My professional experience has taken a path through many sectors. I have always been encouraged to work and it started with a lawn mowing round in school, transitioned into working at the local climbing centre then spanning into other extreme activities whilst at University. I say extreme I was a team leader at a trampoline park and a White Water Rafting Guide.
I went to Cardiff Met University where I studied Performance Analysis in Sport. I developed a grounding in sports sciences, with a clear focus on analysis. It was here I jumped on the opportunity to work with the Hockey team where I worked as an analyst a role which moved from volunteer to professional following the completion of my degree. It was a time filled with time motion analysis and big data that spills out of it. I learnt skills in understanding new tech and the real skill of learning to learn. It was from here I learnt to code and fundamental skills in computer science.
Following graduating I seemed to make a good enough impression that my colleges wanted me to stay around. I joined the teaching team as senior technician where I supported practical sessions, maintained and developed the equipment, this was through both maintaining computers and camera equipment as well as managing a budget and developing a network of IP cameras to empower analysis. Along side my academic responsibilities we also took on a number of consultancies for a number of external sports teams and projects. One of the most memorable being the 1:59 project, which is a story I am happy to share. As much as I loved my time at the university I felt a need to move on to the wider world to see where my skills could take me.
It was from here I took a jump into the world of Ecommerce. I joined a small business and took on all the IT and Technical responsibilities of the business. This went from trivial tech issues in the small team to developing and re-platforming the store. I undertook a complete analysis of the webspace and identified issues that once corrected increased revenue over night. It helps to being able go to the check out on android devices. The real trick was to remove the complication out of the process and help the owner feel more in control.
Whilst I was there the world experienced a pretty big shake up, thank you COVID. It drew me to want to do my bit so I am currently working Digital Health Care Wales part of NHS Wales. I started off working for Value in Health using data to find the best value for patients and the service. Now I have moved into organisational performance where we are trying to support the service through inciteful performance management. This has involved me developing a number of training sessions and clearing up tools to help teams and organisations find paths to achieving there goals.