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London, England, United Kingdom

Working alongside a tier 1 bank to develop a machine learning based product to identify opportunities to upsell financial products as well as areas where it may be possible for the bank to develop new relationships.

London, United Kingdom

As a PhD fellow at Capco I worked on several projects across 3 different tier 1 banks as well as a major payment network processor. Over these projects my interest and aptitude for data science work developed, resulting in an invitation to join the data science practice at Capco in late 2021Key highlights included- A project combining & packaging several different third party API's into a financial services product offering.- Working with a major payment processor and tier 1 bank to deliver services using the payment processors API's through the banks ecosystem to their customers. - Delivering a major remediation project where incomplete client information for a tier 1 bank was completed using a combination of web scraping bots and language processing in Alteryx. This was necessary in order to satisfy new, more stringent KYC regulations.- Completing extended agile work practice training and receiving my scrum master certification.

London, United Kingdom

PhD in the modelling of brain biomechanics under blast conditions, awarded by the Dyson school of Design Engineering at Imperial College London and carried out under the auspices of the Royal British Legion. By its nature the PhD was highly interdisciplinary, and was undertaken in the departments of Aeronautics, Bioengineering and Medicine, as well as the Design School.During the course of the PhD a novel new testing apparatus for high strain rate tissue experiments was designed, prototyped and validated for use at strain rates relevant to blast injury. An area that lacks reliable and repeatable testing measures due to the difficulty in working with brain tissue, as well as the extreme strain rates required to simulate blast conditions.The data from the new apparatus was used alongside extensive FE modelling to develop a mathematical model for the behaviour of brain tissue undergoing high rate deformation. The model incorporated brain tissues characteristic non-linear and highly viscoelasastic behaviour and was successfully implemented in finite element simulations. It is hoped that this model will allow more accurate simulations of blast events and subsequently lead to a greater insight into injuries, military practice, first responder protocol and helmet design.Relevant skills - Mathematical Modelling, Data Analysis and Filtering, Finite Element Modelling, Product Design, Prototyping, Instrumentation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Neurology and Medical Image Processing and AnalysisThe PhD was prolonged due to the formation of the Dyson School of Design Engineering and subsequent move part way through, which is the reason for the long period of study.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Part time work carried out while studying.

London, United Kingdom

Undertook the Skills Development Program offered by the Institute of Leadership and Management. To satisfy the requriements of this program I completed 200+ hours in a leadership role, as well as courses in Communication, Self-awareness, Persuasion & Negotiation, Planning & Prioritising, Problem Solving & Decision Making and Team Working, leading to successful completion of programme.

London, United Kingdom

Year long project investigating the biomechanics of protective headgear, carried out alongside my undergraduate degree. Highly successful project that formed the basis for my eventual masters thesis and later my PhD. The Project had 3 major outcomes- I lead a team of 4 designing, building and testing biofidelic dummy headform for use in blast injury analysis. A custom fibreglass material was engineered to replicate the properties of cortical bone (the skull) and a custom silicon gel was developed and characterised with DMA to represent brain tissue. The brain was fully instrumented with an array of implanted pressure sensors and the headform was used to investigate intra-cranial pressure during an impact.- I created a statistical shape model of the human skull, determining the statistically 'average' 3 dimensional shape of a human skull and the primary ways it varies, along with the statistical weighting for each mode of variation. This was created from a computational analysis of geometries extracted from a large database of MRI and CT scans. This data was subsequently used in later stages of the project to create a highly detailed Finite Element model of the human skull.- I developed a complete suggestion for improved testing procedures for current automotive industry dummy headforms such as the Hybrid III, in order to address the shortcomings and limitations of the current testing standards highlighted by recent research.

London, United Kingdom

Undergraduate integrated masters (MEng) degree in the department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, graduated with upper second class honours.

During this placement I took a lead role in a three person team developing assistive technologies employing functional electrical muscular stimulation to aid paraplegics. A functional electrical stimulation system was developed to activate the quadriceps and hamstrings of a test subject in sequence. The sequence was engineered to recreate a walking motion when used alongside stability supports such as parallel bars or a custom brace developed by colleges in the department. The system was fully waterproofed and confirmed to work while submerged following an external request to allow it to be used for water based rehabilitation.Also investigated using a similar functional electrical stimulation system to allow for paraplegics to participate in horse riding. Experimental motion and force data was recorded during live experiments, using a volunteer rider so as to understand the motion and develop the program required to stimulate this more complex activity. This part of the work was continued on as several projects undertaken by younger students in subsequent years.

Summer placement during my first year of undergraduate studies. Mini-project based around developing a method for imaging the lower outflow pathways for aqueous humor in mouse eyes. Developed a staining technique using gold nanoparticles which were deposited more densely in regions of high resistance. These nanoparticles were then stained with an iron matrix that aggregated around them and imaged using micro-CT. Initial tests showed promise but were inconclusive and the placement ended before the process could be refined.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Engineering

Masters Of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Upper Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: - President of Parkour, Freerunning and Gymnastics Society, - Gymnastics officer for Imperial College London.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Sailing, Kayaking, Biology Society, Football, Fencing, Fives