Ludovic Giraud
Trader/Sales/Broker/Quant ESSEC Advanced Master in Financial Techniques
Object : Australian and French, strongly analytical advanced master student with excellent numerical/IT and interpersonal skills who has evolved within different competitive or fast paced environments where trustworthiness had to be a fact and the responsibilities given always had to be fulfilled with no allowance for mistakes, now looking
for summers/graduate programs/internships or career offers for potential traders on Fixed income
Markets/Commodity markets, algorithmic traders/High frequency traders on Currency Markets or sales
traders/brokers starting the 01/05/2012.
The math package I contain is constituted of statistic tests and estimation, Numerical Methods, Optimisation, Ordinary and non ordinary differential equation resolution schemes, many specific methods on probability distribution densities and random variables, econometric knowledge, high performance computing abilities and the math that interfere with derived product pricing. I also have better than intermediate skills in fluid and solid mecanics. And learnt developping, both the academic and the creative way.
Dear Sir, Miss or Madam,
I have a Masters degree in Science for the engineer: Mathematics applied to Finance coming from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). The university that shelters the El Karoui quant formation.
I am currrently a student within the advanced master in Financial Techniques of the ESSEC Business school, ranked 3rd best worldwide formation in Financial Markets by the Financial times and 1st best in France by SMBG in 2011.
I have specialized my self in advanced algorithmics applied to option pricer conception in JAVA/C++/OPENGL, financial software upgrade at Arbitragis ( www.arbitragis.com ) as trader assistant, trading strategy simulation in C++ and FIX Protocol order message engine implementations ( http://fixprotocol.org/ ), order driven routines made by phone or with electronic systems in insurance MAF's transport and reppatriation division and at Fujitsu's IT Service for AirFrance, KLM and Delta Airlines and in Computer, fax, tellex, printer and flight ticket machine reparing from the distance.
I have and had courses in Trading, Econometrics, Advanced Probabilites, Statistics, Micro-Encomy, Macro-economy, Option theory, financial theory, Financial markets and their organization, Commodities, International Finance, High performance computing in finance and others you can check on http://www.essec.fr/programmes/masteres-special...
My current trading by the tape performance is a generated yield of 10.01 percent over 3 months which corresponds to a 40.04 percent annual yield and is equivalent to a monthly yield of 3.36 percent , which I could show you on www.abcbourse.com with my password.
2011 - 2011I had the responsibility of maintaining the airline companies' staff's satisfaction for their daily IT issues. I fixed computers/Printers/Telex/Fax/Flight ticket machines from the distance or dispatched incident tickets to local groups of techmnicians for hardware problems.
2010 - 2011I was the human interface in between the architect and his clients. I did a lot of mailing and accounting.
2009 - 2009In charge of the sales of private electricity and gas contracts for Paris and its close suburbs. This experience tought me the capacity of having to constantly improve the sales dialogue to optimize my gains and own a decent salary.
2009 - 2009Chief Operator:
Insurance B to B to C Operation direction: (Mondial assistance France)
Front office work using the latest SQL/IT database Insurance software AIDA.
I organized, payed and accounted for towing and reppatriation, mortuary services, healthcare services, constructions/reparations, dispatched plummers, locksmiths and booked taxis, car rentals, flight or train tickets.
2008 - 2008Firm specialized in automated trading strategies on derived products:
Followed the markets
Studied the Conception of mathematical arbitrages using implied volatility calculus
Upgraded financial software interfaced in C+ in a LINUX environment
Ported from Qt3 to Qt4
Did refactoring
Elaborated pricing libraries
Worked on a massively parallelized Monte-Carlo method
Priced European options
Traced option curves
Modified interfaces
Implemented stock exchange information reppatriation algorithms from Feedos, Reuters and Bloomberg.
Made SQL triggers;
Made Switches
Initiated and trained and EM Lyon 5th year student to C++ software developing.
Updated the practical encyclopedia of the firm.