Data Analyst

Nasser Ahmed

415-***-**** **********@*****.***

San Francisco, California

Full Work Authorized No Visa Sponsorship Required

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Data analyst with 9+ years of experience in data collection, statistical analysis, database and software development looking for companies dealing in data-intensive visualization, analysis, machine learning, and big data in an innovative and creative environment.

Key Skills

•Experienced in questionnaire design, collection, cleaning and analyzing of data and preparing reports

•Statistical and predictive modeling

•Machine learning

•Statistical software packages: Excel, SAS, (SPSS), Census and Survey Processing System (CSPro)

•Databases: Access, MSSQL, MySQL, Sqlite and MongoDB

•Data Visualization: D3. js, Dimple, Matplotlib & Seaborn (Python), ggplot ®

•Languages: Python, R and Java

•Data mining and Big Data: Rapid miner and Hadoop

•SDLC: Waterfall, Agile

•Web and Front-End: JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS

•Fluent in English, Tigrigna, Amharic; Intermediate Arabic

PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Udacity online Data Analyst Nanodegree program, San Francisco June 2016- Sep 2016

•Explored and visualized key findings of Titanic dataset using D3.js and dimple.js data visualization tools to show difference in the demographics of Titanic survived and perished passengers.

•Built algorithm to identify fraudulent employees (Person Of Interest “POI “) based on features from Enron financial and email dataset by utilizing Scikit learn and Machine learning methodologies.

•Thoroughly audited and cleaned OpenStreetMap for the city of Lincoln, Nebraska dataset validity, accuracy, completeness, consistency and uniformity in Python and MongoDB.

•Conducted exploratory analysis of Red Wine Quality data to figure out the variables affecting red wine quality and the corresponding relationship between them

Technologies used: Excel, Python, Panda, numpy, R, D3.js, dimple.js, MongoDB, SQL, XML, JSON and scikit-learn

Volunteer July 2015- Jan 2016

•Initiated web-development for Eritrean community in the Bay Area, analyzed and designed the system

•Provided training on Python with Raspberry pi 2 at North Western District Community Technology Center in San Francisco during September 2015

University of Applied science Stuttgart, Germany May 2013- Dec 2014

Masters student in Software Technology

•Prepared and mined University’s student data on GPA results based on nationality using Rapidminer

•Developed a platform for a weather balloon that collects data via sensors such as, temperature, pressure, altitude and humidity and provides those data to the internet via web application

•Developed and utilized framework for financial company to achieve banking system, credit card, and savings and checking accounts; applied variety of major design patterns

Technologies used: Java, JavaScript, Node.Js, C#, ASP.NET MVC3 and MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MAG Transporters, Nairobi, Kenya

Trading company with branches in Uganda and South Sudan

Data analyst and Software developer Sep 2012- Apr 2013

•Analyzed sales data and modified them to help predict future trends

•Collected, reviewed and monitored market intelligence from 4 branch locations that helped increase transportation sales through better availability

•Designed and developed a system that provides customer information recording, automated cost generation, Mileage calculation, custom report message board and email facility that minimized time spent on manual transport calculation by 60% over four months

•Continuously work to improve the planning and scheduling process by maintaining data integrity and accuracy. Investigates and resolves inventory discrepancies.

National Statistics Office Department, Asmara, Eritrea Oct 2004- Mar 2012

The only national statistics and evaluation office responsible for publishing surveys and census

Senior Statistician and Software Developer Mar 2006- Mar 2012

•Developed the first pilot Eritrean Statistical Business register in collaboration with Statistics Norway (SSB) using SQL and VB.NET which housed all economic activities and links to administrative units and registers; enabled the use of administrative data for statistical purposes, reducing survey burden by 80% through production process modernization

•Customized a number of product classifications such as ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities) and CPC (Central Product Classification) in order to familiarize and make links with the ER_CPC (Eritrean Central Product Classification) by a method of aggregation or dissection of the subclasses on the CPC, making it compatible with the ER_CPC using SPSS and Microsoft Excel

•Provided technical assistance and statistical analysis to governmental agencies and NGO.

Junior Statistician Oct 2004-Feb 2006

•Operated and manipulated a software “System of National Accounts-New technology” (SNA-NT) which was the first in its kind; drastically automated the process of preparing the national account calculation with over 1,000,000 records to create, and input/output in tables that provided the structure of the economy, and the impact of change

•Designed and tested various questionnaires, collected manufacturing industry data effectively, cleaned, and analysed data for the purpose of National account calculation using different database and statistical applications like CSPro, and programming languages like VB.net and MS excel and Access

•Coordinated and supervised a team of 80 for the 2010 Population Health Survey and a team of 35 for the 2005 Urban Population Census, producing an on time, 80% and 95% response rate, respectively

•Created and analyzed reports on financial data of the manufacturing industry

EDUCATION

Data Analyst Nanodegree, Udacity June2016 -Sep 2016

Self-paced online Data Analysis Nanodegree program, co-developed with big data analysis companies: Facebook and MongoDB

•Core Courses: Machine Learning with Python, Data Wrangling with MongoDB & SQL, Data Analysis with R, Data Visualization using D3. Js and Dimple, A/B Testing

Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany May 2013- Jan 2015

Accredited by by ASIIN, the German Accreditation Agency and European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE)

Completed 48 ECTS credits towards a Masters in Software technology

•Relevant courses included: Database Management System, Data structure and Algorithm II, Software Engineering, Middleware technology (Web application architecture, JEE), System Design, Software Validation and Verification, Software Project Management and Business intelligence and Data mining

BA Degree in Statistics and Demography, Computer Science Minor 2005

University of Asmara, Eritrea

Accredited nationally by the ministry of education and internationally by Superior Council of the Institute of Italian Universities, the University of South Africa (UNISA) and United States distance education accreditor

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