Dan***art

Data Science, SQL, Data Cleaning, Program Management

Head of AI at NSW Department of Education

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• Duration: 2023-07 to Present
• Description: Managing the product development and engineering team behind the development of NSWEduChat, a multi-modal AI app, used by 100K staff and 30K students across NSW. Key achievements of the role include: * Building a new AI team of experts across research, development, data science, AI and ethics. Mentoring team members. * Overseeing the AI project portfolio across the full lifecycle of research to scaling, ensuring that projects align with the NSW AI Assurance Framework, leading them through rigorous evaluation processes. * Developing and managing timelines and roadmaps for products * Launching NSWEduChat with a multi-modal orchestration, utilising multiple LLMs, retrieval augmented models and agents. * Building effficient, scalable, proof of concepts. * Designed agents for specialised functions, like policy and syllabus. * Developed custom benchmarking for NSW education subjects, and consistent scientific method for evaluating prompting strategies. * Implemented rigorous multi-level content, safety and security filters. Using a combination of LLM prompts, classifier algorithms and input/output screening. * Worked closely with our education partners to ensure design assisted with user engagement to improve overall user experience and interaction quality.

Principal Data Science Manager at NSW Department of Education

• Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Duration: 2019-07 to 2023-06
• Description: Leading an agile team to embed data science and automation into every stage of the project lifecycle. Including using AI and ML to delve deep into data to understand the true nature of an issue, and creating new innovative process to improve the efficiency of staff and the outcomes of citizens.

Chief Technology Officer at Societel Consulting

• Location: Sydney, Australia
• Duration: 2019-03 to 2023-06
• Description: Led Societel’s technology and data practice. Assisting NSW Government clients to leverage latest technology trends including: self-service BI, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, real-time analytics and customer-centric software experiences.

Director Data Science at Axess Advisory

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• Duration: 2018-04 to 2019-03
• Description:

Consultant at Axess Advisory

• Location:
• Duration: 2016-07 to 2018-03
• Description: Project management consultant, providing PMO and methodology consulting. Specialising in automated performance monitoring and project data management.