Frances Luk
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Experience
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AlphaZetta
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Singapore
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Managing Partner
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Jul 2017 - Present
Global Develop and build AlphaZetta, a start-up company, within Nordic countries. AlphaZetta offers on-demand, high quality, cost effective and global scale analytics services as an alternative to big vendor offerings. We offer both augmentation as well as end-to-end data project deliveries. Taking short-term contracts in parallel of running this company.
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Director
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Jan 2017 - Present
Copenhagen Area, Denmark Founder and director of Iguana ApS. Company vision is to deliver high quality, efficient and responsible IT consultancy services to business customers. Specialised in Data Science, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions.
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Nordea
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Finland
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Cloud Data Engineer (Contract)
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Jan 2023 - Present
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark As one of the largest banks in Nordic area Nordea has many compliance regulations to meet. I work in the Treasury department, helping client to design and to build a new reporting framework, develop data pipelines on Snowflake platform, producing regulatory reports efficiently, correctly and reliably. Deliveries and achievements have been well received by client. Technologies: Snowflake, Data Stage, qTest, Bamboo
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Anchor Lab K/S
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Denmark
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Consultant (Contract)
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Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Helping client to scope and to write a project proposal, and conducted requirement analysis for an AI/ML image recognition project. The team later was awarded with the first phase funding of a government tender.
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Pandora
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Denmark
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Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Engineer (Contract)
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Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark Being part of the Consumer Insights data team, I was responsible for analysing business requirements and turned them into technical requirements, solution design, development, test and implementation. Have developed end-to-end marketing solutions with Google and Facebook, developing data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, AirFlow and Pyspark. In addition, I designed and developed a GDPR data compliance solution for a datalake. Throughout the contract I was also heavily involved in… Show more Being part of the Consumer Insights data team, I was responsible for analysing business requirements and turned them into technical requirements, solution design, development, test and implementation. Have developed end-to-end marketing solutions with Google and Facebook, developing data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, AirFlow and Pyspark. In addition, I designed and developed a GDPR data compliance solution for a datalake. Throughout the contract I was also heavily involved in recruiting and training new team members. Show less
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Weber Shandwick
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United States
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Public Relations and Communications Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Engineer Lead (Contract)
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Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
As a lead data engineer I help client to analyse business and system requirements, design data processing architecture on Google Cloud to batch collect and to stream social media data from mainstream social media platforms. I developed Python data collection modules using social media APIs and webhooks, and developed Python data ingestion solutions to bring data from source to Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery. Furthermore I develop data analysis code, e.g. sentiment analytics, on top of… Show more As a lead data engineer I help client to analyse business and system requirements, design data processing architecture on Google Cloud to batch collect and to stream social media data from mainstream social media platforms. I developed Python data collection modules using social media APIs and webhooks, and developed Python data ingestion solutions to bring data from source to Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery. Furthermore I develop data analysis code, e.g. sentiment analytics, on top of data in BigQuery. GCP component used: Cloud Functions, Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Container Registry, App Engine Show less
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Raiffeisen Bank International AG
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Austria
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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GDPR solution consultant (Contract)
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Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Defined a file protection strategy for client to protect and to manage sensitive file content stored in Cloud Sharepoint for GDPR compliance. Designed and implemented a solution for client to capture file metadata using Python, to assign file sensitivity labels using Office365 Compliance Center, and to automatically manage file life-cycle according to file protection requirements using Power Automate.
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BEC Financial Technologies
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Denmark
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Warehouse Consultant (Contract)
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Oct 2019 - May 2020
Roskilde First half of the contract helped client to build and test a GDPR compliance data warehouse solution. Second half of the contract helped client to analyse the existing incident management process and to redesign an automated solution, using a data driven approach on incident task assignment, diagnosis and pattern detection. The team I worked in have received high level of compliments from client's management team: over-achieved, flexible and goal oriented, deliver ahead-of-time even… Show more First half of the contract helped client to build and test a GDPR compliance data warehouse solution. Second half of the contract helped client to analyse the existing incident management process and to redesign an automated solution, using a data driven approach on incident task assignment, diagnosis and pattern detection. The team I worked in have received high level of compliments from client's management team: over-achieved, flexible and goal oriented, deliver ahead-of-time even under disruptive conditions. Show less
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Novozymes
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Denmark
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Biotechnology Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Consultant (Contract)
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Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Copenhagen Area, Denmark A short contract to help client gathering business requirements, interviewing stakeholders, organizing workshops, documenting findings and scoping an upcoming data analytics project. Prepared presentation material for executive level audiences.
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QVARTZ Analytics
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Denmark
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Data Analyst (Contract)
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Aug 2017 - May 2018
Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark Invited to help QVARTZ consulting to build up a brand-new analytics team QVARTZ Analytics from the very beginning. Involved in setting directions, supporting sales initiatives, recruiting, training and preparing foundation elements which the team can build further on.
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Director
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Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Copenhagen Area, Denmark As I am trying to diversify my skills and career paths, I have started to run a food products export business bringing food from Europe to Hong Kong/Southern China/Macau. If you have good products wanting to expand to South East Asia, please get in contact.
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Maersk Line, Limited
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United States
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Maritime Transportation
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Warehouse Consultant (Contract)
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Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark A part of a data warehouse team managing and developing client's financial data warehouse. Gather, manage and analyse business requirements. Coordinating team members. Developing ETL logic to support financial reporting solutions.
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Teradata
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Scientist
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Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
Copenhagen Area, Denmark Responsible for big data discovery pre-sales demo and proof-of-value activities, as well as post-sales big data consultancy services. Work tasks include data sourcing, data preparation, analytics and result presentations to different levels of stakeholders. Has been leading big data discovery in the following industries: > Logistics > Banking > Pension & Insurance > Government > Retail > Manufacturing > Telecommunication > Oil and… Show more Responsible for big data discovery pre-sales demo and proof-of-value activities, as well as post-sales big data consultancy services. Work tasks include data sourcing, data preparation, analytics and result presentations to different levels of stakeholders. Has been leading big data discovery in the following industries: > Logistics > Banking > Pension & Insurance > Government > Retail > Manufacturing > Telecommunication > Oil and Drilling Significant achievements: 1. Part of the account team to win one of the largest telco in Denmark on purchasing Teradata Aster big data analytics platform
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Data Warehouse Consultant
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May 2014 - Aug 2014
Copenhagen Area, Denmark Solution Architect in the Fact Based Reporting financial project at Maersk Line. Responsible for requirement gathering, solution specification and overall solution approval. Assisted project managers to plan and coordinate project tasks.
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Data Warehouse Consultant
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Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
Test lead in the Fact Based Reporting financial project at Maersk Line. Responsible for clarifying business and data requirements to an off-shore test team. Leading daily testing activities and assisting test managers on planning test assignments. Provide data warehouse training to new testers. Enabling them to prepare system integration test cases.
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Business Information Modeller
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Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
Data Warehouse consulting for one of the biggest logistics company Maersk Line. Responsible for building a new integrated Data Warehouse. Main responsibilities include data analysis, data mapping, ETL development, data model validating and testing.
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Danske Bank
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Denmark
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Solution Architect / Data Analyst
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Apr 2011 - Mar 2012
Led a project to migrate an existing customer risk modelling system to the new DW/BI platform.
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Solution Architect/Data Analyst
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Jul 2007 - Mar 2011
Involve in projects for building a brand new Enterprise Data Warehouse and BI (DW/BI) platform. Gather information and functional requirements from business users. Perform solution design, data modelling, data sourcing and data analysis. Specify ETL logics for on-shore and off-shore development teams. Assist in project planning and provide material to support management decision making. Key contributions: • Involved in architecture design process for the new DW/BI platform • Designed… Show more Involve in projects for building a brand new Enterprise Data Warehouse and BI (DW/BI) platform. Gather information and functional requirements from business users. Perform solution design, data modelling, data sourcing and data analysis. Specify ETL logics for on-shore and off-shore development teams. Assist in project planning and provide material to support management decision making. Key contributions: • Involved in architecture design process for the new DW/BI platform • Designed, analysed and specified solutions for the first project bringing data to the new DW/BI platform. Include 3NF data modelling and dimensional data modelling • Involved in an infrastructure project to test and select a banking industry data model for the new DW/BI platform • Led a project to gather business requirements and user information from a legacy data analysis environment. Proposed and discussed alternative solutions to data users • Interact with stakeholders to define data requirements, data definitions, ownerships and to explain business impacts of solutions
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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IT Specialist
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Aug 2004 - Jul 2007
Designed and developed enterprise applications for one of the largest Logistic company in the World. Specified business and system requirements. Responsible for the entire development cycle from requirement analysis, through estimations, design, development, implementation to test. Key contributions: • Designed and developed functionalities for a document management system • Developed functionalities for a systems monitoring application • Assisted in business requirements… Show more Designed and developed enterprise applications for one of the largest Logistic company in the World. Specified business and system requirements. Responsible for the entire development cycle from requirement analysis, through estimations, design, development, implementation to test. Key contributions: • Designed and developed functionalities for a document management system • Developed functionalities for a systems monitoring application • Assisted in business requirements gathering for a logistics process management system Specialised in J2EE, J2SE, JSP, Struts, XML, HTML and JavaScript. Experienced with WebSphere MQ and JMS. Show less
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Danish Institute for Fisheries Research
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Graduate developer
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Sep 2003 - Apr 2004
Graduate developer. Mobile phone applications and other research applications. J2ME. WAP. C#.
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Dezide
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Denmark
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Developer trainee
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Jun 2001 - Aug 2002
This position was part of the university exchange program to go overseas for one year of work experience. I was employed by Hewlett-Packard to work in an R&D team to develop a artificial intelligence enabled, self-service troubleshooting application. The R&D team spinned off from Hewlett-Packard to form the company Dezide. I was responsbile for website and front-end interface development, and assisted in general business adminstration and marketing.
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IAESTE
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Luxembourg
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Student Intern
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Jun 2001 - Aug 2002
Denmark Student exchange from Hong Kong to Denmark to earn my first ever full-time work experience.
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Education
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Københavns Universitet
MSc, eScience -
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
BSc, Information Technology