Mathematics & Physics · University of Toronto · Rotman Commerce Certificate
I'm Oakley — a final-year Maths & Physics student who turns analysis into outcomes. I've built valuation models, optimised a real warehouse layout, and unlocked a $70K turnaround. Seeking finance & consulting roles for 2026.
This summer I took on a procurement and AI development role, sourcing manufacturing for Gompels Healthcare. I built the automation that found and vetted suppliers at scale, then flew out to China to run quality control and negotiate the deal in person. The products are in production now and on their way to the UK.
See the full story →Built a data-scraping pipeline to find candidate factories across China, then back-tested each one against independent sources to screen out trading and distribution companies and surface genuine manufacturers.
An AI agent opened first contact with each verified factory and logged every lead into a structured pipeline, so negotiations could start at scale rather than one email at a time.
Flew out for hands-on quality control and price negotiation to choose the final manufacturer — an end-to-end deal now in production and about to ship to the UK.
I study Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto, alongside a Certificate in Business from Rotman Commerce — because I care as much about how a decision plays out commercially as I do about the theory behind it.
A physics degree is really training in one thing: pulling signal out of noisy data and being honest about uncertainty. I've spent the last few years applying that same discipline outside the lab — building financial models at an investment-banking programme, running operations under real-time pressure, and leading teams through messy, real-world problems where the answer isn't in the back of the book.
I move comfortably between the quantitative and the operational: rigorous with a model, but focused on execution and outcomes. That combination is what I want to bring to a career in finance and consulting.
Gompels Healthcare · Melksham, UK
Working behind the scenes on the company's move to a new warehouse — across procurement, property and process. Researching and sourcing machinery from China (travelling to Shanghai to visit factories and finalise deals), helping draft the property contracts behind the move, building a racking optimiser to improve efficiency in the new space, and prototyping AI-powered workflows to speed up how the team researches, plans and makes decisions. All part of doing the basics brilliantly as we grow.
EgaTree · Internship · Remote (New York)
A data science & quantitative research internship working hands-on with real financial time-series data, statistical modelling and genuinely fascinating physics-inspired approaches to forecasting — learning by doing rather than from textbooks. Covered quantitative research, numerical analysis and a broad quant toolkit.
University of Toronto Ski & Snowboard Club
Directed operations for a 400+ member organisation; recruited and managed 15+ executives; introduced inclusivity policies that lifted member engagement 20% while cutting planning inefficiencies.
Phi Gamma Delta
Revitalised a century-old charitable housing property — rebuilding owner trust after two decades of strained relations and unlocking a $70K renovation fund. Designed and ran operational workflows for a 45-member team.
Only Four Ltd
Processed and dispatched 200+ orders daily at 99% accuracy. Identified operational bottlenecks and prototyped improvements projected to cut pick-and-pack time by ~0.5s per item — roughly 500 hours a year.
INSEAD
Intensive exposure to entrepreneurship, innovation strategy and global business practice. Collaborated on case studies and startup simulations, sharpening cross-cultural teamwork and pitching.
InvestIn
Built financial models, conducted equity valuations and presented M&A pitch decks in investment-banking simulations — first-hand exposure to capital markets and client advisory.
Lifeguard · Smallpeice Engineering Trust
Crisis management and decision-making under pressure as a qualified lifeguard; hands-on prototyping, budgeting and data analysis on engineering programmes alongside Bloodhound, Rolls-Royce and JLR mentors.
Finance and consulting run on the same core skill a physics degree trains: extracting signal from noisy data, being honest about what you don't know, and turning it into a decision. Here's that discipline applied to a real business problem — plus a few from the lab, and how this site itself was built.
For my family's business, a constrained-integer optimiser that packs the most storage racking into a 132 m × 108 m warehouse while keeping every steel pillar out of the forklift aisles. A dynamic program sweeps the floor on a 5 cm grid, trading racking gained against steel removed — reaching 29 rows at 47.5% floor-fill, within 1% of the theoretical ceiling, and reducing a messy constraint problem to one clear decision for management.
Open the interactive tool →Modelled the stochastic motion of microspheres from video microscopy — using mean-squared displacement, weighted linear fits and the Stokes–Einstein relation. A study in extracting a clean signal, and a rigorous estimate of its uncertainty, from noisy real-world data.
Read Full Report →Used the Debye–Sears effect to measure the speed of sound in water and derive its bulk modulus via optical diffraction from an acoustically driven standing wave — calibrated against a sodium lamp with careful propagation of measurement error.
Read Full Report →Investigated the departure of a real pendulum from simple-harmonic idealisation — testing where a clean theoretical model breaks down against experimental data, and quantifying the systematic error in the small-angle assumption.
Read Full Report →A living visual history of this website — every design iteration preserved as a named Git branch. Explore the commits, decisions and what changed between versions.
Explore History →University of Toronto · Certificate in Business, Rotman Commerce
Key modules: Ordinary & Partial Differential Equations, Combinatorics, Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, Advanced Classical Mechanics, Practical Physics Labs.
Supplementary study in Economics, Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability, Psychology and International Development.
Dauntsey's School
A-Levels: Mathematics (A), Physics (B), Economics (B).
Captain of 2nd XI Hockey; Devizes Club 1st Team Hockey; 1st Team Rugby & Cricket.
The same attention to detail I bring to my work, I bring to a photograph. What began as a hobby has become a discipline in patience, learning and iteration — noticing the moment before it happens, then refining it in post. It's the creative counterweight to the analytical work, and I think both are better for it.
