Problem Solver

Maria Micaella Villame

Maria Micaella Villame

Areas Maria Micaella Villame is Knowledgeable in:

- Finance
- Business
- Math
- Education
- Sports
- Travel
- Design

Techniques Maria Micaella Villame Uses:

- I am very comfortable with numbers
- I think out of the box
- I have a very steep learning curve

Maria Micaella Villame's Problem Solving Skills:

  1. Trading -- currently an Options trader in a Bank
  2. Cooking and Baking

Maria Micaella Villame's Problem Solving Experience:

  1. - Created a deal capture and accounting system for the Trust Department of the first bank I was worked for, utilizing Visual Basic, SQL, Microsoft Access in 2 months without having any prior knowledge of SQL and Access.
  2. - Last year, as part of the ALM and Derivatives Team, I was selected to run the Long Term Investment Book of the bank, while still being active in options trading, and I was able to earn Php3.0Bio (almost the entire P&L for Treasury, and half the income for the bank) by maximizing investment yields at the most comfortable risk profile and minimizing cost of liabilities, and hedging risks using derivatives
  3. - I am currently an options trader for the bank, and I am involved in creating products for treasury clients involving derivatives, FX, interest rate and money market products
  4. - I have been training students for international and local math and science competitions since entering university as a part of a non-profit organization
  5. - I have been the main point person in the Front Office during our migration to a new Treasury System
  6. - I have competed in international and local math competitions since age 7 until High School
  7. - I also act as a Venture Capitalist consultant to Itemhound, a startup company involved in the RFID technology by helping them identify investors to attract, projecting their financials, and deciding on the appropriate yield to compensate the investor
  8. - I was a graduate of the top High School in the Philippines -- Philippine Science High School, which only accepts 240 students per batch out of the hundreds of thousands of examinees
  9. - I am currently an author of a math book series for grade school students