James Allpress

Enthusiastic, analytical and detail-orientated Data/Financial Analyst with a first degree in Physics and a master's in Finance. Adept at performing ETL processes, data visualisation and creating insightful reports. Successfully executed multiple projects involving large datasets through the use of cloud service providers AWS and Azure. Demonstrating the ability to transform raw data into actionable business insights within cloud-based environments.

AI Data Analyst Internship Programme at Uptrail Ltd. (Present)

Real world projects ie: briefs a real analyst would receive at work. Presented with business problems, with data and what needs to be produced. Understanding the role of a data analyst and the full data lifecycle. Explored real data sets and learnt how to use AI to ask better questions and validate insights. The above project works were set in various real world scenarios in the NHS, a B2B SaaS startup, a UK Logistics company, a UK motor insurer and a mid-size UK airline.

• Use of Python (Pandas). Data cleaning, wrangling & SQL. Writing SQL queries and building visualisations.
• How to communicate insights through structured storytelling. Understanding practical machine learning concepts.
• Building prediction models and use of AI to interpret results and generate recommendations.
• Designed interactive dashboards in PowerBI. Used AI to generate reports and complete a full end-to-end analytics project.

Sales Development Representative at Rivare Consulting

International career development firm operating across 15+ sectors including finance and IT.

• Identify & develop partnership opportunities within the educational sector.
• Maintain regular contact with partners to ensure continued engagement & referral flow.

Intensive programme & experience in Data Analytics at AiCore Ltd (2023-10 – 2025-08)

• AWS Basics: Deploying EC2, S3, RDS and VPCs, creating IAM Roles
• Azure Essentials: Deploying Azure SQL Database, Storage Accounts and Virtual Machines

Business Planning and Technical Development Support at AIM Cube Ltd/Faster Capital (2022-03 – 2022-08)

• Investigated the requirement for technical support which resulted in AIM Cube Limited partnering with FasterCapital, providing Business Planning services, Technical Development, Sales & Marketing, to ensure viable business ideas.

Physicist at Barnbrook Systems Ltd (2018-12 – 2020-07)

• Responsibilities included creating a Python-based tool for optimising solenoid designs, reducing design time by approximately 20% overall.

Temporary jobs and travelling (2022-08 – 2023-09)

MSc in Banking & Finance – Kingston Business School, London (2020-09 – 2021-08)

BSc (Hons) in Physics – University of Southampton (2015-09 – 2018-07)