Experience

Heading into AI — building on quantitative finance, computational science, and earlier experience building R&D and a venture-backed start-up from the ground up. Below is the overview; download the concise or full CV for the detail.

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Contractor — AI Safety Research

Deloitte LLP (client: AI Safety Institute (UK)) — London

Contracting through Deloitte on a research project for the UK AI Safety Institute, designing and stress-testing recursive debate frameworks for AI safety. Focus on the formal structure of honest vs. dishonest debaters, separation of ground truth from main claims, and the construction of high-difficulty obfuscated arguments to evaluate robustness against hidden flaws and verification intractability.

Model Validation Quantitative Analyst (VP)

Citi — London

Independent model validation of equity and equity-rates-hybrid base and product models, covering first-time validations, re-validations and model-change workflows. Owned the end-to-end validation lifecycle from materiality assessment through independent testing to validation report and ongoing performance monitoring.

Quantitative Analyst (Manager → Senior Manager)

Deloitte LLP — London

Quantitative consulting across multiple investment-bank clients, progressing from Manager to Senior Manager. Engagements spanned front-office equity-derivatives model validation, counterparty credit risk internal-model review, regulatory stress-testing validation, and a Libor-transition library upgrade.

Quantitative Developer

SunGard (now FIS) — Oxfordshire, U.K.

Quantitative developer on SunGard / FIS's Adaptiv counterparty-credit-risk product suite, consulting to bank clients on regulatory CCR implementations.

Assistant Quantitative Analyst

VTB Capital PLC — 14 Cornhill, London

Counterparty-credit-risk quant in the Quantitative Risk Management Group, calibrating risk-factor models and supporting UAT of the bank's PFE simulation platform.

Earlier career — start-up & R&D

Before finance and AI, over a decade of hands-on R&D — including building a venture-backed start-up's R&D function from scratch and driving first-of-their-kind products to market.

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Research & Development Director

Veryan Medical Ltd. — Galway, Ireland

First full-time employee of a venture-backed start-up spun out of Imperial College — built the R&D team from scratch and drove a first-of-its-kind product from concept to market.

Research & Development Engineer

Biocompatibles Cardiovascular Ltd. — U.K.

R&D engineer who identified and fixed the analysis flaw that had stalled a flagship product's launch — turning a blocked programme around.

Research & Development Engineer

Medtronic Inc. — Ireland

Early-career R&D engineer; grew from co-op student into specialising in computational (finite-element) analysis.

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