Data Science · AI · Policy

I lead data and technology projects
from plan to launch.

I build predictive models, automate the boring parts of reporting, and explain the results in plain English so they actually get used.

9+ yearsworking with data
PhDmachine learning for water treatment
4 dayssaved every reporting cycle through automation

About me

A data & AI specialist who cares about what happens next

I've spent over nine years working with data in very different places: an electricity distribution company in Nigeria, a university research lab looking at mine water, and now Deloitte, where I'm an Analytics Lead in Data Analytics & Modelling.

The thread running through all of it is simple. A model or dashboard is only useful if someone acts on it. So I spend as much time understanding the problem and the people as I do writing code.

My PhD used machine learning to predict how well treatment systems remove contaminants from water. Day to day, I lead projects end to end, from scoping with senior stakeholders to building the pipeline and handing over something the team can run without me.

Areas of expertise

What I'm good at

Predictive modelling

Classification and regression models built to answer a real question, with honest evaluation and thresholds chosen for the business, not the leaderboard.

Automation & data pipelines

Workflows that pull, clean and check data automatically, so teams stop rebuilding the same spreadsheet every month.

Dashboards & reporting

Interactive tools in Power BI and Tableau that give leaders one clear view instead of twenty country files.

Explaining data clearly

Turning sensitivity, recall and SHAP values into plain language that clinicians, partners and government officials can act on.

Environmental data science

Machine learning for water treatment, from field sampling to seasonal analysis of full-scale lagoons and wetlands.

Leading teams & delivery

Running sprints, reviewing code, mentoring juniors, and building teams from nothing when the work calls for it.

Selected projects

Work I'm proud of

A mix of client work, research and personal projects. Some details are kept general where the work is confidential.

Analytics product

One view of Europe's audit performance

Financial data sat in separate country-level files with no way to compare across the continent. I led the build of a single analytics product that pulls it all together, with automated ingestion, transformation and validation.

Impact: the first continent-level operational insights across Deloitte's Audit & Assurance firms, and 4 days saved every reporting cycle.

PythonSQLAlteryxSynapsePower BI
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Machine learning

Fraud and risk detection model

Suspicious cases were being flagged inconsistently by hand. Working with business stakeholders, I built a classification model that scores cases so reviewers can focus on the ones most likely to matter.

Result: 92% accuracy and 89% recall on evaluation data, giving reviewers a more consistent starting point.

PythonDataikuscikit-learn
PhD research

Can we predict how well water gets cleaned?

My PhD applied machine learning to predict contaminant removal in full-scale mine water treatment systems, alongside field studies of how the seasons combined with design of lagoons and wetlands affect iron removal.

Published: first author in Ecological Engineering (2024) and Environmental Processes (2025).

PythonMachine learningField data
Benin Electricity Distribution Co.

Getting the lights back on

There was no customer enumeration team in the branch, so I built one: trained 20 people, ran the budget, classified customers, assigned tariff bands and reported to government stakeholders.

Impact: 4,500 customer records collected and power restored to 1,500 households after 7 years of blackout.

ExcelField data collectionStakeholder reporting
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Automation

From static spreadsheets to live capacity planning

Resource planning ran on static Excel files that went out of date the moment they were saved. I turned them into interactive, automated capacity tools.

Impact: clearer view of workloads, fewer scheduling clashes and better use of specialist people.

AlteryxPower BIExcel
Personal project · Blog

House prices: how many features is too many?

I built and compared five regression models on the Ames Housing data to find what really drives a home's sale price, and what happens when you throw every feature at the model.

Finding: Ridge regression won with an R² of 0.78 on test data. More features only helped once regularisation kept the model in check.

Pythonscikit-learnRidge regression
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Toolkit

What I work with

Languages

PythonSQL

Machine learning

scikit-learnXGBoostSHAP

Methods

Random ForestArtificial Neural NetworksPCA

Data & automation

pandasNumPyAlteryxExcelAzure SynapseDataiku

Visualisation

Power BITableau

Contact

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