Curriculum Vitae

Lead Environmental Risk Modeller

Risilience

Climate and nature risk analytics for FTSE 100 companies, asset managers, insurers and global consumer brands.

• Lead cross-functional team of modellers, economists, data scientists and engineers delivering climate and nature risk analytics to FTSE 100 companies, asset managers, insurers and global consumer brands.
• Own the planning and delivery of climate, nature and supply-chain risk models that quantify physical and transition risk in financial terms across multiple sectors.
• Lead the planning and build of a company-wide digital twin that assesses financial and climate risk from drought, freeze, heatwave, water stress, agricultural yield loss and nature depletion.
• Lead for supply-chain and agricultural risk models spanning 30+ crops, fed by bias-corrected CMIP6 ensembles, satellite data and academic sources.
• Architected and built a first-of-its-kind global crop water balance engine on Google BigQuery, simulating daily soil moisture for 10 commodity crops across ~1.5 million locations at ~9 km resolution, under different models and future scenarios. It processes 570+ billion rows of daily climate data into a 1.1 billion-row output that quantifies water stress across the supply chains of major food, fashion and entertainment brands (case study).’
• Re-architected the data engineering pipeline to stream daily simulations directly into annual results, eliminating 634 TB (2.1 trillion rows) of intermediate tables. This cut cloud storage costs by 94% (from ~$14,000 to under $900 a month) and first-year pipeline cost from $172K to under $11K.
• Cut the full global run of 35 climate scenarios from days to ~14 hours on 4 parallel workers (~45 minutes per scenario). The legacy multi-pass design scanned over 18 PB of data; replacing it cut compute costs by over 99%.
• Resolved production scaling failures in BigQuery, including JavaScript UDF memory exhaustion, 62 TB shuffle spills and DML quota limits, through memory-efficient UDF design (from over 512 MB to under 2 MB per worker), hierarchical geospatial batching, table re-clustering and fault-tolerant, resumable Python orchestration.
• Onboarded and harmonised varied datasets (NASA NEX-GDDP-CMIP6, EarthStat, SoilGrids, SRTM elevation, WRI Aqueduct) onto a common global grid to onboard future data without code changes.
• Own data quality at billion-row scale, with audit queries that isolate anomalies by scenario and region, idempotent slice replacement, and provenance logging for every run.
• Researched and selected CMIP6 ensemble spanning the full range of climate sensitivity, cutting simulation runs by 77% while preserving scientific coverage.
• Part of firm’s AI upgrades team, building agentic workflows with LangGraph and LangSmith that halved model release cycles (from 8 weeks to 4), and trialling enterprise LLM tooling (Gemini, Vertex AI, NotebookLM) for research and client analytics.

Senior Climate Risk Modeller

Sillion

Climate risk and sustainability advisory for FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies and asset managers.

• Led climate risk engagements for FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 clients, delivering scenario analysis, earnings-at-risk, transition risk and double materiality assessments.
• Built Python risk models quantifying earnings-at-risk under multiple climate scenarios, integrated directly into clients’ financial dashboards.
• Integrated results into clients’ TCFD/ISSB, CSRD, TPT, SECR, CDP and GRI disclosures and annual reports, and advised on alignment with Canada’s CSSB standards (CSDS 1 and 2).
• Built the firm’s first transition-planning dashboard, combining economic and climate models to support reporting under TPT, CSRD and CSDDD.
• Product Lead for an ESG research tool tracking KPIs across 600+ companies, integrated into Power BI, Tableau and Excel workflows.
• Sold climate risk models to asset managers and FTSE corporates, personally closing around two contracts a year, the largest worth £820K and several in the £150K–200K range; supported RFPs and sales on around six a year.
• Presented to C-suites, boards and press (media-trained); built recurring business through partnerships and professional networks.
• Managed and mentored junior analysts and consultants.

Net-Zero Data Lead

Bloomberg L.P. (secondment to GFANZ and the Net-Zero Data Public Utility)

On secondment to the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), building the Net-Zero Data Public Utility, a free global climate-transition data platform now hosted by the UNFCCC as the Climate Data Utility.

• Designed the complete data model for the Net-Zero Data Public Utility, launched at COP28 by President Emmanuel Macron and Michael Bloomberg.
• Wrote speech content and figures delivered by Mark Carney (then UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, now Prime Minister of Canada) and Michael Bloomberg.
• Wrote the COP28 launch briefing and built the user guides and demos shown at the COP28 booths.
• Oversaw the work of Google’s engineers, the platform’s external technical partner, through to launch.
• Ran vendor interviews and evaluation with the CTO and the head of the project, helped author the NZDPU request for proposal, and cleaned and prepared the platform’s data.
• Built a climate reporting model for GFANZ and worked with stakeholders including President Macron’s office, the governments of Switzerland and Singapore, CDP and the UNFCCC, supporting the Climate Data Steering Committee’s recommendations and the GFANZ Principals Group statement of support.
• Helped secure the CDP partnership that brought 10,000+ companies’ climate data onto the platform.
• Managed a team of 40 analysts for GFANZ’s COP27 data launch, and prepared briefs on 700 climate KPIs for Michael Bloomberg’s COP27 keynote.
• Co-authored GFANZ’s guidance on financial institution net-zero transition plans and the NZDPU development report with partners from the ISSB and IEA.
• Sold climate data and analytics to asset managers and commodities trading firms.
• Built ETL pipelines and APIs ingesting data from hundreds of providers; subject-matter expert on Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, reporting standards and jurisdictional policy, including Canada’s OSFI Guideline B-15 and CSA climate disclosure rules.

Climate Science Researcher

University of Cambridge & British Antarctic Survey

MPhil research at the Scott Polar Research Institute, funded by the Scott Polar Scholarship (thesis).

• Investigated the atmospheric drivers of surface melt on the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica, over 32 years.
• Analysed 1.7 billion geospatial data points across CMIP5 global and regional climate models and NOAA and Copernicus observations; built a convolutional neural network and EOF analysis to identify seasonal melt patterns.
• Presented findings at conferences; the work is now used as teaching material on Cambridge’s MPhil programme, and was featured on Cambridge’s channels.
• Supervised by Professor Ian Willis (Scott Polar Research Institute) and Dr Amélie Kirchgaessner (British Antarctic Survey).
• Tech stack: Python, xarray, pandas, geopandas, scipy, scikit-learn, eofs, pyproj, netCDF, HDF5, rasterio, GDAL, Shapely, fiona, cartopy, matplotlib, plotly.

Brand Manager, Sustainability

P.G.A. Hospitality

Sustainable business development for a Vancouver hospitality group.

• Contracted to the CEO to lead sustainable business development; managed a team of 10.
• Grew revenue by 233% and profits by 31%, and raised CAD 1.5M in investment.
• Secured contracts with local, sustainable suppliers to keep operations running through pandemic supply-chain disruption.
• Wrote and won an RFP bid for a new location; developed business plans, marketing materials and seasonal menus.
• The business earned 9 awards and a place in Greater Vancouver’s Top 30 cafés.

Geospatial Engineer

UAViation Aerial Solutions

LiDAR drone mapping and flight-automation software; the company was later acquired by Volatus Aerospace.

• Project Lead for LiDAR drone mapping operations and GIS post-processing across British Columbia, Alberta and Yukon.
• Delivered 18 projects in 12 months for government, BC Wildfire Service, search-and-rescue, natural resource, academic and private-sector clients.
• Team Lead for the software team building the company’s flight-automation app (Android Studio, REST APIs, Google Maps API, DJI UX SDK).
• Solved photogrammetry and LiDAR flight-mapping problems in C++, Java and Python; post-processed with Pix4D, ArcGIS and QGIS.
• Supported the CEO in client meetings; my work contributed to the company’s acquisition by Volatus Aerospace.

Research Assistant, Atmospheric Science

University of British Columbia

Fieldwork and remote sensing across the Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences department’s research labs.

• Built, installed and calibrated weather and carbon flux stations to WMO standards to study blue carbon, bog carbon flux and the urban heat island effect in Vancouver.
• Took eddy-covariance measurements during the Buckley Bay wildfires and tested diffuse-radiation fertilisation against NASA aerosol data (contributed to McKendry et al., 2019).
• Sampled and analysed phytoplankton in Burrard Inlet to assess its role as a carbon sink.
• Studied glacial katabatic winds and cloud-street formation over Greenland using MODIS, GOES-16/17 and Landsat 7/8 imagery and ECMWF reanalysis, with PCA, Sobel edge detection, Self-Organizing Maps and CNNs.
• Built ETL pipelines on AWS EC2 and S3, processing GOES satellite data from NOAA’s public archive.

Lead Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

University of British Columbia

Head Teaching Assistant for Computer Science.

• Managed 18 TAs and taught Python and C++ labs and lectures to 1,000 students; Best TA award three years running.
• Helped pilot a new data science course, writing modules on climate data computing and contrast stretching of satellite imagery.

Board Member, Revenue Generation

Compassionate Eye Foundation

A global charity funding grassroots projects aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Board member responsible for revenue generation strategy.
• Identified and applied for grants, trusts and major funding; built relationships with donors, corporate sponsors and stakeholders.

Co-Organiser & DEI Lead

Polar Impact

An NGO supporting BIPOC professionals in the polar research community.

• Co-wrote grant proposals that won £50,000 from the National Science Foundation, UKRI and National Geographic.
• Organised climate justice speaker panels at COP26.

MPhil in Polar Studies (Atmospheric Physics)

University of Cambridge, St Catharine's College

• Scott Polar Scholarship: full scholarship awarded to the top applicant.
• Dissertation: atmospheric drivers of surface melt on the George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica, over 32 years, using machine learning on 1.7 billion geospatial data points.

BSc in Atmospheric Science

University of British Columbia

• Graduated top of class; Dean’s Honour Roll four consecutive years (2017 to 2020).
• Ministry of Education and BC Excellence Scholarships.
• Undergraduate thesis (93%): the effect of glacial katabatic winds on cloud formation over Greenland, using satellite imagery and machine learning. Supervised by Dr Ian McKendry.

Recommendations and Guidance on Financial Institution Net-Zero Transition Plans (co-author)

GFANZ

Development of the Net-Zero Data Public Utility (co-author)

NZDPU / Bloomberg

Request for Proposal: Net-Zero Data Public Utility (contributor)

NZDPU / Bloomberg

Scott Polar Scholarship

University of Cambridge

Full scholarship awarded to the top applicant for the MPhil in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Best Teaching Assistant Award (3 consecutive years)

University of British Columbia

Awarded 2018, 2019, 2020.

Dean's Honour Roll (4 consecutive years)

University of British Columbia

Awarded for scoring above 85% — 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Ministry of Education Scholarship

Government of Canada

Top 25% of students starting post-secondary education in Canada.

BC Excellence Scholarship

Government of British Columbia

Top 10% of students starting post-secondary education in British Columbia.

Western University Entrance Scholarship

Western University

Bronze Medal — Canadian National Science Fair

Youth Science Canada

Hybrid photovoltaic-thermoelectric solar cell with 19% higher efficiency than conventional cells; top project in the Innovation category from over 900 projects nationwide.

Gold Medal — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

Chief Judge Award — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

UBC Engineering Physics Award — Vancouver Provincial Science Fair

University of British Columbia

Top 25 — Pascal Mathematics Contest

Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing