Summary
A consultant who builds. By day I lead strategy and technology work; by night I'm teaching myself to ship with AI — small models, real tools, and a Substack documenting the whole process.
Experience
The Boston Consulting Group2020 — Present
Project Leader · New York & Johannesburg
- Strategy, technology, and operations work for clients across utilities, energy, financial services, and private equity.
- Progressed from Associate Consultant to Project Leader; now leading large-scale technology and AI-enabled transformation programs.
- Recipient of BCG's Global Purpose Award and a Commercial Excellence Award.
Trinity IoT2016 — 2019
Data Scientist (contract)
- Built health-monitoring algorithms for an IoT company to track edge-device performance.
Earlier2017 — 2018
Bain & Company · Allan Gray
- Consulting and asset-management internships in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Education
University of Cape Town2014 — 2022
MSc Data Science (Statistical Finance) · BCom Hons Statistics · BCom Statistics & Economics
- Master's thesis: market-state discovery with unsupervised learning.
Mandela Rhodes Scholarship2019
Scholar — leadership & reconciliation
Writing
Learning AI Out LoudSubstack
- A series demystifying language models for the curious — tokens, probability, transformers, and the frontier.
- Field notes on re-skilling from strategy into AI engineering.