Career Profile
Experienced data scientist with a mathematical background. Previous experience in tutoring and small business ownership mean I am practised at explaining complex concepts and translating technical mathematics into workplace output. In short, I am a well-rounded data scientist who loves challenges and tough problems.
Education
Studied Mathematics focusing on applied areas such as statistical analysis, algorithms and optimization. Awarded the Vice Chancellor Scholarship ($12,000 p.a.) based on academic merit.
Experiences
Data analyst for a financial services company. During my role, I was tasked with improving their credit scoring algorithm using an internal data set. To accomplish this I implemented a variety of statistical (logistic regression, decision tree, random forest) and machine learning methods in R language and oversaw their deployment as an API.
Intern for an ambitious real estate sound monitoring start-up. In my role I wrote unit tests for an AWS Django server; scraped and managed large data sets in AWS databases; and optimized the runtime of an internal tool using mathematical improvements.
Academic tutor to 25 students. Tasks involved explaining mathematical concepts, marking assignments and giving constructive feedback to students.
Founder of a 1-on-1 specialist tutoring company for Queensland senior school students. My role included tutoring, marketing, sales and client relationship management.
Projects
Coding projects I have worked on in my spare time.