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ID : 1723

Education level : Master's degree

Work experience level : Beginner- (internship- 1 year experience)

Work experience in total : Years

Job type : Online

Job time : Maandelijks

Last date of registration :

2022-12-20

A highly proactive and quick learning individual interested in becoming a Senior Data Scientist within the next three years.

Associate Data Analyst - Crowncity Technologies Limited - (May 2022 – Present)

Building a credit score algorithm with smart-phone data and mobile money data transactions in order for clients to receive credit from our firm based on their individualized credit score.
Built an OCR model with python and TensorFlow to capture data from ID cards for use in ID card verification.
Gathering and analyzing data, using advanced statistical models, and support projects relating to data/reporting solutions.
Maintain standard and ad hoc reports, templates, dashboards with insights, scorecards, and metrics that drive change in the business which are tailored in level of detail for the appropriate stakeholders.
Communicate to internal stakeholders through discussion, presentations, and write-ups of results, recommendations and meaningful insights gained through data analysis to be used to develop strategic and operational plans.
Perform ad-hoc analysis as necessary to answer business questions and drive decisions.
Use data mining techniques to consolidate and analyze information from available data sources to support process optimization and automation modelling.
Ensuring data quality and reliability and provide feedback to business process owners and to the IT department.
Work with business requirements to identify and understand source data systems and identify resolutions to data issues.
Tech Stack Used: Python, R, Tableau, Power BI, Excel

Associate Data Scientist - AMALITECH gGmbH - (January 2019 – April 2022)

CURRENT PROJECT NAME: ARMS - ERP
- Build and maintain dashboards and analytics for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software with Power BI. Connected Power BI Pro to Amazon Relational Database (MySQL database) to build interactive dashboards and provide analytics. Queried database using SQL. Queried database and exported results in any other file format e.g., CSV for data analysis using Python, Excel, Tableau and/or Power BI. Work with software development team to embed dashboards into the web for easy access by end users.
- Tech Stack Used: Power BI, SQL, Excel, Python, Tableau
PROJECT NAME: ARMS – Salary Survey of IT Professionals in Ghana
- Designed questionnaires for a salary survey dubbed (Salary Survey of IT Professionals in Ghana). The purpose of the survey was to give a general overview of the salary ranges of IT professionals in Ghana. The salary survey was conducted to find the benchmark of how much salary other IT companies in Ghana pay. Conducted exploratory and explanatory analysis as well as inferential statistics to find salary distribution amongst IT professionals in Ghana.
  Served as the team lead on this project.
- Tech Stack Used: Power BI, Excel, Python, Tableau
PROJECT NAME: Ecommerce Platform
- Designed questionnaires for the viability of an eCommerce platform. Conducted exploratory and explanatory analysis to find the impact of COVID 19 on individuals and businesses in Takoradi. Performed statistical analysis which accessed the viability of an e-commerce platform. Reported findings to stakeholders to inform strategic decision-making.
- Tech Stack Used: Power BI, Excel, Python, Tableau
PROJECT NAME: HERE DATA FACTORY
- Used HERE Map Creator to detect changes in different geographical regions around the world. Normalized and corrected erroneous data which kept the database consistent and clean. Scraped data on relevant POIs (point of interest) provided by the client. Analyzed data on the progress of the project for strategic decision- making.
- Tech Stack Used: Excel, Here Map Creator
PROJECT NAME: Sales Simulation with AnyLogic
- Scraped sales data on electronic products from amazon and other websites. Conducted sentiment analysis and data analysis on customers' reviews and rating data using Python, Excel, Power BI and Tableau.
  Simulated the success of the product using customers ratings and reviews. Simulated past sales and predict future sales using ratings and reviews. The project was simulated using AnyLogic.
- Tech Stack Used: Excel, Python, Tableau, AnyLogic
SIDE PROJECT: Expresso Churn Prediction Challenge
- Expresso is an African telecommunications company that provides customers with airtime and mobile data bundles. The objective of this challenge is to develop a machine learning model to predict the likelihood of each Expresso customer “churning,” i.e., becoming inactive and not making any transactions for 90 days.
  This solution will help Expresso to better serve their customers by understanding which customers are at risk of leaving.
- Ranked 38 out of 437
- Tech Stack Used: Python
SIDE PROJECT: Loan Default Prediction Challenge
- SuperLender is a local digital lending company, which prides itself in its effective use of credit risk models to deliver profitable and high-impact loan alternative. Its assessment approach is based on two main risk drivers of loan default prediction:
  1) willingness to pay and 2) ability to pay.
- The objective of this challenge is to develop a machine learning model to predict if a loan was good or bad, i.e., accurately predict binary outcome variable, where Good is 1 and Bad is 0
- Tech Stack Used: Python

Finance & Business Analyst Intern - Volta Presentation - (March 2019 – April 2019)

Perform in-depth analysis of on-going operations.
Identify important trends, key risks and opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement.
Perform product profitability analysis and assist with product rationalization exercises.
Conducting financial analysis to help identify cost reduction opportunities.
Perform business analysis to determine costs & price on all sales and business development deals.
Undertake business and finance related research on demand.

Funds Transfer Officer - Bidvest Microfinance Limited - (February 2018 – August 2018)

Post into customer’s account. Post into corporate general ledgers.
Book investment and prepare certificates to investment.
Update investment portfolio each day.
Call over all work done the previous day.
Reconciliation of accounts.
Submit reports daily and weekly to the financial manager.

Loan Administration & Monitoring Officer - Bidvest Microfinance Limited - (November 2017 – February 2018)

Ensure all weekly, monthly, quarterly reports are sent to management on time.
Ensure loan and income targets are duly met or exceeded.
Ensure all loan documentations are accurate.
Ensure securities are accurately perfected.
Ensure that all funds disbursed are duly recovered.
Ensure all rules, regulations and sanctions issued by management and board are duly complied with.

Teacher - MaryMount School (April 2017 – November 2017)

Taught pre-technical skills, graphic design, plane geometry, and mathematics to junior high and class six students.
Monitored the performance of students through regular tests.
Inculcated discipline among students.
Submitted weekly and monthly reports to headmaster.
Worked in conjunction with prefects to keep the school clean.

National Service Person - Sumaman Senior High School - (September 2013 – August 2014)

Taught core and elective mathematics to final year students.
Monitored the progress of students through regular tests.
Acted as librarian therefore had to inculcate the habit of reading among students.
Successfully helped with a team to organize the school’s PTA.
Helped inculcate discipline among students.
Submit monthly reports to head of department

Intern - Social Security & National Insurance Trust - (June 2012 – August 2012)

Sorted out files to their respective folders in the compliance department.
Printed student loan debt to recipients in the student loan department.
Handled enquiries pertaining to the student loan scheme.
Registered new members unto the SSNIT scheme.
Helped potential claim recipients fill out their claim forms in the claims department

Python
R
SQL
Tableau
Power BI
Microsoft Excel
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

Professional Affiliations And Membership Status/Qualifications:
- Actuarial Society of Ghana (ASG) - Student
- Association of Chartered Certified Economists (ACCE) – Associate Level II
Short Courses:
- MITx on edX
- MicroMasters Program in Statistics & Data Science (Jan 2020 – Feb 2021)
  - Probability - The Science of Uncertainty & Data
  - Data Analysis for Social Scientists
  - Fundamentals of Statistics
  - Machine Learning with Python – From Linear Models to Deep Learning
  - CAPSTONE
- Coursera
  - Deep Learning (deeplearning.ai)
  - Python 3 Programming (University of Michigan)
  - Python for Everybody (University of Michigan)
- DataQuest
  - Data Analyst in Python
- DataCamp
  - Data Analyst with Python
  - Data Analyst with SQL
  - Data Scientist with Python
  - Machine Learning Scientist with Python
- WorldQuant University Certificate Courses
  - Applied Data Science: Scientific Computing & Python (with honors)
  - Applied Data Science: Machine Learning & Statistical Analysis (with honors)

An individual with Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, Machine Learning and Deep Learning skills is interested in becoming a Senior Data Scientist within the next three years.