● Developed and led Data & AI consulting proposition for NCR Commerce Platform that generated over £1.0M in committed revenue within the first financial year.● Product ownership of Self-Checkout analytics to manage customer delivery, development roadmap and integration with next-gen NCR analytics product in GCP. Successfully migrated 6 customers to the new SCO Analytics platform.● Developed customer segmentations and corresponding insights for a 40-store retailer to support their next growth cycle.

Sabbatical break to cycle across Southern Europe.

Data science lead working with our clients to drive revenue growth and operational efficiency using data analytics and machine learning. Selected projects include:● Developing a store network decision framework for a UK retailer to drive their 5-year business plan, using UK-wide consumer segmentation, store catchment analytics and competition intelligence.● Improving customer acquisition and retention processes using machine learning for a B2B wholesaler, resulting in £8.5 million EBITDA uplift.● Automating 80% of product demand forecasts for a European semiconductor manufacturer using ensemble of time series forecasting algorithms.● Assisting a major UK retail bank to reduce their PPI claim management workload by applying predictive analytics to their processing pipeline, contributing to savings of £300m.● Identifying initiatives leading to 4% revenue growth using large-scale trip data insight for an international taxi service provider.● Supporting the merge of different UK retailers on market competition assessment by identifying and characterising store catchment areas through geospatial analysis.● Optimising asset allocation for a UK construction firm by minimising cost to serve and aligning to geospatial demand forecasts, identifying up to £3.9m in total financial benefit.● Designing and developing a comparison tool for 100+ current accounts in the UK market to support a major retail bank in anticipation of the open banking initiative.

● Technical lead for Measurements & Algorithms of Europe's largest television viewing panel (at the time) of over 500,000 Sky customer households.● Design and development of audience analytics, algorithms and models to enable a unique consumer insight capability in the UK.● Managed team of 3 DRs delivering analytical and predictive modelling projects of TV viewing behaviour.

Analytics consultant, within the Forensic Technology Solutions team, focusing on the capture, analysis, and visualisation of data to support forensic investigations across industries. Selected projects include:● Proactive detection of procurement and expenses fraud for a UK hospitality chain using data-driven events and clustering for outlier detection.● Report automation to support disclosure of electronic evidence in court for a major litigation case (>$1B).

● Research and development of new methods/algorithms to address automated model synthesis in Systems Biology involving root plant modelling, evolutionary algorithms, parameter optimisation, and P-Systems.● Worked in close collaboration with biologists, physicists and mathematicians, while mentoring visiting researchers and PhD students.

● Research and development of new methods/algorithms for optimisation and probabilistic modelling involving genetic algorithms, stochastic local search, decision trees, Bayesian networks and automated parameter selection. Awarded national 4-year PhD grant.● Published and presented this work in international journals and conferences, including a best paper award at ACM GECCO 2008 (Atlanta, USA).

(also May-Jul 04 & Feb-Apr 08)● Research and development of new methods/algorithms for optimisation involving genetic algorithms, adaptive local search, surrogate estimation and probabilistic modelling.● Granted US Patent No. 8131656 for creating an innovative method for adaptive optimisation.