Amal Alsafadi

**** ********* *** 647-***-****

Milton, ON L9T 6L6 647-***-****

adbebg@r.postjobfree.com

Data Analyst

A dynamic and talented data mining analyst with excellent knowledge in modeling and analyzing large data. Strong knowledge of machine learning algorithms and statistics used in data mining. Excellent communicator with exceptional team building skills. Team spirit and can work independently. Easily catch new technology, multi-tasking aptitude.

Big Data Analytics Skills:

SAS, SQL, SQLite, MongoDB, MS Access

Hadoop, Hadoop MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Apache Spark

R, Regular Expression, HTML, XML, Perl, Python

Linux Ubuntu/Microsoft/ shell scripting

Data processing, Machine Learning, Weka, IBM Watson

UCINET, Tableau, ggplot2, Hortonworks, GraphLab

Research, analysis, report, LATEX, Flat files like CSV, ARFF

Education

Certificate in Data Analytics, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics

The Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University, Toronto 2018

Master of Information Technology (Knowledge and Data Management)

British University in Dubai 2010

Canadian Equivalence: Master’s Degree in Computer and Software Engineering

Evaluated by Canadian Council of Professional Engineers

Bachelor Degree in Electrical/Communication and Control

Islamic University of Gaza 2000

Canadian Equivalence: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Evaluated by Canadian Council of Professional Engineers

Work Experience

High School International Language Teacher

Riad Alsalhin Islamic School Mississauga 2011_current

Teach Grade 11/12 Ontario courses in assigned subject areas: Arabic, LYADU

Support student academic success and learning skill development

Lead, coordinate and/or support co-curricular activities and school events

Actively contribute to curriculum improvement and instructional effectiveness assessment

Develop a course binder including a course outline, lesson plans, curriculum tracker, student attendance, various forms of assessment (assessment of learning, assessment as learning and assessment for learning)

International Language Teacher

ISNA Islamic School Mississauga, ON 2016-current

Teach Arabic for non-Arab students

create a specific curriculum meets the students’ levels and needs.

Develop play-based activities, games, and worksheets to support students’ learning.

Help Desk Representative (Co-op)

Ricoh Canada Inc. Mississauga, ON July 2011 – Sept. 2011

Provided computer help desk support via telephone communications with end-users.

Performed diagnostics and troubleshoot of system issues, documented help desk tickets/resolutions, and maintained equipment inventory lists.

Installed ghost image on new and existing systems from Dell for Ricoh end users.

Network Engineer,

Salina Limited Company Ajman, UAE 2001 – 2007

Established the company network, installed and upgraded software and hardware including: motherboard, hard drives, network cards, memory, etc...

Troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issues.

Helped and trained new technicians in servicing and installing hardware and software.

Compiled and edited comprehensive quality control report.

Transitional Strengths

Information Technology Research

House Prices: Advanced Regression Techniques Analysis as Capstone project for Data Analytics, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics Certificate, 2018

Used EDA and feature selection techniques and applied Advanced Regression algorithms to predict the final price of a house based on distinctive features.

German Credit Card Dataset Analysis as a research project for Introduction to Big Data Analytics Course, 2017.

Applied EDA and feature selection techniques and used different classifiers to determine the creditworthiness of potential customers to make the right decision that fits within their risk appetite.

Used Data Mining techniques in Master’s thesis research to predict User Behavior over Web, 2010.

Analyzed ECML/PKDD 2007 challenge. Applied web usage mining techniques such as data preprocessing and visualization to predict user navigation behavior based on user real historical data. Applied different classification algorithms, studied effect of attribute selection on each classifier performance. Results reported comparable to challenge winner and outperformed runner-up.

Building Vehicle Search Engine as Semantic Web application as a research project for Knowledge Engineering Course, 2007

Built a semantic web application that represents car domain and enables users to search for information like available car models in market, car parts and specification, classification of cars according to country of made, brand name, ...etc. using Knowledge of Engineering methodology, OWL-LD and SPARQL Query language.

Network Intrusion, data mining research project for Data Mining Course, 2006

Studied network intrusion dataset provided by KDD Cup 1999 Contest where it has unbalanced class distribution, performed exploratory data analysis and prepared data for mining. Built two different classification models (MLP and Gaussian) to classify connections as legitimate or belonging to one of four fraud categories taking misclassification costs into account.

Designed Student Registration System using ACCESS and SQL as a research project for Applied Database Course, 2006.

Created relational database system using MS Access 2003 by analyzing given problem, proceeding through database development life cycle, producing conceptual and logical model diagrams based on given system requirements and applying appropriate normalization methods showing functional dependencies.

Evaluating Part of Speech Taggers (NLTK Backoff vs. TnT), 2006

Compared performance of two POS taggers (NLTK backoff tagger and TnT tagger) on two data sets.

Implemented Automatic Discretize for Modern Standard Arabic using SVM, 2005.

Focus on Arabic discretization problem and propose solution by using the CORPUS-Based Statistical-Orientated approach. Using YamCha, presented a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based approach to automatically tokenize (segmenting off clitics), part-of speech (POS) tag and finally discretize the word.

Finished graduation project in Remote Control over Web using CGI and VBScripts to control and move digital camera connected to server, 2000.

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