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Key Demonstrable Skills

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Team Work

Ability to work collaboratively or independently in a large diverse and customer focused environment.

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Work Ethic

Adaptable to prioritise workload when under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines whilst maintaining the accuracy of work demanded in a professional environment.

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Continuous Learning

Keen to master more programming languages and software packages.


EMPLOYMENT TIMELINE

Seeking employment

EDUCATION

Brunel University

Financial Computing with Professional Practice 2:1

Final Year

Data Networks, Services and Security, Database Systems: Design and Application, Graphic User Interface Programming (GUI): Theory and Applications, Applied Risk & Optimisation for Financial Planning, Financial Computing Dissertation Project.

Placement Year

Work Placement Report & Presentation

Second Year

Corporate Finance, Corporate Investment, Internet and Web Technologies, Communication Skills and Operational Research for Finance, Object-Oriented Software Design And Applied Computing Projects.

First Year

Financial Markets, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Quantitative Methods, Business Statistics, Programming And Software Design For Financial Computing.

Business Studies, Government and Politics, Psychology and History
Mathematics, English Literature, English Language, Graphics Studies, French, History, Business Studies, Physics, Chemistry, Biology.

PROJECTS UNIVERSITY

Dissertation Final Year Project VBA in Excel

I produced working software that calculates Value-at-Risk (VaR) using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), data taken from Thomson Reuters Datastream database.

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Loan Repayment Calculator Pair project

We were required to delvelop a mortgage loan repayment calculator Excel Add-In using VBA. The focus of the Add-In was GUI design, aesthetics and usability as well as the accuracy of the repayment calculations.


MySQL Database Implementation Music records

The assignment was to design and implement of a relational database based on an ER model, which accommodates SQL queries. The database was based on a fictional case study and involved the band ‘The Beatles’ as the basis for the data.

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Multiple Regression Model Last C++ Project

The purpose of this C++ assignment was to estimate P/E ratios by constructing a multiple linear regression model. The data was taken from the FAME database. This involved programming matricies, correlation coefficients and the Gaussian Elimination Algorithm.