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Adelina Ratner

MBA Student at UC Davis.

Headline: Club Leader
Industries: Computing, Entertainment, Financial, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet
Skills: English, French, Languages, Russian
Location: Davis, CA
Groups: Big Bang! Business Plan Competition
Interested in: Employment opportunities, Finding mentors, Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Shadowing, Sharing my projects
Schools: University of California System - Berkeley, University of California System - Davis

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Advent Software, San Francisco, CA
Position: Business Analyst
Time period: December 2007 - August 2008
Description: • Managed end-to-end product life cycle for 4 products and 200+ sub-products serving over 3700 active clients.
• Brought the largest contract in company’s 25 year history from feasibility review to client delivery as part of core project team.
• Implemented new product life cycle process, which includes procedures and templates for: gathering detailed requirements, writing functional specifications, developing internal processes, and creating documentation for new products and existing product enhancement.
• Gauged client demand for, and determined feasibility of new partnership products in conjunction with internal product management teams.

Employer: Advent Software, San Francisco, CA
Position: Interface Manager
Time period: October 2006 - November 2007
Description: • Served as project, product, and relationship manager for 30+ data interfaces, serving over 600 clients.
• Directed end-to-end development process for seven new custodial data interface projects, resulting in acquisition of 40+ new clients.
• Rose to the level of internal product expert within 11 months of hire by collaborating cross functionally with product development, QA, business development, sales, relationship management, communications, client support, and application engineering teams.
• Achieved a 90% reduction in open client support cases through management of maintenance releases, including determining and evaluating solutions to escalated issues.

Employer: Bank of America, Concord, CA
Position: Technology Project Analyst
Time period: June 2004 - October 2006
Description: • Coordinated financial and technical aspects of telecommunications and inventory (database) projects as part of $700,000,000 per year outsourcing contract.
• Implemented new contract amendments and created new internal billing elements by working directly with vendor, finance, legal, engineering and supply chain management teams.
• Achieved Six Sigma Green Belt certification for successfully identifying, analyzing, proposing, and implementing a voice over IP solution with anticipated savings of $1,000,000 per year.

EDUCATION

University: University of California System - Davis
Time period: 2010
Degree: Management of Technology and Finance, MBA

University: University of California System - Berkeley
Time period: 2004
Degree: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , BSc

Adelina's Contacts (11)

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  • Sam Wainer

    Second Year MBA with experience in marketing and sales forecasting for new-to-the-world products and services. Functional expertise in client management, statistical analysis and advanced survey research methods.

  • Maria Zhao

    Electrical Engineering graduate from UC Santa Barbara, pursuing MBA with focus in Tech Management and Marketing at UC Davis

  • David Ewell

    Ethnic Studies graduate from Berkeley, currently pursuing MBA in Finance and Marketing at UC Davis. Currently working as Director of Partnerships at JazzTree Inc., owner of David Ewell Productions.