Stephen Simmons has been programming in Python since 2000. He works at JPMorgan in London, where he leads the Precious Metals technology team, building trading, risk and analytics applications in JPMorgan's Python environment, Athena. He will shortly move to the Equities division, to lead the Data and Analytics Engineering team.
Stephen previously worked in the credit card businesses of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam and ANZ Bank in Melbourne. At ABN AMRO, he ran Operations, Credit Risk, MIS and Strategy. At ANZ, he had management team responsibility for Cross-Sell and Portfolio Management. He started his career as a radar engineer at Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation and was then a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
His education includes an MBA from INSEAD, and PhD, BSc and BEng from Melbourne University.
Friday 10:45–12:15 in A238