Ethan Heffernan

Resume

Education

University of California, San Diego GPA: 3.42

B.S. in Cognitive Science, Finance Minor

Relevant Coursework: Product Marketing and Management, Collecting & Analyzing Financial Data, Principles of Accounting, Enterprise Finance, Data Science in Practice, Programming and Data Structures for Data Science, Statistical Analysis, Probability and Statistics

Skills

Finance: Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial reporting, Scenario analysis

Data Science: Python (Pandas, Statsmodels, ARCH models) Excel

Organizational: Version control, engineering process documentation, lab process design

Work Experience

Friedenthal, Heffernan, & Brown, LLP — Legal Assistant (Part Time) 12/2023-2/2025
  • Summarized depositions to support civil proceedings
  • Created organized medical chronologies from discovery
Conservice LLC — Budget Forecasting Analyst Internship 6/2022 - 9/2022
  • Monitored, analyzed & recorded utility rate plans for billing of multi-family residential property tenants
  • Created specific utility rate tables for property management
  • Examined and interpreted documents including city budgets, state public utility commission rate case filings, & city council minutes to generate budget projections for clients
WaveFront Technology — Research & Development Lab Internship 6/2021 - 9/2021
  • Authored new process documents with input from department engineers, scientists, and technicians as part of a company-wide rework of technical documentation
  • Wrote automated FMEA, QC, and job-trackers in Excel for library of process document templates using feedback from engineers and technicians

Other Experience

Los Angeles Public Library – One-on-one Adult Literacy Tutor 5/2025 - Present
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity UCSD — Vice President of Risk Management 10/2022 - 1/2024