrage hedge fund. Collaborated with trading desk and utilized Bloomberg APIs for real-time data to implement risk analytics including stress tests,

gamma profile, carry on convertibles, currency & margin exposure that provide robust and efficient models to measure performance.

Laifer Capital New York NYEquity Analyst Intern May 2012 Aug 2012

Analyzed long-term equity investment opportunities by conducting financial analysis using technical and fundamental valuation,and assessing the competitive position of a company to generate research reports for value-oriented hedge fund.

Futures First Info Services Private Limited Jaipur, IndiaDerivatives Trader Nov 2010 - Jun 2011

Traded Intraday STIR Euribor Futures and Fixed Income Schatz Derivatives on international exchanges LIFFE and EUREX. Applied different trading strategies such as butterfly, calendar, and intra/inter-contract spreads on accounts of movement across

various asset classes and interest rate expectations, with consideration to risk minimization. Performed analysis by understanding the impact of macroeconomic factors and global economic events on daily market movements. Analyzed technical indicators, historical price movements and trends in the short-term and the long-term by utilizing Bloomberg and

Reuters to facilitate on-the-spot decision-making.

Nokia Siemens Networks India Private Limited, R&D Center Bangalore, IndiaSoftware Engineer Jul 2009 - Sep 2010

Designed high availability solutions in networking domain for carrier grade Linux based platform used by telecom service providers. Conceptualized and implemented the design code to introduce redundancy and high availability using C++ and performed functional

and module tests using shell scripting. Developed, maintained and packaged hardware for Solaris based telecommunication service platform. Applied the agile software development model and scrum practices.

SKILLS

Programming MS Office Suite, Excel, VBA, MATLAB, SQL, C++, R, Python, Linux shell scripting.

Teaching Assistant Capital Markets & Investments, Columbia Business School Jan 2012 May 2012Assisted MBA students in understanding Fixed Income, Equities and options valuation, portfolio optimization,investment performance evaluation and behavioral finance through discussions, reviews and assignments.

Certification National Stock Exchange of India Certified Market Professional NCFM Level-1, in modules on financial markets,currency derivatives, options trading strategies, investment analysis and portfolio management.