Alistair R.
Head of Data Science & Ai, Uk Secure Transformation Services @Accenture UK & Ireland
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Data Science & Ai, Uk Secure Transformation Services @Accenture UK & Ireland
Bristol, GB
Scaled the AI function to 23 people and integrated the team post-acquisition by Accenture. Positioned as key AI lead across Defence and Public Safety deliveryGenerated £3.2M in AI-related sales through technical pre-sales, client engagement, and customdemonstrators (e.g. Cyber AI, GraphRAG, Video2Text)AI Security Community of Practice: Leader and Researcher for the internal AI security CoP—researching, building PoCs, and writing bids/sales material for Persona-driven agentic attacks, AI-driven OSINT, and “Uncensored, Unaligned, and Amoral LLMs” for Cybersecurity and Public Safety.UK Government Department: Led the design and successful bid for a National AI program (£250k scope), owning technical strategy, stakeholder buy-in, and team delivery. Directed a multidisciplinary team across AI, software, and DevOps to build a privacy-preserving OSINT RAG system that extracts chemical ingredients from online product listings. Reduced analyst review time from 72 hours to 2 minutes. The tool is now a live production asset influencing real-time risk assessments.International Defence Organisation: Lead Developer of a Cross-Community Semantic Reference Model, architecting an AI-driven ontology-alignment pipeline and governance framework that unified multiple international data standards into a 353-concept, multi-domain semantic model showcased at a major international defense innovation symposium.International Defence Standardisation Office: Requirements Lead for a Semantic Resource Hosting and Development Platform, driving international semantic standardization and authoring a compliant Statement of Requirements to align terminology, taxonomy, and ontology standards for AI-enabled, multi-domain interoperability.UK Defence: Led a feasibility study for a £2M OSINT program, including rapid prototyping of LLM-driven ISR applications to influence Government Defence procurement.
EDUCATION
University of Warwick
MMORSE, Master of Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics
SKILLS
ABOUT ALISTAIR R.
I am an experienced data science leader and consultant with more than 8 years ofexperience in machine learning, software development and machine learning operations (MLOps).I have delivered machine learning and AI solutions in a variety of industries including Defence,Financial Services and Insurance. I have transformed companies and teams by accelerating their AIcapabilities with stronger leadership, faster deployment times and better stakeholderengagement. I enjoy solving hard and interesting problems!I pride myself on being an empathetic people manager who encourages his reports to push themselves and follow their interests in the field of data science.
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