Data Scientist

• May 2022 - Present

Consultant

• Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

- Building data Science capability for my client to help drive the decision making process - Help my client understand their customers’ demographics, preferences, obstacles they are facing, etc. by applying advanced analytics techniques in R and Python. - Identify opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work - Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues - Conduct relevant research, data… Show more - Building data Science capability for my client to help drive the decision making process - Help my client understand their customers’ demographics, preferences, obstacles they are facing, etc. by applying advanced analytics techniques in R and Python. - Identify opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work - Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues - Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and create reports - Maintain responsibility of completion and accuracy of work products Show less - Building data Science capability for my client to help drive the decision making process - Help my client understand their customers’ demographics, preferences, obstacles they are facing, etc. by applying advanced analytics techniques in R and Python. - Identify opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work - Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues - Conduct relevant research, data… Show more - Building data Science capability for my client to help drive the decision making process - Help my client understand their customers’ demographics, preferences, obstacles they are facing, etc. by applying advanced analytics techniques in R and Python. - Identify opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work - Participate in team problem solving efforts and offer ideas to solve client issues - Conduct relevant research, data analysis, and create reports - Maintain responsibility of completion and accuracy of work products Show less

Analytics Consultant

• Sep 2020 - Jul 2021

- Conduct stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and presentation. - Produce reusable code for automating data queries - Build and maintain automated dashboards - Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan. - Research and gather appropriate data from various… Show more - Conduct stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and presentation. - Produce reusable code for automating data queries - Build and maintain automated dashboards - Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan. - Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business. - Profile and prepare data for analysis. - Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts and trends. - interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value. - Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings. -Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule. - Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes. - Collaborate with Business Analytics peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their needs and drive wellmark's value proposition for stakeholders. - Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidations, aggregation and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc. -Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources. Show less - Conduct stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and presentation. - Produce reusable code for automating data queries - Build and maintain automated dashboards - Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan. - Research and gather appropriate data from various… Show more - Conduct stakeholder sessions for requirements gathering, data discovery, analysis, reporting, and presentation. - Produce reusable code for automating data queries - Build and maintain automated dashboards - Participate in or conduct discovery sessions and stakeholder interactions to gain business understanding and identify business problem. Understand the project objectives and gather requirements to build a preliminary plan. - Research and gather appropriate data from various sources. Source, extract, assemble, collate, and consolidate data needs for the business. - Profile and prepare data for analysis. - Build and execute models to analyze business outcomes, using tables, graphs, and charts, as well as algorithms, forecasts and trends. - interpret results, identify key findings to quantify business value. - Develop a narrative to summarize and convey findings to stakeholders. Make recommendations based on findings. -Create, update, and maintain a production schedule for reporting and ensure reports and presentations are completed on schedule. - Manage multiple projects simultaneously and support corporate process improvement initiatives, meeting aggressive timeframes. - Collaborate with Business Analytics peers to identify reporting objectives and develop reports and analyses that meet their needs and drive wellmark's value proposition for stakeholders. - Wrangle data from a wide variety of data sets and assemble into normalized and enriched data assets that enables new insights, solutions, and visualizations. Perform and document data profiling, quality assessment, source consolidations, aggregation and other data manipulation efforts, to understand data formats, source systems, file sizes, etc. -Create, update, and maintain documentation and procedures for sourcing, analyzing, and preparing internal reporting and presentations. Ensure the highest quality and integrity of data sources. Show less

Data Scientist Intern

• May 2020 - Aug 2020

• Sourced, cleaned, and transformed (in R) publicly available demographic, population, and economic data to create over 100 county-level socioeconomic indices • Created cumulative performance metrics summarizing said indices for over 3000 counties • Utilized k-means methodology to determine county-level peer groups • Summarized insights in a comprehensive dashboard to inform future work on a regional scorecard • Sourced, cleaned, and transformed (in R) publicly available demographic, population, and economic data to create over 100 county-level socioeconomic indices • Created cumulative performance metrics summarizing said indices for over 3000 counties • Utilized k-means methodology to determine county-level peer groups • Summarized insights in a comprehensive dashboard to inform future work on a regional scorecard

Data Science Practicum Participant

• Sep 2019 - May 2020

• Working with a corporate customer to develop an approach that uses advanced algorithmic techniques to meet their enterprise needs • Integrating a variety of data types such as transactional, geospatial, and weather with data architecture best practices using SQL and Python • Utilizing classification models such as logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosted trees to predict the risk of a store closing within the next 12 months • Identifying factors that… Show more • Working with a corporate customer to develop an approach that uses advanced algorithmic techniques to meet their enterprise needs • Integrating a variety of data types such as transactional, geospatial, and weather with data architecture best practices using SQL and Python • Utilizing classification models such as logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosted trees to predict the risk of a store closing within the next 12 months • Identifying factors that drive quicker closure using survival analysis techniques • Providing recommendations using the most actionable failure factors to lead a store turnaround • Handling the communication lead role for a 4-month period, where the focus is on presentations and reports delivered to the client • Handling scrum master responsibility for the team for a 4-month period. Show less • Working with a corporate customer to develop an approach that uses advanced algorithmic techniques to meet their enterprise needs • Integrating a variety of data types such as transactional, geospatial, and weather with data architecture best practices using SQL and Python • Utilizing classification models such as logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosted trees to predict the risk of a store closing within the next 12 months • Identifying factors that… Show more • Working with a corporate customer to develop an approach that uses advanced algorithmic techniques to meet their enterprise needs • Integrating a variety of data types such as transactional, geospatial, and weather with data architecture best practices using SQL and Python • Utilizing classification models such as logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and gradient boosted trees to predict the risk of a store closing within the next 12 months • Identifying factors that drive quicker closure using survival analysis techniques • Providing recommendations using the most actionable failure factors to lead a store turnaround • Handling the communication lead role for a 4-month period, where the focus is on presentations and reports delivered to the client • Handling scrum master responsibility for the team for a 4-month period. Show less

English <> Arabic Interpreter

• Apr 2015 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Interpreter English <> Arabic Interpreter

English <> Arabic Translator

• Apr 2015 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Translator English <> Arabic Translator

English <> Arabic Interpreter

• Nov 2014 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Interpreter English <> Arabic Interpreter

English <> Arabic Interpreter / Translator

• Jun 2013 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Interpreter / Translator English <> Arabic Interpreter / Translator

English <> Arabic Interpreter

• May 2013 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Interpreter English <> Arabic Interpreter

Contractor English <> Arabic Interpreter

• Apr 2013 - May 2019

Medical English <> Arabic Interpreter Medical English <> Arabic Interpreter

English - Arabic Translator & Interpreter

• Jan 2010 - May 2019

Contractor Translator

• Oct 2009 - May 2019

English <> Arabic Translator. Fields of translation: Market Research discussion guides and questionnaires, Legal Documents Arabic > English Transcription. Software Translation. English <> Arabic Translator. Fields of translation: Market Research discussion guides and questionnaires, Legal Documents Arabic > English Transcription. Software Translation.

Arabic Cultural Specialist

• Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

Teaching Arabic culture for summer class under-grads. Teaching Arabic culture for summer class under-grads.

Contractor Translator

• Mar 2011 - Mar 2012

Translation of English > Arabic documents. Translation of English > Arabic documents.

Human Resources Manager

• Nov 2009 - Jan 2012

Recruitment process for Translators, Proofreaders, Editors, Freelance Writers, etc. Recruitment process for Translators, Proofreaders, Editors, Freelance Writers, etc.

Contractor English <> Arabic Translator

• Mar 2011 - Oct 2011

Translation of English web content into Arabic Translation of English web content into Arabic

Translation Department Manager

• Dec 2008 - Sep 2009

-Translate newspaper articles from Arabic into English in fields of petrol and transportation -Translating hotels brochures -Translating legal documents -Translate brochures and invitations from English into Arabic and vice versa -Drafting English press releases for the agency clients to be published in the different media channels. -Handling the freelance translators in terms of punctuality and quality -Translate newspaper articles from Arabic into English in fields of petrol and transportation -Translating hotels brochures -Translating legal documents -Translate brochures and invitations from English into Arabic and vice versa -Drafting English press releases for the agency clients to be published in the different media channels. -Handling the freelance translators in terms of punctuality and quality

Senior Translator and Transcriber

• Mar 2005 - Nov 2008

***Senior Translator and Transcriber -Transcribing Egyptian, Arabic tapes with different dialects into English. -Translating Discussion Guides, Screeners, and questionnaires -Managing the freelance translators and interpreters. -Taking minutes for the Qualitative groups. -Make content analysis for the groups. ***Administrative tasks: -Handling the out-sourcing process for the tapes that exceeds the department working capacity. -Preparing the freelancers cash… Show more ***Senior Translator and Transcriber -Transcribing Egyptian, Arabic tapes with different dialects into English. -Translating Discussion Guides, Screeners, and questionnaires -Managing the freelance translators and interpreters. -Taking minutes for the Qualitative groups. -Make content analysis for the groups. ***Administrative tasks: -Handling the out-sourcing process for the tapes that exceeds the department working capacity. -Preparing the freelancers cash receipts using excel sheets. -Recruiting new freelancers. -Managing the projects deadlines and delivery timings among the freelancers. Show less ***Senior Translator and Transcriber -Transcribing Egyptian, Arabic tapes with different dialects into English. -Translating Discussion Guides, Screeners, and questionnaires -Managing the freelance translators and interpreters. -Taking minutes for the Qualitative groups. -Make content analysis for the groups. ***Administrative tasks: -Handling the out-sourcing process for the tapes that exceeds the department working capacity. -Preparing the freelancers cash… Show more ***Senior Translator and Transcriber -Transcribing Egyptian, Arabic tapes with different dialects into English. -Translating Discussion Guides, Screeners, and questionnaires -Managing the freelance translators and interpreters. -Taking minutes for the Qualitative groups. -Make content analysis for the groups. ***Administrative tasks: -Handling the out-sourcing process for the tapes that exceeds the department working capacity. -Preparing the freelancers cash receipts using excel sheets. -Recruiting new freelancers. -Managing the projects deadlines and delivery timings among the freelancers. Show less