Shaya Avraham, MA, MA, CAP®

Experience

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  State of Washington

  May 1997 - Sept 1997

  Legislative Assistant

  Scheduled meetings and tasks for State Representative Alex WoodAnswered phones and staffed the field officeDrafted responses to constituent correspondenceCompleted Legislative Assistant training program in Olympia

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  Yale University

  Jan 2000 - May 2000

  Teaching Fellow

  Teaching Fellow, American Politics and Society 1945-Present, Professor Robert JohnstonTeaching Fellow, Society and War, Professor Allan Stam

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  Olympic Mountain School, Inc.

  Apr 2006 - Apr 2009

  Publisher

  • Wrote Best of the Olympic Peninsula™ 2007 in Adobe InDesign 1.5 and published May 2007 with Malloy, Inc.• Registered copyright with U.S. Library of Congress and claimed trademark for ISBN 0-9792899-0-4• Forecasted FY06-08 financial statements and analyzed investments with MS Excel 2003• Completed forms 1120S and Schedule K-1 for FY06, FY07, and FY08 with IRS for FEIN 20-0977648• Filed quarterly excise tax returns 2006-2008 for B&O tax with WA DOR for UBI 602-385-380; maintained license• Registered with WA Secretary of State, elected for S-Corp, maintained license, served as Registered Agent• Performed double-entry bookkeeping in Excel, used accounting skills with Excel to prepare Balance Sheets, Income Statements, and Statements of Cash Flows for FY06-08, and prepared charts, PivotTables, PivotCharts• Developed www.olympicmountainschool.com with HTML/CSS in Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop on Powweb.com Server in FY06-07. Visitor statistics have risen an average of 258 hits/month since 1/06—68% growth from 3,637 hits/month in FY06 to 8,763 in FY07 to 11,000 in FY08.• Experience with loans and insurance: commercial loan 5/07; retired 9/07. $1M general liability insurance.• Over 36 regional and national publications have written about OMS, such as the Associated Press, Seattle P-I, Seattle Times, Seattle Magazine, The Olympian, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, and Vancouver Sun. Show less

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  AIG

  Apr 2009 - Nov 2009

  Compliance Officer

  FINRA Series 7, 63, 24, 53.• Operated Compliance Management System with Vision2020 and Pershing LLC’s NetX360 for Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction and 14 Registered Representatives (RRs) in 7 branch offices. Completed AIG First-Line Supervisor Training.• Approved account applications, client change of RRs, client change of address, and direct business applications. Reviewed and supervised all correspondence, RR transactions, Annual Compliance Questionnaires, Outside Business Activities Questionnaires, Personal Accounts Questionnaires, U4 Amendments, Firm Element requirements, Regulatory Element requirements, Annual Practice Reviews, BSA/AML training and compliance, and audit deficiency reconciliations.• Conducted branch office compliance examinations with pre-examination planning, scoping, and risk profiling. Corrected deficiencies immediately where possible or set deadlines for corrective actions. Performed post-examination monitoring. Show less

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  Weyerhaeuser

  Dec 2009 - Apr 2012

  Business Analyst

  Managed and assisted in managing Shipping operations with 2-4 million board feet lumber/week shipped by truck and rail• Managed and assisted in managing Human Resources office for over 120 employees• Managed and assisted in managing Storeroom with over $600,000 of parts inventories• Developed, built, and maintained custom databases of sawmill and planermill production data for forecasting ofproduction quantities, types, and dimensional proportions for corporate-level predictive sales planning: ~3 MMBF cut per week with dimensional variations in sawmill production and grade variations in planermill finishing• Tracked whole-mill inputs and outputs from logs; through the sawmill, kilns, and planer; to lumber and chips shipments• Performed statistical regression analyses of key production and environmental variables to explain data dynamics• Mobilized contractors to minimize downtime by expediting critical parts to repair machine failures• Issued out stocked parts, ordered parts, received parts, prepared parts kits for work orders, reconciled inventories• Overhauled safety procedures in standard operating procedures (SOPs) and job safety analyses (JSAs) for hundreds ofindustrial processes by closely consulting with workers and managers to identify, define, and universalize best practices• Identified, documented, and reported near mishaps to safety manager and maintenance for corrective actions• Collected, organized, and disposed of tens of thousands of documents under records retention standards• Executed human resources transitions from pre-hiring through all job changes and retirement in a unionized workplace• Managed and tracked vacations, discipline of employees, payroll entry and reconciliation, medical file maintenance, safety equipment allowances, insurance claims, disability reporting, and union bidding processes Show less

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  Marmot Financial Services Corp.

  Dec 2014 - Aug 2016

  Compliance Officer

  FINRA Series 65• Built fee-only Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) offering ETF portfolios with modern portfolio theory.• Wrote Form ADV parts I and II with brochure; maintained annually in FINRA IARD.• Passed WA Department of Financial Institutions registration and office examinations.

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  First Federal Savings and Loan

  Dec 2016 - Feb 2018

  Registered Representative

  FINRA Series 7, 63, 65; WA Insurance Producer Life, Disability, Variable Lines• Managed $21 million AUM in clients’ advisory and brokerage portfolios with quantitative modern portfolio theory.• Performed program-wide data collection and analysis for securities and insurance transactions, account openings and closings, ACATS, assets under management, GDC tracking, payroll, and client call lists.• Prepared for audits by querying, analyzing, and presenting data and client records for auditors.• Strong computer skills, with proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook, MoneyGuidePro, NetX360, EnvestNet, PipeDrive. Show less

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  Merrill Lynch Wealth Management

  Mar 2018 - Jan 2021

  Financial Advisor

  FINRA Series 7, 63, 65; WA Insurance Producer Life, Disability, Variable Lines• Acquired and managed $3.652 million in assets under management in six months. • Advised clients on investments, taxation, insurance, education funding, retirement, and estate planning.• Sourced prospects, presented recommendations, and worked with clients to select advisory portfolios.• Completed Financial Advisor Development Program and American College’s Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP®)

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  Olympic Wilderness Foundation

  Jan 2021 - now

  Executive Director at Olympic Wilderness Foundation

  Olympic Wilderness Foundation will be very active in every month of 2022 performing observations for what's known in the industry as "wilderness character monitoring:" taking observations and measurements of people and places to help citizens and managers do what's best for the people and places in wilderness. Opportunities to offer Leave No Trace education, wilderness medicine, and search and rescue responses will surely arise during our months volunteering inside Olympic wilderness. Olympic Wilderness Foundation is a local, nonprofit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. EIN 86-1213672. Show less

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  Productivity Northwest

  Sept 2022 - now

  Paralegal

  Drafting legal documents and performing legal research. Leveraging years of experience in financial services to identify and investigate fraud.