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Established Population Health Analytics as a new function within Graphnet as part of team of 5 in early 2018. As of September 2021, the team had grown to over 40 members. Designed and built a full cloud analytics platform covering 30m patients based on Microsoft Azure, using a broad range of technologies: Storage: SQL Azure, Data Lake, Azure Blob storage Data Transformation: Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Synapse Analytics Data Services and Presentation: Power BI, Rest API, R, Python Scripting and automation: C#, Powershell, Azure automation Participated in numerous local and national initiatives as part of the COVID pandemic response, including delivery of systems to schedule the national vaccine rollout and tracking vaccine uptake. Currently leading a Data Science team working to deliver a data platform to academics and researchers across the country, including a collaboration on an Open Source project with Oxford University. All work delivered following agile development practices, using git source control, JIRA/Confluence for issue tracking and documentation and Azure DevOps for automated build and deployment.

Uk

Responsible for design and delivery of technical solutions within a dedicated Business Intelligence team delivering products based on SQL Server BI components to health service, MoD and social care customers.All developments carried out within a structured, Agile environment, following detailed standards in coding, solution methodology, source control, issue tracking and release management.In addition to setting development standards to promote optimal database performance and the delivery of reliable, reusable and extendable components, the position also encompasses a lead role as a technical expert in driving product technical and functional roadmaps.

York, United Kingdom

Design, development and support of software products used by Train Operating Companies within the railways industry. The role involved work on all components in a 3-tier application architecture.Developments were carried out using Visual Basic 6 on applications and components and an Oracle database engine.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

IT Consultant working on a variety of client facing and internal projects, delivering a full range of IT Services, including project management, business analysis and software design and development.Project roles carried out within Healthcare, Housing, Banking and Insurance industries, using assorted technologies, including C#, Visual Basic 6, SQL Server 7 and 2000, Oracle 8i.

Durham

Responsible for the day to day management of the Information Department and front line liaison with other departments and external bodies.Within the department, duties included ongoing maintenance and support of information reporting systems, management of the Information Team and analysis, design and redevelopment of systems to meet changing requirements.System developments were carried out using Business Objects and MS Access client tools against Oracle 7 databases.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing a Region wide analysis service on datasets held on ICL-VME mainframes.

Bsc Hons, Statistics

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