Jonny Kram

Newcastle upon Tyne · jonny@jdkram.net · github.com/jdkram · @jdkram

Profile

Data scientist and researcher with five years at Wellcome, working across programme evaluation, data engineering, and applied machine learning. The most useful thing I do often happens before anyone opens a spreadsheet: talking to people, working out what question the analysis actually needs to answer, and doing that rather than something technically impressive that misses the point. Analysis that isn't connected to a real decision is just expensive navel-gazing.

I also do patient and public involvement for the NHS, and shoot travel photography, some of which has ended up in the Rough Guide to Japan, the Michelin Guide, and National Geographic.

Experience

Service User Representative

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW)

–present

  • Contribute to staff recruitment panels as a formal service user representative within NHS governance structures
  • Drafted patient-facing guidance documents and designed forms for clinical processes
  • Operate within NHS decision-making frameworks, providing patient perspective at an institutional level

Travel Photographer and Writer

Freelance

–present

  • Published photographs in The Rough Guide to Japan and the Michelin Guide to Japan; images sold to National Geographic and the Japan National Tourism Agency's national parks portal
  • Co-produced editorial content for print and digital publication under professional editorial standards

Data Scientist

Wellcome

–

  • Analysed funding and publication data using Python, pandas, and Jupyter notebooks to support evidence-based reporting
  • Built software to extract and match publication metadata from external APIs at scale
  • Trained and deployed machine learning classification models (e.g. identifying Wellcome-funded publications in unstructured article text)
  • Used GitHub for version control and collaborative code review

Insight Research Analyst / IT Secondment

Wellcome

–

  • Extracted, transformed, and visualised data using SQL, Alteryx, and Tableau
  • Conducted internal and external landscaping to inform organisational strategy

Research Assistant / Evaluation Officer

Wellcome

–

  • Synthesised disparate datasets for evidence-based evaluation reports on funding programmes
  • Analysed longitudinal survey data and applied NLP and clustering techniques to qualitative data
  • Wrote code (Ruby) to query APIs and scrape websites, replacing costly third-party data providers

Project Research Assistant (Innovations)

Leica Microsystems

–

  • Researched emerging cancer detection technologies and conducted IP and patent landscaping
  • Automated team workflows using Visual Basic

R&D Lab Technician

ImmunoDiagnosticSystems Ltd.

Summers and

  • Developed medical assays, designed experiments, and automated data management in Excel

Voluntary and Research Involvement

Patient Representative Board

VOICE, Newcastle

–

  • Served on the patient representative board of Newcastle's lead patient involvement organisation
  • Contributed to involvement and engagement activity across the organisation

Medical Research Participant

Psychedelic-assisted therapy research

Ongoing

  • Extensive participation as a research subject and contributor in clinical and research contexts exploring psychedelic-assisted approaches to mental health treatment

Kitchen Volunteer

The Magic Hat Café, Newcastle

Ongoing

  • Regular volunteer at a community food waste café operating under professional kitchen conditions, working alongside employed chefs and managing multi-order service through the pass

Volunteer

Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle

Ongoing

  • Website maintenance, IT support, kitchen, and ticket sales at a worker-run cooperative venue

Education

BA Natural Sciences (Physical), 2:2

University of Cambridge

–

  • Covered Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Materials Science before switching to History and Philosophy of Science; the combination developed an unusual mix of quantitative method and epistemological rigour
  • Undergraduate member of the King's College Governing Body: debated policy, recorded minutes, communicated decisions to the student body

Skills

  • Python, pandas, Jupyter
  • SQL
  • Alteryx
  • Tableau
  • Ruby
  • GitHub
  • Web scraping
  • API integration
  • NLP
  • Machine learning (classification)
  • Excel
  • Qualitative data analysis
  • Longitudinal survey analysis