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Headline: Innocent Bystander
Work status: Part-Time Student
Industries: Biotech, Cleantech, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Mobile, Real Estate, Retail, Travel
Skills: Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Engineering, English, Fiction, Italian, Languages, Writing
Groups: Imperial Entrepreneurs
Visas: EU & Japan
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company
Schools: Imperial College London, Università Bocconi

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: J.P. Morgan Cazenove
Position: Corporate Finance Intern
Time period: January 2009 - June 2009
Description: Technology Media & Telecoms Corporate Finance/Investment Banking Internship

Employer: Hyder Consulting Plc
Position: Building Structures Intern
Time period: June 2007 - September 2007
Description: Internship in building structures; modelling & analysis of tall buildings and their facades using industry standard software. Preparing consulting documents for clients. Projects included Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai), the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry extension, the Ritz Carlton Hotel Dubai, U2 Tower Dublin, and a few others.

Employer: Mott MacDonald Group
Position: Water & Environment Management Intern
Time period: June 2006 - July 2006
Description: Using industry standard software to analyse stability of a dam in Yorkshire, UK, environmental impact of water flow for weirs in Lacken, Ireland, and irrigation systems in Nigeria. Completing reports for clients on projects.
Consulting and advising the Iraqi government ministers for agriculture who came to the firm for a month to learn more about infrastructure development project management and funding processes.

EDUCATION

University: Università Bocconi
Time period: 2009 - 2011
Degree: Finance, MSc

University: Imperial College London
Time period: 2004 - 2008
Degree: Civil Engineering, MEng

INFORMATION

Sports: cycling
Hobbies: Improving my Italian, travelling, piano, writing, work with the El Salvador Project (http://www.elsalvadorproject.org.uk)
Awards: Bocconi University Graduate Merit Award (Full scholarship & accommodation stipend) (2009-current); Institution of Civil Engineers' Queen's Jubilee Scholarship Trust Award (QUEST) for Undergraduate Study with Hyder Consulting Plc (2004-2008)