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Wexford, Ie

Wexford, Ie

• Contracted to Geological Survey, Ireland (GSI). • Continued to manage and develop the Borehole 2020 database, containing all of the boreholes listed in paper mine report Open Files from 1954 to 2002. • Currently relating and integrating this with Core Store database listings which will result in a full set of metedata and reports being linked with core scan images, the scanning of which is presently ongoing. • Single point of contact for the database, containging over 13,000 entries, over 10,000 unique DDHs, including metadata such as; physical Open File location, hole depth, dip and azimuth, coordinates from several existing databases, drillhole aliases, year etc. and renamed holes as per naming standard based on year, hole name and PL.• Also involved with EU Minerals project across the GSI Minerals team. • Scoping research and development opportunities using pre-existing GSI mineral exploration data.• Research & development of seismic processing inhouse.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Working as part of the festival's marketing team to foster and maintain the organisation’sconnections with our sponsors, partners and donors, sustaining relationships with existing members as well as cultivating new connections. • Providing support to the Marketing & Development Manager in producing marketing materials for social media and monitoring sales.• Updating the festival website (fringefest.com) and working with artists to ensure their show is advertised to it's best potential.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Contracted to Geological Survey, Ireland (GSI).• Ensured completion of Phase 1 and 2 of the Borehole 2020 Project, aiming to publish a finite interactive online database of all recorded diamond drill holes ever drilled in the Republic of Ireland, including location data and links to all existing logs, maps and borehole core scans. • Trawled through physical open file archive at the GSI, consisting of mining reports submitted to the survey between 1954 and 2002, documenting each mention of diamond drill boreholes.• Acted as single point of truth for the project, worked on by a team of 4, ensuring that data entries were consistently formatted and correlated and maintained version control. • Created and QC’d database of over 13,000 entries, containing over 10,000 unique DDHs, including metadata such as; physical Open File location, hole depth, dip and azimuth, coordinates from several existing databases, drillhole aliases, year etc. and renamed holes as per naming standard based on year, hole name and PL. • Regularly reported via presentation the progress of the project using statistics obtained from analysis of each Microsoft Excel version of the database.• Georeferenced maps in ArcGIS to obtain coordinates for boreholes whose coordinates were not listed in existing databases, approx. a third of the entire database. • Took part the GSI’s BT Young Scientist outreach, promoting geology and geological careers to primary and secondary school students.

County Dublin, Ireland

Student loan company offering finance to those studying at over 150 accredited institutions and universities across the UK. Future Finance has loaned over £50 million and accepted over 80,000 applications to date.• Processing student loan applications from start to finish, from their submission to funding. • Assisting students and their guarantors in the application process, answering queries regarding loan contracts, interest rates, document requirements, terms and policies.• Verifying all supporting documents provided for each application.• Communicating efficiently and effectively by phone and e-mail with customers, providing a reassuring customer journey while managing expectations.• Meeting all targets and KPIs set out by the company while working in-line with company policies and procedures as well as Financial Conduct Authority regulations.• Participated in additional projects such as software testing, new feature releases, prospective internal software solutions, knowledge reference centre building and maintenance.

County Dublin, Ireland

• Kenya: Onshore Cenozoic South Lokicahar and Kerio rift basins, structural & sedimentary plays. ◦ Deemed uncommercial by Shell 1992 after Loperot-1 wildcat. Tullow drilled basin opener wildcat Ngamia-1 in 2012, 21 appraisal wells to date. ◦ Primary seismic processor, sole database manager and primary reporter to contractors.• Madagascar: Permo-Triassic basin, since deemed uncommercial. ◦ Displayed, corrected, repositioned and transposed all vintage navigation to preferred datum (WGS84) using a combination of Microsoft Excel, Arc GIS & Google Earth.• Involved with processing data for and attended contractor updates, meetings and demonstrations regarding Uganda (Lake Albert Basin) & Ghana (Jubilee Field).• Exposure to operations and exploration in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Suriname, French Guyana and Mauritania.• Basin Analysis projects using UK and Ireland exploration data as part of degree study.

Dublin, Ireland

• Project managed Tullow’s exploration in Kenya across nearly 42,000km2 of licensed acreage. Including processing, reprocessing, storage, databasing and display.• Presented reports regarding all geophysical products to shareholders, internally and externally, via e-mail and telecoms to ensure products were fit for purpose and would add value to the Kenyan asset. This resulted in 9 successful appraisal wells in South Lokichar unlocking an estimated 700 mmboe gross recoverable reservoir.• Produced feasibility studies regarding processing products using timelines, reports and Gantt charts to evaluate budget, resource and value factors.• Evaluation of test products provided by contractors, feeding back relevant information from inhouse work and ensuring these products were of a high enough quality to be integrated with inhouse products and added value to interpretations. Managed these relationships effectively. • Consulted regarding survey planning daily across the Geophysical Operations team for all geophysical exploration across Kenya, from survey design, specification and parameter setting, AFEs, tender and QC as well as community liaison. This included 100,000km2 of FTG surveys across Kenya and Ethiopia. • Processed >1000km2 of 3D seismic land data through collaboratively developed Post Stack Time Migration workflows feeding back into survey design parameters for each phase of the survey. • Picked, built and developed 3D interval and RMS velocity models for this survey to feed back into further processing. Ensured these tied with all existing 2D velocity models. • Picked and applied static models across the survey providing extensive knowledge and experience using elevation, refraction and residual statics.• Post Stack Depth Migration and Pre-Stack Time Migration processed subsets of this dataset.• Generated and delivered functional 3D seismic volumes to in-house and external clients efficiently and in response to changing timelines and priorities.

Dublin, Ireland

• Post Stack Time Migration processed nearly 10,000km of 2D seismic data acquired by Tullow between 2010 and 2015 across 42,000km2 of licensed acreage. Also reprocessed all vintage seismic data for these blocks dating back to 1986.• Ensured both RMS & Interval velocity sections tied with all other processed lines, both vintage and newly acquired. Built findings into geological interpretation and survey design. • Picked and applied static models across the survey providing extensive knowledge and experience using elevation, refraction and residual statics.• Parameter tested and developed data muting and denoise techniques including sample mutes, stretch mutes, bandpass filtering, AGC, multiple suppression etc. • First Break picked both land and marine data, NMO correction experience in both land and marine processing. • Gained understanding of the effects for geological complications such as volcanic layers and complex structural systems on seismic data and how to minimize their deteriorative effects during processing. • Generated and delivered functional 2D seismic sections to in-house and external clients efficiently and in response to changing timelines and priorities.• Conveyed complex ideas to a range of audiences from those within my department to those working in other business units.• Managed databases and database listings for all data inherited and acquired for 42,000km2 of licensed acreage. This involved cataloguing and creating a file storage system where data could be easily found and utilised. All vintage data received when new licences were acquired and in-house data acquired between 2010-2016, in both hard copy and virtual, were included in this framework.• Documented all workflows created and altered via presentations and reporting documents.• Maintained spreadsheets showing processing status of all sections and volumes of seismic data acquired and vintage data to be used in progress reports

Dublin, Ireland

• Repositioned and QC'd all vintage seismic data (1980s) from Tullow's 14,000km2 Madagascar acreage.• Databased all data relating to vintage seismic and reported on progress of repositioning and processing.• Developed Excel, ArcGIS and Google Earth skills to complete all tasks above effectively.

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Machine Learning Using Geological Data

Project Title: CRIMP – ML: Critical Raw Irish Mineral Prospectivity through Machine Learning Research Question: Can machine learning.

Postgraduate Certificate (Level 9) In Data Science, Distinction

• Working with Data (Based in Python, R & SQL) • Probability & Statistical Inference (Statistical Modelling in R using R studio) • Data.

Level 7 Certificate, Digital Marketng

Learning Outcomes: • Ability to describe the concepts and emerging models of digital marketing. • Ability to demonstrate knowledge of how.

Bachelor'S Degree, Geology

Activities and Societies: Student Council as 3rd Science Student Rep, Science Day (Charity Event) Society, RocSoc (Geology Society).