Describe your career to date 

Data, data and more…data. Since my first work experience, I have used data to deliver analytics. I believe this profession is the most exciting and interesting out of all because the job does not start or stop at the doing part and this means you are constantly feeding and learning from others. 

In financial services I learnt to empathise with the many customers an organisation has. It all starts there, understanding your customer and reading between the lines of what they say they want and what they actually need. Having a background in business management and marketing also helped me develop my commercial acumen, which I describe as the ability to get to the heart of things. This is the ability that drives best in class analytics. These things, mixed with good influencing skills, have been the key ingredients to my career progression. 

About five years ago I joined the Open University, a world full of opportunities to help our society. My team and I are on a fantastic journey, having been successful at securing a multi-million pound investment programme to build up the AI capability of the university with machine learning and MLOps at the heart of it. Exciting times.