Moog Clyde
moogclyde@hotmail.com · linkedin.com/in/moogclyde · moogclyde.com
About Moog Clyde
I’m a Deployment Strategist at a US tech firm, with an interest in building things and AI safety.
Previously,
- I was a Finance Analyst at American Express, after an internship there that ended in a full-time return offer.
- I co-founded MRCM Analysts, a data consultancy for SMEs, hedge funds, listed property companies and sports start-ups.
- I graduated from Durham University with a First Class BSc in Physics; my dissertation simulated path integrals with Monte Carlo methods.
- I took A* A* A* A at A-level at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and won the FTRP Research Project Award for a project on how 17th-century gambling shaped today’s insurance markets.
- I was musical director of my college big band and organ scholar at St Oswald’s Church, Durham.
The quickest way to reach me is by email at moogclyde@hotmail.com, or on LinkedIn.
01Experience
American Express
I automated our processes, worked on expense identification and built applications used by the wider team.
I built a case study on the profitability of Amex Travel Services in Python and SQL, presented it to senior leaders, and left with a full-time return offer.
MRCM Analysts
Analysts on demand
I co-founded MRCM in my final year at Durham: a consultancy delivering data-driven insight to SMEs, hedge funds, listed property companies and start-up sports organisations.
I’ve led projects in Power BI, SQL and Python, analysing complex datasets, building dashboards and financial models, and turning them into strategic recommendations. Along the way we’ve employed other students and sold SaaS dashboards to start-ups in sport.
It’s where I learnt client management, problem-solving and how to build a pipeline.
02Education
Durham University
BSc Physics, First Class Honours
- Current path x(τ)
- Monte Carlo density
- Schrödinger ground state |ψ₀|²
Sweeps 0 · acceptance — · ⟨x²⟩ — vs exact 0.500
My computing project dissertation, graded First Class, simulated path integrals in Python, applying Monte Carlo methods and stochastic processes to real physics problems. The figure above is a live, in-browser version of the idea: a Metropolis sampler walking through quantum paths, with the density it finds converging on the answer from the Schrödinger equation. Switch to the double well to watch paths tunnel between the two minima.
I also earned a First in a group project with Carroll & Meynell, a local transformer firm.
Royal Grammar School
A-levels, GCSEs and a research prize
- A*Further Mathematics
- A*Mathematics
- A*Physics
- APhilosophy
Plus ten grade 9s at GCSE, including Advanced Maths, Maths and English.
“How Gambling in the 17th Century has shaped insurance markets in the 21st century”
I was elected to the Senior Scholarship Council, where I organised essay competitions, launched school-wide scholarship initiatives and hosted the RGS Scholarship Conference 2022.
03Interests
Music
Saxophonist and pianist. I’ve been musical director of a college big band, and organ scholar at St Oswald’s Church, Durham.
Sax · piano · organ
Sport
Captain of my college tennis club, a member of the football club, a padel player and a keen cyclist. I’ve climbed Mont Ventoux.
Mont Ventoux · 1,909 m
Building things
Python, SQL and the Microsoft Power Platform, personal AI projects, and an interest in AI safety.
- Python
- NumPy
- pandas
- scikit-learn
- SQL
- Power BI
- Power Query
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
Volunteering
Two years volunteering every week with Oxfam and Sunrise Senior Living.
Let’s talk.
Finance, data, physics or music: say hello. Email is the quickest way to reach me.