Andre Faul

Andre Faul

Data Scientist
United Kingdom
Afrikaans

About Me

A highly motivated M.Sc. Data Science professional with a plethora of technical and programming skills primarily in Python, eager to improve and apply these skills to any scenario; with experience in machine learning alg…

Experience

Data Scientist

Office for national statistics
Apr 2021 - Present · 5 years 3 months

Lead developer Creating survey pipeline from For Financial Assets and Liabilities Survey
 My Role: Lead Developer
 My strengths: Various data science techniques, data editing, aggregation and validation, teamwork, agile
methodologies, stakeholder management, ticket generation, code testing and team leading including change
management, people skills, leadership skills, risk management, proof of concept, requirements gathering.
 Working on every aspect of the pipeline generation from planning to risk mitigation as well as maintenance.
Web scraping for data on Google Cloud Platform
 My Role: Developer
 My strengths: change management, people skills, leadership skills, risk management, having a big-picture
view of entire project as well as the ability to break it down into tasks which I delegated team members to
complete.
 image recognition, natural language processing, cloud technologies Web scraping for data to be manipulated
and stored after validation and editing.
Machine learning dissertation making use of Active learning
 Developed and used adaptive query with a support vector machine to reduce the amount of required labels
while increasing accuracy from 60% to 85%, decreasing costs and increasing efficiency.

Data Scientist

Office for National Statistics
Apr 2021 - Present · 5 years 3 months

Implemented a data pipeline for a business survey from scratch to digest, clean, validate and impute various data sources.
Used Agile techniques with daily scrums and version control (GitHub) to streamline workflow management and code maintenance.
Reduced the user’s workload and increased ability to analyse larger datasets.
Led presentations and meetings to stakeholders to collaborate and progress towards a well-defined goal.
Built and tested a data pipeline using Google Cloud platforms, Googles Document AI and BigQuery.
Scraped data, retrieved important information using various data science techniques, utilized virtual machines and stored data in the cloud for future projects.
Led to 80% more data to work with analyse with visualization and potential Machine Learning use cases.

Customer Service Advisor

Sainsbury's, Pontypridd
Oct 2015 - May 2016 · 7 months

Teamwork.
Working to a deadline.
Stock management.

Customer Service Advisor – Front of House / Cashier

B & Q, Cheltenham
Sep 2013 - May 2015 · 1 year 8 months

Working under pressure.
Teamwork.
Public speaking.
People skills.

Skills

Agile Data Science Python NumPy Pandas Keras Scikit-learn MySQL Spark Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Support Vector Machines Neural Networks Natural Language Processing Active Learning Artificial Intelligence Software Testing Data Visualization Seaborn Matplotlib Power BI Git Jira Microsoft Office Excel Word Publisher PowerPoint BigQuery Document AI GitHub
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