Name: Kieran McKinney
Job Title: Database Coordinator
What does your job at RGU involve?
I will be working with the Alumni and Fundraising team to improve and maintain the database.
What attracted you to come to work at RGU?
I am a RGU graduate with a MSc in Computer Science, and being able to work alongside the people that helped trained me was an opportunity I am extremely grateful for.
If you weren’t doing this job, what, in an ideal world, would you like to do for a living?
In an ideal world I would love to do large scale data analysis, using Python to describe a wide variety of datasets, and feed that data into AI models for more accurate conversational models, or prediction.
What’s your favourite place in Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire?
Grey Hope Bay. Built on a history rich landscape with beautiful sights out to the see where dolphins can regularly be seen peeking out among the waves, I think it’s a hidden gem in Aberdeen
Best holiday you’ve had and why?
Any holiday where I can just relax catch up on missed tv shows, is the best holiday.
Favourite TV show?
Haunting of Hill House
Favourite band/music?
Death Grips
If you’re going to a restaurant and could only have one thing to eat (one course), what would it be?
Give me a Chicken Burger with a side of chips, nothing fancy.
If you were in charge of the university for one day, what’s the first thing you would do?
Hold a concert in the amphitheatre in Sir Ian Wood Building