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Financial Risk Specialist

Financial Risk Specialist
SAS Institute, Cary, NC
Cornell University, PhD

Recent Posts

SAS as #2 and the virtuous cycle of being at the top

SAS is #2 on FORTUNE's Best Places to Work List Perusing the top ten names in the lists of 100 Best Companies To Work For, ... Read More

Systemic fragility. You won't see the risk until it's too late.

When the word ‘fragile’ comes to mind, the average person may think about things like glass vases, artwork, flowers, or maybe even emotions. But fragility ... Read More

Risk & fragility: Cloud redux

Just in case you missed my earlier post about cloud fragility, we have this from the New York Times on October 22, 2012: Amazon’s ... Read More

Risk & fragility: Subjective, risk is

I asked a Nuclear Engineering Professor friend of mine, after the Fukushima power plant disaster of March 2011, whether that incident would have a positive ... Read More

Solar SAS and system fragility

Among the volumes of information about SAS we were showered with during our new SAS employee orientation, two seemingly insignificant tidbits stuck in my mind. ... Read More

Risk & Fragility: Do you know where your bytes are tonight?

Goha, an Egyptian male folk character, has been often used to convey wise nuggets in the fashion of Aesop's Fables, with a satirical twist. So ... Read More

Risk & Fragility: What's in your wallet?

Money. The enabler of all economic activity. The root of all evil. Whatever soubriquet you attribute to it, its nature and substance are becoming the ... Read More