Thesis and Dissertation Advisors -
Finance

JOHN BUCCI
Statistics - Mathematics - Economics - Finance - Business

John Bucci focused his Master’s studies in quantitative finance, specifically option pricing theory and econometrics. He worked the past five years in the United States fixed income market as a portfolio manager and research analyst, during which time he applied the principles of mathematics and statistics to potential investment opportunities, the pricing of bonds with embedded options and macroeconomics such as monetary policy.

Mr. Bucci currently is a part-time lecturer in mathematics and introductory statistics, and he hopes to continue to share his experiences and qualifications both in the classroom and in his consulting services. In general, Mr. Bucci can assist clients in all phases of their dissertation and/or data analysis projects, particularly in the understanding of basic probability and statistics concepts including:

• measures of central tendency and variation;
• counting rules and probability distributions;
• the Central Limit Theorem;
• confidence intervals, simple hypothesis testing and ANOVA;
• correlation and regression analysis.

For those clients specializing in mathematical finance, he can further assist in:

• Econometrics
• Times Series Analysis
• Modern Portfolio Theory
• Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Theory (stocks and bonds)
• Interest Rate Modeling

Mr. Bucci enjoys working with all types of datasets and the various forms they come in. He is highly proficient with scripting and data analysis in R and Microsoft Excel, and he also has experience working with: STATA, SAS, Matlab and Minitab.

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NANCY ROSENBAUM
APA Format - Chicago Format

Nancy Rosenbaum has proofread, formatted, edited, and/or reworked undergraduate papers, theses, dissertation proposals, final dissertations, and textbooks on topics ranging from business administration, computer science, diet, education and learning, finance, history, information technology, industrial technology, marketing, medicine and health care, religion, philosophy, politics and social science, and psychology, to name a few. Nancy is proud to have supported the needs of students and professionals from institutions that include Argosy University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Capella University, Clemson University, Columbia University Teachers College, Cornell University, Duke University, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), Johns Hopkins University (Sinai Hospital), London School of Economics (England), National Chiagi University (Taiwan), National University, North Central University, Ohio Northern University, Purdue University, St. Thomas University of Law, Stanford University, University of British Columbia (Canada), University of California-Berkeley, University of Pittsburgh, Walden University, and Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Writing and Editing: Technical, Medical, Business, Finance. APA format. Chicago Manual of Style.

"Nancy went above and beyond heavy editing, putting my 70 page, 15,000 word Capstone in APA compliance.  Her ability to understand the material and translate into higher level English is very impressive.  The feedback from my professor was ‘exceptional work’ and he turned it back to me with no corrections.  Her work was PERFECT.  I can’t thank her and the editing network enough.  Well done!" - Brian Bowman, Embry-RiddleAeronautical, Deputy Group Commander, USAF