Architect > Senior Architect | UK Energy firm 2023 - Present

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Solution architect working within several businesses of the parent organisation, delivering improved cost savings and better technology support for long term strategy. Also responsible for changes to digital policy across the organisation creating strategy papers and delivering approaches that bring the organisation in line with digital maturity across industry.

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Consultant > Senior Consultant | GlobalLogic UK | 2021 - 2023

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Setting up internal guilds and groups to help formalise training and skills development of consultants.

On client site bringing expertise on knowledge management, developing and implementing department-wide change.

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Founder, Charlie | London, UK | 2020 – 2021

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A bootstrapped software start-up that passively creates documentation and automatically finds previous relevant materials to support knowledge reuse. IP generated from previous PhD research with Siemens.

 

Board member, Downing Enterprise | Downing College, Cambridge, UK | 2020 – Present 

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Organisation made up of C-level Downing College Alumni to support entrepreneurship. I hold a board position and mentorship role for Cambridge Nucleomics having previously won all three prizes and £45k in funding in 2019 and prize winner for invention of a medical device in 2016.

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Freelancer | London, UK | 2020 – Present

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Working on a variety of projects - writing, graphic design research and start up collaborations.

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Industrial Doctoral Researcher, Engineering Design | University of Cambridge, UK | 2015 – 2020

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• Awarded sponsorship by Siemens Industry Software and an iCASE studentship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

• Expert on knowledge utilisation for decision making in complex interdisciplinary engineering design environments with a focus on agile R&D collaborative groups in industry.

• Collected and analysed thousands of works of disparate literature from varied sources into narrative literature reviews while identifying novel opportunities for contribution.

• Initiated and sustained collaborative industrial relationships as a primary contact with three different international research and development engineering companies.

• Designed complimentary research approaches using advanced quantitative and qualitative methods - such as interviews, shadowing, observations, and text mining for automated data collection.

• Designed and executed all aspects a social media and branding campaign to gain over 100 participants on a small budget for an industry-wide survey to further validate hypotheses.

• Analysed, processed, interpreted, and presented findings to identify and characterise challenges. Developed, tested, and evidenced solutions and features, prioritising the most effective aspects for the development of software.

• Research concluded in an 85,000-word thesis and smaller reports, publications and presentations for further collaboration and commercialisation by Siemens.

 

Extracurricular achievements during this period:

 

• Content contributor HE+ 2019 | Cambridge University, educational outreach project for communication

• Technical demonstrator 2017 | Cambridge University, laser cutting for hardware

• BNY Mellon Cambridge Startup Weekend competition 2015 | Judge Business School, winner

• Founded and directed the Cambridge University branch of the Science Innovation Union where I promoted and created awareness of the society, creating over 200 new memberships. I managed content, communications, and sponsorship in addition to recruiting and managing a team of 4 other postgraduate students.

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Founder & Head of the Science Innovation Union Cambridge | University of Cambridge, UK | 2016 -2017

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The SIU had just been established at Oxford University and the team were looking to also gain a base at Cambridge University. I was selected to head this up and found the Cambridge branch. 

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I gained over 200 new sign-ups in the first month. From there I recruited and managed other postgraduate students who became key enthusiastic members who helped support the growth the of society.

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Research Student | Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK | 2015

Bachelor thesis project: risk management and failure prediction for aerospace systems utilising genetic algorithms to generate optimised models for improved testing of designs. Written in Python and MATLAB, this project studied the impact of change propagation upon part failure or design changes in interconnected aerospace systems. Key skills involved manipulation and interpretation of data, visualisation, and communication of subsequent implications.

 

Data Scientist | BigEar Technologies, NL | 2015

 

Developed text-based web-scraping tools in Python for data collection, organisation, and presentation. Implemented for applications such as a careers search engine and database.

 

Bachelor of Science Liberal Arts and Sciences | Maastricht University, NL | 2012 – 2015

 

Studied interdisciplinary courses in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Developed excellent team-working skills and problem-solving approaches and had opportunities to lead multi-disciplinary group projects. Notable assessed projects (each requiring a pitch, group report of 5,000 words, group presentation and poster):

 

• Leading a team designing and creating software to model the crystallization of Polylactic Acid for 3D printing to predict tolerances for designs to prevent failure, experience in commercialisation gained.

• Created and co-led a team investigating the relationship between musical stimuli and physiological reactions, discovering a novel difference in reaction to those classically trained vs. novice musicians.

• Created and led a team developing scientific outreach and communication demonstration exhibited in the Brightlands Campus, Maastricht, NL.

• Part of a team creating novel biodegradable packaging and medical materials products from waste keratin in chicken feathers.

First Year:

Introduction to Natural Science: Biology, Introduction to Natural Science: Chemistry, Introduction to Natural Science: Calculus, Organic Chemistry, Philosophy of Science, Research Data Analysis & Presentation, Biomedical Engineering, Research Methods, Chemical Synthesis, Commercialising Science & Technology, Electronics, Elements of physics, Introduction to Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Research Project: Extraction and utilisation of keratin from waste chicken feathers for novel renewable bioplastics.

Second Year

Nanomaterial Science & Technology, Advanced Academic Skills (focusing on cryptography), Science in Action (Philosophy & Sociology within Science), Physical Chemistry, Physics Laboratory, Linear Algebra, Imperative Programming, Laboratory Skills for Molecular Research, Quantum Mechanics, Programming (Java).

Research project 1: Development of software to model the crystallisation of PolyLactic Acid for applications in 3D printing
Research Project 2: MySci - Development of interactive educational outreach art projects to improve science education and engagement.

Third Year

Data Structures & Algorithms, Physics: Vibrations & Waves, Narrative Media, Advanced Physics Lab, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics in Computer Science, Bioinformatics (using JSON).

Research Project: Discovering there is a correlation between physiological reaction to musical stimuli for participants classically trained in music.

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Bachelor Thesis: Risk management and failure prediction for aerospace systems utilising genetic algorithms to generate

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