Apr 07-Present: Pricing Analyst, LV=, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society.
SAS analyst programmer and MI analyst for general insurancec in pricing and statistics at LV=.
High level reporting and performance trend analysis using SAS to interrogate data sets, data mining and manipulation to investigate variances within business areas. Provide service to finance, new business, underwriting and executives.
Mar 06-Apr 07: Management Information Analyst, LV=, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society.
Responsible for coordinating all the information and statistics available for effective management of the Sales Division.
Analyst for leading financial services company. Programming with Visual Basic for Excel and Access to analyse and coordinate data through automated systems, developing macros to import and organise data, including editing and creation of trigger control to manage the data. System builds to improve efficiency and relevance of data to offer statistical presentations and to investigate peaks and troughs for performance.
Analysis spanning high level business performance, such as integrating business forecasts into manageable daily targets, adjusting targets based on incoming business and calculating sales performance against budget over various time scales, weekly executive report of GI sales and leads performance. Formatting internet MI to accurately present conversions of sales (to quotes and analysis of visitors to the sites). I have also developed systems to record and monitor performance trends of each individual in the call centre, team leaders and the department as a whole. Patterns or anomalies then alert management teams to areas requiring coaching, training or praise. MI and reporting drives profitability and business understanding. These goals are the basis of all my projects, which I keep in mind when designing and implementing new systems and reports.
2003-present: Freelance Web Design and Programmer, Evolving Media & 3D Ink (plus various other contracts).
Designing and implementing web sites, developing programmes to run web sites and building content management systems.
Design and implementation of database driven websites, programming with PHP and MySQL to construct and connect to online databases. Design of content management systems, object oriented programming to support web tools and general layout structures efficient navigation and search engine rankings. Web development with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, (X)HTML, and CSS (for accessibility compliance). Some jobs involved backend programming to run the site such as creating a worldwide competition portal tracking entries and dynamically providing statistics including for example, highest scores for each country, age or group. Others involve entire process of designing and creating a web site, implementing databases to house portfolios or galleries and site maintenance.
Planned multitude of web sites based on customer brief, made relevant decisions to portray the optimal brand for the customer. In addition, being self-employed enhanced skills of management, budgeting and accounts and ability to handle several complex projects simultaneously. (Project work for new media and web design companies and contract work for individuals)
1998-2003: Temporary Employment, to supplement gaps in study/work.
Positions include audio typist and administrator at Mental Health Services for the NHS Trust, Health and Safety Services at Vertex Bedford, Patent Secretary and Legal Secretary/Administrator for several Solicitor firms in Liverpool, audio typist for Merseyside Police.
Performed senior office tasks, client files, administration and customer service. Organised meetings for senior staff and dealt with many challenging situations. Dealing with patients concerned about medication or treatment for the NHS grounded effective communication and interpersonal skills and the importance of professional conduct.
1998-2003: University Work Experience
A great deal of scientific work experience has been gained through projects and dissertations for my BSc and MSc. Through many practicals and tutorials focussed on protein structure and molecular biology I was enthused by the subject leading to a crystallography BSc project allowing an independent study to solve the structure of a molecule by X-ray diffraction. My Masters project was conducted as both a scientific study in addition to full web design and construction, at SigNetUK. Here I gained extensive experience of bioinformatics tools and databases adding to my bioinformatics programming skills.
BSc:
Dissertation :: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and her studies on biologically important molecules.
Project :: X-ray structure determination of Papaverine Hydrochloride.
MSc:
Dissertation :: The immune response: what bioinformatics has told us and how this information might be integrated into a view of the response to infection.
Project :: Identification of putative hedgehog-like signalling components in C. elegans.