Lead Data Analytics Engineer at Pinsent Masons (2025-01 – Present)
- Management of Fabric platform
- Creation of new reports and workstreams
- Data science analytics on headline projects
Senior Consultant | Associate Fabric Architect at Dufrain Consulting (2025-01 – Present)
- Data engineering in support of Fabric deployments
- Data warehouse migrations and modernisation
Manager (acting Group Manager), Advanced Analytics / Intelligent Data Platform at Avanade (2017-01 – 2024-12)
Tasked as the subject matter expert and technical lead on multiple analytics projects spanning numerous disciplines from data acquisition through deeper exploitation and final presentation. Collaboration with advisory colleagues providing expert knowledge in specific industries and creation of data science use cases and application of relevant algorithms. Conceptualised, designed and constructed both end-to-end systems and complex stand-alone components.
Managed teams including on premises, near shore, offshore and external contractors. Tendering, requirements gathering, RFI drafting and responses.
- Technical Lead/Scrum Master: Designed the rebuild and managed the expansion of a complete reporting solution for a major NGO in infrastructure sector. Advised on reference architecture and created working patterns | Designed and created all PowerBI templates and layouts | Developed and deployed data governance rules | Expanded project reach to all UK projects and domains | Engaged external stakeholders, developing API methods and secure tunnels for data sharing | Final point of quality control for all releases | Final reports used by NGO management, engineering contractors' management, and published to the ministry | Major delivery entirely Azure based, using Datalake Gen2, ADF, Entra, Databricks, PowerPlatform, LogicApps, and PowerBI with GitHub and ADO for project control and deployment | Directly led mixed team of 8-12 data engineers, visualisation experts and BA's while acting as Scrum master
- Analytics Architect: Designed the analytics architecture for the digital transformation of a global insurance marketplace. Data discovery for multiple stakeholders from both owners and customers of the marketplace | Collaboration with various 3rd party consultancies to establish boundaries and align processes
- BI Manager: Delivered data independence for a government agency during the Brexit disconnection from a European agency partner. Reverse engineered the data architecture and respecified it for internal use | Full documentation produced during project transition | Rebuilt reporting functions into PowerBI, consolidating 11 overlapping products to just 3 | Major technologies consisted of Azure SQL and PowerBI for production deployment
- Data Scientist / Project Manager: Identified and resolved flaws in the Know Your Customer process for a major Swiss-based global private bank. Redeveloping and revalidating the business process and complex algorithm according to group and standards and applicable laws | Secured completion of a US federal audit | Major technologies included Oracle and SAS
- Mentored, developed and recruited staff. Controlled internal training programmes for staff development, both personal and technical | Created and developed syllabus for graduate programme and recruited for intake | Taught and lectured on data-based storytelling using PowerBI to internal audience and external customers
Predictive Analytics Lead at Trustmarque (2013-01 – 2017-12)
Disciplinary lead on analytics projects and marketplace development. Optimised revenue by validating processes and charging models. Ensured competitiveness by auditing bid projects and partners.
- Delivered successful NLP proof of concept for an NHS department predicted to cut costs by 75%
- Ran missed appointment analysis for 2 hospitals and delivered process improvements to reduce no-shows by at least 25%
- Managed delivery on multiple outsourced analytics contracts to local government
- Delivered business change initiatives during 2 internal mergers defining best practices and new business units
Lead Consultant, Business Analytics at SEAMS Ltd (2011-01 – 2013-12)
Specialist asset management consulting to infrastructure companies – particularly water. Evaluating and developing in-house software tooling.
- Predictive maintenance modelling to manage and optimising water and sewer piping networks
- Creating virtual sewer maps and inferred / infilled the network database from partial data using GIS systems
- Played a pivotal role in customer achieving the best customer value outcome (lowest price rises) in OFWAT AMP5 (2014) review
Senior Research Scientist, Cheminformatics at AstraZeneca, R&D Charnwood (2002-01 – 2011-12)
Provision of specialist software tools and analytics services to a medicinal chemistry department.
- Delivered chemical classification algorithm to increase value from outsourced chemical purchasing
- Prize winner (first ever solo award) for work in delivering desktop tools for robotic chemical synthesis automation
- Grant winner (first in discipline) for research into chemical surface properties
- Desktop reporting and Wall-boards using HTML, Excel and Spotfire
- Expert user in 3rd party software and invited lecturer on their technologies
- Common technologies included Python, and Excel with VBA/Perl/SOAP
Application Scientist at Tripos UK Ltd (1998-01 – 2001-12)
Pre- and Post- Sales support of specialist software modelling and database package for life sciences.
- Reorganised European support organisation into one entity
- Regular speaker at conferences and other industry events
