Ray Hidaka Email & Phone Number

Koto City, Tōkyō-to, JP

Tokyo

• Focus: Leading a global team of applied data scientists to deliver data analysis and AI data products to national/global retailers and CPG companies.Responsibilities:
• Team Leadership: Hire, mentor, motivate, and retain data scientists in Japan and India. Ensure they follow quality assurance processes and best practices. Set and evaluate goals, manage resources, and contribute to.
• Research and Development: Lead data science project teams, promote internal learning, and develop training materials. Provide feedback and validation for internal data science tools and modules. Support junior data.
• Client Delivery: Work with clients to develop annual workplans, identify growth opportunities, and solve strategic problems using data science. Distill complex insights into compelling presentations, guiding clients.
• Technical Collaboration: Consult with the data engineering team on data ingestion, quality assurance, ETL processes, model deployment, and cloud resource optimization.Key Skills:
• Leadership and people management

Tokyo, Japan

• Expertise: Python/PySpark, SQL, Machine Learning, Data VisualizationTarget Clients: National and Global Retailers, CPG CompaniesResponsibilities:
• New data product development: Lead R&D for data products like promotion impact analysis tools. Perform algorithm development, model validation, and deployment. Present findings at conferences.
• Research and optimization: Collaborate on new science modules, optimize customer segmentation algorithms, and test product substitutability models. Develop robust deployment processes.
• Client project delivery: Lead cross-cultural teams on client projects, including task delegation, quality assurance, workplan development, and C-level stakeholder presentations.
• Data analysis and insights in capabilities such as assortment recommendations, product delist impact analysis, price optimization, promotion evaluation, and customer behavior analysis.
• Segmentation build: Built customer segementations such as loyalty and price sensitivity segments, support lifestyle segmentation; as well as product and store clustering including std. clustering algorithms, NLP, graph.

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Leading the Insight & Delivery Division of the JV between dunnhumby and Mitsui Bussan in our Tokyo office.

日本 東京都

• This role tackled diverse challenges in environmental data analysis, risk assessment, and site investigations. Responsibilities:Data Acquisition & Analysis:
• Led field teams (4-20 people) collecting environmental data & adhering to legal/safety standards.
• Analyzed data statistically using Python, R, Tableau & more.
• Modeled physical/chemical processes & visualized data in 2D/3D (AutoCAD, QGIS, Voxler).Research & Development:
• Supported WET research for sustainable remediation.
• Created & presented an evaluation tool for sustainable remediation (SR) at conferences.

Faculty Of Environmental Science And Technology

Research Assistant, Tutor

Master'S Degree In Engineering / Diplom Ingenieur, Waste Management And Contaminated Sites Treatment, A

Student of “waste management and contaminated sites treatment” at the Technical University (TUD) of Dresden/Germany at B.Sc. and.

Groundwater Remediation, Exchange Year

Exchange research student at the University of South Australia/Australia, Centre for Water Management and Reuse under Prof. Dennis Mulcahy.

Groundwater Modeling, Exchange Year

Exchange student at the University of Okayama/Japan, Geo- and Environmental Research Department under Prof. Dr. Makoto Nishigaki.

Bachelor'S Degree, Waste Management And Contaminated Sites Treatment, A

September 2009: Completed B.Sc. in “waste management and contaminated sites treatment”. Thesis subject: “Analyses of Development and.