Dec 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London · Hybrid

• Set strategic direction for AI & Model Risk Management through thought leadership, embedding into established processes, and upskilling the organisation.
• Architect the Model Review Playbook. Designing the types, methodology and content of reviews, spanning process assurance, technical validation, and model performance.
• Lead organisation-wide AI & Model Risk Management communications and engagement with model teams to risk assess models and support 1LoD improvements.
• Own Model Inventory and Model Assurance Plan, leading on high-profile Model Reviews.
• Manage the Embedding Model Risk Management programme by owning the project plan, stakeholder communications, and reporting progress.
• Stay abreast of industry-wide Model Risk and AI developments.
• Collaborate with 2nd line functions (Risk Management, Compliance, Assurance etc) and 1st line (Cyber, Advanced Analytics, Data Governance, Data Ethics etc).

Aug 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London

• Established new analytical function, utilising advanced analytics and bespoke data analysis to support the chancellor of the Exchequer in developing £37bn of support to households during the cost-of-living crisis.
• Designed and oversaw a programme of analytical work analysing how economic changes and public policy affect people and their living standards, including investigating whether changes are felt evenly across different groups in society.
• Designed and implemented improved Model Risk Management practices.
• Presented and disseminated sensitive analytical findings to the most influential decision makers in government, including supporting the No.10 Data Science team.
• Additional Corporate Role of Head of Profession for Operational Research in Cabinet Office and No.10

Oct 2017 – Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Transformed the end-to-end data process for the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio, tracking £600bn of Government spending.
• Led the design and production of a suite of high-quality analytical products used by the Prime Minster and the senior leaders of Government’s top 200 major projects.
• Established in-house data science and machine learning capability to develop deeper insights from past performance as a tool for predicting and optimising future delivery of major projects.
• Provided strategic direction and leadership to a multi-disciplinary analytical team across the fields of economics, statistics, social and operational research, including the introduction of Model Risk Management processes and controls.
• Project managed £250k IT transformation project to move the data collection from 20 Government departments, with 500 users, online.
• As Head of Profession for Operational Research in the Cabinet Office & No.10, championed and grew the profession, instilling a strong focus on collective and personal development.

Jul 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Established the MOD Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s analytical and modelling capability, including establishing a departmental-wide Model Risk Management function. Working closely with MOD and Front-Line Command customers.
• Oversaw portfolio of sensitive analytical outputs, including geospatial analytical products, asset life-cycle replacement cost forecasts and modelling projects leading to efficiency savings of 168 working days per year.

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos

• - As Programme Manager, delivered BBC Charter Review White Paper on time, and to budget, following cross-Whitehall ministerial negotiations and sign-off.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr

• - Provided cross-organisational leadership for DCMS, leading on the departments most successful Autumn Statement and being Chief Analyst for the 2015 Spending Review.

Apr 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Led analytical and modelling work across the department, overseeing key projects and ensuring departmental-wide adherence to quality assurance and data governance rules.
• Established the Whitehall Department’s first Model Risk Management function including designing and embedding key processes, controls, and Model Inventory.
• Initiated and led on a programme of work to improve DCMS’s overall project & programme management processes, capacity, and performance.
• Developed a DCMS evaluation strategy and provided leadership on evaluations across the department as DCMS’s Head of Evaluations.
• Led on the delivery of the UK Broadband Impact Study; project managing the £150,000 expert modelling project ensuring it was delivered to the agreed timescales and quality.

Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 · 6 mos

• Head of Youth Research Strategy Team providing essential advice and guidance to MOJ Ministers, Cross Government policy colleagues and the Youth Justice Board (YJB).
• Evaluated the effectiveness of the prison-based Offender Treatment Programmes using the quasi-experimental research design of Propensity Score Matching.
• Managed a successful data linking project, matching 4,000 interviewed prisoners to their Police National Computer record using fuzzy matching.

Jan 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Project managed ground-breaking research called the Offender Management Community Cohort Study. Implemented the study nationally, taking it from a specification document and making it a reality. Overcoming legal, technical, organisational, financial, and ethical barriers to implementation.
• Data manipulation, cleansing and analysis of multiple large datasets. Including a UK-wide longitudinal study of 4,000 prisoners called Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction.
• Analysis of personal level offender data, criminal backgrounds, and reoffending rates. Including work published in the Ministry of Justice Reoffending Compendium receiving national press coverage.

Feb 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Led data analysis to drive Government policy, key strategic decisions and assess national performance. Championed the results and communicated them to multiple stakeholders.
• Designed, communicated, and embedded key performance indicators and a balanced scorecard for the National Probation Service. Provided key monitoring and assessment, encompassing 16,000 employees.
• Identified and implemented efficiency opportunities to improve data timeliness and accuracy. Created and embedded various automation tools that saved my unit at least 20 staff hours per month.

Aug 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• - Researched, proposed, created, and ran a Programme Office to support the Northern European Management Team. Leveraged reporting tools between departments, training over 70 users. Designed and created an internal performance reporting web site. Performed various data mining, database cleansing and analysis tasks.