Education Achievements

NSW Higher School Certificate

NSW Department of Education and Training, Board of Studies

School	Randwich High (Centre Number 571)
Candidate No.	682872
Aggregate Mark	488/500
Ranking	NSW Top 1%

Subject	Units	Mark
English	2 General	87
Mathematics	3 Common	98
Mathematics	4 Additional	100
Physics	2	98
Chemistry	2	98
Industrial Arts (Engineering Sc.)	2	95

I was admitted as a candidate for the combined Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1984. However, I chose not to complete the Bachelor of Electrical Engineering component of the program.

During my first three years, I was awarded the E. Trenchard Miller Memorial Scholarship for outstanding academic performance in my chosen field of study.

My honours thesis was entitled Rubato: A Music Input and Performance System. It details the design and implementation of a music input language together with a music performance system that generates real time MIDI (Musical Instruments Digital Interface) messages. The music input language is a block structured, concurrent, algorithmic language allowing concise notation of music scores and the implementation utilises established compiler construction techniques to create an environment consisting of a compiler, assembler, linker and debugger. The music generated by the music performance system may be realised on any MIDI musical instrument.

I graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) with first class honours and I was awarded with the University Medal (award for the highest-ranking student in each class).

Year	Course	Result
1984	Combined B.Sc./B.E. (Elec.)
	Pure/Applied Mathematics 1H (Hons.)	Distinction
	Physics 1D (Distinction)	High Distinction
	Chemistry 1A (Advanced)	High Distinction
	Computer Science 1	High Distinction
	Electrical Circuit Theory	Distinction
1985	Combined B.Sc./B.E. (Elec.)
	Pure/Applied Mathematics 2A/D (Hons.)	Distinction
	Physics 2D (Distinction)	Distinction
	Computer Science 2	High Distinction
	Introductory Electrical Engineering	Distinction
	Digital Logic	Distinction
	Machine Drawing and Descriptive Geometry	Credit
1986	B.Sc. (Pure Maths/Comp. Sc.)
	Pure Mathematics 3 (Hons.)	Distinction
	Computer Science 3	High Distinction
1987	B.Sc. (Pure Maths/Comp. Sc.)
	Computer Science (Hons.)	First Class with University Medal

Securities Institute of Australia

I graduated in 1992 with a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and am currently an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia.

Semester	Course	Results
1990/2	The Securities Industry	Distinction
	Financial Statement Analysis	Credit
1991/1	Securities Industry Economics	Credit
	Foreign Exchange	High Distinction
1991/2	Money Market & Fixed Investments	Distinction
	Australian Futures Trading	Distinction
1992/1	Securities Industry Law	Credit
	Options Markets and Trading	Credit

Macquarie University

I graduated in 1994 with a Master of Applied Finance and won the Australian Institute of Banker's Prize for Management of Financial Institutions as well as "The Institute Prize" for outstanding academic performance in banking and finance studies at Macquarie University.

Semester	Course	Result
1992/1	Corporate Finance 1	A
	Financial Markets 1	A
1992/2	Corporate Finance 2	A
	Financial Markets 2	A
1993/1	Finance Law and Tax	A
	Swap Financing	A
	Applied Portfolio Management	A
1993/2	Treasury Risk Management	B
	Management of Financial Institutions	A
	Derivative Products and Markets	A

Awards and Scholarships

Certificate of Distinction, Australian Mathematics Competition (1983)
E. Trenchard Miller Memorial Scholarship, University of Sydney (1983-87)
University Medal, University of Sydney (1988)
University Postgraduate Research Award, University of Sydney (1988)
NSW Branch Employee of the Month Award, NCR (1992)
NSW Branch Employee of the Month Award, NCR (1993)
Australian Institute of Bankers Prize for Management of Financial Institutions, Macquarie University (1994)
Australian Institute of Bankers "The Institute Prize", Macquarie University (1994)

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