Laurent LEFEVERE
Financial Engineer: ESSEC/EISTI
Date of birth : 05 / 09 / 1986 Nationaliy : French 25, rue de Cheroy, 75017 Paris - France Tel : +33 6 10 45 72 54 E-mail :
[email protected]
Objective : Obtain a trainee trader position in Tibra Available as from June 2010
Education 2009-2010 2010
ESSEC Business School, Paris (French 1st Business School AACSB and EQUIS accredited): http://www.essec.edu Advanced Master’s Degree in Financial Techniques ESSEC Business School, campus Singapore. Courses:
2004-2009
- Advanced derivatives markets - Credit risk and credit derivatives
- Asset pricing - Asian Economics
- Fixed income market - Corporate Finance
EISTI Engineering school - French degree of IT engineering, finance - Major in finance: http://www.eisti.fr Ranked 1st in IT with a GPA of 3.8 and an overall GPA of 3.6 Final project: Calibration of the Heston model within a JAVA interface (Received honours) Courses:
2007-2009 2007
- Securities trading - Commodity markets
- Simulation and pricing tools - Software Engineering (Design Pattern)
- Algorithms - Databases
- Financial Mathematics - Neural networks
Institute of Business Management - Master degree of firm administration and management University of Pau - French 3-year degree of applied Maths equivalent of Science Bachelor
Professional experience 2009 HSBC Financial group, Paris - France (6 months) Intern - Assistant trader IT / Commando developer on interest rates products Objective : Designed and implemented trading tools for traders as quickly as possible. • Added some functions to load specific Market Datas from SUMMIT application. • Computed and displayed P&L and P&L explain for traders scenario. • Boosted application performance by rewriting DLL in C#. • Modified applications to improve Market Data and Risks loading time. • Helped and Supported trading team on the tools and application. 2008 SOCIETE GENERALE Financial group, Paris - France (3 months) Intern - Project manager (Master engineering assistance / Analyst) • Designed a rights management application to control user accesses and privileges. • The system provides different approval workflows to different users depending on their current privileges. There was a strong emphasis on security because of confidential data. • I led the design through all its phases: gathering user needs, providing a mock-up, writing design documents for the development team. • I worked on three other projects and applied management techniques. 2007 TOTAL Oil group, Pau - France (3 months) Intern - Software engineering (Project management) • Designed and implemented an application to visualize changes in seismic data using VBA and SQL. • Developed an application using an Access database and produced an interactive Excel document permitting to obtain statistics on seismic data. Pau - France 2006 AUTOMATION SERVICE (Automatic devices company), (1 month) Summer job - Software engineering • Designed and implemented an application allowing communication between a robot and a computer.
2004 ESTEVE (Food processing industry),
Bourges – France
(1 month) Summer job - Documenting some industry parts • Designed an EXCEL documentation allowing access to data about the components of a silo.
Skills IT Programming: VBA, C#, C/C++, JAVA, J2EE, JSP, PHP, HTML, Delphi Data Base: SQL (MySQL, PL/SQL), Oracle, ACCESS Software & OS : Office suite, Summit, Visual studio, Eclipse, SAS, Scilab, MathCad / Windows, UNIX Finance Securities trading, Risk management, Exotic & Derivatives products, P&L explain, Model calibration Spanish : Intermediate level Languages English : Fluent (TOEIC 890/990) French : Native Mandarin : Basic (1 year study)
Activities Reading finance and economics press, calculating some trading strategies to use on my own money. Practice running (8 years) and swimming (4 years). Participated in running competitions.
