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• Backend Development:
• Developing the backend system for a webapp from scratch using Django and Django Rest Framework
• Designing, developing, maintaining and querying a PostgreSQL database
• Integrating with external APIs such as PayPal, Postmark, and third-party survey exchanges
• Building a complex evaluation system to determine which surveys users are eligible to take based on their answers to profiler questions, and the strict quota criteria of the surveys
• Thoroughly unit… Show more Backend Development:

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Training Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classification models in Python using fast.ai (PyTorch)
• Performing transfer learning on pre-trained models to quickly develop high accuracy models
• Visualising high dimensional data sets using non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques such as tSNE with ggplot
• Developing random forest classifier models based on intermediate activations from a CNN
• Performing dimensionality reduction on high dimensional data using Principal… Show more
• Performing dimensionality reduction on high dimensional data using Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Developing, updating, and maintaining the Promotional Effectiveness Tool, and using this coupled with my own insight and expertise to give recommendations to all members of the sales team
• Modelling various hypothetical pricing scenarios to ascertain the financial impact on the company
• Extracting, cleaning, manipulating, and analysing pricing and volume data to drive performance insights
• Leading weekly team meetings to discuss sales performance within the retail team and assess… Show more
• Leading weekly team meetings to discuss sales performance within the retail team and assess any potential risks to the forecast
• Liaising with numerous stakeholders throughout the business, including providing data backed recommendations to executive level staff

St Petersburg, Florida, USA

• Analysing, extracting, interpreting, manipulating, and presenting financial data on daily basis
• Producing a mix of planned and reactive data sets for BI reporting
• Using multiple data sources including multidimensional OLAP databases (TM1)
• Authoring static and dynamic reports in Cognos analytics for senior management
• Creating dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics to track and analyse report usage and effectiveness
• Reviewing and optimising dashboards, reports, and data… Show more

The highly competitive Saltire Scholarship programme seeks to find the next generation of Scottish leaders, and receives over 1000 applications every year. After a rigorous interview process, I was able to secure an internship within the global headquarters of Jabil, a global manufacturing solutions company.

Msc., Data Analytics, Distinction

I was awarded the mathematics and statistics school award for best Masters dissertation for my project on the topic of expanding CNN.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics, 2:1

Education record