Hello, and thanks for taking a look at my profile. I graduated summa cum laude with highest honors from San Diego State University with a degree in finance, and I now work as a Senior Associate at an investment fund, where I spend my days valuing public companies and building the same models that show up in a corporate finance course. Discounted cash flow, cost of capital, capital structure, financial statement analysis, and the macro fundamentals underneath all of it are things I use on real...
Hello, and thanks for taking a look at my profile. I graduated summa cum laude with highest honors from San Diego State University with a degree in finance, and I now work as a Senior Associate at an investment fund, where I spend my days valuing public companies and building the same models that show up in a corporate finance course. Discounted cash flow, cost of capital, capital structure, financial statement analysis, and the macro fundamentals underneath all of it are things I use on real money decisions every week. I mention that because it shapes how I teach. When a student asks why any of this matters, I can answer with something real instead of only pointing back at the textbook.
Most of my teaching has happened at work rather than in a classroom, and it has been consistent for the past several years. Before my current role I founded and ran a solar brokerage, where I trained new team members who came in with no finance background at all. I sat with them one on one and walked them through pricing, margins, and how to read a deal until they could handle it alone. At the fund I now lead diligence teams, which means regularly explaining valuation and accounting concepts to junior analysts, most of them recent college graduates, until they can run the analysis themselves.
My approach is simple. I start with a real decision someone actually has to make, work through it with the student, and let the framework emerge from the example rather than opening with a formula on a whiteboard. When a student is stuck I try to find the specific place their understanding breaks down instead of re-explaining the whole topic. I want to tutor because I enjoy teaching in my free time and it keeps me sharp on the technicals. I would like to work with high school and college students in macroeconomics and corporate finance.
