Killara, New South Wales, Australia
Mathematics and Statistics Expert in applied finance currently working as a data engineering consultant as Westpac Banking Corporation. Oxford graduate with a Masters in Mathematics and Statistics (4 years, Bachelor integrated) looking for opportunities to apply my skills in the finance industry.
• Delivered 20 business use cases in advanced data science across 3 business units • Presented analysis and results to stakeholders supporting senior leaders in decision making • Pushed 3 models into production that are used to support 10,000 customers with their complaints • Use cases include: mortgage propensity, customer lifetime models and tech risk reporting • Championed migration of banking data science to new advanced data platform (Dataiku) • Expert in Dataiku and host weekly learning sessions to uplift platform and data science literacy • Developed data pipelines and dashboard for regular platform performance reporting that enable data driven decisions and the team to reach important KPIs • Devising and implementing strategies and functionalities to increase delivery efficiency and minimize platform data risk • Negotiated with senior governance bodies to approve new capabilities to empower more complex and demanding use cases • Mentored 5 graduates: enabling them to deliver valuable work in the team and eventually receive job offers within Westpac
• Worked in the AI department, developing technological solutions • Improved voice to text application for transcribing meetings and customer calls by employing NLP and adding speaker diarization step • Tested IDD (inadvertent data disclosure) detection algorithms for email by preparing large, complex data sets to train and test the models • Optimised and trained ranking algorithm for querying a large database of items • Presented innovative ideas in weekly team meetings • Wrote white papers and user guides for voice to text, IDD detection and search query ranking applications
• Worked for Data61 on developing cybersecurity solutions for IoT devices • Performed experiments simulating various cyberattacks to collect data • Wrote successful anomaly detection program designed to detect breaches • Presented report on current industry solutions and how our solution overcame several key shortcomings