Curriculum vitae for Dr John Wright

Ph.D. in Neural Networks (Cognitive Neuropsychology)

From February 1996 to August 1997, my role was predominantly as a software engineer, working on all products, and in particular pricing add-ins for Microsoft Excel and Applixware in a number of financial domains: exotic equity, FX and commodity options, equity derivatives such as convertible bonds and warrants, fixed income instruments, and complex interest rate derivatives. During this period, I worked mainly on the development of GUIs for PC-based products using Visual C++ and VBA, and the porting of existing PC-based products to Solaris and AIX.

From August 1997 to the present day, I have been employed as a project manager, co-ordinating all stages of the product lifecycle from inception through to delivery and maintenance. I have been responsible for, in turn, the complete range of options pricing products (Exotics, Advanced Options, Equity Options XL, Options Wizard and Generalised Monte Carlo), the best-selling range of equity derivatives pricing products (Equity-Convertibles and Convertibles XL) and the first development phase of a new suite of three-tier client-server portfolio management systems (of which Equity Portfolio will be the first incarnation). I have managed teams of varying sizes, up to a maximum of twelve people.

Although my management responsibilities have increased considerably from August 1997 onwards, I have always remained hands-on, and have contributed to the analysis, design, implementation, testing, delivery, maintenance and technical support of the above systems. In particular, I have gained the following core skills:

Programming in .NET/C# (3 year's experience)
Programming in Java (6 years)
Programming in C++/C (8 years)
Project management and team leading skills (7 years)
Object-oriented analysis and design (8 years)