Patrick OLeary

Travelled throughout Asia: > Climbed Mt. Fuji 3700m in Japan. > Lived like a monk in complete silence for 10 days practicing Vipassana style meditation in India. > Trekked for 14 days covering 150 km in distance through the Annapurna Mountain - Nepal. > Abseiled through waterfalls and did some light spelunking in Vietnam. > Completed a 4 week - 150 hour intensive Yoga & Metaphysics course in an ashram in India. > Volunteered by teaching English to Tibetan refugees in India.

My clients were Hedge Funds, Alternative Investors, Long-only Asset Managers, etc. I project-managed the implementation, designed workflows, gathered requirements, trained users with regard to Portfolio & Risk management tools, Trading, Compliance and P&L whilst growing the account through new users and selling add-on services.

During my time with Tradebook I learned brokerages sales with regard to FX, Listed Derivatives, and Equity direct market access trading. Following the sales process - from cold-calling to on-boarding to trading - I consulted my clients on how to use Tradebook's platform to obtain better execution through using our customized ALGOs. My clients were based in Switzerland, Ireland, France, Netherlands and were mainly hedge funds, asset managers and prop-desks in banks.

Learned in depth about the Financial Markets in order to be front-line support on the Helpdesk answering queries, finding dynamic solutions and providing on-going training in both English and French to clients globally via Instant Chat and Telephone.

Working within the Corporate Banking arm of Barclays PLC., I was quickly identified as having the necessary know-how to manage demanding large, multinational companies as clients in order to perform high risk/potential loss activities such as: > Placing excess treasury funds above $1 Million overnight on the Money Markets for interest purposes; executing large international payments; tracing funds; setting up FX deals; and investigating urgent issues.

Taught Business and general English to professionals in Paris, France in both group & individual classes onsite in companies such as GE, UBS, Accenture, Coca-Cola, Areva, Societe Generale and Euronext. > Due to the quality of my prepared classes and ability to build and maintain relationships with the clients, contract renewal often occurred increasing the firm's total revenue.

Utilized quantitative & qualitative analysis of complex data across multiple disciplines whilst performing academic research on a higher level so to present/defend arguments clearly in oral and written form for submission of my M.A. Thesis.

Received a solid Liberal Arts education learning the value of critical thinking, problem solving, logic, abstract & lateral thought, and expressing one's self concisely and coherently.