Jun 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · On-site

• Retained for role as part of WhiteHat Security acquisition
• Leading and Managing a team of Data Scientists with cross-product engagement across the WhiteHat, Polaris and wider SIG product ranges, including but not limited to the application of MLOps techniques to automated vulnerability verification, dynamic payload generation, churn modelling, security metric evaluation and NLP customer feedback characterization.
• Stakeholder for LLM approval and all AI/GenAI projects across SIG.
• Responsible for setting strategic priorities in research and team-upskilling to support continuous innovation, and aligning these research strands with wider corporate goals and workstreams.
• First Aider and Fire Warden

Oct 2019 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

• (WhiteHat Security, acquired by NTT)
• Initially hired as first Team lead, 1y promotion to Engineering Manager responsible for management, vision, strategy and technology.
• Building a Data Science capability from scratch in an established cyber security player.
• Building and growing the Data Science team members in ML methodology and technology stack.
• Aligning with cross-team leaders to find problems that can be solved with Data Science processes.
• Deliverying and Monitoring Machine Learning solutions to production.
• Providing detailed and accessible documentation and explanation of advanced statistical and data science practices.
• Architecting solutions in line with scoped justifications.
• Evaluate/set architectural standards for the whole ML projects in working with the Chief Architect.
• UK Immigration Liaison

Mar 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

• Using advanced data mining and machine learning to analyse potential hacking and malware attacks on cloud infrastructure, improving coverage, value-assessment, and process control both internally and to customers.
• Architected and built serverless TB-scale incident ETL and analysis platform, tracking both Research KPI's, customer impacts for remediation, and overall operational monitoring.
• Developed dynamic customer segmentation methodologies, and ML derived Content Signature validation/vectorisation techniques.
• Generated internal software development, deployment, and scaling best practices in line with industry and academic state of art

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

• Sensum Co is a leading emotional analytics start-up engaged with global brands in the assessment of real-time audience/participant engagement and emotionality.
• Primary responsibilities in data analysis and investigation, as well as the design, development and testing of of micro services based cloud API/SDK architecture for the real time collation and analysis of mixed modality biometric and context data.
• Secondary responsibilities in the architecture of secure data services architecture, PII management, data visualisation, ingress, ETL, as well as on-site, cloud, and mobile data analysis and connectivity architecture.
• Includes direct engagement with client facing analysis and investigation, as well as the encouragement and migration to industrial best practice in areas of data security, communications infrastructure and project management.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Traffic Observation and Management is a university spin-out company specialising in advanced wireless security systems for the public hotspot and payments services industries.
• Contributed to ongoing development and refinement of the core SpriteGuard product structure and marketing, including stakeholder discussion and trade show representation.
• In addition, as part of a Centre for Defence Enterprise (UK) call, took part in a collaborative development programme with National Physical Laboratories (NPL, Teddington) and Plextek Ltd, (Cambridge) around the development of dynamic localisation in GPS-denied environments for marine platforms.

Jun 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Belfast/Liverpool

• Traffic Observation and Management is a university spin-out company specialising in advanced wireless security systems for the public hotspot and payments services industries.
• Contributed to ongoing development and refinement of the core SpriteGuard product structure and marketing, including stakeholder discussion and trade show representation.
• In addition, as part of a Centre for Defence Enterprise (UK) call, took part in a collaborative development programme with National Physical Laboratories (NPL, Teddington) and Plextek Ltd, (Cambridge) around the development of dynamic localisation in GPS-denied environments for marine platforms.

Jul 2014 – Nov 2014 · 4 mos

• "Popular Technology" writer, explaining and commentating on a range of technical subjects from GPS denial to Quantum Cryptography.

Sep 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Liverpool, United Kingdom

• “An Investigation into Trust and Reputation Frameworks for Collaborative Teams of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
• Working in the area of trust and security in telecommunications and autonomous networks for marine environments as part of a joint UK-FR PhD programme.
• The programme was agreed at the 2010 Anglo-French Summit as one of the ten priorities in 2011 for the Anglo French Defence Research Group (AFDRG).
• Included collaborations with:
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Plextek Ltd. on Enhanced Kalman Filtering for acoustic marine localisation in GPS denied environments.
• NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation on REMUS payload scoping and potential malicious misbehaviours of autonomous AUVs

Jul 2013 – Sep 2013 · 2 mos · Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Coordinating research between Information Management and Naval Systems departments to synthesize a coordinated, data driven approach towards maritime autonomy and its potential applications.
• Culminated in significant contribution to a Five-Eyes Autonomy Exchange project.

Nov 2011 – Feb 2024 · 12 yrs 3 mos · Weavers Court, Belfast

• Building Farset Labs as a hub for the tech community in Belfast and Northern Ireland as a whole, ensuring that the organisation remains agile and true to its core values.

Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Belfast, United Kingdom

• Conducted the first two years of my postgraduate research at the ECIT institute at QUB before moving to the University of Liverpool

Oct 2006 – Jul 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Student representative conveying and discussing issues related to my course to members of staff and faculty. Chaired the committee in my final year.

Jul 2011 – Aug 2011 · 1 mo · Zurich, Switzerland

• Implementing and prototyping next generation embedded computing platforms and contributing to the Coreboot, SerialICE and FlashROM Open source Projects.

Feb 2011 – Jan 2012 · 11 mos

• Start-up company involved in the development of on-line media services and leveraging social graphs for retail and enterprise purposes.

Oct 2010 – Jan 2011 · 3 mos

• Specialising in critical data recovery for students and SME's around Belfast

Apr 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Dealing primarily with event and information management.

Sep 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr · Belfast, United Kingdom

• Application of technical knowledge and experience around Social Marketing and Customer Relationship Management to a leading Marketing and Advertising Firm. Responsibilities included strategic report generation for the creative director around the growth of social media marketing, relevant technologies such as Google Analytics for performance stracking and RFID / Smart Phone / Geo-location for targeted advertising. Directly contributed and presented at tender presentations.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2009 · 1 yr

• Working to streamline the product release cycle from a waterfall style development to a more Agile, incremental system. In my work i have reduced release testing time from 3 days to half an hour, with fully automated reporting for a Proprietary client application. I later moved on to server-side performance benchmarking for multi-gigabyte aggregation applications built on MySQL. During this time, I implemented testing strategies not only for the client devices, but also for that test suite itself, and a 'watchdog' system for the server-side processing; this was very useful as during my time at Ericsson, they made the migration from Solaris SPARC to Solaris x86, and my automated testing systems greatly sped up the integration testing of the migration.

Jul 2004 – Dec 2009 · 5 yrs 5 mos

• Consumer Electronics Sales