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United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Client-facing consulting role providing data analytics solutions to wider forensics, financial crime and insolvency teams. Managed end-to-end data analysis pipelines in several high-profile cases, liaised with clients, and authored reports under tight deadlines.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for all analytics and reporting for ASB’s credit card fraud prevention rulesets. Regularly work with large, near-real-time datasets responding to mission critical fraud events affecting our customers. My role also requires me to coach/mentor my fellow team members and work on improving the team with self-driven future-focussed projects.

Auckland, New Zealand

Started as a graduate in IT advisory before moving to the newly formed KPMG Lighthouse data analytics division in January 2019. Worked across a range of projects, with clients in finance, retail, agriculture and more. My role required me to be client-facing and agile to our clients’ needs.— internal fraud investigation and remediation projects for one of KPMG NZ’s largest finance clients— developed a machine learning model for one of NZ’s largest vehicle dealerships. Attained better results than industry leaders in AU/NZ— identified $5M+ in lost revenue above and beyond expectations for one of New Zealand's largest construction companies

Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Developed a machine learning model/pipeline to detect energy theft. The model was built in R and explored several novel concepts: irregular time series, cluster analysis and machine learning.

Auckland, New Zealand

Tested and evaluated the OpenAPI framework for R. I communicated findings to the core team weekly. Later in the project I converted the framework from R to Python. We primarily worked with open data, web data and GIS.

Auckland, New Zealand

Coordinated a team of four in surveying concertgoers. With the data retrieved from the surveys, I was responsible for collating and analysing data for management.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Honours), Statistics

Focus on data science, machine learning, data mining and professional computing skills.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Statistics, Computer Science