Richard Davey

Richard Davey

Group Leader, Data & Decision Science

Arcadis Gen

Biography

Richard Davey is Group Leader of the Data & Decision Science group at Arcadis Gen. When he is not working on optimisation problems for clients in road, rail, facilities management, electricity networks and generation, he can be found writing R packages and building electronic hardware.

Interests

  • Numerical problem solving
  • Risk and uncertainty
  • Investment optimisation

Education

  • Masters degree in Geophysical Sciences, 2007

    Leeds University

Skills

R

Advanced

Statistics

Practitioner

Energy sector

Domain expert

Python

Beginner-Intermediate

Git

Gitlab, GitHub, CI/CD automation

Corporate training

Experienced trainer

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Group Leader - Data & Decision Science

Arcadis Gen

Jul 2021 – Present Sheffield, UK

Responsibilities include:

  • Recruitment, retention and performance management of a ~25 person data science group
  • Delivery management of consultancy projects and Analytics as a Service (AaaS) products
  • Technical delivery of projects alongside my team
 
 
 
 
 

Analytical Consultant

Arcadis Gen

Dec 2018 – Jun 2021 Sheffield, UK

Responsibilities include:

  • Physical asset investment optimisation
  • Consultancy work including corporate training
  • Innovating new algorithms, tools and products
 
 
 
 
 

Senior Strategy and Commodity Risk Analyst

Contact Energy

Oct 2018 – Nov 2019 Wellington, New Zealand

Responsibilities included:

  • Quantitative scenario modelling to support strategy
  • Building financial models
  • Commodity risk reporting to CEO and CFO
 
 
 
 
 

Production Geologist

Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment

Oct 2013 – Oct 2017 Wellington, New Zealand
I worked as a petroleum production geologist for the New Zealand oil and gas titles and administration authority called New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals
 
 
 
 
 

Consultant Geoscientist

FrOGTech New Zealand

Apr 2013 – Sep 2013 Wellington, New Zealand
I worked as a petroleum exploration geophysicist, helping to establish a new office in a new country for the company.
 
 
 
 
 

Geophysicist

CGG Robertson

Sep 2010 – Mar 2013 Llandudno, Wales
I worked as a petroleum exploration geophysicist as part of a client facing multi-disciplinary team.
 
 
 
 
 

Interpretation Geoscientist

Fugro Airborne Surveys Pty

Aug 2007 – Feb 2010 Perth, Australia

Recent Posts

Antifragile book notes Part 2

This is the final part to my notes and reflections on the book, Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb. Part one covered such things as skin in the game, the principle-agent problem, fragility of optimisation and convexity effects, and the power of options over deterministic thinking.
Last updated on 2022-02-19 8 min read Blog

Antifragile book notes Part 1

I think my work colleagues and friends are now bored of me raving about the book Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. My reading style is to read very slowly, mulling over each sentence again and again.
Last updated on 2022-02-19 7 min read Blog

Extract features from CAD files Part 3: The future

In this third part of the series of posts on extracting objects from a CAD document, I’ll discuss how you might develop this CAD extraction tool further and the problems you might be able to solve.
Last updated on 2021-09-28 5 min read Blog

Switching between multiple ssh keys for git

Problem Recently my company has switched code repositories, from Gitlab to GitHub. I already have a personal GitHub account so I find myself in a position where I have two GitHub accounts.
Last updated on 2021-05-10 2 min read Guide

Extract features from CAD documents Part 2: Using ezdxf

In this second part of the series of posts on extracting objects from a CAD document, I’ll go through the process of using the ezdxf package to implement the extraction strategy discussed in part one.
Last updated on 2021-04-14 6 min read Guide, Blog
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Projects

armr

Docker containers for R on 32 bit ARM architectures, including Raspberry Pi

chargepointAPI

R package to retrieve vehicle charging infrastructure information from the UK National Chargepoint Registry

DVLA

R package to retrieve vehicle data from the DVLA API

Pi Temperature Dashboard

Temperature sensing on the Raspberry Pi, logging to a database and publishing to Adafruit IO dashboard

Gitlab Runner

Gitlab Runner

Gitlab runner in a docker container. Compatible with Raspberry Pi

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