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| Location | Perthshire, Scotland |
| Availability | Available for senior interim or part time contract consultancy roles |
| Work Style | Full Time Remote Worker. Open to some travel |
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Personal Statement
- A commercially focused and multifaceted technologist, commercial strategist, data strategist, data scientist and analyst with 20+ years’ experience.
- A trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership.
- Specialises in using analysis, statistics, forecasting and AI to help business confident strategic decisions and minimise risk.
- A highly effective and motivational leader and coach with a proven track record of getting the most out of teams of any size.
- Experienced in a wide array of sectors including pharma, hospitality, telecoms, e-commerce and financial services.
- An experienced developer, solutions architect and technical all-rounder
- Valued for having and innovative approach, and a passion for solving tough problems.
Achievements and Highlights
- As one of the first 15 employees for Amazon in the UK spearheaded IT infrastructure and fulfilment center setup
- Deployed one of the earliest modern Business Intelligence and Digital Analytics stacks at lastminute.com.
- Headed IT at BT Business’s pioneering business social network BT Tradespace, before becoming chief architect of BT Directories.
- Managed a team of 30+ analysts and data scientists at Digitas delivering world class digital analysis and optimisation to top-tier clients.
- Led the global Data Science and Innovation functions at AstraZeneca devising and deploying a machine learning platform that saved $millions.
- Advised EY’s UK tax senior leadership on data-informed decision-making and rolled out cutting edge automated financial forecasting.
- Voluntarily leads and project manages a rapidly growing, non-profit arts programme in central Scotland delivering ongoing exhibitions and workshops.
Skills
Professional
Data Strategy, leadership and management, digital strategy, data science, business strategy, digital and social analytics, adtech and martech data, digital optimisation and analytics, business intelligence, solutions architecture
Technology
Python for data science and application development, SQL and relational schema design, Databricks, Spark, Neo4j & Cypher, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Unix/Linux admin
AI, Data & Analytical
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Forecasting and Simulation, Statistical Analysis, Graph modelling and network analysis, social analytics, data architecture and solutions design, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, statistical and predictive analysis
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Tech and Data Articles
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Romancing the AI – Using Neural Networks as part of the creative process
I’m not just an artistic genius you know. I have a day job (well, not at the moment, but let’s pretend) that involves me using…
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Chinese Whispers Graph Clustering in Python
I needed a simple and efficient unsupervised graph clustering algorithm. MCL is a bit heavy for my needs and I was after something that was available…
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Does Word2Vec Dream of Semantic Sheep?
I played with Google’s magical word2vec neural network some time ago. I found it interesting but I had no immediate use for it, so I…
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17 seconds
I don’t know exactly how long it takes to read the 50 or so words attributed to me in a recent Guardian article, but I…