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Flat A, 12-18 Bloomsbury St.
London
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Mobile: +44 (0) 7958 29 29 97
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7636 2812
Email: y.li@ucl.ac.uk |
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Date of Birth: 12th March 1979
Nationality: British |
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Sex.: Male |
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Education
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1997–Present |
| University College
London, London
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Final year of MSci
Physics degree |
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Yearly average 1st
Year: 76%, 2nd Year: 83% and
3rd Year: 84% |
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Expected class of
degree: First Class |
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1995-1997 |
| Sir George Monoux
College, London |
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‘A’ Levels (3) Chemistry
(B), Mathematics (A), Physics (A) |
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‘A/S’ Levels (2)
Further Mathematics (A), Computing (B) |
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1991-1995 |
| Warwick School for
Boys, London
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11 GCSE’s, 3 A*’s,
6 A’s, 2 B’s, including, |
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A* in Mathematics,
2 A’s in English (Language and Literature) |
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Work-Experience
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1995-Present |
| Assistant Manager,
John’s Fish Bar, London |
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Working with my parents
has given me valuable skills, such as working under pressure and
multitasking in a busy environment. |
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Responsibilities:
Ensuring smooth running of the store, customer service and looking
after the business in absence of the manager. |
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August 1998 |
| Personal and Marketing
Assistant, Monet Jewellers, London |
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A secretarial role
that required motivation and initiative. Working with an international
company exposed me to global markets and services. |
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Responsibilities:
Preparing sales proposals for colleagues, assisting with recruitment
contracts and documents, and liasing with resource managers. |
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July 1996 |
| CAD Operator, Hawker-Sidley
Power Transformers, London |
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I was able to demonstrate
my initiative and ability to learn quickly by learning and using
industry standard applications in a commercial environment. |
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Responsibilities:
Designing, amending and validating CAD designs of power transformers
used in industry. |
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Extra-Curricular
Activities
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2000-2001 |
| Japanese Language
Classes, UCL Language Centre, London |
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I have recently started
Japanese lessons in university because of personal interest, and
the potential of broadening of my future career prospects. I particularly
enjoy the challenge of learning another language and culture.
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1999-2000 |
| Treasurer - Cultural
Carnival, UCL Union, London |
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Cultural Carnival
is a week of events with the aim of increasing cultural awareness |
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Responsibilities:
I was involved in the proposition and execution of major sponsorship
deals, one of which is a large investment bank. I also managed
general finance issues such as budgeting events and societies.
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1998-1999 |
| President - Association
of British And Chinese University Students, UCL Union |
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ABACUS is a
cultural society that aims to unify and aid Anglo-Sino relations. |
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Responsibilities:
As president, I was directly involved in everything from
marketing the society, liasing with external companies and
organisations, organising events, collaborating with committee,
and promoting teamwork, enthusiasm and focus. |
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Skills
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Studying
Physics with Management options has enhanced my analytical, numerical
and problem solving skills by applying theory into practise. It
has also increased my enjoyment of resolving complex situations
and finding solutions to difficult problems through personal initiative
and team effort. |
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I
am currently undertaking a final year solo project at university
that requires in-depth understanding of both statistical and physical
processes, self-motivation, organisation, thorough research, and
the design and creation of a computer simulated model. |
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I
was appointed the Project Leader in a third year university group
project on an important scientif breakthrough. My team won the
best group prize for excellence. |
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Working as a team in ABACUS and Cultural Carnival has allowed
me to play both a leading and a supportive role on matters such
as project planning and organisation. |
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Through
these roles, I have obtained great insight into the responsibility
of managing people and resource preparing and coordinating events,
and maintaining team spirit. |
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As
part of my degree, I studied courses in Science Communication.
I completed a major thesis on quantum computation, and have experience
in delivering presentations on group and individual project assignments
to large and small audiences. |
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Working
in project teams for my degree as well as my involvement in UCL
Union has improved my interpersonal and communications skills
to articulate other people’s views, my own personal opinions and
explaining complicated solutions. |
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Languages:
English (Fluent), Cantonese (Intermediate) and Japanese (Basic)
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| Motivation and Initiative
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My
personal interest in Financial Markets and Businesses led me to
choose to study Management options in my final year at UCL: Project
Management (accredited by the Association of Project Managers),
Business in a Competitive Environment and Corporate Finance. |
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I
was able to show initiative and market awareness working in my
family business. I successfully promoted and sold new products
and services. |
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General: MS
Office Suite (Advanced), MS Project (Advanced), MS Visio (Advanced) |
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Programming:
C/C++ (Advanced), Fortran (Advanced) |
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Other: Photoshop
(Advanced), Mathematica (Advanced), Dreamweaver (Advanced) |
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Miscellaneous
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I enjoy travelling
and have recently spent two summers travelling around East Asia.
The experience has allowed me to actively plan and enjoy diverse
cultural experiences. |
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I play badminton,
tennis and squash regularly as I enjoy the challenge of over-performance
and the test of endurance. |
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Other:
Shares and markets, Latin Dancing, Reading, and Technology. |
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References
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