Oliver Tarrant

Experience

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  Alfold Tennis

  Oct 2010 - Jun 2011

  Assistant Tennis Coach

  Helping run group tennis sessions whilst communicating and working with adults to improve their tennis.

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  Just Retirement

  Aug 2015 - Sept 2015

  Medical Researcher Intern

  Approached problems from multiple angles and devised solutions from unconsidered directions. Worked on a VBA program for modelling the life expectancy of medically impaired lives. Subsequently used in the central system of the company’s new business medical underwriting program.

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  University of Warwick

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2017

  Summer research project using bioinformatics to investigate the identity and role of certain repeated elements found in the DNA of cells lining a human’s womb during preparation for implantation of an embryo.

  • Student

    Sept 2014 - Jul 2017

  • Systems Biology Department Intern

    Jul 2016 - Sept 2016
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  Studio Cambridge

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2017

  Activity organiser

  Organised and ran a range of sports and craft activities for oversees teenagers (aged 8 to 16) to supplement their lessons to learn English. Worked as a group leader on excursions to major cities including being in charge of over 40 students and 5 staff members. This role included liaising with our transport providers and making important decisions quickly throughout the day. Also provided pastoral care for the students many of whom had very limited English skills

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  Imperial College London

  Oct 2017 - Sept 2018

  Student

  Postgraduate student in Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution MRes.Bioinformatics based research project developing more accurate techniques to determine the ploidy and detect aneuploidy for organisms by analysing NGS data.Specific focus on the Cryptococcus neoformans fungi.

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  Tessella

  Oct 2018 - Oct 2021

  Software Engineer
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  Capgemini Engineering

  Oct 2021 - now

  Scientific Software Developer

  Software developer at Hybrid Intelligence (formally Tessella) part of Capgemini Engineering. Specializing in software projects for companies in the life sciences domain and with the use of containerization technologies.