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Poole, Gb

Focused on the development of products to deliver ML models for technical pricing areas. Working on the creation of reusable solutions to improve the speed and quality of model delivery for senior stakeholders. Involved in development of open source and internal packages to standardise utilities used across data science function.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Focus on projects delivering ML models across multiple products. Worked in a leading role in cross train projects on the pricing side whilst also contributing as an SME. Involved in analysis of data enrichments to make recommendations on purchase and use. Supported testing processes to monitor deployed models. Dealt with senior stakeholders and helped to shape progress of large scale, long-term projects. Role required use of Azure DevOps for versioning/QC, Python fluency and the ability to understand and implement advanced ML techniques.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Working within the Technical Pricing team, a significant aspect of this role was the development and presentation of technical risk models (GLMs). Also worked in collaboration with the Data Science department to provide support for the creation of GBMs on significant regulatory projects. During this time also worked closely with the finance department to provide long term forecasting for the business. Role required expert use of Willis Towers Watson software suite including Emblem and Radar.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Working within the portfolio pricing team, my role focused on analysing and responding to market trends and performance indicators through pricing proposals. Significant focus on stakeholder management which involved generating and presenting key performance indicators to a variety of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as maintaining regular reporting. Required competent use of SAS and Excel. Role also involved contributing to strategy for responding to significant weather events.

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

Level 4 Apprenticeship, Data Analytics