Leslie Valadez
El Paso,TX
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Occupational Business Lab Assistant
El Paso Community College
El Paso, TX
10.2023 - Current
- Assist 15 to 20 students with course work in subjects such as accounting, business, and economics
- Assist faculty and staff with computer hardware and software use in the lab and/or classrooms
- Develop and maintain inventory system for lab material such as laptops, desktops, calculators, etc
Mathematics Tutor
Parkland High School
El Paso, TX
08.2021 - 10.2023
- Tutor 20-30 students every hour in calculus
- Familiarize students with databases such as Microsoft's Excel and Access
Sales Associate
At Home
El Paso, TX
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Trained about 5-10 new team members every month in cash register operations, stock procedures and customer service
- Collect confidential information such as social security numbers, home addresses, and incomes for the At home credit cards
- Assessed customer needs to provide assistance in a fast pace, high pressure environment
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance - Risk Management -
The University of Texas At El Paso
El Paso, TX05-2024
Certified in Data Analytics -
Google
05.2023
Skills
- Bilingual (English & Spanish)
- Proficient in Excel (functions such as Vlookup/Hlookup, pivot tables,etc), Word, and PowerPoint
- Financial Modeling in Excel - for bond portfolios, stock portfolios, hedging, etc
- Learning VBA coding - writing macros to be able to process thousands of rows of data, web scraping, etc
- Can tutor subjects ranging from Algebra 1 to Calculus 1
Projects
Constant Risk Portfolio
- Acquired experience in managing the risk of a 10 stock portfolio by maintaining a constant systematic risk.
- Project conducted the strategy known as "stack and roll"
- Used Excel Macros to generate and adjust betas
Hedging Bond Portfolios
- Gained experience on using futures contracts to hedge or leverage bond portfolios against interest rate changes
- Used Excel Userforms application to create a user friendly interface that would allow user to decide to hedge or leverage on a Gap overlay or a Point overlay hedge
Bond Portfolios, Cash Flow Mapping, and Value at Risk
- Acquired experience in creating a bond portfolio from 10 companies and setting a target duration
- Used Excels solver to determine the count for each bond
- Used Nelson SIgel model to estimate the interest rate yield curve
Timeline
Occupational Business Lab Assistant
El Paso Community College
10.2023 - Current
Mathematics Tutor
Parkland High School
08.2021 - 10.2023
Sales Associate
At Home
12.2020 - 08.2021
Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance - Risk Management -
The University of Texas At El Paso
Certified in Data Analytics -
Google