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Branden Bedoya

[email protected] ✨ Github: amp5

Professional Experience

Incoming BOLD Finance Intern
Google Sunnyvale, California
June 2021 - August 2021

  • Upcoming summer internship

Sophomore Summer Analyst
Citigroup New York City, New York
July 2020 - August 2020

  • Rotated within Citi’s ICG businesses of TTS, Capital Markets, Corporate Banking, and Sales & Trading to gain exposure of the operations per division, learning through Senior Speaker Series, and weekly team deliverables per rotation
  • Team deliverables consisted of assessing client business problems and presenting various methods to support the client, such as assessing the creditworthiness of Disney post-COVID with cash flow availability, and its future growth strategy
  • Developed strategy and pitched to senior-level executives on increasing Amgen’s profitability by refinancing $2 Bn of debt to mitigate upcoming maturity towers, lower coupon rates on outstanding bonds by 4%, and hedge volatility risk

Software Development Intern - Artificial Intelligence Startup
Liquid Carrot Miami, Florida
May 2019 - September 2019

  • Acted as an outreach coordinator, scaling Liquid Carrot from ~ 220% to 300 % growth in month-over-month active users
  • Facilitated $75,000 raising from angel investors and aided public relations – Google Cloud and eMerge 2019 conferences
  • Recruited and led team of 4 Software and Business interns; updated Liquid Carrot’s home webpage in 3 weeks

Business Development Associate
TekCapital PLC Miami, Florida May 2019 - July 2019

  • Developed a financial model for eyewear startup that analyzed one year projections for expected costs, market penetration rates, and sales growth through brand deals; resulting in a strategic plan for capital allocation from public investors (LSE)
  • Conducted research and created a pitch deck for their autonomous vehicle startup, covering 4 main competitors, market sizing, understanding IP, and successfully pitched to the startup’s leader, with 20+ years of corporate vehicular experience

Leadership Experience

Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder - FIU Honors Course
Entrepreneurial Mindset Miami, Florida August 2020 - Present

  • Led new course development with Jason Saltzman, Founder of Alley & FIU Board Member, with 25 students enrolled to learn fundamentals of entrepreneurship; highlighting personal growth, finding opportunities, and actionable projects
  • Developed course layout with scalability via YouTube series, highlighting course takeaways as content

Strategy Consultant
StartUP FIU Miami, Florida August 2020 - September 2020

  • Assisted an entrepreneur to create a disruptive dental startup, bypassing insurance companies, directly to corporate clients
  • Led team of 3 to design customer value proposition, startup business model, financial model with growth assumptions, and a high-level go-to-market strategy with feedback from the Director of StartUP FIU

DevOps Team & Club Member
Upsilon Pi Epsilon - FIU Engineering Miami, Florida November 2019 - March 2020

  • 1 of 9 selected for DevOps team – learned full stack development using GitHub Actions, Node and setting up virtual servers to create a fully functional, web-based ‘fortune telling’ application with automated version control over 9 weeks
  • Attended 4+ workshops sponsored by Facebook and Microsoft, and accepted into JP Morgan’s Code for Good hackathon

Competition Participant
Hult Prize Miami, Florida October 2019 - November 2019

  • Created and pitched proof-of-concept for desalinating water to 3 judges with technical, business, and impact backgrounds
  • Led team of 4 to analyze customer acquisition, market sizing, define a disruptive idea, create a business model with defined assumptions, assess unit economics, and refine our pitch in 5 weeks to compete against 29 other FIU teams

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Analytics
Florida International University Miami, Florida
August 2018 – Expected May 2022

  • GPA: 3.79/4.00 - Magna Cum Laude
  • Associations: Harvard Latinxs in Finance and Technology, Management Leadership for Tomorrow, JumpStart Advisory Group

Skills and Interests

Technical: C-Language, Design Thinking, Google Analytics, HTML, JavaScript (Node), Microsoft Power BI, R, Tableau

Activities: BCG’s Inside Sherpa, FIU Resident Assistant, Forbes Under 30 Scholar, Schefs 2x Host – Columbia startup

Languages: English (Native), Mandarin (Conversational), Spanish (Fluent)

Interests: Beatboxing, Chinese Yo-Yo, Kitesurfing, Triathlons

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