I play with data & train machines all day...

& I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

EXPERIENCE

Team Lead - Advanced Analytics, Ubisoft, Montreal, QC/Paris, FR - December 2019 - Present

Data scientisT, Flighthub, Montreal, QC - December 2018 - December 2019

  • Main focus: analytics, machine learning and data engineering in the context of content (inventory), pricing and search.

Analyst/Data scientist - Advanced analytics, Aldo Group, Montreal, QC - July 2017 - November 2018

  • built an image similarity model that leverages features detected by vgg16 and calculated similarity based on euclidean distances between feature vectors.

  • Built multiple deep learning models to detect attributes of shoes (heel, laces, etc) and showcased using a Flask app (validation accuracy ranged between 0.8 and 0.97).

  • Built a clustering model using K-means to understand customer needs for product development & buying teams.

  • Built dashboards as tools for data exploration to aid decision making i.e. product performance, trade area and real
    estate performance, etc.

  • Built an analytics hub for the organization to refer to for best practices (i.e. hypothesis testing), documentation and
    resources.

  • supported various teams in analytics related projects/needs in an effort to make the Aldo Group a data driven company, i.e. product sizing deep dive with recommendations on how much of each size to purchase.

Research Assistant to James McIntosh PhD, Montreal, QC - January 2016 - June 2016

  • Used SAS and Gaussx to implement a maximum likelihood model in order to understand effects of marijuana use on
    mental and physical health.

  • Key results showed a negative correlation between age of first use and health, a lack of correlation between age of
    first use above 21 and habitual use, and more adverse health effects on females than males.

  • Published in Scientific Research’s Health journal.

Junior Research Analyst , Nexalogy Environics, Montreal, QC - January 2015 - September 2015

  • Analyzed and derived trends using monitoring and data visualization tools to help clients understand the
    effectiveness of their social media presence and better their customer relations.

  • Provided clients with detailed competitor social metrics reports for analysis of ongoing brand and product
    activations.

  • Devised process to collect customer sentiment on social media outlets to support client’s social media teams.

Grassroot Intern, Environment California, San Francisco, CA - September 2010 - October 2010

  • Campaign to repeal the suspension of California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB-32).

  • Recruited, trained and supervised volunteers. Educated students at City College of San Francisco about the issue through efforts such as face-to-face interaction and large-scale visibility events.

Student Volunteer, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE - November 2009 - March 2010

  • Performed clerical tasks and created an organization system for all survey documentation.

  • Systematized and presented data collected through primary research to support supervisor’s research.

PROJECTS

Trendster - Galvanize Capstone - January 2017 - February 2017

  • Classified and filtered documents based on a search term from a corpus of 1M articles from the NYT using gradient
    boosted trees, with a precision and recall of 82%.

  • Identified topics to further explore sub corpora using NMF, yielding visualizable topics to better extract insights from
    the data.

EDUCATION

Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree Program - January 2018 - June 2018

Galvanize Data Science Program, San Francisco, CA - November 2016 - February 2017

Immersive program that concentrated on machine learning, statistical inference and big data using Python and SQL.

Concordia University, Montreal, QC - Class of 2016

Bachelor's Degree. Major in Economics and Anthropology; Concentration in Econometrics and Math. Member of institute for Co-operative Education. Stelcner Family Award 2014/2015. Dean’s list 2015/2016.

EXTRACURRICULARS/VOLUNTEER

Personal Stylist, Dress For Success, San Francisco -  September 2016 - February 2017

Assisted ladies in choosing their professional attire they otherwise could not afford, and provided them with support and encouragement as they made their way back into the working force.

VP of Events, Arab Student Association (ASA), Concordia University -  September 2014 - August 2015

Organized events with the goal of uniting Arabs in Montreal while educating the student body on Arab culture.

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Skills: Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, NLTK, Matplotlib, Keras, plotly), various SQL dialects, HTML, AWS (ec2, lambda, redshift, s3), MongoDB, Git, BobJ, Knime, Qliksense.

Languages: Arabic, French.

Interests: Reading, Weightlifting, Cooking, Blogging.