About

Welcome to my personal site. Here you can find my online resumé along with unsolicited opinions on topics in data science and analytics.

I am a senior data professional with a Ph.D in Machine Learning, MSc. in Business Intelligence and about twenty years experience across a wide range of technologies and special projects. I also come with management and leadership experience and other non-technical skills such as workshop design and facilitation, teaching and training, and stewarding Agile development teams to deliver great work. You can read more about my professional work on my LinkedIn Profile

Outside of work, I am a huge fan of avant-garde, extreme and experimental metal music. I am a regular concert goer in the great metal music scene in Berlin, where I live. I am and also an admin/moderator of the LGBTQ Metalheads Facebook Page, where we support and represent individuals who don’t always feel welcome in their local metal scenes.

I relax by listening to music at home (audiophile, hi-fidelity) on top of seeing treasured live shows. I also love to engage with many forms of contemporary art (visual, performance, craft/making). I have a torrid time trying to improve my German but I still try. My guilty pleasure is Ru Paul’s Drag Race. I also try to keep up to date with trends in data science and machine learning but anyone working in this field knows how fast things are changing. I prepare my own meals as much as possible, exercise and socialise regularly, and take travel adventure trips (at least) once per year. And that’s all the time there is to fill well accounted for.

In Winter, I’m usually in Singapore, because it’s some kind of second home to me and because the weather in Berlin at that time of year is far from ideal.