Curriculum Vitae.

Leading Firefighter, Building Design and Consultation Hub (BDCH)

London Fire Brigade, Fire Engineering Group • London

Aug 2025 – Present

• Promoted to Leading Firefighter in 2025 and posted to the BDCH as a technician.
• Hold Level 1 Incident Command, gained on the Leading Firefighter pathway, and keep my operational competencies current alongside the role.
• Review building control consultations for new developments, refurbishments and material alterations across Greater London.
• Check fire strategies and plans against Approved Document B (Volumes 1 and 2), BS 9999 and other relevant standards, and write the Brigade’s technical responses.

Fire Safety Advisor (pilot scheme)

London Fire Brigade • London

Feb 2025 – Aug 2025

• Joined the Firefighters into Fire Safety pilot, working a 6/2 rota: six weeks in fire safety, then two tours back on the run at West Hampstead.
• Audited and inspected shops, restaurants, hotels and offices under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, covering both physical fire precautions and how the premises were managed.
• Wrote up findings and told responsible persons what they needed to put right.
• Completed the Level 3 and Level 4 Certificates in Fire Safety.

Firefighter, West Hampstead

London Fire Brigade • London

Jun 2010 – Aug 2025

• Fifteen years on the run, attending structural fires, rescues, road traffic collisions and hazardous materials incidents.
• EFAD-qualified driver of fire appliances.
• Helped train new recruits on the watch.
• Did community fire safety and business engagement work.

Freelance Web Developer

Self-employed • Milton Keynes

Jun 2018 – Present (part-time)

• Build and maintain websites and web apps, mostly in JavaScript, React, Next.js and Node.js. Use WordPress and Shopify where clients need to manage their own content.
• Built a full-stack MERN application.
• Analysed GCSE results against deprivation data by area in Python, as a machine learning project.

BEng (Hons) Fire Engineering

University of Lancashire • Part-time, distance learning

Sep 2024 – Jun 2028 (expected)

• Studying as part of LFB’s Fire Engineer development programme. Modules include Fluid Dynamics of Fire, Probabilistic Risk Analysis, Computational Engineering, Safety and Fire Law, and Fire Investigation.

BSc (Hons) Computing and IT, First Class

The Open University • Part-time, distance learning

Jan 2015 – Sep 2021

• Studied over six years alongside full-time firefighting. Covered algorithms and data structures, software engineering, data analysis, networking and Java.

GCSEs

Salesian School • Chertsey

1997

• 10 GCSEs including Maths, English, Science and Art

MERN Full-Stack Web Application

Full-stack web application built with React, MongoDB, Node.js, and Express.

Machine Learning Data Investigation

Used Python and machine learning techniques to investigate GCSE results across demographics and areas of deprivation.