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The Basics:
Age 28, Single Male
Education:
MBA, Rice University
B.S. Accounting, University Of Texas at Dallas
Work Experience
(Most Recent to Beginning)
Mortgage/
Closing Services Industry - Financial Analyst II for LandSafe
Inc, a subsidiary of Countrywide
Financial Corporation (NYSE: CFC),
the third largest mortgage company in the U.S.
Financial Services
Industry - Investment Banking
- I worked as a Research Analyst following telecommunications
services & equipment companies. I also worked as a junior
financial analyst following the PC industry and semiconductor
industries. I began as a Junior Financial Analyst, got
promoted to a Financial Analyst and was finally promoted to a Senior
Financial Analyst. Companies worked for include Southwest
Securities and Sanders Morris
Harris
Financial
Services Industry - Asset Management - I worked as an
intern (research on tech companies) learning more about this side of
the business with a small Dallas based company (Norsig
& Associates) that was managing some of the Perot/EDS
senior executive's money. They are no longer around from
people I talk to.
Financial
Services Industry - Brokerage business. I worked as
an intern for Merrill Lynch
learning how the broker side of the business worked.
Telecommunications
Industry - Nortel Networks.
I worked in cost accounting, financial reporting and as an
engineer's assistant while in college. Some of this work was
full time but most was co-op work. I spent about three years
working at Nortel during the summer in various
positions.
Financial Services
(Brokerage & Mortgage / Closing Industry)
Some Pictures can be
found here (added 7/20/02):
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Park
Cities Picture - skiing (far left)
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Vegas
Picture - Having a blast (Middle)
-
Xmas
with family/cousin in pic (left). I look
the same, only with whiter teeth now!
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Recent Activities:
In January 2003 I
began working as a financial Analyst II for LandSafe Inc, a
subsidiary of Countrywide Financial Corporation, (NYSE: CFC)
the third largest mortgage company in the U.S. My job is to
take the financial/operational data from the accountants and
business units and look for ways to improve productivity, reduce
costs or pursue new growth strategies. My primary activity is
helping the business managers better understand their costs through
activity based cost accounting and learning the business units from
top to bottom. To date I have found this job very self fulfilling
because my ideas and questions about the business lead to results
that are measurable and impact the profitability of the company. I
found this job after moving to Dallas in October 2002. For the
record, I found my job posted online and the job search, from start
to finish, took eight weeks. During my eight weeks interviews
with companies and headhunters averaged at least three to five a
week.
At the end of April 2001 I amicably parted with my
employer as I found the investment industry wasn't what I hoped it
would be. At that
time that I decided to take a personal sabbatical since the economy
was in a downturn and I wanted to gain additional insight into
business and economic history / philosophy.
A pdf copy of my resume can be found here.
A word copy of my resume can be found here. A
copy of my resume, in html format, can be found here. To contact me about my current job status / or
inquire about additional information send me an e-mail @ rossdross@yahoo.com
or dan@betterbizbooks.com
I can provide references if needed.
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