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.
Renovation fund unlocked on a century-old charitable property
Annual operational time saved through process redesign
Members led as Vice President of a student organisation
Order accuracy across 200+ daily dispatches
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 a model, I bring to a photograph. What began as a hobby has become a discipline in patience and observation — 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.
