Who I am

After graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama with a First with Honours in Theatre Practice (Production Lighting) in 2008, I spent a decade in the live events and theatre industry as a video engineer and design associate, working around the world on productions ranging from small fringe venues, musicals, and new collaborative theatre shows in non-traditional spaces, to corporate product launches and charity galas, operas, and music concerts.

However, I decided I wanted to leave the freelance life and move into full-time employment, and in 2019 I started work as a contractor at PwC (one of the Big Four accounting and professional services firms), working in Operations. I became full-time in 2020, and spent three years upskilling myself and working on data visualisation and analytics projects, becoming proficient in various data wrangling and visualisation tools. I've always been interested in stories and how they are told, right from when I started work in youth theatre in my teens, and that applies just as well to how data is analysed and visualised to help tell the stories that the data holds.

I am passionate about sharing what I know, and am comfortable working with a range of stakeholders - junior and senior, casual and formal - to speak confidently about what I'm working on.

I believe in outcomes rather than outputs, and that any piece of work must be able to answer the "so what?" question that stakeholders need answering. There is no point in creating a nice pretty dashboard with lots of bells and whistles if it doesn't provide answers to the important questions the business needs solving.

During my career I have also spoken openly about various diversity and inclusion topics within the workplace - including disability, neurodivergence, gender, and sexuality - and am an advocate for driving meaningful and lasting change within organisations to improve inclusion, awareness, and acceptance for disabled and neurodiverse people, and gender and sexual minorities.