Senior Data Scientist with experience in Geosciences, Natural Language Processing and Image Recognition. PhD graduate with a background in Risk and Hazard Assessment and Modelling.
Work Experience
Senior Data Scientist, March 2022 – Present
Working with the ONS and FCDO on high impact shipping work in conflict zones in order to assess economic impact of wars, and sanctions
Using satellite imagery to assess tree coverage in eastern Uganda to help Welsh Government assess whether a tree planting programme was successful
Helping with developing a new strategy for a team of around 20 people
Head of Data and Automation, March 2021 – March 2022
Working for the Office for Statistical Regulation and helping establish their Data and Methods function
Writing Models Guidance for across government use
Improve OSR’s knowledge and understanding of the public use of statistics by gathering and automating data from various sources, including Twitter, Media outlets, parliament speeches and more
Senior Data Scientist, October 2019 – March 2021
Working on various COVID-19 data sets to give insight to a Government organisation.
Working with Government organisations to extract mobility data for COVID-19 response.
Creating D3 visualisations for use in cross-government dashboards.
Creation of a slack-bot system to create home-working tea-breaks between colleagues.
Co-organiser of a cross-government data ethics and society working group.
Writing technical blog posts for data science projects.
One of the organisations geospatial experts, and lead a project to build and analyse public transport in the UK using R. This project also uses cloud computing infrastructure.
Working with devolved Government on a pipeline to automatically locate historical aerial images.
I help build capability in data science within government branches by mentoring students on various projects. These have included using Neural Networks and Decision Trees. For these short-lived projects, we typically use Jupyter Notebooks to share code and display outputs.
I setup and hold meetings with stakeholders to create new projects and collaborations between government branches.
Data Scientist, May 2018 – October 2019
I worked in a small team on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) project that extracted key terminology from free text and forecasts emerging terms. For this, I used the Python. This project uses Neural Networks and Decision Trees.
Many of my roles and responsibilities overlap with my current position as Senior Data Scientist.
PhD Student, October 2014 – April 2018
I researched earthquakes and fault systems in East Africa; how they develop and what the potential consequence of the earthquakes may be. This included a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, geologists, and local governments.
I was the departments advisor and support for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle research.
My work included the use of ‘Big Data’ datasets, including satellite imagery, UAV imagery and numerical modelling.
During this time, I gained expert knowledge of using Matlab, Python, R, VBA, ArcGIS and QGIS.
Project Support Officer, November 2012 – October 2014
I was a project lead for an agri-environmental scheme. I supervised the workload of project employees and investigated any issues they experienced and, in collaboration, provided relevant and appropriate solutions.
I maintained a superb standard of work to comply with statutory (devolved Government and European Union) directives.
In order to do this, I established good working relationships with project clients and farmer unions.
I produced technical customer reports, maps using ArcGIS, undertook project procurement, organised meetings and led training for new recruitments.
In addition, I developed a new centralised database to store current and future project data.
Previous positions
Risk Assessor, August 2012 – November 2012
Various University Researcher Roles, June 2012 – August 2012
Customer Service Manager, March 2008 – June 2008
Graphic designer, Summer holidays as a child
Volunteering
STEM Ambassador
I help organise and deliver a variety of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) activities, including practical, fun events. I present workshops in an enthusiastic manner in order to encourage children to consider a career in a STEM related pathway.
Educational & Professional Achievements
2020
Scrum Master (Certified)
Managing People course
Academic Paper (2020), Geology (in review)
2019
Academic Paper (2019), EGU: Solid Earth; 1 x Conference Abstract
2018
PhD Graduate (no corrections)
Academic Paper (2018), GRL.
2017
Academic Paper (2017), JGR: Solid Earth; 2 x Conference Abstracts
201
Academic Paper (2016), Frontiers; 3 x Conference Abstracts
2015
Academic Paper (2015), Natural Hazards
2012
MSci Environmental Geoscience (1st class honours)
City & Guilds Professional Development Award: Project Management