Luis Ricardo Gerbelli Email & Phone Number

London, ON, CA

London, Ontario, Canada

São Paulo, Brazil

• Led a team with more than 50 data scientists, being responsible for the quality and timeliness of deliveries for all advanced analytics projects in Brazil, safeguarding they were technically supported by best practices.
• Leveraged new opportunities of sales for existing and new clients, making presentations of advanced analytics solutions and offerings, which addressed the challenges faced by clients.
• Led proof of concepts development to show clients how solutions and offerings could operationally and financially help them.
• Elaborated more than 40 technical and commercial sales proposals, defining premises, scopes, scheduling, staffing plan, and price for an eventual new project of data science. More than 10 were converted into sales and.
• Cultivated and encouraged the continuous learning and development of the data scientist team to improve their technical and soft skills.
• Contributed on resource allocation management, ensuring that all data science projects and proposals were correctly staffed.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Led more than 10 different data science projects.
• Led data scientist teams (evolving up to 20 professionals in some projects), providing mentorship and guidance to its members.
• Developed business cases to estimate how much were the return over investment provided by an eventual new data analysis or machine learning models and find out whether those initiatives were financially feasible.
• Implemented explainable AI techniques, using Python packages (shap, Lime), to figure out which were the most relevant features in machine learning models and deeply understand each individual prediction.
• Led medium to complex projects, using both agile delivery methodology and CRISP-DM approach.
• Built time series forecasting models to predict the next short term prices of commodities.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Participated in more than 5 different data science projects.
• Made exploratory data analysis to deeper understand the quality and behavior of available data, as well as the correlations between its features.
• Developed end-to-end machine learning models, using Python, R, and Spark programming languages.
• Conducted backtesting and A/B testing to realize the assertiveness and the adherence of machine learning models to the business processes.
• Created, developed and made presentations to business users, through consistent story telling.
• Built different supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, like lifecycle expectancy prediction for truck engines (which were possible to make prediction with less than 5% of error), churn forecast.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Led 10 different business intelligence projects.
• Designed technical BI solutions to address business needs and requirements, adherent to the best practices for informational environments.
• Led BI teams (evolving up to 10 professionals in some projects), being responsible for the technical solution, guiding the team developers throughout their deliveries and assuring that the best practices were followed.
• Proposed new IT architectures, aimed at improving analytical environments by moving them toward benchmarking reference architectures, and defined roadmaps of initiatives for these transformations.
• Designed and developed data modeling to provide an informational environment on star schema and snowflake modeling, using SAP BW, SAP BPC, Cognos TM1, and Cognos Analytics.
• Designed and developed data transformation, through the use of ETL tools, like SQL, SAP BW, SAP BPC, Cognos TM1, and Cognos Analytics.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Participated in 5 different business intelligence projects.
• Designed and developed data modeling to provide an informational environment on star schema and snowflake modeling, using SAP BW and SAP BPC.
• Designed and developed data transformation, through the use of ETL tools, like SAP BW and SAP BPC.
• Designed and built financial planning solutions (using SAP BPC) to provide budgetary planning for companies, making it possible to have a decentralized and collaborative contribution of information provided by multiple.
• Designed and built accounting consolidation solutions (using SAP BPC) to provide automated balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and cash flow statement.
• Created and developed analytical reports, using SAP BusinessObjects.

São Paulo, Brazil

• Developed functional specification documentations, through the understanding of business requirements and business challenges, for an online sales website, for a system of new product launch, and for a SAP BW.
• Contributed through recommendations of process adjustments, when identified improvement opportunities within the business processes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Analytics And Big Data

Bachelor, Production Engineering