About Me

Personal Achievements

  • Built a course teaching effective data storytelling & visualisation for executive presentations taken by over 800 people.
  • Delivered guest lecture on effective data visualisation at the University of Rotterdam.
  • Winner of Northern UK regional heats and 'audience favourite award' in Famelab, an international STEM public speaking competition.
  • Recipient of the University of Hull's Idwal Jones Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

Career Experience

Aker Systems Jul '25 - Present

Lead Technical Business Analyst

Supporting delivery of secure data platforms for the UK government in security-sensitive environments, operating across business analysis, data modelling, integration architecture and delivery.

Quickline Communications Jun '22 - Jul '25

Senior Business Analyst (BA & QA Manager)

2024 Employee of the Year - Lead BA on £12m digital transformation programme, implementing Salesforce, Certinia ERP, and Mulesoft ESB, enabling scale from 90 to 500 employees to support network expansion and secure £300m subsidy revenue

  • Built BA & QA function, implementing agile practices to achieve and maintain >95% first-time acceptance on all deliverables.
  • Led £260k investment into customer journey development improving web sales conversion by 67%.
  • Re-designed customer onboarding processes, improving 1st-time customer install success rate from 14% to 80% on 2,000 monthly installs.
  • 4 FTE (£120k/year) savings through redesign of manual install process, designing & implementing an install scheduling platform.
  • Led the seamless migration of 14,000 customers from multiple legacy operational and ERP systems to Salesforce & Certinia ERP, ensuring zero revenue disruption.
SGS&CO Jun '21 - Jun '22

Senior Business Analyst (Business Analyst II)

Managed a portfolio of SaaS customer implementations end-to-end including commercial engagement/presales, discovery, design and delivery. Customers included L’Oreal, Mondelez, Waitrose and Morrisons.

  • Defined requirements, scoped solutions, and led process & data mapping for an artwork and project management SaaS platform (Mediabox), delivering tailored implementations for major clients including L’Oréal and Mondelez.
  • Mentored 10+ business analysts, coaching on requirements elicitation, user story development, and UAT best practices, improving delivery quality and stakeholder engagement.
  • Supported client presales and upsales activity, delivering engaging software demonstrations, process mapping workshops, and onboarding sessions, contributing to business growth and customer retention.
  • Partnered with the Mediabox Product Owner, driving backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Agile ceremonies to align product development with evolving client needs.
University of Hull Mar '19 - Jun '21

Research & Enterprise Analyst (Contract)

Provided strategic analysis and project delivery for University leadership’s submission to REF2021, directly contributing to a £30m research income boost and a 17-place research ranking increase.

  • Shaped organisational data strategy, translating high-level vision into departmental implementation.
  • Supported the Head of Research Excellence in REF project delivery.
  • Chaired IT/data working group, resolving system integration and data governance challenges.
  • Facilitated C-suite and director-level workshops, eliciting requirements to develop bespoke reporting tools.
  • Designed and implemented automated dashboards for research performance tracking using SQL, R, Python and REST APIs.
Ministry of Defence Sept '16 - Mar '19

ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillence, Target Acquisition, Reconnaisance) Engineering Manager

Led key high-value, strategic projects in data science, electronic warfare and cyber resilience. Provided electronic warfare subject matter expertise during a number of UK government postings within the Defence & Intelligence pertaining to Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR).

  • Implemented machine learning solutions using Python, R, MATLAB, SQL and REST APIs.
Home Office Mar '17 - Oct '17

CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Science Lead (Secondment)

Fixed-term secondment to the Office for Security & Counter-Terrorism, providing support to national security, the UK's strategy for countering terrorism (CONTEST) and the Serious & Organised Crime Strategy.

BAE Systems Aug '04 - Jul '08

Data & Avionics Technician

Drafted avionics systems test procedures and Integrated Test, Evaluation & Acceptance Plans (ITEAP)

Education

Quantic School of Business & Technology Oct '21

MBA

  • Grade: 1st
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Centre for Electronic, Information & Cyber) Aug '17

MSc Military Electronic Systems Engineering

  • Grade: 1st
  • Modules: Machine learning, AI, data engineering & sensor data fusion pertaining to Radar, Communications, SIGINT and Electronic Warfare.
University of Hull Aug '17

BSc Astrophysics

  • Grade: 1st (92% average, Idwal Jones Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement)
Certs & Qualifications
  • BCS Professional Certificate in Benefits Planning & Realisation
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • TOGAF 10
  • Duke University’s AI Product Management certificate
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner Certificate in Project Management
  • DataCamp Data Scientist career track certificate
Skills
  • AWS (EC2, MSK, OpenSearch, Kinesis, S3, Glue)
  • R, Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib), SQL, GraphQL, REST APIs, Postman, Mulesoft
  • Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Comms Cloud, Field Service Lightning, Support Cloud, Experience Cloud, Vlocity/OmniScript)
  • Wireframing, customer journey mapping, process engineering, software testing
  • User stories, BRDs, SRDs, business case, investment case, financial forecasting, BPMN, UML
  • Physical/logical/conceptual data architecture, dimensional data modelling, DAGs/orchestrations