Presentation of my role of software engineer & Data Manager at Imperial College London, School of Public health.

1. ‘A Typical day of a Data Manager’
School of Public Health, 4th September 2019
Christophe Stevens

2. About me
Education
BSc. in Computer Sciences.
Brussels, Belgium. 2013
MSc. in Statistics with Medical Application.
Sheffield, UK. 2018.
Roles at Imperial College London, SPH
• Database Manager in EBS 2013-2017
• Software Developer in PCPH 2017-2018
Software Engineer & Data Manager in PCPH 2019

3. Goal of a Data Manager
1. Store, protect data – (Database)
2. Acquire, transform, export data– (Software)
3. Ensure data privacy and Ethics.
4. Communicate with stakeholders.

4. Tasks of a Data Manager
1. Creation of databases
A) Modelling entities and their associations.
Using lots of diagrams
B) Choosing a suitable Database
Management System.
C) Develop the database
C) Replicate the data

5. Tasks of a Data Manager
2. Development of Software
Desktop/mobile
Application
Web
Application
Excel/Word
Add-ins
Algorithms without UI (i.e. command line/console MACRO, Scripts)
Extract Transform Load
data pipelines

6. Tasks of a data manager
3. Ensure compliance with Data Protection regulation
Protection of human participants
in clinical studies.
Patients Only.
Protection of Data Subjects in
Europe.
Not Only Patients!

7. Tasks of a data manager
4. Communicate with stakeholders.
Data Provider
Data Manager
Data users
Algorithms for
data collection,
management
and exportations
Sensitive Data Sensitive Data
Arrange
IT infrastructure.
3.
Sensitive Data

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An example: The familial hypercholesterolaemia Study Collaboration
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Data Cumulative FH Cases
>60,000 FH patients
from 60 countries
105 users
200 datasets locations
1 Website
For Dataset upload
And/Or
Individual Patient Entry

9. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
Thank you!
christophe.stevens@imperial.ac.uk
Credit: David Parkins