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I am currently studying at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) to concentrate in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and also pursue a minor in Computer Science. I've always been interested in tech entrepreneurship, but recently I have acquired the skills to actually create some viral sites and have loved every second of it! So when I'm not spending time Skyping or on the phone with my beautiful girlfriend, Maddie, you'll catch me hacking away at my computer (NotePad++ is my weapon of choice). I also play Varsity Sprint Football and compete in the Pole Vault for Penn Athletics.

CONTACT

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WORK EXPERIENCE

CH2M HILL, Bellevue, WA, international engineering consulting firm with over $6B in annual revenue Business Development Intern (September 2009 - Present)

• Founded and led a social media project across 6 offices in the Western region using search engine optimization techniques and other social media sites to increase brand awareness

• Created, planned, and presented social media tutorials to offices in Seattle and Portland to promote the connection between social media and engineering consulting
• Programmed Microsoft Excel macros to produce synthesized tables for business development marketing

Canvas, Seattle, WA, mobile business application start-up Intern (December 2009 - April 2010)

• Worked directly for COO, managing workload for a merchandizing team of an online application store

• Marketed & merchandised mobile applications by testing, writing copy, and using image & video editing software to create demos

LEADERSHIP & ATHLETICS Varsity Athletics, University of Pennsylvania Sprint Football & Track and Field (August 2010 - Present)

• Sprint Football Linebacker, Collegiate Sprint Football League Champions ('10); committed over 20 hrs/week
• Men's Track & Field Pole Vault, training with elite 17' pole vaulter; committing over 20 hrs/week

Student Government President, Interlake High School Elected Student Body President of 1,000 students ('09-'10); Elected Class President of 290 students ('08-'09)

• Raised over $2,000 for Red Cross Haiti relief funds through managing various week-long fundraising activities

• Managed $4,000 budget for Homecoming Dance and events, raised over $16,000 for the school (‘09)
• Raised over $1,000 during other various fundraising and marketing campaigns as Class President

DECA Business & Marketing Club, Interlake High School Co-Founder and Co-President (September 2008 - June 2010)

• Led the Interlake chapter's inaugural year to the successful creation of a student store and the advancement of 8 students to State Competition and 4 students to National Competition

• 1st in WA DECA for Business Law & Ethics Team Event (‘09); 5th in Area Competition (‘08); 3rd in Area Competition (‘09)
• Recipient of International Career Development Conference DECA Advancement Award and Certificate of Achievement (‘09)

TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PennMatch.com, social game for Penn students to match each other and see matches January 2011

• Received over 2,000 unique visits and over 200,000 image views within the first 24 hours of release; published on Penn’s blog
• Expanded utility to all high school and university students by using Facebook Graph API; worked with 2 student web designers

TastePlug.com, micro-blogging platform centered around media consumption December 2010 - Present

• Created in under 24 hours of coding using Amazon’s API; currently in alpha-testing and seeking seed funding

TrailerTrack, web app that plays movies and tracks preferences December 2010

• Scraped trailer site for trailers and allows users to ‘like’ to bookmark; currently working on recommendation engine algorithm

College Financial Data Mining, automatic retrieval of college financial data December 2010

• Worked with CPA to automatically retrieve data and generate a spreadsheet of all CollegeBoard.com financial data

Langauges/Skills: Python, Java, Javascript (experience in Ajax), PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS, XML, VBA, Bash EDUCATION The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Bachelor of Science in Economics; Computer Science Minor (May 2014)

• GPA: 3.86 / 4.00; SAT: 2280
• Intended Concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship

OTHER INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

• Piano – Classical piano training since ’98; 1^st place in Sr. Division at ‘08 Helen Crowe Snelling Memorial Competition and 2^nd place in Jr. Division of ’06 Helen Crowe Snelling Memorial Competition

• Chess Club (Interlake) – Captain & Varsity Letters (’08-’09), participated in US Chess Federation Supernationals IV (’09)
• Video Club (Interlake) – Founder & President; produced short films using Avid Xpress Pro Editing Software
• Other Interests – Guitar, Rubik’s cube (competed in Rubik’s Cube National Championships in ‘06), photography, blogging

WESLEY ZHAO's RESUME (PDF)