Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith

Quantitative Analyst

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  • About me

    Software R&D Director / Projects Director

  • Education

    • Harvard Business School

      2007 - 2008
      Leading Product Development, Leading Change & Renewal
    • University College Dublin

      1986 - 1989
      M. Eng Science Masters of Engineering

      Final thesis on Industrial Machine Vision

    • University College Dublin

      1982 - 1986
      B.Eng (Mech.) Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience

    • Davy Stockbrokers

      Jan 1989 - Jan 1993
      Quantitative Analyst

      Technical Analysis, Futures and Options quantitative analysis, Real Estate Analysis

    • Mentec

      Jan 1995 - Jan 1998
      Lead Developer

      Development of PC-to-PC video conferencing suite.

    • Reuters

      Jan 1995 - Jan 1998
      Lead Developer & Project Manager

      Managed client-side development in C++ for Reuters 3000 Fixed Income - a $10 MM client/server commercial application for fixed income analytics.

    • Hyperion Solutions (now Oracle)

      Jan 1998 - Jan 1999
      Senior Development Manager

      Built and managed a new products team of up to 15 architects, developers, QA staff, contractors and interns. Development of business analytics and OLAP tools.

    • MarketPlayer.com

      Jan 1999 - Jan 2002
      VP Development and Operations

      Built and operated high-volume, dynamic, financial web sites with portfolio tracking, real-time quotes and integration with large partner sites - including American Express, E*TRADE, AOL, CNBC, SmartMoney.

    • Commonfund

      Jun 2002 - Mar 2007
      Director Application Development and Support

      Led the development and support of applications for: Trade Planning; Asset Allocation Planning; Portfolio Analytics, Management & Sales Information data warehousing, analysis & reporting; CRM integration; Custodian integration; Regulatory Compliance workflows

    • De La Rue Plc

      Apr 2007 - now
      Software R&D Director / Projects Director

      Global responsibility for development of currency management and business intelligence software solutions. Project director for multiple business-critical technical projects. Managed multiple development and QA teams - internal, external and offshore.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate

      Stanford Graduate School of Business
      Feb 2011
    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      PMI
      Nov 2006
    • Advanced Project Management

      MIT / Sloan
      May 2006
    • Certified Trainer / Mentor

      Learning Tree International
      Apr 1998
    • Certified Solution Developer

      Microsoft
      Jan 1995
    • Developing Data Products

      Coursera Course Certificates
      May 2015
      View certificate certificate
    • Practical Machine Learning

      Coursera Course Certificates
      May 2015
      View certificate certificate
    • Exploratory Data Analysis

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Mar 2015
      View certificate certificate
    • Getting and Cleaning Data

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Jun 2014
      View certificate certificate
    • Statistical Inference

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Aug 2014
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    • The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Jun 2014
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    • Reproducible Research

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Mar 2015
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    • Regression Models

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Mar 2015
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    • R Programming

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Jun 2014
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