Management Project

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Nationality: Irish Date of Birth: 14/01/1985

Shane Carroll

Objective With a degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as international experience in quantitative finance,

my objective is to improve my understanding of strategy development and strategic decision making

in the fund management industry.

Experience May 2009 – to date State Street Global Advisors, Paris, France

Paris office of one of the world’s leading institutional investment management firms.

Quantitative Analyst in Currencies

Responsible for submission of daily trades.

Projects involve development and implementation of hedging and active strategies.

Current role involves significant use of Excel and VBA.

Additional projects involved analysis of model optimization for Equities and currently working on

predictive modelling techniques for Fixed Income.

Mar 2009 – May 2009 Center for Business and Society, Budapest, Hungary

Think-tank specialising in the role of business in society

Research Assistant

Conducting research on the viability of conventional economic growth theories within the context

of the “Degrowth” movement.

Jan 2008 – Dec 2008 British American Tobacco, Budapest, Hungary

Finance Management Trainee

Management Accounting:

o Responsibilities: P&L, cash-flow and balance sheet related internal reporting

requirements.

Marketing Finance:

o Responsibilities: financial evaluations and analysis for marketing.

Major achievement: Successfully led project in implementation of new car-fleet financing system –

awarded exemplary performance bonus.

Education 2002 - 2007 Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland

BEng in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Subjects included project management and system dynamics.

Extensive experience with C++ and Matlab.

Final year project on simulating polymer fluid flow – modelled nano- and micro-scale fluids using

theoretical and empirical inputs.

BA in Mathematics

Subjects included calculus, statistical analysis and probability theory.

GMAT Result (March 2009)

Score of 750 (98 percentile).

Competencies Languages IT

English – Native. Excel, Reuters, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver.

French – Excellent. Programming – VBA, C++, Matlab.

Interests Travel – brought up and educated in France, Africa and Ireland.

Avid rugby player, snowboarder and scuba-diver.

Keen mountain climber – completed the 7 peaks challenge in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.

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