Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist, Strategic Tools & Technologies Team

Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus

Newport, Wales

Jan 2022 to present

• Managing small teams of data scientists, optimising the development cycle, agile delivery of quality-assured systems in response to emerging analytical priorities across government.
• Currently working on UK and international urban centre transport performance, analysing the equality of access to opportunities by public transit.
• Led a cross division working group on open source standards, resulting in ONS Data Science Campus guidance on Open Source Development.
• Senior dev on Output Area Public Transport Isochrones . Innovative geometries published to ONS Geoportal .
• Agent-Based Modelling & network analysis. Policy evaluation of UK authorities progress against the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda.
• Expert panellist at The Alan Turing Institute’s Policy Priorities & AI for SDGs event.
• Shortlisted for the Analysis in Government Awards 2022 Inclusion category. Topic: Paving the way for accessible data science training in the public sector.

Data Science Lecturer, Campus Faculty

Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus

Newport, Wales

Apr 2020 to Jan 2022

• Promoted to Faculty Lead in Autumn 2022. Successfully led a team of lecturers in preparing curriculum, compliance and administrative preparation for a 5x increase in Data Science Graduate Programme cohort size.
• Coordination in development of advanced geospatial methods training. Developed in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, I personally translated Ordnance Survey’s Python training into R. and coordinated a pilot of the course with the Data Science Graduate Programme cohort 2022, ensuring effective feedback, evaluation and improvement subsequent to rollout for 2023 cohort. This work subsequently won the Government Geography Profession’s award for contribution to public sector geography in the Government in Geography Awards 2023.
• Delivering analytical training across UK public sector and international National Statistical Offices.
• Guest speaker at Royal Statistical Society conference 2020, subject: reproducibility & transparency. Returning speaker at RSS 2021, topic: UK Data Science as a global public good.
• Established the Data Science Campus capability diversity & inclusion process, process control, compliance and risk mitigation. allowing the campus to fulfil its duty under the equality & diversity act 2010.
• Lead developer of accessrmd package available on CRAN, used to help rmarkdown documents meet government digital accessibility standard.

Statistician

Data Cymru

Cardiff, Wales

Jan 2020 to Apr 2020

• Automated cleaning & analysis of survey responses with parameterised reporting in R markdown.
• Automation of ETL pipelines in data transformation projects, ensuring at risk childrens’ care placements across authorities in Wales are securely updated and available to local authority stakeholders and Childrens’ Commissioning Consortium Cymru.

Financial Analyst

Wales Audit Office

Cardiff, Wales

Sep 2018 to Dec 2019

• Automation of counter fraud and error risk testing of general ledger transactions.
• Development of Power BI Dashboards & R Markdown automated reports in order to support performance audit and thematic review.
• Assisting in the delivery of Power BI education programme to internal and external stakeholders. Delivered nationally at 3 venues.

Teacher of Science

St Illtyd’s Catholic High School, Fitzalan and Bassaleg High School

Cardiff, Newport, Wales

2007 to 2017

• Delivery of biology and physics education to A level standard.
• Experienced in the effective communication of technical subject matter.
• Differentiation of learning material to diverse student requirements.

Acorn Learning Solutions

Diploma in Data Analytics

Cardiff, Wales

2018 to 2019

2 year course completed in 13 months

Modules:

• Principles of Data Management Infrastructure, Data Analysis Tools, Data Science.
• Statistical Analysis of large data.
• Designing and Developing Event-Driven and procedural Computer Programs.
• Advanced Data Representations and Manipulation.

University of Wales, Institute Cardiff

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Science)

Cardiff, Wales

2006 to 2007

Cardiff University

Bsc (Hons) Biology, 2:1

Cardiff, Wales

2002 to 2005