Oliver WillsSenior AI Business Analyst

Business analysis · AI delivery

I decide whether the answer is AI, automation, analytics, or just a better process—then build it.

Thirteen years leading discovery, process redesign and requirements on complex transformation programmes across public-sector construction, defence, nuclear, energy trading and maritime. Now paired with hands-on delivery of LLM, retrieval and machine-learning solutions in Python on AWS — so feasibility is an informed judgement, not a guess.

Years in delivery
13
Largest budget owned
$9M
Regulated sectors
5
Base port
Hove

Course made good

A career plotted through regulated, high-governance work

  1. Jan 2026 — PresentIndependent

    Founder / AI Consultant

    Seacoft

    AI and automation for small and mid-sized businesses — discovery through build and value realisation. Shipped a machine-learning house-price tool and automated property-description service for an estate agency, requirements to live deployment.

  2. Mar 2024 — Dec 2025Government · Security

    Senior Business Analyst

    Jacobs / Amentum CMS

    Led BA end-to-end on a multi-million-pound security integration programme for a large government department. As-is/to-be BPMN, a traceable requirements register across multiple contractors, delivery of the Asite BIM toolset with CAD and PLM integration.

  3. Jan 2023 — Dec 2023Energy Trading

    Senior Business Analyst

    Shell LNG Marketing & Trading

    Owned the technical backlog for trading systems in Jira and Azure DevOps. Impact assessments translating system change into commercial consequence; API documentation used directly by development teams.

  4. May 2021 — Dec 2022Nuclear · Regulated

    Senior Business Analyst

    Sellafield Coordination Centre · Home Office (KBR)

    Deployed a building-information data system across the Home Office and the nuclear sector under strict data governance. Facilitated discovery workshops; built SQL data models feeding a TOGAF-aligned architecture.

  5. May 2020 — Apr 2021Policing · Digital

    Business Analyst

    Transforming Forensics · Home Office (KBR)

    Led national evaluation of digital forensics software across all police forces in England and Wales, enabling selection of a common platform that standardised workflows.

  6. Sep 2012 — May 2020Maritime · Engineering

    Marine Design & Technical Analyst

    Browse FPSO (Shell) · BP Shipping

    Marine design on turret-moored FPSOs. Earlier: recovered $1M from a ship owner via engine and weather-data analysis, built a $9M fleet maintenance budget from SAP data, and supervised shipbuilding of 21 tankers in South Korea.

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What I bring to a programme

Analysis

Process discovery & redesign · BPMN as-is/to-be · service journeys · requirements elicitation with full traceability · decision logic · acceptance criteria · business cases · workshop facilitation

AI & Automation

AI opportunity assessment · LLM application design · retrieval-augmented workflows · agent patterns · machine learning · responsible-AI & data-readiness assessment · PyTorch · LangChain

Data & Technical

Python 3 · SQL · data modelling · relational databases · REST APIs (Postman, Swagger) · Docker · AWS · Azure · Microsoft Fabric · Databricks

Standards & Tools

TOGAF-aligned architecture · ISO 19650 information management · GDS service standards · Jira · Azure DevOps · Agile & Waterfall

Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate · Certified Associate, Generative AI & LLMs (NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, 2026) · Bayesian Statistics (Coursera) · CMI Level 5 Management & Leadership · MEng Marine Engineering, Newcastle University

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