Resume
I am a data scientist with a Masters in Computer Science from a top French university and project and team management experience from working in a major financial services company in London.
I’ve always been interested in Machine Learning and got exposed to big data in my previous role.
In January 2021, I started studying and working on data science projects full time. Since then, I have been sharing my work and journey here.
Skills
Data Science/Machine Learning
- Completed Andrew Ng’s Neural Networks and Deep Learning specialization course on Coursera as well as Codecademy’s Data Scientist Career Path
- Built and trained machine learning models using scikit-learn and neural networks with Tensorflow (examples of my work can be found here
- Wrote web scrapers, API clients, and SQL queries to pull data from various sources
- Cleaned and tidied data with Pandas and Numpy
- Performed Exploratory Data Analysis and built visualisations to support the analysis using MatPlotLib and Seaborn
- Used Natural Language Processing techniques to identify different styles of writing
Tech
Python, scikit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, tensorflow, seaborn, SQL, C/C++, Java
Project/Team management
- Budgeted, planned and tracked progress and budgets on a number of large scale projects.
- Managed and coached teams to deliver on large scale projects in a multi-cultural, geographically dispersed environment.
- Built and managed a trust relationship with cross-functional stakeholders - including C level executives.
Experience
KPMG (London, UK)
IT Risk Consulting Assistant Manager | October 2018 - October 2020
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Lead and coached teams of up to 6 analysts including off-shore resources (c.5,000 hours/year) to deliver audits of technology risks on business processes for several FTSE100 companies in support of the financial audit
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Built and managed relationships with client senior stakeholders such as CIOs, CISOs, Heads of Financial Controls & Compliance
KPMG (Paris, FRANCE)
Senior IT Risk consultant | September 2015 - October 2018
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Assessed risks and opportunities related to technology in areas such as IT governance, tech contracts and potential synergies in terms of systems or processes
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Delivered advisory engagements helping clients develop their Sarbanes–Oxley compliance procedures by reviewing business processes and designing processes and controls to enable compliance
Accenture (Paris, FRANCE)
IT Consulting Intern | August 2014 - February 2015
- Engaged with business stakeholders to design and perform user acceptance testing scenarios in the context of a major system overhaul project for a French multinational telecommunications corporation aiming to substitute their legacy customer management, sales and billing systems
IS3 (Beirut, LEBANON)
Software Engineering intern | June 2015 - December 2015
- Built and maintained software (in C++) to assess the impact of various behaviours on greenhouse gas emissions, using advanced forecasting models based on the work of the research team
Education
MSc. in Computer Science | September 2012 - August 2015
Languages
French (fluent), Arabic (fluent)