Work Experience at Southampton City Council, present
Principal Data Architect (present): Working with various service areas across the council to design and implement data solutions that allow for robust and efficient reporting.
Principal Data Analyst (Adult Social Care): Business partner to adult social care, managing a team of up to three to deliver data insight to the wider business. Responsibilities include building within the social care Data Mart, producing Power BI dashboards across the business, and advising on business process requirements for accurate data capture to power statutory returns.
Business Analyst: Working on a long-term Data Migration project to upgrade the Client Management System for the Social Care workstreams, focusing on Adult Social Care requirements. This involves working with many stakeholders, including consultants, data analysts, project managers, developers and more.
Education at University of Liverpool, 2024
Studying for a Masters in Computer Science covering various topics such as Software Development in Practice, Machine Learning and Emerging Trends. All modules strongly emphasise examining the social, ethical and legal implications of developing various technologies.
I recently completed my dissertation research into electronic voting, which involves exploring solutions to the problem in the UK by producing software, running simulations and researching the ethical impacts. I surveyed for the project and developed an electronic voting tool using Python, CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
The degree has included peer-to-peer discussion work and individual and group projects. From essays to software to video projects.
Achieved distinction grade in May 2024.
Work Experience at Tando, 2021
While working for Tando, I started as a Data Analyst and Project Manager and soon took on the extra role of Head of Tech and lead for the 5-person tech team.
My role as Data Analyst was primarily building and managing business-wide reporting for stakeholders to create visibility across channels (SQL, Power Query and Power BI).
My Project Manager role involved writing up technical specifications for projects, translating to business requirements required by the business, and working directly with developers to execute them, often with swift turnarounds, working across several time zones.
The Head of Tech role included running the daily stand-ups, ticket organisation and delegation for developers, and working Agilely using Azure DevOps.
Work Experience at ClearLoans, 2020
ClearLoans was my first Data Analyst role and involved building the reporting for the whole business in Power BI, alongside using SQL in Microsoft Azure Data Factory. Reporting consisted of various areas such as payout and collections information.
Whilst at ClearLoans, took on many analysis projects such as creating an income analysis algorithm for accurately capturing an applicant's income, a bank statement transaction classification model using machine learning and a credit risk-weighted scorecard to identify customers likely to default on their loans.
All projects involved close collaboration with developers to implement models into production and thinking outside the box with limited resources.
Work Experience at Onefeed, 2018
My first role after graduation was as an Account Manager for over ten clients, devising marketing strategies for the Pay-Per-Click Google Shopping and Bing Shopping campaigns and monitoring product feeds for errors and data quality. The role involved regular performance analysis, including using Google Analytics and working directly with clients to understand their products.
Whilst working at Onefeed completed various exams, including Adwords Fundamentals, Shopping and Search exams and Bing Shopping. Here, I developed my Excel skills and began to foster an interest in SQL when working with the developers. I also took on the additional role of admin assistant, producing employee documents and training guides to assist with onboarding.
Education at Royal Holloway, 2017
At Royal Holloway, I studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, studying various topics such as Statistics, Number Theory, Algorithm Design and Combinatorics. Overall, I built a strong knowledge base in Mathematics, as well as learning areas of application to real life and developing skills such as self-management and group collaboration
Whilst at university, was involved in many societies, including being Musical Director for on-site a cappella choir Absolute Harmony for two years and planning / presenting various radio shows throughout for Insanity Radio, winning Best Presenting Team in 2017 with breakfast show Cuppa Tea with Oph and Me.
