I was previously a member of the AI/ML Governance and MLOps squad working under Aadil Dowlut. I was responsible for the research, implementation, deployment, and ongoing management of AI/ML pipelines. This ranged from full-scale marketing frameworks to adhoc operations research. My work is actively used by Spark leadership to guide high-level decision making and marketing efficiency. Adoption of these models has created significant historic commercial value for the business. I governed these models internally with legal and privacy to ensure the handling of sensitive data aligns with our ethical obligations.

I previously worked as part of the Data and Enterprise Automation chapter at Spark. My role was responsible for the implementation of customer analytics algorithms and data pipelines. We created a sequence mining and customer value platform as internal data infrastructure alongside other projects. The outputs of this work are actively used in different analytics across the company and have contributed to increased effectiveness of many marketing campaigns.

I was given the opportunity to work as an assigned paper tutor for COMP307 and COMP361. These are: “Introduction to AI” and “Design and Analysis of Algorithms” respectively. Academic tutoring allowed me to hone my communication skills while applying them to a highly technical subject matter. The responsibilities for this role included constructing and marking assignments/exams. I was also responsible for running tutorials for the classes and providing individual help desk sessions during assessments.

In the third trimester I worked on my chosen problem as a research project for Victoria University of Wellington. My topic was multi-objective optimisation with particle swarm intelligence for feature selection. I received the most engaging demonstration of research award in the Summer Gold Competition. The project was published here: https://bit.ly/2Hc7m1a

Processing NZQA Exam papers and operating the sorting machines.

Required regular unloading of flat packs and transport of furniture. Also responsible for inventory/assembly. Physically demanding work.

Morning paper delivery