Ammar Chohan
MSc Finance and Investment
Capabilities
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Motivated self-starter with a desire to innovate.
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Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
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Ability to multitask, work in fast-paced, entrepreneurial setting.
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Desire to learn and enhance my knowledge.
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Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
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Strong sense of ownership
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Ability to work thoughtfully and collaboratively with a team.
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Great team player with an instinct to get the job done.
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Target oriented, open minded and flexible.
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Good written and verbal communication
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Punctual and well organized.
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Proactive, positive approach to work.
Education
University of Greenwich, England: MSc
Evaluating and analyzing companies' financial statements and devising optimal investment strategy are along some best knowledge I am currently acquiring at the heart of financial hub. Having a practical experience of over 4 years in equity market, I have an edge to relate theory with practice. Investment Management, Principles of Finance and Econometrics are among my best courses. My dissertation is related to finding arbitrage in equity market using put-call parity. Further, I am working towards earning CFA and plan to sit for exams in 2019.
University of Toronto, Canada: HBSc
Studying computer science. Working on projects in a team or alone has been my strongest skill. I love to learn by doing and projects provided me exactly that. I perform well in exams but projects are where I do not compromise - I give my best!
Braintree Sixth Form, England: A-Levels
Studied 3 subjects: Mathematics, Physics and Information Communication Technology. ICT being most relevant subject for my university education and in which I have been strong in ever since high school, I achieved best grade of B. In my two years of study at BFS, I submitted excellent projects in ICT together with performing well in Mathematics and Physics.
Birchwood High School, England: GCSEs
At BHS, in my GCSEs (grade 10 and 11), I studied 8 subjects and most relevant again to computer science being ICT. After completion of successful two years, submitting excellent projects and performing well in exams, I achieved best grade of A+ in ICT, A in statistics and B in Applied science.
Skills
Bloomberg Certification
Thomas Reuters DataStream
Advance MS Office
Equity Trader
Computing
Java
C/C++
HTML/CSS/AJAX
JSON/XML/REST
Javascript/jQuery
MySQL/PostgreSQL
PHP
Linux
Windows
Cloud computing
Virtualization/VNC
Hardware configuration
Eclipse
GitHub/Subversion
Tortoise
Oracle MySQL Workbench
Cygwin/Putty/MTPutty
Amazon EC2
Google APIs