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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Supporting the team to become a great team in the best central bank.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Working to support Workforce Analysis and Teacher Supply: supporting and developing the data strategy and culture aligned with MOE’s vision and purpose.

New Zealand

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Awarded the NZIOB Excellence in Innovation Award for as part of the team responsible for the SKOMOBO indoor air quality monitoring instrumentSpark, Hadoop, Hive, Pyspark, SaprklyR queries and Machine Learning models written and peer-reviewed.Helped to install and develop New Zealand's largest Cloudera ClusterUtilised Spark to write ML models on the Hadoop clusterMentoring younger data scientistsTech lead on projects embedding machine learning within the businessDeveloped enterprise architecture to support Data-lead applicationsUse machine learning, predictive modelling, and blend natural language processing and text mining to optimise the performance of text analysisResearching sampling methods in conjunction with big/distributed data.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Project managing and contributing to research for the development of inexpensive classroom environment monitor devices and the analysis thereof• Consulting across Metrix, a division of Mercury Ltd to move them from XML reporting to Cloud-based analysis• Co-Investigator on a $300,000 grant awarded by BRANZ• One chapter authored; two articles and two conference papers co-authored and published in the last year, articles submitted and pending• Invited Talk: Auckland University, Energy Centre, Big Data and Smart Meters, 2016 • Consulting and external research for Metrix, A division of Mighty River Power Limited• Lectured all of the Intro to Computing (158.100, Semester 3, 2015) and Data Science: Data Wrangling (158.222, Semester 1, 2016)• Supported statistical needs of students for 218.810

Auckland, New Zealand

• Data wrangling and predictive modelling for smart meter data• Data analysis of smart meter data, including fuzzy matching of address to census meshblocks• Data wrangling and mapping resources and coverage to support the response to Ebola in Sierra Leone and Guinea• Network Analysis for optimization of staffing, hospital cover and lack disease spread • Teleco - Customer Insight Analysis • Analysis of business segmentation models including growth, communications, channel acquisition and over spend • Contributed to winning a three-year contract with BMW for work including marketing analysis from a partnership between Data Insight and RAPP

Christchurch, New Zealand

Customer Energy Poverty and Hardship Analysis - Statistical analysis investigating which/where customers need a helping hand. Lead analysis on home heating and customer hardship data examining possible indicators of fuel poverty to inform new policy around low income families for New Zealand Energy Authority. Design and implementation of a pilot project on utilization of low user status versus actual need - furthered by PWC to give recommendations for changes in the regulatory policies governing electricity in New Zealand Co-development of a churn propensity modelSAS stored processes, dashboards, generalized linear models and logistic regressionBig Data analysis utilizing SAS resulting in customer research which lead to a 15% increase in profit margin

Christchurch, New Zealand

Statistical programming Proposed new techniques resulting in a semi-agile models, reports and forecasts increasing the accuracy of prior predictive modelsLarge data modeling utilizing Matlab and R Prediction and forecast modelingSimulation and analysis of dataDocumenting requirements

Supported Applied Statistical Modelling research, publishing with the Brain Institute of New Zealand. Provided student support, assessment and instructionHeld one-on-one coaching sessions that contributed to sound understandingPlanned and graded classes and exams

One of the Crown Research Institutes in New Zealand, NIWA is funded by both commercial and governmental sources. I analyse and provide models for biological, atmospheric and other data as part of a team scientific effort.

Wrote SQL and COBOL in support of the Oracle SunGard Installation for the Financial Aid Module. Wrote ad-hoc queries and reports Supported users through biweekly meetings and training for the 10 users of the module.

A year contracted research position. I contributed to several projects during this time among which were: crystalline structural analysis of the V-3 region of HIV 1; a JAVA based algorithmically driven sparse large matrix solving program; and developing a ontological vocabulary for cross laboratory data warehousing.

Wrote code to contribute to document base, collaborated in the design of learning objects

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Used SAS base to create statistics, charts and maps displaying the state automobile accidents to support strategy decisions and inform the public. Helped to create the "NEW MEXICO TRAFFIC CRASH INFORMATION" report for 1998.

Masters In Science, Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Graduate and Professional Student Association Mathematics, Branch President; Society for Creative Anachronism.

Post Graduate Course, Applied Statistics And Mathematics: Focusing On Stochastic Modelling

Activities and Societies: Women In Engineering Large data modeling utilizing Matlab and R including simulation and analysis of data.

Post Graduate Course, Political Science And Government, Focus On Game Theory And Bayesian Programming

Activities and Societies: The Society For Creative Anachronism, American Statistical Association Short courses on Game Theory and Bayesian.

B.S., Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Theta Mu - Mathematics and Statistics Honor Society I started by thinking Mathematics was like poetry and ended.