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About bionicturtle.com
Bionicturtle.com is owned by Bionic Turtle, LLC. The first version of the website launched in 2004 as we offered our first elearning tutorial. We launched our flagship product in 2005: the market's leading multimedia exam aid for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification exam. Since launch, in each year we have doubled our customer base.Our goal is to support good instruction and attentive customer service with new technologies in order to deliver rapid elearning at affordable prices. Our mission is to provide an affordable resource for anybody, anywhere to add career-related skills so they can secure a better job. And hopefully, to have fun and enjoy learning along the way.
About David Harper, CFA, FRM, CIPM
Prior to launching bionicturtle.com, David was a consultant to executives and Boards. He advised primarily to technology and financial firm on transactions (IPSO, M&A), incentives and performance improvement (economic value added). Over ten years, his clients ranged from dozens of Fortune 1000 companies (e.g., Levi's, P&G, Edison), financial services firms (e.g., American Century, Barclays Global Investors, Zions Bancorp), investment funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, and REITs. He has also occasionally served as an expert witness. In September of 2006, he assisted Lipis Consulting in an expert support role. His valuation model helped the plaintiff win a $30+ million judgment in a high-profile case.
For several years, he was a regular contributor to investopedia and launched, along with Investopedia's co-founders, their first investment newsletter; he developed the portfolios and investment process that returned +35% annualized returns (from inception to acquisition). He authored the popular series Advanced Financial Statement Analysis that has been used in several college curricula.
To realize the BT vision, David also spent over a thousand hours training to learn the technologies so that he could build the first two versions of bionicturtle, before hiring professionals to build the most recent site. After learning to build rich media assets, he realized his goal by conducting several seminars on object-oriented techniques (OOP) in the elearning field; e.g., he co-authored along with Alex Barabanov bionicturtle's Flex/Flash dynamic quiz application that dynamically retrieves two-tier XML data (both the map and the questions can be modified independent of the application) from Excel source, making the quizzes both flexible but more accurate since they are error-checked in the spreadsheet.
David lives near Los Angeles and his education includes:
- Charted Financial Analyst (CFA 2003, Charter #65864; meeting annual PD criteria every year since)
- Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
- Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM Jan 2008, #000198)
- BA, Economics, UC Berkeley, 1989
About Suzanne
Suzanne Evans joined the Bionic Turtle team in May 2009. She resides in Virginia with her husband, Tim and two children, Makenzie & Timothy. She began her career after graduating from Stephen Decatur High School working at the following establishments: North Atlantic Marine Group (sales), Atlantic Soap & Solution (administration), Mountaire Farms (accounting) and Frank & Company (accounting). While working at those establishments, she developed an interest in Customer Support and Administration.
Suzanne was hired to handle Customer Support, Administrative and Accounting assignments with Bionic Turtle. She spends the majority of her time working closely with customers to provide satisfactory customer service. Suzanne is passionate about creating change in the workplace. She believes everyone can, and should be provided excellent customer service.
Suzanne is laid back, easy to get along with, family oriented, and enjoys spending time with her husband and children. Her husband is active duty Air Force and with constant relocation, this is the perfect opportunity for her to work virtually. Aside from her family, she has two Belgian Malinois. Suzanne says, “ Dogs are wonderful therapy, and keep life interesting.” She enjoys country music, news and non-fictional movies. She is attending school in the process of receiving her Business Administration degree!
