MathMods :: Joint MSc

2012 – 2014                  Mathematical Modelling in Engineering (Master of Science)

Italy                              University of L’Aquila

·      Awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship by European Union

2008 – 2012                  Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (Bachelor of Statistics)

Lithuania                       Vilnius University

·      Studied areas: Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, IT, Risk, Investments, Insurance

·     Bachelor thesis: "Modeling Stochastic Differential Equations of Financial Mathematics" (Grade: 10)

·      Cumulative GPA (max. 10): 9.1

·      Ranking status: consistently amongst the top 10% of Class

2010 – 2011                  Mathematics and Computer Science (Erasmus Student Exchange)

The Netherlands            Utrecht University

·       Subjects: Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Markov Chains, Econometrics

2005 – 2008                  Vilnius Zirmunai Gymnasium (graduation with cum laude)

·       State Examinations (max. 100): Mathematics 100, IT 78, Lithuanian 74

·       A-levels (max. 10): Mathematics 10, Physics 9, IT 10, English 9

Jun 2012 – Sep 2012     Freelance Data Analyst / Developer

Jul 2011 – Feb 2012      Euromonitor International (Vilnius, Lithuania)

·  Developing database with Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server    

·      Collecting, updating, analysing and forecasting data using MS Excel (incl. VBA) and R about many different industries and sectors in countries from various international sources (Eurostat, OECD, UNESCO, Un. Nations) and national statistics databases

 Feb 2012 – Apr 2012     Economic Modeller (internship)

Vilnius, Lithuania           Euromonitor International

·        Economic Indicators’ Forecasting

·        Quantitative impact analysis of main macroeconomic indicators to various industries

·        Economic and mathematical model development using real data

·    Programming, testing, visualizing and analysing data using statistical package R

Jul 2011 – Sep 2011      Intern in Actuary’s Department                                                                                         

Vilnius, Lithuania           If P&C Insurance AS

·       Created a new Visual Basic Application for MS Excel for automatic data update (using internal and external data) and a separate sheet for creating multiple choices charts

·       Analyzed balance sheets, product prices and service schemes

·       Created a source code documentation for a new SQL based database system

 Jun 2010 – Aug 2010     Mobile Food Concession Operator (Work and Travel USA program)

Minnesota, USA            Schroder’s Concessions Inc­.

·      Working places: cashier, cook, helping worker

Sep 2009 – Jun 2010     Mathematics Tutor

Vilnius, Lithuania           Freelance worker

·      Conducted additional mathematics classes for pupils and students

Oct 2008 – Jun 2009      Head of Mathematics Club

Vilnius, Lithuania           Vilnius Zirmunai Gymnasium

·      Conducted lectures, filled in a daybook, evaluated pupils, went to Olympiads

 Jul 2008 – Aug 2008      University Relations Manager     (internship)

London, UK                  Vault Europe Limited

·      Researched universities, business and law schools across the UK and Europe

·      Helped to finish Vault guidebooks: contacted mailing houses in the UK

 July 8-11, 2012                  25^th European Conference on Operational Research

·      Was responsible for abstracts of submitted papers and program changes

 Jun 2009                           Science Event “Students to Pupils, Pupils to Students”

·      Lecturer: conducted a lecture about mathematical paradoxes

 Jun 2007                           International Music and Art Festival “Be2Gether”

·    Cashier: collected parking fees

·        Student of 10-week online course “Model Thinking” (Scott E. Page, University of Michigan, 2012)

·   Student of 7-week online course “Game Theory” (M. Jackson, Y.Shoham, Stanford Univ., 2012)

·   Student of 7-week online course “Introduction to Sociology” (M. Duneier, Princeton Univ., 2012)

·     Student of 10-week online course “Computer Vision” (J.Malik, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2012)

·           Student of 10-week online course “Machine Learning” (Andrew Ng, Stanford University, 2012)

·           Student of 7-week online course “Introduction to Physics” (A. Brown, Udacity, 2012)

·            Student of 10-week online course “Introduction to Finance”(G.Kaul, Ross School of Buss., 2012)

·           Participant in International virtual trading competition “Stock Shark” 2011

(Organized by LHV Bank)

o   4 weeks of trading in NASDAQ and NYSE with final ranking in the top 10% amongst all the participants and the 10^th best player in Lithuania

·           Won a Career Mentoring Project “City Big Brother 2011”

(Organized by Lithuanian City of London Club)

o   Career mentor: Kasparas Jurgelionis (CEO of Investment Bank Ermgassen & Co, UAB)

·           Participant in International business student competition “Ace Manager” 2011

(Organized by bank BNP Paribas)

o   Team captain with final ranking in the top 15%

o   18 online finance cases in Retail, Corporate, Investment Banking and Investment Solutions

·          Participant in Vojtěch Jarník International Mathematical Competition 2010

(Ostrava, Czech Republic)

o   After a successful qualification round at Vilnius University represented it in an aforesaid contest

·           Participant in International business student competition “Peak Time” 2010

(Organized by SSE Riga University)

o   Team captain with final ranking in the top 30%

o   Online business simulation CESIM; case study: Greenhouse emissions abatement

·            Computer skills:

o   Database/Statistics:   PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Project R, Eviews, Maple

o   Programming: Pascal, C, Java, Visual Basic, Matlab, Octave

o   Productivity software: Microsoft Office, Open Office

o   Web page design: HTML

o   Operating systems:    Windows XP, Vista; Linux Debian GNU

·            Languages:

o   Lithuanian:     mother-tongue

o   English:        IELTS test (Apr, 2012)

                          Overall band score: 7 out of 9

o   Russian:      advanced

o   German:       basics

o   Dutch:         basics