
Work Experience
Kyckr Ltd
01/12/19
- 03/09/20
Define Data Strategy for Data extraction from world-wide public company registries to support banking customer validation and verification. Support engineering team in data structures and data augmentation/transformation from data and documents extracted via APIsResearch areas where value could be added to data products and documents, including NLP (entity extraction), text translation. Build models for customer segmentation and customer churnDeveloped a Data Warehouse for internal reporting needs using Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL PaaS, SQL ServerFulfilling reporting needs through PowerBI
Zurich Insurance
01/05/19
- 01/11/19
Data Scientist (Contract)Development of a Data platform, using R, for model building using public and commercial data sources (50+). Analysis of the data to understand value to the insurance business; design a cloud based (MS Azure) PostgreSQL database to hold the data; data is varied with geographic and textual/numeric content; create R scripts to cleanse and import that data; deliver solution as an automated set of tools for ongoing data updates. Working with stakeholders to create early R queries and predictive models which show the value of the data
01/01/18
- 01/03/19
Data Visualisation LeadCreate visualisations and data insights from Sales Force Data to support NCS organizational objectives.Projects includeDocument a Business Terms/KPI' dictionary to ensure consistent understanding of business terms and associated caveats and rules across the organization3. Migrate the Dashboards to new sources of data with different KPIs4. Work with business units to understand processes and KPIs, mocking up KPI/Dashboard designs5.Support the underlying infrastructure; Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Database; CopyStorm for dataSynchronisation with SalesForce as well administration of Tableau Online Server and desktop instances6. Create predictive models for Customer attrition in R7. Migrate/Recreate visuals using SalesForce Einstein Analytics, including SAQL8. Stakeholder management to ensure successful design, delivery, support
01/10/16
- 01/11/17
Black Swan Data, ReadingConsulting in support of Black Swan's solutions aimed at Predictive Marketing, this included projects at delivering marketing dashboards, predictive models as well as architectural input to Product Development. Projects included
IntelliSift Ltd
01/04/13
- 01/09/16
ReadingData ScientistAn advisory role to a startup. Apply management, operations, social media analytics, predictive analytics expertise for a start-up in designing a set of solutions delivering social media analytics across 20+ channels in a single dashboard and offering unique data, including identifying sentiment, gender, and top words/keywords used to provide contextStrategy and Architecture for a Social Media Dashboard, delivered on time and budget for the first customer* Python development to extract and classify web text
Portal
01/01/06
- 01/01/13
Owned predictive analytics space, selling and delivering POCs and improving knowledge of customers' industries, including education, retail, social care, and recruitment. Enhance knowledge of SPSS product set and R, including surveys, data, and text analytics. Collaborated with marketing team to extract data from the CRM system in support of marketing campaigns. Collaborated with customers to capture customer journey in human-centric workflow and web applications prior to using these to define requirements and cost of the project
Altis Consulting
01/01/96
- 01/01/06
Analysed social media data to measure student/applicant sentiment. * Developed solutions for analysis of social media data, including Twitter and Facebook to monitor customer sentiment and customer services responsiveness. * Consulted for a retailer on shopping basket analysis on increasing average total value of shopping basket * Reviewed IBM's Big Data solutions, become familiar with IBM BigInsight, (Hadoop Stack) use with public data sets with some exposure to R. Gained technical certificationBuilt an analytics consulting team with skills in SQL, SPSS, R, Cognos * Part of the team which grew Portal, becoming listed in the Times Tech Track 100 in 2012 * Annual Revenues grew from ÂŁ12m to ÂŁ20mSolution ArchitectCo-founded consulting company to focus on messaging and collaboration solutions, expanding to include managed services and product development. Responsible for daily business functions, including HR, sales, and marketing. Led responses toITT/RFPs for support desks, including negotiations with enterprise and small businessesLed a team in developing an email migration tool resold by IBM worldwide, supporting subsequent email migration projects and managing development of migration product* Grew ALTIS, from start-up to a -ÂŁ2.5m/yr business
More Work Experience
Less Work Experience

Education and Training
Post Graduate Diploma (Coputing)
Master degree
London Metropolitan University
1 year full time Diploma in Computer Science
B.Sc.(Hons) Biological Chemistry
Bachelor degree
University of Essex
3 year Hons degree with Joint Maths/Chem/Biochemistry in first year.
More Education and Training
Less Education and Training