To contribute strong learning and teaching skills to your institute
? Six years experience in teaching, math and finance to highly motivated graduates
? Skilled in working effectively and communicating lucidly with students from diverse backgrounds
? Founder of CATalyst Group Tuitions for CAT coaching and Tesseract India for CFA coaching.
Secured 99.99%ile and above consistently in Common Aptitude Test (CAT) conducted by the IIM?s in the years 2004 (99.99%ile), 2005 (100%ile), 2006(99.99%ile) and 2007 (99.99%ile).
National CAT 2008 topper score of 290/356.
? Cleared the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) -Level 1 exam (from CFA Institute, USA) in Dec, 2006.
Cleared the Level 2 exam in June 2007, and the Level 3 exam in June 2008 all in the first attempt.
? Qualified the Financial Risk Manager Exam, in the first attempt November 2007.
? Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
? Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, St. Xavier?s College, Mumbai University
? Started with a batch of 11 students for CAT 2005.
? Selected a group of 27 students from approximately 80 applications for the 2006 batch. Eight students received calls from the IIMs. Conversion Ratio is the highest in the industry.
Tesseract India, Mumbai Founder and Teacher July 06 ? To Date
? Started with a batch of 3 students for the December 2006 exam, 2 students cleared the exam.
? Mentored and taught a batch of 10 students for the June 2007 exam, 7 students cleared the exam.
? Training Career Launcher faculty across India in both math and verbal areas.
? Was awarded the mentor of the achievers batch
IMS Learning Resources Pvt. Ltd. Product Manager and Teacher July 02 ? June 04
? Revolutionized the concept of shortcuts in the entire industry.
? Express promoted to Product Manager within a year of teaching.
? Pioneered the concept of teach ? backs as a necessary part of training.
? Recruited and mentored teachers for the Math Module.
? Led and organized activities for the Mumbai team of teachers.
? Awarded the highest appraisal rating as a teacher in all appraisals at IMS India.
? Youngest employee to become the CAT product manager in the history of IMS.
? Ranked among the top 1% all over Mumbai University for my graduation
? Puzzle Enthusiast - Ranked 20th in India. (Source: www.puzzleratings.org) Stood 17th in the all India National Puzzle Championship, Sept 2007.
Research Papers
? Artificial Neural Networks and Option Pricing: Created a black box which could learn the process of predicting the volatility of the rupee based on past values and other parameters.
? Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms: Designed and implemented scheduling software which will determine some of the best schedules from a pool of schedules and then change them a little to get the next pool of schedules.
? Represented IIM Calcutta in basketball for the XL ? IIMC Meet.
? Strong belief in independence, have studied against family?s wishes.
? Enthusiastic about Reading, Puzzling and Treks.