Michael Roche

Experience

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  The University of Sheffield

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Over eight weeks I worked within Dr. Pieter Kok's Quantum Information research group developing a new quantum entanglement generation protocol. This involved both analytical calculations and simulations and analysis within Python. This research internship was of postgraduate level while I was completing my undergraduate studies, and despite this I was accepted on without having completed the requisite classes. I managed to quickly learn the necessary mathematics, develop a proposal for a novel quantum-optical procedure, and prove its efficacy. Show less

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  CreativeData Consulting

  Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

  Junior Developer

  During my time at the start-up CreativeData Consulting, I was introduced to some core data science ideas and principles. For my first two weeks I familiarised myself with R and learned the basic principles of web scraping and data cleaning. For the remaining time I taught myself how to create and design chatbots using the Amazon Web Service (AWS) online documentation. Using the AWS infrastructure, in particular Amazon Lex and Amazon Lambda, I designed a chatbot to book phone calls and meetings, to send email confirmation and to update calendar appointments. Show less

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  BT Group

  Apr 2021 - now

  As a junior data scientist, I worked within BT Consumer's integrated marketing teams. We launched campaigns centred around understanding customers and improving the customer experience. I applied machine learning techniques to the customer data and helped support the non-technical stakeholders with advice on the data science solutions and outcomes. While working within the marketing teams, I built and deployed several models, including recommendation models for EE handsets and SIMs, a dynamic pricing model for BT broadband, and a churn propensity model for BT broadband. I developed the majority of models in AWS using Python and SQL, but also had some experience model building in GCP. Show less

  • Senior MLOps Engineer

    Jul 2024 - now

  • MLOps Engineer

    Jan 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Junior Data Scientist

    Apr 2021 - Jan 2023