Nick Sylva Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Completed my Masters of Information and Data Science in December 2020.

San Francisco, Ca

• Implemented a rule-based expert system in Python to automate the design and engineering process for city-wide streetlight retrofit projects, reducing engineering costs by 80%• Utilizing Google APIs, constructed an ETL framework in Python to aggregate data from 20+ sources to push to a single dashboard, enabling internal stakeholders to make accurate, data-driven decisions and enhance department efficiency.• Developed Python tools to handle data preparation and clean up, extract photos and metadata, and accomplish Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tasks, increasing efficiency and driving data quality standards across the organization.• Principal owner of process-critical datasets; verified record completeness and conformance to standard models to enable efficient work in situations with little margin for error.• Effectively communicated findings and presented project data to internal and external stakeholders via maps, reports, and data products prepared with ArcGIS, SQL, and Microsoft Excel.• Evangelized automation to drive project efficiency, consistency, and quality. Spearheaded initiatives with teams across the organization to develop and implement data-driven workflows.

Oakland, Ca

• Acted as an in-field liaison for clients, contractors, and regulators for dozens of environmental investigation and remediation sites across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Oregon.• Efficiently performed environmental field work (sampling, oversight, inspection, remediation) to ensure that projects were completed in a timely manner and under budget.• Maintained client relationships in the field by effectively communicating project goals, challenges, and progress.• Analyzed and tabulated data collected in the field, supporting project goals and ensuring regulatory compliance.

San Jose, Ca

• Streamlined the management of two 200+ page static HTML websites by implementing a WordPress CMS using custom-written PHP templates with content served by a SQL database.• Built the framework for the development of future sites on the same platform, allowing principal investigators to secure funding for continued work on the project.• Implemented standards for future content creation and management.• Managed and cleaned a >120k record dataset of fossil specimens using Microsoft Excel.

Master'S Degree, Information And Data Science

Coursework: - Machine Learning at Scale - Data Visualization - Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning - Experiments and Causal.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Geology

Activities and Societies: Geology Club at San Jose State UniversityHonors Senior Thesis: "Structure of Eocene Dikes South of the Duncan.