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Donna Au

Pursued B.S. in Economics and Biology, Now pursuing M.S. in Economics from Tufts University, Medford. Presently working with Dep. of Economics, Tufts University as Teaching Assistant since Sep-2009.

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Full-Time Student
Skills: Business, English, Investment, Languages, Management, Writing
Groups: ELS Sixth
Interested in: Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Tufts University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Tufts University
Position: Teaching Assistant
Time period: September 2009 - Present
Description: Lead two undergraduate recitations (50 students) in Economic Statistics.

Employer: Booz Allen Hamilton
Position: Graduate Finance Intern
Time period: June 2009 - August 2009
Description: Executed Black-Scholes options pricing modeling for financial footnotes.
Compiled information and created skeleton for Technical Accounting website.
Performed reconciliations on eight months of tax analysis.

Employer: Business Intelligence Advisors
Position: Analyst
Time period: September 2008 - June 2009
Description: Applied proprietary CIA-based analytical frameworks to analysis of publicly traded company disclosures.
Produced client reports for investment management audience.

Employer: Banc of America Securities
Position: Investment Banking Summer Analyst
Time period: June 2007 - August 2007
Description: Modeled leveraged buyout scenarios and utilized weighted average cost of capital and discounted cash flow analysis for valuation purposes.
Experienced in public comparable, precedent transaction and liquidity analysis.

Employer: America’s Growth Capital
Position: Full-Time Investment Banking Intern
Time period: January 2007 - April 2007
Description: Conducted in-depth research assignments on emerging growth life science companies, compiled pitch books for venture capital meetings and supported senior management at weekly client meetings.

Employer: Deqing No. 2 School
Position: English Language Teacher
Time period: July 2006 - August 2006
Description: Instructed 100-250 Chinese students 7 days a week on English conversation.
Designed and implemented curriculum based on textbooks and games to encourage conversation.

Employer: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Position: Researcher
Time period: May 2004 - August 2004
Description: Designed and tested experimental procedure to compose research paper on how KN62 and KN93 inhibitors affect the CaMKII developmental pathway in sea urchins

Employer: Tufts University
Position: Lab Assistant
Time period: January 2004 - August 2006
Description: Produced medium and saltwater solutions to facilitate research on Crepidula fornicate (slipper limpet).
Managed lab materials for undergraduate Biology labs.

EDUCATION

University: Tufts University
Time period: 2011
Degree: M.S. Economics

University: Tufts University
Time period: 2008
Degree: Economics and Biology, BSc

INFORMATION

Clubs: Varsity Fencing Team, Tufts University (9/04-09/07): Tri-Captain, Team President, Medford
Awards: M.S. Economics Merit Tuition Scholarship, Dean’s List, Tufts University Class of 1958 Scholar,
New England Small College Athletic Conference 2006 and 2007 Winter All-Academic Team

Donna's Startups (1)

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  • Citizen Water

    Citizen Water empowers communities worldwide to access healthy drinking water by incorporating simple, inexpensive water quality test kits; clear, multi-lingual and multi-media instructions; and open source spatial mapping.