Curriculum Vitae

I am happy to include a copy of my CV below.  As I have already mentioned, this is amended as changes become necessary, and thus I can assure you it is up to date.

Education

1997-2000     University of Southampton              Southampton, GB

BSc Accounting & Finance

Units taken include Advanced Financial Accounting, Financial Accounting Theory, Int’l Financial Accounting, Advanced Management Accounting, Law for Accountants, Corporate Finance & Portfolio Theory, Principles of Finance, Int’l Banking, and Tax Policy.

Expected degree class: 2.1

1992-1997     The American Int'l School             Zurich, Switzerland

Achieved Advanced Placements^[1] Examinations in:

Macroeconomics (4), Microeconomics (4), Chemistry (4), Calculus AB (3), and European History (3).

In recognition of these above-average results, an AP Scholar with Honor Award^[2] was received.

Work Experience

1999             UBS AG                                        Zurich, Switzerland

Summer in Job Electronic Archiving Department

Job involved archiving of client related documents.

1998             PricewaterhouseCoopers AG          Zurich, Switzerland

Summer Job in Corporate Finance Department

• Worked alongside employees, assisting on several projects, including the valuation of an insurance company.

• Did data research for various projects.

• Assisting in the creation of Presentations to be shown to clients.

• Various administrative and organisational tasks (e.g. billing clients, and taking telephone calls).

1997             EFG AG                                        Zurich, Switzerland

Summer Job in Securities Department

• Booked daily stock purchases into the computer system, and then on to the respective client accounts.

• Reconciled account statements from various brokers.

• Assisted with various administrative tasks (e.g. sorting the mail, and filing documents).

1996             The Royal Bank of Scotland AG     Zurich, Switzerland

Summer Job in Securities Department

• Reorganised account mandates into a more user friendly filing system.

• Reconciled account statements from various brokers.

• Assisted with various administrative tasks (e.g. sorting the mail, and filing documents).

Additional Skills

• Through my work experience at the above mentioned organisations I have attained an extensive degree of knowledge in the area of computing.  Naturally I am a touch-typist; I have a solid understanding of the common Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), not to mention good knowledge Microsoft's Windows 98, and Windows NT operating systems. 

• Having lived in Switzerland for a number of years has also granted me good German oral skills.

• I also have a full driving license and my own car.  

Interests

• Enjoy analysing, and selecting listed companies in which to invest  funds. 

• Enjoy working with, and experimenting with computers in my spare time. 

• Enjoy mountain biking, a sport which I actively pursued during all my years in Switzerland.  I also enjoy skiing and was involved in the ski-team of my school during my junior year.  Another sport which I enjoy during my weekends and free time is Golf.

Referees

 Names and addresses of referees are available on request.

[1]Advanced Placements (or AP’s as they’re more commonly known) are basically the American equivalent  of the A-level. They are actually first year college courses which students can take whilst still in High School.  By taking these exams in school an American student can obtain college credits for the AP's taken (and passed successfully), and thereby possibly reduce the number of years the student must spend in college.  The AP's are graded on a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the equivalent of an A, and 1 the equivalent of an E.  More information concerning AP’s can be found on the College Board Web Page,