Starfish Greathearts Foundation was started almost 22 years ago to help combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Today, we support orphans and vulnerable children across South Africa with quality early childhood education, nutritional support, and primary healthcare services. I am proud to be a Greatheart!

- Document and translate client needs to the technical team- Ensure data usability and data-centered design during product development- Build out business cases for data products- Analyze data and build data products

Data Scientist/ Product Manager for global change decision support tools for South African local government· Management of stakeholder relationships· User-centred design for product management including needs assessment and design,conducting and analysis of usability tests, usage analytics, and user acceptance tests· Write user specifications and convert them into preliminary wireframes and worked with userexperience designers and developers to develop products· Work with stakeholders and national and international global change and sustainabledevelopment policy to generate standardised vocabularies and semantics frameworks forsystems interoperability· Data product development - data munging through a dashboard output· Dynamically work across data curation, development and data science teams to create useful products to help South Africans access and understand government and scientific data.

· Consult on Data Storytelling/Data Visualisation projects· Design and implement static and interactive data visualisations for websites/reports · Consult on the experimental design and statistical analysis of field trials of various products. · Statistical analysis and experimental design on an industrial scale· Preparation of complex professional reports for scientific as well as non-scientific audiences· Author professional correspondence to non-scientific management to explain how analysis may affect business outcomes

- Co-hosted professional workshops for academic and industrial scientists- Won over a skeptical research groups to create and provide statistical and introductory programming informative demonstrations, classes and collated materials to increase ownership of and confidence with data analysis by students- Manage aspects of day-to-day operations as project supervisor while continuing to conduct research:- Meetings for project design, troubleshooting, and data analysis- Direct supervision of students at various levels (3rd year, Honour, Master and Doctoral)- Manuscript editing- Insure compliance with all safety, quality control, and reproducible research standards

- Designed a feature selection pipeline and generated a machine learning model to identify unique chemicals from closely related indigenous plants - Trained educators in conducting specially designed experiments for children to facilitate understanding of the greater work of the research group and why their environment is important to the scientific community- Rapidly learned and mastered varied computer programs; R, Latex, Markdown

- Secured funding to conduct first medium-term independent research project - Presented research at professional conferences- Designed and implemented year long experiments

- Span cultural lines to conduct research- Organised materials and recruited people to join study