The Training Team
Jason Charlesworth
Jason is an accomplished expert in the fields of computer science and financial mathematics. With a wealth of experience, Jason is the perfect guide for anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of how technology can be leveraged to achieve financial goals.
Jason has a PhD from Cambridge University and carried out postdoctoral research in London and Cornell. He has worked in computer gaming and computer security, run industrial research teams in speech recognition, natural language programming and machine learning as well as been involved in financial services start-ups. He has over 20 years’ experience in front-office computational financial mathematics working in many of the worlds largest banks where he has run quant and quant dev teams in a wide range of assets.
Jason is also a passionate educator and trainer and has taught extensively at many universities, been an invited speaker in international conferences and given Master’s university courses in computing. Within top-tier banks, Jason has created training schemes as well given a wide range of in-depth training and study courses for new joiners and interns through to seasoned professionals. Jason's teaching style is engaging, informative, and always tailored to the needs of their students.
Whether you are looking to deepen your understanding of financial modelling, learn how to use Python to help analyse your financial data or fully understand your algorithms and hardware to get best performance in your calculations, Jason is the perfect guide. With their deep expertise, practical experience, and engaging teaching style, they are sure to help you achieve your goals and take your career to the next level.
Howard Price
Howard is a cloud consultant, software engineering specialist and training expert and founder of Cirrustra.
With a vast engineering knowledge base built up over 20+ years, Howard is passionate about improving the quality of corporate software engineering and assisting organisations to move their technology to embrace modern practices and platforms.
Howard brings the ultimate in technical breadth and depth with experience of leading and developing large 600+ person teams with £30M+ budgets, coupled with an extensive programming and technical background whilst using the full gamut of cloud technologies.
Howard is committed to a world built using quality engineering processes utilising secure and scalable frameworks - as evidenced throughout his time in building high performance computing utilising 200K+ daily compute hours or building secure landing zones in public clouds for large industrial workloads.
Howard views technology training as being a key part in lifting our engineering standards. From programming languages such as Python, C++ through cloud training, for deploying workloads into public cloud + following International Standards, such as ISO 27001, Howard is passionate about helping organisations achieve the next step in their technology development.