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Washington, Dc, Us

Princeton, Nj, Us

Building a top tier team and infrastructure to help researchers gain insight into social media platforms, how they operate and the data within them.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Long Stratton, Norfolk, Gb

We partner with ambitious early stage startups to accelerate their solution roadmap through the creation of a fully operational prototype and MVP.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

While functioning as a VP of Engineering, I lead the development and deployment of technology to streamline production and scale business performance.I also build fraud detection and human trafficking product from concept to production.One of my critical tasks is to drive the technical development of code and deployment of various Azure-based cloud services enabling faster onboarding of banks and driving subscriptions and revenue.Other than that, I recruit top IT talent to lead success as per the organizational requirements.Below mentioned are my key contributions for this job role:• Led Azure-based platform design and development to incorporate prototype technology into scalable cloud service aligning closely with business objectives.• Incrementally improved machine learning platform over time to incorporate new design elements and requirements whilst ensuring functions as per organisation's goals.• Delivered unique solution to secure bank's data and ensure customers retained anonymity across banks, allowing participation of multiple banks in platform evolution, ensuring no confidential data leaves the bank infrastructure.

During my time over here, I led the team for product design and development and software integration and support for varied organisations to enable the integration of advanced analytics into existing platforms & portals.I was also responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements whilst ensuring accuracy throughout.Here my my highlighted achievements:• Succeeded in growing the company from start-up to 10 persons, globally distributed, a consultancy.• Assisted in promoting the adoption of open source data analytics software in the UK business sector with an emphasis on open source software.• Drove a wide range of analysis platforms for large corporations and governments across the globe by successfully developing the Saiku Analytics tool.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Data Application Developer at NASA JPL. Helping create some organisation amongst the chaos, building webapps to deliver data management and processing capabilities.Over the past 7 years I've lead and collaborated with teams on a wide variety of projects including:* Genomics Search* Dark web search and illegal activity detection* Voyager Telemetry Processing* Mars2020 Data Processing* Cloud based data processing platforms

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Within this job role, I deliver mission success, whilst improving JPL's security posture and performance.My abilities comprise utilising various automated platforms to facilitate the development of platforms.It is my job to perform data-oriented functions with a focus on system automation, scalability, and stability as well as data accessibility for developers and users.In addition, I support building several interns into full-time employees and critical team members through effective mentoring whilst supporting junior team members.My notable accomplishments for this role:• Reduced cloud processing costs by 75% while achieving a number of significant targets through best practices.• Managed a team, migrating 1990s Voyager code from unmaintained legacy hardware to AWS cloud.• Oversaw engineering for ground-based data systems of one of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover systems.• Built Pixlise platform for NASA Perseverance Rover, leveraging parallel processing, elastic cloud deployments, and Kubernetes orchestration to reduce processing time for sensor data from days to 10 minutes.• Provided help in developing groundbreaking data processing and visualization platform with cooperation from DARPA and international law enforcement agencies, enabling agents to track and identify criminals andtraffickers both on the visible and dark web.

•Founder of Analytical Labs, an OSBI organisation providing a development hub for Open Source Business Intelligence•Initiated development of the Saiku OLAP and Reporting tool kits•Driven Saiku adoption world wide, clients include the US Government, UN and European Union

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Having served the OODT project for some time I was kindly nominated and accepted as an Apache Software Foundation member.

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Chair of the Apache OODT project, helping bring Big Data Pipelines to the masses.

•Designed and coordinated the building of the Pentaho based dashboarding and ETL stack from the ground up•Supervised the offshore development teams both in India and Bulgaria•Enhanced the reporting speed and execution time by over 70% with the implementation of improved database schema and query engines

London, London, Gb

•Integrated the Pentaho Business Intelligence suite at Muzicall•Worked with CBF, Hudson(now Jenkins) and dbdeploy to achieve a continuous integration development environment, allowing seamless movement or reports, ETL and data from development to testing to production with zero downtime.

Wetherby, West Yorkshire, Gb

•Design and installation of a Pentaho business intelligence reporting system. This included multiple data warehouses running on a combination of Postgresql and LucidDB, the design and maintenance of multiple Mondrian OLAP schema's, and the design of many SQL and MDX based reports. I also designed and implemented various Pentaho based dashboards utilising the Community Dashboard Framework, which in my free time I helped maintain and extend.•Implemented the PHP based project tracking system and the Liferay Intranet Portal.•Founded the PAT project which went on to become Saiku

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

•Pentaho integration consultancy and training to the Business Development Support Office at Coventry University. •Left clients with a fully working BI installation and the skills and expertise to maintain and extend it.

•Technical editor of Pentaho Solutions for Wiley publishers. •Roles included verifying the text and making sure the hands on content worked as written.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computing

A Levels