Convertible Specialist/Analyst covering derivative valuation, modelling, software and data.Offering expertise and experience of markets and derivatives along with a deep knowledge and understanding of derivative software.Wide and highly successful experience: -• Analyzing and exploiting convertibles, on both the Buy and Sell side. • Pre-sales, training and consultancy on derivative and derivative software.• Adjusting and manipulating model software to extend use to meet clients’ needs.• Setting up and running derivative training courses for both beginners and experts. KEY ACHIEVEMENTSMonis: Extended use of software beyond its scope to meeting prospects needs, to win sales. Later specified these enhancements to be built into the software. For example, built Index v Portfolio functionality needed to sell to Long only funds, increasing sales by $millions. Produced "work rounds" whilst software is developed. For example, to value new Bond + Warrants structure (when they first came to the market).Credit Lyonnais Security: Convertible Bond Analyst who put our research onto a professional basis by building database that generated valuation tables and graphs within our research.Bloomberg: Help make Bloomberg the market standard for equity derivative desks, from a position of being a lone terminal gathering dust in the corner, by training and marketing of the added functionality over Reuters (the market leader). Project Managed Euro Unification for Equity Derivatives.Newton Investment: Used derivatives to manage risk, also generated £15m low risk profits. United Friendly Insurance: Helped UFI become the top performing life company 1986-93.Gould Training & Solutions: Developed blue chip client base eg: Aon, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital.