Education

A specialized generalist.

Graduate

Masters of Finance 2026 Penn State, Smeal College of Business

What pulled me into finance was the same thing that pulled me into economics in the first place: value. Value for yourself, for the people around you, and ideally in a way that compounds beyond you. It's almost a natural derivative of economics. Across money, commodities, securities, it's the sophisticated engineering that lies under the hood. A better lens for understanding how efficient and inefficient markets can become and what mechanics are driving the underlying decisions and movements. How value gets created, destroyed, and moved. How something as technical as capital structure changes what a company is worth. How money flows through corporations and markets, just closer to the machinery.

Coursework

  • Business, Government and the International Economy
  • Foundation in Managerial Accounting
  • Foundations in Finance
  • Fundamentals of Financial Markets
  • Financial Analysis and Valuation
  • Financial Engineering and Corporate Strategy
  • Global Finance
  • Modern Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice
  • Advanced Financial Modeling
  • Corporate Financial Analytical Research Projects
  • Strategic Financial Management
  • Fixed Income Markets
  • Risk Management and Compliance
  • Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Decision Making
  • Communication Skills for Management
  • State and Local Taxation
  • Global Immersion
Undergraduate

B.S. Economics and Security Risk Analysis 2024 Penn State

I've been fascinated with economics since my first econ class in high school. The study of markets, early trade, how perceived value works in an economic system. The psychology behind how people act in economic theater, rationality and irrationality, precommitment and all the other theories for explaining people, economies, governments, countries. It's a science that truly is more like an art. Along the way I got some great advice:

"There is no skill called business. Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers."Naval

That stuck with me. The security and risk analysis piece added a different lens. How systems fail, how threats propagate, how to quantify uncertainty. The combination turned out to be more useful than either one alone.

Economics

  • Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
  • Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
  • Introduction to Econometrics
  • International Economics
  • International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics
  • Money and Banking
  • Labor Economics
  • Economics of Public Expenditures
  • Growth and Development
  • Decision Making and Strategy in Economics
  • Statistical Foundations for Econometrics

Security and Risk Analysis

  • Introduction to Security and Risk Analysis
  • Threat of Terrorism and Crime
  • Overview of Information Security
  • The Intelligence Environment
  • Informatics Risk and the Post-Modern World
  • Legal and Regulatory Environment of Information Science and Technology
  • Networking and Telecommunications

Additional Coursework

  • Introduction to Programming
  • Ethics
  • Symbolic Logic
  • The World At War: 1939-1945
  • Introductory Psychology
  • Introductory Nutrition and Application to Health
  • Anthropology, Ancestry and Genetics
  • The Universe
  • Geology
  • Digital Art and Design
  • The Art of Cinema
Foundation

A.S. Business Administration 2023 Middlesex College

The starting point. The first step to becoming the first in my family to earn a college degree. This gave me a managerial scope, practical frameworks I was learning about and using simultaneously while leading teams at a Fortune 50 company. An early test of whether what I was learning in a textbook could actually make me better at the job I was already doing.

Coursework

  • Principles of Financial Accounting
  • Principles of Managerial Accounting
  • Introduction to Business
  • Legal Environment of Business
  • Basic Management Concepts
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Calculus with Analytic Geometry
  • Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry
  • Introductory Microeconomic Analysis and Policy
  • Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
  • Fundamentals of Computing
  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Effective Speech
Certifications

Additional Learning

Specialized skills to complement the knowledge base. Computational thinking and Python through MITx. Financial modeling through Wall Street Prep. Time spent building technical depth across domains and broadening my skill set in the AI era. When specially curated knowledge can be rapidly generated based on your inputs, you need to be able to filter out the noise. Know enough to make the high-level judgments.

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