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London Area, United Kingdom

Co-launched the Data Consulting Group that specialises in solving the most complex data & analytics challenges at enterprise scale. With a proven track record of driving growth in businesses.Seasoned speaker and contributor to industry/academic panels and articles over multiple roles, helping define best practices in data management and analytics.Actively mentoring leaders across Fortune Global 500 companies.

London, United Kingdom

Spearheaded a global business technology enablement programme for data and analytics across PlayStation. Fostering a strong analytics community through cultural and organisational changes.Architected and delivered secret-level secure platforms with comprehensive data governance, full observability and robust lineage tracking across the entire data lifecycle across PlayStation.Executive advisory board member for multiple market-leading technology vendors, promoting strategic partnerships and co-innovations.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led a large diverse global team of data experts across multiple global sites that specialised in multiple data and analytics technologies and platforms. Focused on business analytics delivery.Strong track record of hiring and mentoring exceptional talent, with a focus on succession planning and organisational resilience. Grew the team globally through partnerships and strategic projects.Responsible for organisational budgeting, strategic vendor negotiations, and leading complex POCs for key future technologies.

London, United Kingdom

Led the architectural design and implementation of a strategic cloud data platform for PlayStation, enabling global access for thousands of external creative partners. Responsible for and led a whole of of market, multi-month RFP. Engaged with all market leading vendors, consultancies, industry experts and multiple global Sony engineering leaders.Proven core member of the function that owned all telemetry and data design across the PlayStation Network and hardware, owning data from initial coding to final KPI design and business delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the architectural design, infrastructure and collaborative implementation of a global analytics solution for the whole organisation for the whole of marketing spend and positions.Critical element of a wider global ERP migration programme, engaging with diverse global stakeholders and technology partners to ensure data integrations were robust and stable for 24/7 availability.Architected and delivered all secure cloud networking, storage, integration (with complex legacy on premise, hybrid and multiple cloud providers) and data platform technology partner solutions.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for onboarding a new strategic data and analytics solution and to deprecate all legacy systems for all financial reporting and trading analysis.Mentored and trained team members on the vendor based solution, working closely with the vendors team to deliver a strategic roadmap for future growth and success for the business.Over delivered on the implementation across the organisation, including embedding context specific analytics directly into business critical systems to reduce the friction for decision makers.

London, United Kingdom

Collaborated with traders and heads of desk to iteratively develop and deploy a real time position management desk tool to monitor and alert when trade positions go negative and suggest next actions.Responsible across multiple trading desk disciplines from derivatives, oil, gas, power, coal and freight desks to develop desk specific solutions and assist in strategic implementation.Supported and developed collaboratively on a 24/7/365 globally available market and organisation trade, position and risk management system. Assisted in technical migration to new strategic platform.

London, United Kingdom

DBA member of a team responsible for a global financial risk reporting process for all physical, financial and human resource assets belonging to the organisation for global regulatory compliance.Ran and optimised a SQL Server farm that stored all group company and organisational reports for compliance across financial and other regulatory needs direct to all regional regulatory authorities.Collaborated with globally diverse teams and group companies to ensure 24/7 availability of the system to ensure compliance with regional regulatory rules.

Liverpool Street, London

Responsible for the automation of CDS curve pricing to manage credit risk position and portfolio of entire desk team that was removed following the global financial crisis.Also assisted in the CDO pricing process led by a quantitative developer to mitigate all risks and losses in this primary field that caused the global financial crisis.Worked closely with teams building strategic global trade floor real time automated solutions to manage complex global derivative instruments across all markets.

Aylesbury

Part of a team that was responsible for all complex and market integrated critical solutions for the organisation.Collaborated with experts to onboard a organisation-wide position and risk calculation solution using market leading software, involving data capture, sourcing, processing and 24/7 support processes.Led the onboarding and engagement of an offshore team of developers in India to assist all solution development and support for all organisation systems.

Aylesbury

Managed a highly efficient Rapid Application Development team responsible for business process management and data processing across the life and pensions division of the business.Collaborated with actuarial experts to deliver a multi fund pricing calculation solution to deliver market critical prices on a daily basis.Continued to engage with and lead all technology decisions for the division across business enablement and efficiency solutions to remove as many manual processes as possible.

Aylesbury

Led the engineering and technology decisions for the implementation of multiple rapid solutions across the business division that reduced manual processes and improved team efficiency.Mentored and trained a number of team members of critical software solutions and programming languages.Responsible for the implementation of company wide data observability, governance and discoverability platform that was iteratively delivered.

Aylesbury

Responsible for calculating very complex pension scheme losses and recommending the rectification to remove any financial loss from incorrect financial advice.Innovated to create a full scale automation of all actuarial calculations for 80% of all cases leading to massive time optimisation which led to increasing our customer satisfaction.Led a small team and contractors to optimise the automation of data processing across multiple legacy data stores and customer communication and processing platforms.

Aylesbury

Responsible for assessing historical losses to simple individual pensions from financial advisors that recommended incorrect financial products at the time of purchase.Created calculation automation processes to improve turnaround times for all assessments.First role after university and working some time on my family farm.

2:1 Joint Hons, Economics, Geography, Maths

Activities and Societies: Mountaineering and Climbing Club

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