General Info
Areas of interest include:
- Energy
- New Technology
- Machine Learning
- Finance
- Insurance
- Telecoms
- Entertainment
- Retail
Summary
- Data science people leader and individual contributor with over 4 years’ experience in combating Financial Fraud, managing Credit Risk, and Customer Acquisition
- PhD in Physics & 6 years’ entrepreneurial experience in data science in the energy field
- Excellent knowledge of SQL, Python, and R
- Business development – founded and led a team to discover and solve real business problems
- Product management - developed and managed a complex hardware and software product from inception to real-world deployment
- Project management – devised and implemented commercialization projects for several industries
- Fundraising – raised over $6M in research funding and $1.5M in innovation funding
- Innovation – 3 patent applications currently under review
- Public speaking – over 10 international presentations at scientific conferences
- Technical writing – co-author or main author on 20 peer-reviewed publications in top journals
- Leadership – led teams of up to 5 technical performers while also contributing IC work
- Entrepreneurship – shortlisted for national and international innovation awards
Work Experience
Analytics Engineering Manager
January 2024 - Present
Wealthsimple, Toronto, ON, Canada
Wealthsimple is an automated investing service that allows you to reap the benefits of a managed portfolio while still offering personalized support at low fees, trusted by over 3 million Canadians.
Data Analysis Manager
January 2023 - January 2024
Principal Data Analyst
July 2021 - January 2023
Senior Data Analyst
November 2019 - July 2021
Capital One, Toronto, ON, Canada
Capital One is a Fortune 500 company that has been helping Canadians succeed with credit for over 20 years.
Chief Data Scientist, CEO, Founder
December 2014 – August 2019
Electrical Analytics Technology Ltd., Ireland
Electrical Analytics are a spinout of Trinity College Dublin, providing custom hardware and data-driven monitoring solutions for the energy industry.
- Founded and led this high-tech startup from conception through to trials with real customers
- Built a data pipeline & analysis toolkit and user interface for power grid operators and energy users
- Drove an inter-disciplinary team of engineers, providing technical and commercial direction
- Developed business relationships with customers to improve our product and initiate trials
- Raised $1.5M in non-equity funding to support technology development
- Wrote and illustrated patents, presentations, reports, and proposals
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Physics Research Group
November 2013 – August 2019
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s top-ranked university with a tradition of scholarship spanning more than four centuries, and is one of the top universities in Europe for innovation.
- Secured $7.5M in research funding as lead proposal writer, including $265,000 as Lead Grantee
- Co-authored 20 research papers in top journals in the field, and presented at international conferences
- Managed innovation projects, supervised senior staff, and signed off on spending
- Designed and built experimental setups and new technology prototypes including custom electronic hardware, embedded control software, data gathering and analysis
- Simulated nanoscale physical processes using first-principles and finite element modelling
Skills
Programming Languages
- Advanced: Python, SQL, R, HTML, CSS, Excel
- Experienced: C, Mathematica, Matlab, Scikit-Learn
- Intermediate: C++, Hadoop & Spark platforms, Javascript, TensorFlow
Technical Skills
- Excellent statistical & time-series analysis skills
- Excellent physical & mathematical modelling skills including linear algebra & regression
- In-depth energy industry knowledge
- Linux, MacOS, & Windows power-user
- Experienced technical writer & illustrator
- Mathematical modelling & experimental design
- Specialist in nanotechnology & physical processes
Other Skills
- Proven leadership track record – supervised junior and senior staff on innovation projects
- Comfortable communicating to large and small groups
- Over 6 years’ project management experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent research skills – capable of rapidly upskilling in new fields
- Problem solver – creativity and the ability to quickly adapt to new ideas
- Business development – founded and led a team to discover and solve real business problems
- Innovation – 3 patent applications currently under review
- Entrepreneurship – shortlisted for national (Irish) and international innovation awards
Education
Advanced Diploma in Project Management (PMP-based)
Dublin Business School, Ireland
2015
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2009 – 2013
Bachelor of Science in Physics & Computer Simulation
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2005 – 2009
Selected Undergraduate Modules:
- Numerical simulation
- Linear algebra
- Non-linear algebra
- Time-series analysis
- Statistics
- C programming
- Python programming
- Regression
- Mathematical models
Awards & Honours
Capital One Beacon Award 2021 Q2
- I received this award for my work on our Fraud Mass Compromise Strategy
- Beacon is the most prestigious award in Capital One Canada, awarded every quarter
Finalist in Innovation Competitions
- Dublin Business Innovation Centre Futurescope One2Watch 2018 (Ireland)
- ESB Spark of Genius 2017 (Portugal)
- Enterprise Ireland One to Watch 2017 (Ireland)
Invited talks
- Invited speaker at Trinity College Dublin’s MSc. (Energy Science) Course 2019 (Ireland)
- National Power & Energy Summit 2019 (Ireland)
- National Sustainability Summit 2018 (Ireland)
- National Research & Innovation Conference 2018 (Ireland)
- “When Science Met Business” Special Event 2018 (Ireland)
- Web Summit 2017 (Portugal)
- “Commercializing Research: Spin-out Company Success Stories” 2017 (Kazakhstan)
Media
- Featured in national newspapers and national radio: