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London, England Metropolitan Area

A financial consultancy, staffed by seasoned market professionals, undertaking bespoke projects for financial institutions worldwide in the areas of trading business performance, risk management, regulation and financial fraud. • Analysis of trading data to understand patterns of behavior in the equity markets around dividend tax arbitrage strategies (the so called “Cum-Ex” trades).

United Kingdom

Working in the warehouse to put together weekly food packages, provided for families in the local community.

Cooking and hosting free meals for the underprivileged in the local community.

London, United Kingdom

Currently England’s most successful Rugby Union club, with 3 domestic Gallagher Premiership wins and 3 European Champions Cup titles during my time at the club. A dynamic, team-oriented, elite sport environment where innovation and collaboration combine to maximize performance on the pitch. As Data Consultant, my role, working closely with coaches and video analysts, has been the development of a data strategy that can extract valuable insights from the range of data available across the institution. • Development of infrastructure for the collection of data from a range of sources, across teams, players and referees, covering all elite club competitions in global Rugby Union.• Development of KPI’s and methodologies for the benchmarking of ongoing team performance, and improvement in infrastructure to allow efficient weekly post-match reporting of an extensive suite of performance metrics. • Statistical analysis of Opposition playing patterns to identify playing styles and strengths/weaknesses in preparation for upcoming fixtures. Liaison with coaches to compare to short term “form” they observe via video analysis of recent matches.• From the database of Global Elite Rugby Player data developed, working with the Head of Scouting to evaluate the performance of transfer targets among their peers and their potential fit against the role profile required by the coaching team.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

An Online Mental Health service provider, Healios works in the provision of Mental Health Assessment and Treatment and Neurodevelopmental Care across a range of NHS Trusts.• Working for the Chief Clinical Officer, and in collaboration with the Business Managers and Data Analyst teams, analysis of the dynamics of each of the business lines to identify how to best represent the future flows of supply and demand, in order to improve business planning and performance. • Development of summary dashboards of KPI’s that seek to scope the performance of business lines and identify appropriate business issues and risks.

London, United Kingdom

One of the few (and earliest) universities to offer a focus on the emerging field of Sports Performance Analysis within its Department of Sports Science. • Provision of lecturing to the Master’s Degree program in Sports Performance Analysis, in the form of a half day workshop: “The application of Quantitative Analytics in Sports Performance Analysis”.• Along with the Departmental Professor, supervision of a PhD Student engaging in research focusing on tactical playing patterns in Elite Football.

London, United Kingdom

A premier UK music agency, now fully merged into the global Paradigm Talent Agency, covering all aspects of artist representation and talent management across a diverse roster of clients across musical genres and territories. • Analysis of available event ticket sales data to determine the viability of prediction of final event ticket sales, based on patterns of sales in the short term, in order to allow improved consideration of venue upscaling and future cost/staff allocations. • Application of a range of Machine Learning techniques across a database of 13,000+ events to extract exhibited patterns in sales behavior and determine predictive capability.

London, United Kingdom

An integrated Mental Health Care Company, owned by US health provider the Centene Corporation, Beacon works in partnership with the NHS to improve the efficiency and quality of care in child mental health through improved delivery channels and analysis of performance data.• Working for the Managing Director, and in collaboration with the Program Managers and Business Intelligence teams, development of a data strategy, through the definition of pertinent metrics and dashboards, to appropriately evaluate business performance and identify impending risks. • Working with the business teams to improve the understanding of provided data metrics, in order to better understand the dynamics of their business and the use of data to motivate appropriate interventions.

London, United Kingdom

An independent Record Label working to promote a roster of artists from the UK and licensed from overseas. With the cultural shift away from physical formats (Vinyl/CD) and towards digital and streaming formats, their accounting and business strategy has evolved to have an increased dependence on the sales data they receive from distributors. • Working with the label owner and his accountants to analyze the monthly data received to both harmonize across sources and extract the information most pertinent to questions arising across the business. • Development of code for extraction and storage of data in MS Power BI, where reports were designed to allow robust interrogation of sales patterns (across artists, formats, countries…etc.) and comparative value of revenue streams through time.

Derby, United Kingdom

Derby County are an elite Football club currently operating at the top end of the EFL Championship. With a rich history of success in the game the present Owner has been ambitious to develop the playing squad and infrastructure to return the club back to the top level of English Football.• Working with the Chief Scout, First Team Manager and CEO to determine the nature of future requirements for the senior squad across playing positions.• Using available OPTA data across 13 European leagues and over 6000 players, derivation of processes to collect, store and manipulate provided information into metrics appropriate to the consideration of candidates in the scouting process.• Development of methodologies for the analysis of players by position in order to target candidates for further analysis and improve the efficiency of the scouting process. • Presentation of methods and results to the scouting team to drive wider understanding of the complimentary application of data analysis in the scouting process.

London, United Kingdom

A Scottish Retail and Investment Bank, which grew, through the takeover of NatWest Bank in the late 1990’s, into one of the largest global Investment Banks by balance sheet prior to the global financial crisis. After acquiring ABN AMRO at the point around which the markets began to crumble, they were taken into government ownership in late 2008.

London, United Kingdom

A move to the Non-Core Division, saw me tasked with the challenge of transferring best practice in terms of Derivative Trading & Risk Management from the Core Investment Bank into the newly created disposal arm. • Initiation and integration of the Counterparty Exposure Management function into the new RCR (Non-Core Asset) division.• Hiring of appropriate sales, trading and structuring staff to support the activities of the “bad bank”, in tandem with developing links with the Core bank.• Development of an improved depth of understanding of derivative products amongst all appropriate teams within RCR, via presentation, coaching and studies of pertinent live deals.

London, United Kingdom

After the disposal of the Exotic Credit portfolio, a post-crisis requirement to consider the impact of potential default of your trading partners and the funding and capital impacts of large directional exposures drove a move to head up the methodology arm of the team focused on the improved quantification of these risks. • Development of strategy for Senior Management post crisis, across a number of themes relating to the mitigation of risk, disposal of assets and development of new methodology and infrastructure required by increased regulation.• Management of a team of 5 structurers, liaising across the bank’s sales and trading personnel to identify opportunities to better optimize the banks derivative portfolios in terms of risk and capital.• Development of derivative valuation adjustments (CVA & FVA) as newly tradeable asset classes with appropriate risk management strategies.

London, United Kingdom

As Head of the Exotic Credit Derivative product offering, my responsibility covered the day-to-day management of the trading and structuring teams as well as pushing product development and deriving strategy. Additional responsibility involved driving the performance of associated support functions including Risk, Finance, Legal, IT & Quant teams.• Oversaw the various stages of development of the Exotic Credit Derivative trading business including front to back infrastructure, finance, risk, IT, legal and quantitative analysis.• Management of a team of 23 trading/structuring professionals working with global sales to market a full suite of exotic credit derivative products to global Financial Institutions and Corporates.• Extensive experience of producing presentations and strategy for senior management around a range of themes, distilling complex technical information into the issues pertinent to higher level consideration.• Generation of annual budgeted revenues of £11-30m, prior to the movement of the business to Non-Core Markets in late 2008.• Post-crisis and government acquisition, managing down and/or sale of existing risks (along with those of a large portfolio inherited from ABN AMRO through the merger), concluding with a final sale of EUR 800bn of credit derivative assets, the largest ever trade of its kind.

London, United Kingdom

Moving onto the Trading desk, my focus fell upon the structuring, marketing, trading and risk management of a range of Credit Derivative products.• Development of a suite of innovative credit derivative products to satisfy the risk requirements of RBS’ global client base.• Hedging of exposures inherent in client trades in the market along with ongoing monitoring and risk management. • Liaison with appropriate teams in the development of appropriate legal documentation and rating agency analyses, as well as supporting quantitative models, operational processes and risk management frameworks.

London, United Kingdom

Entering RBS just prior to the merger with NatWest, I rose to lead the team overseeing the pricing and risk management of all products across Capital Markets.• Management of a team of 4 quantitative analysts, developing mathematical models and market risk frameworks to allow the trading and monitoring of all products across Capital Markets.• Working closely with trading teams on new product development, in addition to the integration of the business lines of RBS & NatWest respectively post-merger.

Henley-On-Thames

An environmental science consultancy focused on qualitative and quantitative research applied to the field of radioactive waste management, as well as diversification into financial and retail EPOS sectors. • Marketing of QuantiSci’s expertise to a variety of corporate and governmental entities, in the pitching and technical specification of large consultancy projects. • Development and implementation of a wide range of innovative mathematical techniques to drive decision making around the disposal of radioactive waste, targeted marketing in the retail sector and trading strategy in currency markets.

Cheadle Heath, Cheshire.

A large Electrical Engineering firm providing integrated defence system solutions to both the Ministry of Defence as well as overseas governments.• Formulation and implementation of mathematical models, focusing on problems in the design of Sonar Systems for submarines. • Voluntary redundancy taken in order to pursue postgraduate research.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Applied Mathematics

Master’S Degree, Msc Sports Performance Analysis, Distinction

Dean's Academic Excellence Scholarship 2014-15 Thesis: "The identification of key performance indicators for player profiling in elite.

Postgraduate Research In Fluid Mechanics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics, Ii(I)