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Biography

Teaching and professional experience:

  • ITIL Service Management
  • Technology Management, Project Management Agile Management
  • Data engineering
  • Data visualisation
  • Collaborative tools and IDEs: Anaconda, Jupyter, VS Code.
  • Linux: certified Software Carpentry instructor
  • Version Control (Git, GitHub)

Learning:

  • IBM Data Engineering Professional Certificate
    • Introduction - completed
      • Engineering Scosystem
      • Data Engineering Lifecycle
    • Python for Data Science, AI and Development - completed
    • Python Project for Data Engineering - in progress
  • Ethical Hacker, CISCO Networking Academy

Completed learning:

  • Cybersecurity Essentials, 2021
  • Network Defense, 2023
  • Introduction to Cybersecurity, 2025

Qualifications:

  • Music: BA, MA and PhD Ethnomusicology
  • Computing: BSc Computer Science, MSc Computing (Software Engineering)
  • Management: MBA Technology Management, MEd Leadership and Management
  • Divinity: BD

Membership:

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

 

When spare time catches up with me:

  • Webmaster for several non-profit organisations (nameservers, PHP, htaccess, HTML, Javascript, Drupal, WordPress etc.)
  • Author on spirituality and mental health
  • Organist, pianist, drummer, composer, arranger, music and choir director, etc. Most recent world premiere in London, 14th Jun 2025.
  • Build PCs
  • Build 3D puzzles