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MITAL PATEL 100 Vail Road Apt C10 Parsippany, NJ 07054 Tel: 865-266-9280 Email: [email protected] Education: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEWARK Rutgers Business School Master of Quantitative Finance, Class of 2013 3.48 GPA. International Association of Financial Engineers, Member. Relevant Coursework: Analysis of Fixed Income, Options, Stochastic Calculus, Financial Time Series, Investment Analysis & Management, Financial Institutions & Markets, Risk Management. THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE B.S. Mathematics, Statistics Minor, May 2011 3.65 GPA, Magna Cum Laude. Recipient of National Science & Math Talent Grant of Full-Tuition and $3,000 stipend. Relevant Coursework: Time Series Analysis, Statistical Models, Differential Equations I and II, Probability and Statistics. Gamma Beta Phi: Performed volunteer community service 3 hours per week. National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Member. Experience: Fortress Investment Group LLC (Logan Circle Partners LP) June – August 2012 Short Duration Fixed Income Intern Evaluated performance and measured risk of different strategies within the portfolio. Researched over 800 mutual funds in order to determine the competition for Cash Management strategy. Coded in VBA to assist the traders in getting results from the model portfolios and performance attribution spreadsheets with ease. Project Work: MATLAB: Coded Newton’s Method and used it to determine roots of equations. Created Monte Carlo simulation and bootstrap method scenarios. Applied CAPM model to calculate betas and alphas for stock prices. Time Series Analysis: Used NCSS/SAS to model the number of monthly visits to M.L.K, Jr. National Historic Site. Used linear regression, dynamic regression, ARIMA, exponential smoothing, and decomposition to make forecasts. Analyzed outliers, trend, seasonal and cyclical factors affecting the data. Achieved 97.81% accuracy for the holdout period with dynamic linear regression model. Skills: MATLAB, R, VBA, SAS, NCSS, Microsoft Office. Active trading in the personal brokerage account. Fluent in Gujarati and intermediate in Spanish.