Curriculum Vitae
for
Adam Hartley
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Adam Clayton
Hartley 17/12/1963 Oxford, ENGLAND British Married +44-(0)1865 516855 |
Education & Qualifications
| Feb 02 | Awarded Membership of Hypnotherapy Association |
| Feb 02 | Accepted to UK Hypnotherapy Register |
| Jan 01-Feb 02 | Lifeforce Hypnotherapy Diploma |
| Mar 02 | Lifeforce Self-Hypnosis Teacher Training |
| Dec 99 | Lifeforce Self-hypnosis course |
| Sep 95 | Diploma in Technical Analysis, The Society of Technical Analysts |
| Oct 85-Apr 89 | D. Phil, Oxford, Theoretical atomic physics: 'Parity Non-conservation in Atoms' |
| Oct 82-Jun 85 | Balliol College, Oxford B.A. Hons. Physics, II.I |
| Sep 75-Jul 82 | Glyn Grammar School,
Ewell, A levels: physics A1, chemistry A, maths A, further maths A1 Awarded Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford |
Academic Positions Held
| Oct 91-Oct 93 | St. Cross College, Oxford: Junior Research Fellowship |
| Mar 91-Dec 91 | Clarendon Lab., Oxford University: post-doctoral research position |
| Oct 90-Sep 91 | Somerville College, Oxford: physics lectureship |
| Apr 89-Mar 91 | Clarendon Lab., Oxford University: S.E.R.C. post-doctoral fellowship |
Positions of Responsibility etc.
President of the Balliol Middle Common Room,
President of the Balliol Physics Society,
Captain of the Balliol bridge and sailing teams
Work Experience
SnapDragon Systems Ltd. (January
‘94 to present)
I am the sole director of this company through which I offer my
services as a financial software consultant, combining my
computing experience with my knowledge of the financial markets.
The work can be broadly divided into the following categories:
SnapDragon Real-Time Technical
Analysis Software (Jan ‘96 to present)
This involved the single-handed development of a complete Windows
financial technical analysis package, capable of working with
most real time data feeds. The Windows package, written in C++,
offers a complete range of technical analysis and general
plotting functions and has a variable number of user-adjustable
plotting windows so that the display can easily be customised.
The whole system is 'object-oriented' in design so that the user
manipulates data objects and can derive new technical analysis
objects from other objects. The software was ranked as the number
one UK real-time package in the Investor’s Chronicle. I
market and sell the software myself. Earlier versions were
developed to run under DOS, together with a TSR written in x86
assembler for collecting the data and under Unix with an X/Xview
GUI.
Trade Station Programming (Sep
95 to present)
Omega Research’s Trade Station software offers a platform
for programming with market data using its in-built compiler. As
a registered Omega Research consultant I do a wide variety of
work for private and institutional clients. The work covers
everything from trading strategies and indicators through to
writing DLL’s for fitting polynomials to financial data.
Trading Research (Jan 94 to
present)
This involves developing and testing different trading strategies
for clients. This has included using a variety of different
approaches including genetic alogrythms. neural networks, fuzzy
logic etc. There is currently over $500 million being traded
using systems that I researched.
Mindscape Hypnotherapy (Feb
2000 to present)
I have been working as a fully qualified and insured
hypnotherapist. I work with traders so that they can attain a
better trading psychology and I also work with non-trading issues.
Oxford Financial Software Ltd.
(January ‘95 to March 2001)
I was a co-director of this company which was set up to
develop and market a theoretical exotic option pricing software
package called Exotica. This is a stand alone application that
has been developed for Windows, using Borland C++. The software
performs calculations of a variety of exotic options by direct
solution of the underlying partial differential equations. I was
mainly responsible for the Windows GUI side of the project.
Monis Software Ltd. (April 95
to Jan 2000)
Done on a part-time consultancy basis this has involved a
wide variety of work on the Monis derivatives pricing software.
It has included general development work on the exotic options
pricing software, included writing calculational DLLs to be
called from within Excel, porting software from Turbo Pascal to C
and porting packages from PCs to Applix under Unix. Recent work
has included a generalised Monte Carlo exotic option pricing
model which has a user- programmable payoff function.
Oscar Ltd & Oxford
Framestore Applications (Part Time: Sep 92 to Apr 95)
Working on a part time basis, this initially involved writing
from scratch a neural network program, in Borland C++, for the PC.
This was originally developed as part of a DTI funded project to
analyse laser beam profiles. The network was taught to recognise
when the beams had become distorted or shifted off their central
position. There has also been some work re-writing some time-critical
routines in assembler.
European Bank for
Reconstruction & Development (Full Time: Feb. 94 to Mar 94)
Done on a consultancy basis, this involved producing a
feasibility study for the development of a financial trading
strategy using neural networks. Using a neural network program
that I wrote and developed myself, the work was concerned with
trying to spot buying and selling opportunities in the bond
futures markets from previous price action.
Oxford Cryosystems (Full Time:
Jan 92-Jan 94)
This work involved the development, in C, of crystallography
software for Sun workstations running under Unix with X/Xview
GUI's. Among the many projects there has been a file management
system similar to the Sun Openwindow's file manager but
exclusively for manipulating crystallography data files. There
was also development of a search-match program for matching
crystallography powder diffraction patterns to a database of
known patterns and a multi-functional graphing program for
viewing and manipulating data.
Academic Research (Full Time:
Oct 85-Dec 91)
As a graduate student most of my thesis work involved
programming (mainly in FORTRAN), numerical solutions to complex
coupled differential equations. This was done mainly on VAX
machines (operating under VMS). My post-doctoral research
involved similar calculations, done on Sun and Dec workstations
under Unix/Ultrix. Some work was also done on the CRAY at the
Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory.
Summary of Computing Experience
| Languages: | C , C++ , Trade Station
Easy Language, VBA, Also: FORTRAN, x86 assembler, BASIC, Pascal, Applix ELF Macro language, |
| Operating Environments etc.: | Windows, Unix , DOS, VMS |
| Comms. Experience: | Real time data feed handling, RS232 data capture, |
Summary of Financial Experience
I have been interested in
the financial markets for fifteen years now and have experience
in the following: