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London, United Kingdom

Greater New York City Area

Singapore

- Launched businesses, raised $40M in VC and negotiated two successful exits in 2015 and 2017.- Led teams of developers and creatives in media and technology projects, clients includeBain Capital, J Sainsbury PLC, the Australian Government, and other global companies.- Developed and launched analytics platforms, enterprise content-management systems,web-based applications, and online stores with revenue over £100m.- Implemented mathematical models and machine learning… Show more - Launched businesses, raised $40M in VC and negotiated two successful exits in 2015 and 2017.- Led teams of developers and creatives in media and technology projects, clients includeBain Capital, J Sainsbury PLC, the Australian Government, and other global companies.- Developed and launched analytics platforms, enterprise content-management systems,web-based applications, and online stores with revenue over £100m.- Implemented mathematical models and machine learning techniques to real-world problems(usage analytics, user characterisation and matching, product recommendation),implementing them in applications at web-scale.- Launched Oh Comely, a magazine in the competitive women’s arts/culture market,currently distributed in WHSmith and available in 20 countries with a readership of 60,000. Show less

Led data science and data architecture projects, and developed business-focussed applications: analytics platforms, decision-support systems, enterprise data warehouses and web APIs. Clients included HgCapital, Bain Capital Credit, J Sainsbury, and government agencies.

- Designed the data models and a data warehouse to consolidate inputs from operational systems, including multiple payment gateways, Salesforce, Marketo, Zuora and a custom CMS.- Developed an internal platform, a B2B dashboard, and an API to surface data for the different business units in the company.

- Designed a data warehouse solution to consolidate policy inputs and improve the cabinet submissions process across multiple government departments.- Developed a cross-platform application that could deliver reports to the Prime Minister and Cabinet's iPads to reduce manual reporting and improve the speed of decision-making.- Analysed economic data and automated data capture from the ABS, RBA, Treasury and Bloomberg.- Analysed funding and organisational models for… Show more - Designed a data warehouse solution to consolidate policy inputs and improve the cabinet submissions process across multiple government departments.- Developed a cross-platform application that could deliver reports to the Prime Minister and Cabinet's iPads to reduce manual reporting and improve the speed of decision-making.- Analysed economic data and automated data capture from the ABS, RBA, Treasury and Bloomberg.- Analysed funding and organisational models for healthcare and higher education. Show less

- Project managed Oxford University’s official guidebook with a readership of 20,000 students,and managed fifty advertisers and a team of twenty writers, photographers and sub-editors.- Taught classes and mentored undergraduates at New College, Oxford.

- Led negotiations with public-sector organisations for a property trust with assets of over AUD 100m, which resulted in a $7m regeneration of housing estate.- Produced Excel-based financial models and quantitative research on real estate in Brisbane.- Published a guide for international students and visitors, funded by Euromoney and the REIA.- Developed scheduling systems for the 2004 Asia-Pacific Industrial Engineering andManagement Systems conference.

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