London Area, United Kingdom
•Versatile product leader with specialist expertise within the sports data and analytics markets. •Proven track record of building innovative, high value, market-leading analytics products, integrating performance data, video & AI. •Strategic outlook combined with the ability to lead, manage and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers. •Diligent, dedicated and visionary, turning challenges into outcomes that meet business and customer goals. •Comprehensive academic background, in-depth understanding of statistics with experience as a professional football player, coach and applied sports scientist. •Extensive experience with athlete tracking technologies (optical tracking, GPS and RFID), football event data, match analysis & recruitment applications. •Pragmatic Marketing certified (Foundations, Focus, Build & Launch). ____ Publications & Presentations: Quarrie, K., Fuller, C., Raftery, M., Lambert, M., Stadelmann, J., Piscione, J., Hager, J., Kemp, S., Blackie, J., Benson, S., Evans, N., Cook, C., Gray, A., Gill, N., Gabbett, T., Mellalieu, S., Hennessy, L., Managing player load in professional rugby union: a review of current knowledge and practices. British Journal of Sports Medicine (2016) International Conference on Football Science: Utilisation of Spatial and Inertial Data for Load Quantification and Athlete Monitoring International Society of Exercise and Immunology Symposium: Salivary AMP responses to an extreme multi marathon task in one week: 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents International Rugby Board, Game and Training Load Conference: Monitoring measurement factors for individuals – symptoms, signs, physical or psychological? Annual Arsenal FC SEM Conference: Training Monitoring and Performance Diagnostics
• Leading Hudl’s Human Performance vertical, defining product strategy and vision for the athlete monitoring portfolio across wearables and live/post-session software. •Spearheading innovations that integrate athlete monitoring KPIs with match analysis data and video for full context decision support. •Scaling the area, increasing team capacity by 150%
•Definition of product strategy and overseeing delivery in Hudl’s Human Performance area. Leading, developing and mentoring 5 product managers across hardware, firmware and software squads. •Steering the conceptualisation of Hudl’s Next Generation Human Performance platform. •Following the Real Track acquisition leading integration, tactical prioritisation, preparation of Real Track systems for scale and overseeing go-to-market activities.
•Led & contributed to the commercial success of various STATS athlete monitoring products (SportVU optical tracking data, STATS GPS, ADI, Dynamix analysis software). •Management of relationships with 3rd party data, software and hardware providers, multi-disciplinary sports performance experts, consultants and data scientists. •Contributed as football and data science expert to the collection of market requirements, strategy formulation and feature prioritisation of STATS match analysis products. •Managed and supervised the large-scale project “Validation of Athlete Tracking Systems & Technologies – Development of ‘Gold Standard’ Testing Procedures for Accuracy & Reliability Assessments of GPS, Video- and Radar-based Technologies” in collaboration with the Technical University Munich.
•Wide range of physiological, biomechanical, strength and speed assessments for end-stage rehabilitation, return to play and facilitation of performance gains. •Designed and led physiological & biochemical training monitoring packages to commercial success. •Implementation of S&C, endurance and rehabilitation plans.
•Part of a cross-functional team of sports scientists, engineers and data scientists to leverage athlete data (accelerometer, tracking, biometric and subjective) for performance optimisation and injury risk mitigation via AI.
•Higher education lecturing; Subjects: Statistics & Research Methods, Performance Science and Physiology.