Bernard Kuc

Current

• Manager at Barclays Capital

Past

• Software Engineer at Application Networks
• Senior Software Engineer at Flextronics
• Software Engineer at Eagle Technology

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Education

• University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
• University of Cape Town
• University of Cape Town

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Connections

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Industry

Investment Banking

Bernard Kuc’s Summary

Working in the Equity Derivatives team in the Quantitative Analytics Group with responsibility for the provision of pricing and risk analytics for Equity Derivative exotics. Specialising in Monte Carlo pricing of derivatives with multiple underlying assets and the development of accurate, efficient and stable risk metrics.

Cultivating a keen interest in finance I registered for the Chartered Financial Analyst program in 2002 and passed my final CFA exam in 2005, receiving my charter in 2007.

Bernard Kuc’s Specialties:

Multi-asset Monte Carlo
Risk analytics

Bernard Kuc’s Experience

• Manager

  Barclays Capital

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BARC.L; Investment Banking industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Working in the Equity Derivatives team of the Quantitative Analytics group

• Software Engineer

  Application Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — April 2005 (11 months)

  Performance optimisation for Investment Bank clients.
  Pricing and risk validation and testing.
  Client migration.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Flextronics

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FLEX; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — April 2004 (4 years 4 months)

  Protocol development. SCTP, ADSL, Ethernet, Sigtran.
  Product architecture and design. Team leadership.
  Took part in 1st SCTP international interoperability tests in Munich.
  Took part in 1st M3UA international interoperability tests in Madrid.
  Worked on site with clients and partners in Santa Monica and Brussels.

• Software Engineer

  Eagle Technology

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  WinNT Device Driver development for PCI data acquisition cards.

Bernard Kuc’s Education

• University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

  BCom , Economics , 2002 — 2008

  Economics and Finance. Correspondence.

• University of Cape Town

  MSc , Electrical Engineering , 1998 — 1999

  Top of class in every course taken

• University of Cape Town

  BSc , Electrical Engineering , 1994 — 1997

  First Class Honours

  Activities and Societies:

  Students Representative Council, Students Engineering Council