SUMMARY:

• Experienced and process - improving Data Scientist with a passion for using data to improve efficiency.
• The Data Analytics program at Rice added to my skills with the ability to use machine learning, and artificial intelligence in data science.
• A specialist in Python, Machine Learning, Numpy, SQL, Hadoop, and dashboard preparation with hands-on experience through the Rice University Data Analytics Bootcamp.
• Skilled at working collaboratively with teams across multiple functions or independently to take information from a wide variety of sources and determining what can be gleaned from the information.
• Addressed a dozen questions such as the most and least popular locations to start and end a journey from over 13,000,000 rows of data.
• Worked independently to clean, import, and create visualization “story” to address the 12 questions.
• Used Tableau, Python, Pandas, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

SKILLS:

Operational & Risk Based Auditing Deloitte - Manager (Big Four) Forensic Analysis Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Assessment of IT Vulnerability Fraud Prevention & Investigation

HIGHLIGHTED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Python and “R”

Scikit-learn

Tensorflow

Various ML Models

Machine Learning (ML)

Keras

Numpy

Hadoop

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• By recommending and training the team to use big data tools such as Relativity, reduced the workload, improved efficiency, and thus reduced fees for clients, by 75%.
• The tool allowed the review and identification of tens of 1,000s of documents.
• The critical documents were used to support clients' claims in their disputes before the trier of facts.
• Calculating damages based on documents in “production” and summarizing data, (reducing documents to 5% of the population to those considered “key”) provided the testifying expert the documentation to tell a cohesive story on approximately 30 cases before the trier of facts for depositions and/or trial.
• Applying forensics accounting skills, in the recalculation of royalty payments for clients, allowed the collection of royalty payments by the licensee of more than 1000% of their fees paid to Confidential .

Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing a portfolio of more than $1,500,000 in fees of public sector internal audits, comprehensive risk assessments, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Information Technology (IT) general computer controls, cost and revenue recovery, and consulting engagements, focused on decreasing client’s overall audit costs by more than 30% of Big Four fees.
• Clients were in oil and gas, oilfield services, construction, and high-tech chemical industries.

Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Leading and managing a portfolio of more than $2,500,000 in fees on government and commercial operations audits, focused on decreasing client’s audit costs by more than 40% of the Big Four and not increasing their risks.