HASSAN WAQAR AHMAD

*** ********** **** *****, ******, SK S4V 3L8

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Career Summary

3+ years of experience working as Data Scientist to develop predictive models on both structured and unstructured data.

2+ years of experience working as a data science researcher to implement data mining methodologies to develop prediction models.

2 years of dynamic experience working as Full Stack Developer to develop enterprise level softwares mainly related to Financial Industry.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013 University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

Graduated with a CGPA of 88% (4.00/4.00)

Thesis: \Prediction of Retail Prices using Local Competitors"

Advisor: Dr. Sandra Zilles & Dr. Howard Hamilton Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2010 National University of Computer & Emerging Science (FAST-NU), Pakistan

Graduated with a CGPA of 3.50/4.00

Final Year Project: Urdu Newspaper Text Recognition Awards and Honors

Graduate Research & Scholarly Award, University of Regina Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013

Deans Honor List, FAST-NU Sep. 2006 - Jun. 2010

Professional Knowledge & Skills

Technical

Successfully delivered projects of Data Mining and Predictive Analytics for various Government Departments related to Crime, Health and Education analytics.

Expertise in programming predictive models and data analysis in R and Python.

2 years of experience working on industry based advanced analytics tools like Teradata Aster, Teradata Warehouse Miner, Hadoop Ecosystem and Tableau.

Collaborated for 2+ years with a North American Gas Pricing company to design and implement a prediction models to predict petroleum prices by using data mining techniques like Regression and Clustering.

2 years of experience in technical pre-sales of advanced analytics solutions to prospective clients.

Applied the concepts of Hadoop and MapReduce to resolve performance issues of prediction models when processing billions of events a day while working as a Data Science researcher.

Acquired strong programming skills to solve complex problems related to Data Mining as a Research Assistant.

Computer

Programming: C#, Java, Matlab, R, Scala, Python.

Software & Frameworks: Hadoop Ecosystem, IBM WebSphere MQ, MySQL, Tableau, Teradata Aster, Teradata Warehouse Miner, Spark, SSAS, SSIS, WEKA. Hassan Waqar Ahmad 1 of 3

Related Experience

Data Science Consultant

Laboratory for Computational Discovery, University of Regina Sept 2016 - Current

Participating with a research group on problems related to Data Mining and Machine Learning.

Implementing models for User Behaviour and Pattern Recognition using concepts of Trajectory Data Mining.

Using tools like Amazon Web Services and Spark to analyze big data sets.

Publishing research papers and sharing knowledge with funding organizations. Data Scientist

Neucom Tech Inc. Sept 2014 - Current

Worked as both a Full Stack Developer and Data Scientist.

Developed algorithms related to Customer Segmentation and Recommender Systems to suggest the best set of people to buy a particular home product.

Worked on application to automate the process of Home Mortgages in Canada.

Responsible for creating e cient data analytics solutions to analyze the web tra c and user paths.

Also working on technologies like Scala, Play, Java and Heroku as cloud platform for development of the product.

Data Scientist

Teradata Corporation Mar 2015 - Aug 2016

Responsible for pre-sale and post-sale delivery of advanced analytics solution for Government and Financial sector.

Successfully delivered Crime Analytics solution that helps solve 8-10 cases daily in the province.

Implemented projects that used concepts of Social Network Analysis and Spatial Data Mining.

Developed a solution for Psycholinguistic Analytics to e ciently monitor Social Media and a Crime Prediction model for a provincial government.

Delivered successful advanced analytics POC’s to various Government Departments.

Gained experience implementing various prediction models on huge datasets of Call Data Records.

Creating advanced analytics models in Teradata Aster and R on use cases for Government Industry.

Experience working with Teradata Uni ed Data Architecture Platform which involves a Data Warehouse, Aster for Advanced Analytics and Hadoop for unstructured storage.

Awarded Associate of the Quarter awards in the Q1 2016 and Associate of the Year awards. Data Science Researcher/Consultant

Department of Computer Science, University of Regina January 2012 - May 2014

Worked as an Advanced Analytics Consultant for North American Gas Pricing company to understand the requirements and gain the petroleum product pricing knowledge.

Designed, developed and deployed a multivariate regression based prediction novel model that forecasts current and future petroleum product prices created in R with backend support of Hadoop Ecosystem.

Performed ETL from multiple source systems to load data in HDFS to enable e cient prediction of gas prices of any gas station in North America.

Performed extensive research on various data science methodologies, statistical prediction model and optimization of large data related to petroleum product prices.

Mastered skill of communicating work progress with other members of the team and the company on weekly basis.

Research position was funded by the company and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Software Engineer,

REDMATH Pvt Ltd July 2010 - December 2011

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Worked as programmer on the middle and data layer of a complex intra-network Risk Management reporting tool for nancial institutes.

Mastered skills of Object Oriented Programming in Java and Relational Databases.

Designed relationship database models, schemas & entity-relationship diagrams (ERMs) to create technical design documents.

Wrote and tuned complex SQL Queries, PL/SQL stored procedures, functions and triggers.

Trained and lead a team of 5 software engineers. Publications & Certifications

Publication

Ahmad, H., Zilles, S., Hamilton, H. and Dosselmann, R. (2015) Prediction of Retail Prices of Products Using Local Competitors, Int. J. Business Intelligence and Data Mining. Certi cation

Teradata 14 Certi ed Professional

Trainings

Customer Interaction Skills By Teradata

Access Layer Workshop by Teradata

Introduction to Teradata Aster

Introduction to Teradata Warehouse Miner

Introduction to Teradata

Hadoop Factory

Memberships & Activities

Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Student Member.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Student Member. Interests

Photography, Soccer, Squash, Traveling, Event Management. Volunteer Service

Volunteer

UR International, University of Regina January 2012 - December 2013

Worked as President and Treasurer for international students associations to organize various events.

Managed Fall and Winter orientation sessions for international students.

Acquired skills to communicate and guide people from various backgrounds. Vice President

SOFTEC Jan 2007 - June 2010

Worked as part of a 10 member Executive Committee and managed a team of 200 volunteers.

Developed team leadership qualities and learned to manage the budget of the event.

Acquired skills to collaborate with various departments in university and government authorize to make the event a success.

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