Business and finance understanding were a foundational part of my formative years, as my father worked for Merryl Lynch for 25 years. He shared with me the desire to understand and incorporate the wisdom of how the market works and how finance is a part of every day life. In doing so he not only made me wise to the sometimes complicated nature of business but he shared his love for the concepts with me and in sharing I developed my own love for business and finance. The challenges of business and finance have become a part of the foundation that drives my decision and desire to achieve and succeed in both my own life and through the success of my abilities working with this foundational part of other's lives. I have worked hard in my life to achieve things which many people only dream of doing. After high school graduation I enlisted in the U.S. Navy and began training to become a member of the elite Navy Seals. The day I arrived at seal training I knew that I was going to make it, I didn't care that attrition rate was 80%.

I survived all the way until three weeks before graduation when I tore my mcl and acl during a physical evalutation. Because of the severity of my injury I was released from the Navy. At this point I could have fallen victim to my own self-pity but instead I rose to the occasion. No more than three weeks after my discharge I enrolled at PIMA community college where I have been excelling ever since.
A currently work as a loan officer and am applying for a summer internship with Goldman Sachs NY in their Investment Banking dept and I am a member of a national organization for Hispanic business men and students, the Association of Latino Professional in Finance and Accounting. The way in which business and finance focused colleges or departments focus attention on current developments, real life experience of experts and real work experience as well as the basics of finance has proven to be a natural…