Head of Predictive Analytics
EFFECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Total years of experience :20 years, 5 Months
•Mentor senior and junior data scientists and analysts in the business
•Optimise the Department’s core functions by evaluating software used, revising statistical techniques and models and appropriately managing the Departments’ human capital
•Transforming analytical output into actionable business strategies and tactics
•Encompasses all roles allocated to me as a Senior Statistician as well
•Managing a team of business analysts, statisticians and data scientists to ensure efficient delivery of client projects
•Conduct research on the company database to improve its value
•Combine descriptive and predictive models to generate prescriptive models to drive overall business strategy
• Extracting, transforming and inputting data sets from various sources
• Translating business questions into quantifiable analytical tasks
• Developing predictive models for geo-demographic models enabling innovative predictive analytics focussed on risk, response and persistency modelling
• Provide financial counselling to firms and individuals in debt: Confer with clients to ascertain available monthly income after operational or living expenses to meet debt obligations.
• Manage the company's relationship with new and existing clients, ensuring that the assigned clients' needs and expectations are fully met.
• Client needs assessment, strategic planning in collaboration with the client on Debt settlement plan with credit providers while working within the boundaries and confines set out by the Moratorium agreement between Debt counsellors and credit providers under the umbrella of the national credit act.
• Establishing payment priorities so as to effectively restructure client's overall costs by liquidating high-interest, short-term loans or contracts first
• Reviewing clients' accounts and plans regularly to determine whether life changes, economic changes, or financial performance indicate a need for plan reassessment
• Conducted data analyses, and reported results associated with a research study, using
Stata and other statistical analysis software
• Summarized statistical results of a research project by creating graphs, tables and charts
• Interpreted and conveyed results to project leaders and principal investigators.
• Refined statistical models after consultation.
• Designed large datasets in line with project requirements
• Provided subject matter expertise on statistical considerations related to all of the above and statistical best practices
• Tutored 1st and 2nd year statistics for the Department of Statistical Sciences
• Tutored Statistical and Probability Design in Electrical Engineering for the Department of Electrical Sciences
• Tutored business statistics at the Graduate School of Business
• Serve food and beverages to patrons
• Act as a liaison between management and staff
Key Achievements:
• Appointed head bar man after only 6 months
Offered private tuition classes in mathematics and physics to candidates intending to write the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations in order to enable them join a kenyan university
Head Coach of the Makini Primary School basketball teams
Masters Degree in Information Technology - in progress
• 2011: Bachelor of Commerce Honors in Statistics
• 2010: Bachelor of Commerce - Specialization in Economics and Statistics
• Chemistry (AS), Law (Foundation), Mathematics, Physics, Thinking Skills (Cambridge) - Average A
Biology, Chemistry, English, Geography, Mathematics, Physics, Swahili - Average A Minus