Curriculum Vitae

Doctor Peter J Bleackley

Professional Experience

Consultant Data Scientist

Playful Technology Limited March 2015 - July 2024

Director of a data science consultancy undertaking research and development projects in data science and related technologies.

Clients
CloudNC
Research and Development of Bayesian Models to predict the optimal operating parameters for CNC tools
eFinancialCareers
Startiing up new data science function for client after demerger from parent company.
Cross-training a developer as a data scientist and interviewing permanent senior data scientist.
Investigating possible improvements to existing job matching system, and prototyping content-based recommendation system to match candidates to jobs.
Arthur D Little
Developing Natural Language Processing technology for a medical diagnostics startup. Included work on separating sentences containing conjunctions into multiple sentences.
Adecco
Named Entity Recognition, Named Entity Linking and document classification for matching CVs to job descriptions.
Sopra Steria
Improving the training system for anti-money-laundering software for HSBC.
GHFP Reseach Institute
Created an interactive map of the Better Place Index.
Amey Strategic Consulting
Created an automatic diagnostic system to detect faults in traffic flow sensors on the strategic road network.
Cambridge Quantum Computing Limited
Developed MongoDB-based data capture and postprocessing software for a quantum random number generation system.
Pentland Brands Limited
Performed a proof-of-concept study on the use of facial point-cloud data to recommend swimming goggles.
Rolls Royce AI Hub
Created a testbed for a specialist search application
Developed a parser library to extract logically-structured data from technical documents in a variety of formats, including scanned PDFs.
Advised on tenders and collaborative projects.
All Street Research
Rapid-prototyped a document mining system that identified the most relevant paragraphs for given themes in corporate documents.
Boehringer Ingelheim
Investigated text mining of healthcare forums for phamacovigilance data. True 212
Created a computational linguistics pipeline to enable semantic matching between blogs and external content to identify relevant links.
TechBit
Developed algorithms to classify swimming strokes and extract performance metrics from motion sensor data.
Formisimo
Improved the accuracy of a system that predicted, in real time, whether a user would complete or abandon a web form.
Social Finance
Created an ETL system that transformed XML files of social services data into Postgres tables, cleansed inconsistent data, inferred missing data where possible, and prevented deanonymisation.
Metafused
Created a system to extract semantic data from free text
Valtech
Advised a social media startup on artificial intelligence technology.

Mathematical Software Developer

Arithmetica Limited June 2014 - March 2015

Developed algorithms for lidar point cloud analysis and vector model fitting software.

Product Innovation and Experience Lead

HumanLearning Limited November 2013 - June 2014

Developed content and behaviour based recommendation for a social learning /business communication product.

Contractor

Zooey Consulting September 2013 - October 2013

Investigated specialist document analysis technology.

Chief Data Analyst

MulTplx Limited September 2011 - June 2013

Developed Python software that infers customer behaviour from interactions with display devices in mobile phone shops, and visualisations (HTML 5 and Javascript) and analyses of the data gathered. Clients included Samsung and EE.

Research Engineer

BBC Research and Development April 2001 - July 2011

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Education