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Developing SaaS for Surveys and Analytics

For several years, I have provided the following services:♦ Strategy and road mapping services to clients to find cost effective solutions that maximise revenue and reduce costs while minimising risk. ♦ Building cohesive, effective teams of people with diverse skills and levels of experience -- along with the relevant training.♦ Implement processes and.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

London, London, GB

Cambridge, England, GB

Similar to a combined Head of Software and Head of Data role, I oversaw all the research and development of our statistical and machine learning aspects of our products and services, as well as, the companies data infrastructure including several of our operational systems to support our in-house lab. Additionally my responsibilities included recruiting.

San Francisco, CA, US

Providing technical direction for data analytics, team building, and mentorship for budding AI startups.

US

Designed and implemented a cost-effective, reproducible, disposable, elastic platform on Google Cloud Compute and a scalable data warehouse for existing analytics results. Additionally created a cloud-based automated trading platform for interacting with 3rd party brokers and executing bespoke trading strategies.

Palo Alto, CA

Built a greenfield Big Data Analytics platform (Google Compute Engine, Docker, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Etc.). Created pipeline with ingress of data from several raw varied data sources. Designed highly scalable analysis pipeline for machine learning. Implemented development pipeline with continuous integration and continuous delivery,

Middlesex, England, GB

Designed and Implemented a full stack, cloud-based (Cloud Foundry), semantic, HATEOAS services for sales and provisioning systems (Java/Python/Cassandra/MongoDB/RabbitMQ). Lead transition from component-based teams to low-latency feature-based teams.

London, England, GB

Designed and implemented a Big Data Analytics platform on AWS using Scala/Java, Hadoop, HBase. Conducting statistical and Machine learning analyses to improve user experience, balance game economy and mechanics, and encourage monetization.

Middlesex, England, GB

Developed a data-driven product configuration and pricing engine through in-memory graphsBuilding high-volume webservices using semantic & restful design concepts and NoSQLWorking in an Agile TDD/BDD environment (all Linux/OSS)

Windsor, England, GB

Added Brand and Nectar Integration the new Sainsburys Energy partnershipAugmenting existing report services, pricing engine, data models, data maps, and high volume SOAP/XML interfaces for new product offeringsWorking in an Agile Scrum environment

Slough, Berkshire, GB

Developed SQL-based statistical tool for forecasting sales (DB2 tables functions)Developed bespoke (Java) near real-time reporting tools promotion and financial planning

Several full life cycle CRM projects often as development leadTwo full life cycle projects for OBIEE/Informatica includingwarehouse design, ETL, and web-based report design and creation Several months as Head European CRM administrator for a Global Biotechnology Co.Developed real-time reporting systems for a major consumer goods CorporationNumerous EAI.

Meyrin, Genève, CH

Analyzed petabytes of test run data for the Atlas hadronic calorimeter (all Linux environment)Designed and coded(Python/C++/SQL) several algorithms to diagnose hardware specific problems through test run data using time-series and Bayes analysis Conducted long term and detector-wide analyses using Python with Numpy and R

Champaign, IL, US

Designing particle detectors for muon trigger upgrade PHENIX project based at Brookhaven National LaboratoriesDeveloping data analysis software for evaluating detector performanceDeveloping Monte Carlo simulations (C++/Python) for evaluating proposed modifications

Oak Ridge, TN, US

Discovered and conclusively proved the failure mechanism of industrial natural gas engine ignition systems through light emission spectroscopyResults published in several internal papers

Columbus, Ohio, US

Completed a statistical analysis of RNA Folding Algorithms (C GNU Scientific Library)Published findings in the Oxford Journals, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume33, Issue2

M. Sc., Physics

B.S, Physics

B.S, Mathematics