I started behind an ice cream counter and ended up running the operation.

Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Class of 2029. Management, with concentrations in Finance and Business Analytics and a minor in Sociology. From Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.

Operator. Driven. Precise.

How I got here

In high school, my math teacher ran our investment club. Every week he brought in Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal pieces and walked us through what was moving the market and why. Then he would pull up his own portfolio and explain the news behind each position. That was the first time I saw markets as something you could reason about instead of just watch.

Around the same time, I was working summers at the Jersey Shore, and I started seeing the same questions inside the businesses I worked for.

So I backed my way into finance. I didn't start with a finance internship. I started behind the counter at an ice cream shop and ended up running its operations: pricing, vendor negotiations, payment processing, and a catering relaunch. Later, at RBC, I sat in on succession conversations with business owners and realized I had been living that problem from the inside. The questions I cared about as an operator are the same ones a banker asks, just at a different scale.

The summer that taught me the most

Relaunching the catering division at Springer's Homemade Ice Cream. Catering had been dormant for years, and I rebuilt it from nothing: pricing, packaging, intake, and fulfillment. We went from zero to a working revenue line in a single season.

The harder part was the owner. She had run catering herself years earlier and didn't want my new systems. I started by arguing that the old process wouldn't scale. That was true, but it didn't help, because what she heard was that she'd done it wrong. So I switched to showing her the numbers one piece at a time.

She also turned out to be right about a pricing tier I had built. She'd known those customers for twenty years and I'd been there one summer, so I dropped it.

Being right about a problem doesn't matter if the person across the table can't hear it.

Experience

Springer's Homemade Ice Cream

Business Operations Lead

2024 – Present

Head of Brand & Systems

2023 – 2024

Stone Harbor, New Jersey

I started out scooping ice cream and ended up running operations.

Relaunched the catering division from zero, building pricing, packaging, intake, and fulfillment.
Scaled a 3% service-fee surcharge to roughly 54% of orders, offsetting about 80% of card-processing fees.
Led vendor pricing and unit economics reviews behind catering pricing and packaging sourcing.
Wrote the standard operating procedures that let the business run without the owner in the room.
Ran POS vendor diligence and moved the shop onto a non-proprietary iPad setup.
Redesigned the website, product catalog, and search visibility; online sales grew tenfold over two years.

BC Credit & Restructuring Club

Member

2026 – Present

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

I co-authored a short thesis on Bausch Health's 10% senior secured notes due 2032 with two other members and presented it to the club.

Built the capital structure waterfall across the company's secured, unsecured, and subsidiary-level debt.
Researched how 2027 Medicare price cuts and the 2028 patent expiration hit Xifaxan, its largest product.

RBC

Extern, Wealth Management

2025

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Sat in on private wealth advisor conversations with business owners on succession planning, exit readiness, and transition strategy.

Viral Integrations

Media Management Specialist

2021 – 2022

Avalon, New Jersey

In high school, I cold emailed a content creator with more than 14 million followers and ended up running his media operations.

Rebuilt the thumbnails on 130 of his older videos in five days. Videos that had flatlined started climbing again.
Managed digital assets, production workflows, and content operations across YouTube and TikTok.

A business I find interesting

People think of Chipotle as a fast-casual restaurant. I think it's an operations company that happens to sell burritos. The menu is small, every order moves down one line, and online orders go to a separate make line so they don't slow down the people standing in the store. That setup is how a single location handles a lunch rush that would break a sit-down restaurant.

After running catering at Springer's, where one big order could take down the retail line, I pay attention to how a business handles volume without breaking. Chipotle solved that at thousands of locations.

What I'm learning on my own

I recently read Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. Its main idea is that you build relationships before you need them, and you lead with what you can offer rather than what you want. It changed how I approach networking, so I built my own app to track every conversation, follow-up, and contact, and nothing falls through the cracks now.

On the markets side, I've been following how the AI buildout is getting financed. These companies are borrowing at a scale they never needed before, and a lot of those deals don't fit standard mandates.

I'm also studying for FINRA's SIE exam, which I plan to take in the next two weeks.

Not on the resume

Varsity squash captain and four-year letter winner at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. I still play club squash at BC.
Honor Council Director and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Co-Head in high school.
Two tools I built for my own recruiting: an app to manage networking, and a technical trainer that drills me on accounting, valuation, M&A, and LBOs.
Sportfishing boats, golf, the Philadelphia Eagles, and making perfect scrambled eggs.

Why Recalc

I didn't come to finance the traditional way. I came in from the operating side, and I've been deliberately building everything I'm missing. This summer I completed Wharton Online's Private Equity Certificate, and I've since earned Adventis FMC® Levels 1 and 2. I'm taking FINRA's SIE in the next two weeks. At BC, I'm in the Credit & Restructuring Club and the Venture Capital & Private Equity Cohort. I treat recruiting like a job.

What drew me to Recalc is the people. It sounds like a community of driven students and mentors who treat every opportunity as a gift and a privilege, and who are willing to do the hard work. I want to be around people like that. I also like that it continues outside of sessions through the Slack channel, and that people are encouraged to connect. That's how I learn best.

What I want out of it is technical fluency. I want to walk through an LBO or a DCF on the spot without having to reconstruct it, because that's what separates me from candidates who have been on this path longer.

Where I'm aiming: investment banking. I want to learn how deals actually get done, and banking is where I'll see the most of them early.