Milan, Ohio, United States
Hi! My name is Xander Danner. I am a rising senior in the College of Business at Ohio University. I am pursuing a quadruple major here at OU: Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, and Business Pre-Law. I am very dependable as a worker and looking for summer jobs or internships. Eager and open to any role. Along with my education, I am a proud member of the Ohio University Student Equity Management Group, Men's Division II Club Hockey Team, and a previous member of Hall Council here at Ohio University. In the summer of 2024, I completed an internship with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, where I facilitated in writing up 60,000+ fixed asset subledgers to determine asset classes and useful lives during the merger process between Six Flags and Cedar Fair. I also depreciated long-term projects, such as the Knott’s Berry Farm Hotel construction, identifying potential tax variances and invoicing new purchases for the project. Along with all of this, I also attended biweekly accounting workshops, expanding my knowledge in various sectors to learn more about Six Flags. During the summers of 2022 and 2023 I worked for Freedom Boat Club at Battery Park Marina in Sandusky, Ohio. I would spend my days cleaning boats for renters to use, then I would fill them up with gas and maneuver them back into their dock slips. In the summers of 2020 and 2021 I was a mechanic assistant and part of the cleaning crew at Marine Tech Concepts in Marblehead, Ohio. There I was challenged to travel to different marinas with licensed mechanics to fix and clean boats. Along with the jobs I have in the summers above, I also own and operate my own lawn mowing business. Xander's Lawn Mowing Business, established in 2019, is a small ongoing business I have created where I mow customers lawns over the entire summer, or over a week or few weeks span if they go on vacation. Overall, I am experienced and coachable, open to opportunities and excited to expand my career in the near future.
As an analyst in the Ohio University Student Equity Management Group, I contribute in a number of ways. First, I assist in managing a long-only equity portfolio of $9.2 million of university funds. I also engage in weekly meetings to track portfolio investments, pitch securities, and analyze current macroeconomic trends to benefit our endowment fund portfolio. As a group, we also Attend weekly business seminars that focus on expanding our financial knowledge and skills to increase market analysis efficiency and accuracy. I have also learned and mastered different investment platforms, including Bloomberg, to perform advanced research on securities to benefit the group’s portfolio performance.
As a Shared Accounting Services (SAS) Operational Accounting Intern at Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, I will be working with the fixed assets owned by Cedar Fair. Along with other workers within the operational accounting department, we will spend time locating, classifying, and organizing different fixed assets in the company. In Cedar Fair's case, this can be anything from rollercoasters to restaurants, and even hotels and other things located outside of each individual park. As a company that has 12 parks across the nation, and one in Canada, we will be dealing with a large amount of assets that need to be upkept on a daily basis. Along with this, I will spend time two days out of each work week attending virtual workshops to develop my accounting, as well as general professional skills.
I lead a marina location as a dockmaster for Freedom Boat Club. I spend time driving, cleaning, and doing check-ups on open bow, center console, and pontoon boats. I also helped marina members dock their boats, and I spent time at the gas docks filling boats. Along with these duties, I also report to mechanics and corporate managers about how smoothly things are running at the location, letting them know of any mishaps or malfunctions.
I worked as a dockhand for Freedom Boat Club. I spend time driving, cleaning, and doing check-ups on open bow and pontoon boats. I also helped marina members dock their boats, and I spent time at the gas docks filling boats.