Data Analyst/Scientist | Digital Jersey

I am a scientist and data analyst looking for work in Jersey. I have previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at universities in the UK and Canada on a wide range of projects. I have been coding in MATLAB for over a decade and have now been using Python for a couple of years.

I have a numerate background and am competent in data statistics. I enjoy processing and visualising data, e.g. spatial data and time series data. I am a strong believer in automating and documenting work.

I am ideally looking to do fulfilling work that contributes towards society. I look forward to hearing from anyone who might be able to use my skillset.

Details

Name: Richard Sims

Email: [email protected]

Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

Company:	University of Exeter
From:	18-07-2021
To:	30-06-2022
Responsibilities:	- Employed to work on a number of grants for the European Space Agency (ESA) https://esa-oceansoda.org/ and https://www.maxss.org/About - Responsible for analysing large volume of remote sensing data from satellites - Produced documented processed datasets and submitted them to data repositories - Made code open access via GitHub - Tasked with writing up the research for a scientific publication; presented his work at a number of deliverables meetings and produced all the figures and graphics for his part of the project - this included timeseries plots and maps - Used Python in Conda for most of the work - Processed some of the larger datasets on the remote server

Postdoctoral Researcher

Company:	University of Calgary
From:	01-04-2019
To:	30-06-2021
Responsibilities:	- Employed to assist on a number of projects in the Canadian Arctic - Deployed a number of sensors from sea ice and from the side of research vessels in the Arctic - Responsible for organising and analysing the results from several years of field campaigns - Most of the analysis was completed in MATLAB but he had to interface with lots of different proprietary software provided by the sensor manufacturers; wrote up and documented this work and prepared datasets for co-workers to use

Education Qualifications

- PhD in the Marine Carbon Cycle - Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the University of Exeter; 2013-2018
- MSci Climate Science - University of East Anglia; 2009-2013
- A-levels - 4 B's at A2 in Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Geography