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Professional Experience Back to top
Director of Curriculum Development May 2007-Present
Acton Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence (AFEE) Austin, TX
  • The Acton Foundation develops and licenses graduate-level business courses in entrepreneurship to the Acton School and other M.B.A. programs.
  • Responsibilties include finding and evaluating teaching materials for inclusion in AFEE courses
  • Develop new teaching materials (cases, simulations, and technical notes)
  • Review and update course frameworks and syllabi
  • Develop information systems to store and retrieve teaching materials efficiently
Web Architect/Developer Nov 2007-Feb 2008
Gallery Nevena Austin, TX
  • Designed and developed Web site for Gallery Nevena using ASP.Net 2.0, XML, and XSLT
  • Site permits customers to browse gallery's collection of contemporary European fine art
Senior Associate, Private Equity Jun 2005-Present
Virtus Capital Partners Austin, TX
  • Developed proprietary scoring systems and complex financial models in Excel, including sophisticated capital structures (preferred returns, IRR waterfalls, etc.) and Monte Carlo simulations
  • Evaluated investment opportunities and offer recommendations to the Managing Director
  • Prepared offering memoranda for private placements and presentation materials for corporate finance transactions
  • Facilitated syndication of capital to financial institutions and accredited, high-net-worth investors in private placements
Web Developer Dec 2001-Aug 2004
Alpine Database Solutions Dallas, TX
  • Managed corporate extranet to provide clients and employees access to operational data in real time
  • Conducted ongoing needs assessment and devised solutions to rapidly-changing business requirements, including requirements gathering & analysis, ASP.Net programming and Oracle 8i database development (stored procedures/packages).
Web Architect/Developer Oct 2001-Dec 2001
Austin Galleries Austin, TX
  • Planned and developed dynamic Web site for Austin Galleries using ASP and SQL Server
  • Solution returned well over 150% ROI in under one year.
Web Developer/Team Lead Mar 1999-Oct 2001
Database City Austin, TX
  • Responsible for leading a developer team in the design and construction of Web-based applications
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to analyze requirements and define project scope
  • Selected to become first Team Lead at Database City ahead of more senior developers
Education Back to top
Acton School of Business May 2005
M.B.A., Entrepreneurship Austin, TX
  • Intensive, one-year M.B.A. program with case-based curriculum
  • Ranked 1st in class/4.0 cumulative GPA
  • Recipient of the Acton M.B.A. Student of the Year Award, 2005
University of California at Berkeley May 1990
B.A., Anthropology Berkeley, CA
  • Graduated with honors/3.652 cumulative GPA
  • Golden Key National Honor Society Member
  • E.F. Kraft Scholarship Prize Recipient, 1987
Gymnasium Korntal-Münchingen 1985-1986
  • Foreign exchange student at high school in Korntal, Germany
Additional Information Back to top
  • Admissions Committee Member, Acton School of Business, 2005-2007
  • NASD Series 7 & Series 66 licensed
  • Foreign language skills: German (good), Bulgarian (basic)
  • Conducted archaeological fieldwork in the U.S., Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East, 1988-1997
  • Proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, SQL, HTML and XML

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