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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Created an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process to automatically extract information from PDFs• Ran Monte Carlo simulations to predict part failures and estimate replacement costs based on current maintenance schedules

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Created pipelines to extract/transform data, generate predictions, and create reports• Built a churn prediction model to identify customers who are at a higher risk of churning, which provided guidance for the retention team and helped prevent revenue loss• Used a combination of NLP, clustering, and logistic regression to categorize incoming support tickets based on free text notes made by call centre agents

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Worked on numerous projects for a variety of clients• Types of project included prediction models (random forest, GBM, regression), VBA macro creation, and data exploration/analysis

Halifax, Canada Area

• Designed and developed an app that generates a list of comparable sales for a given property, which significantly reduced the preparation time needed for property assessment defence in court/tribunals• Built GBM models to predict sale price for residential properties, which were used to create property assessments for tax purposes• Built similar models for other jurisdictions such as British Columbia and the Netherlands• Developed an API to allow the property appraisal software to interact with the valuation model, so that predicted values would update when changes were made to a properties attributes

Halifax, Canada Area

• Building regression models to predict property value• Performing cluster analysis• Consulting analysis on behalf of the Auditor General of New Brunswick• Educating assessors about models/statistics

Nova Scotia, Canada

Running statistics labs/tutorials, presenting lectures and providing one-on-one guidance.

Nova Scotia, Canada

Developing and implementing automated anomaly detection, statistical modelling and forecasting algorithms.

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Engaging with stakeholders to identify inefficiencies and waste in key reporting processes. Analysing problems and creating automated solutions.

Telford, United Kingdom

Creating reports/reporting tools, automated reports and processes, providing Excel support and training.

Master'S Degree, Mathematics And Statistics, Gpa - 3.92

Projects included: Tidal energy quality control – Developing a statistical quality control process for the detection of faults.

Graduate Certificate, Statistics, Upper Second Class (2:1)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Honours, Economics, Upper Second Class (2:1)