Candice Ying Woei Ooi

“Transforming challenges into opportunities

to discover my reach and inspire others”

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Summary

A trilingual scientist passionate about deriving insights from data to help make business decisions using her top 5 strengths

(responsibility, activator, achiever, learner and harmony).

“Her rapid absorption of knowledge allowed her to understand and contribute at every scale. The combination of sharp technical skills and work ethic is exactly what you'd like to see in a young professional. These abilities and her infectious positive attitude will take her far and make her a strong member of any team she joins in the future.” – Mark Higgins, 2020

“She is the complete team player showing up every day with the most positive attitude, focusing on completing the tasks at hand and supporting her teammates. She requires minimal supervision and shows initiative well beyond her years of experience.” – Dean Crick, 2020

Key Skills

Analytical Skills

Data Processing & Analysis, Database

Administration

Computational Skills

Python, SQL, ArcGIS, QGIS

Languages

English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay

Professional Experience

Co-Founder

Apr. 2020 - Present

Scoby Studio Waterloo, Ontario

Founded during COVID-19 to offer product design and data analysis solutions to start-up companies.

Provided product development support to one client to transform their ideas into reality.

Database Administrator & Geologist

June 2018 - Mar. 2020

TMAC Resources Inc. Hope Bay, Nunavut

TMAC Resources is a Canadian gold mining company operating in Nunavut. Initially hired as contract database administrator and then eventually hired full-time to administer the SQL database and monitor lab performance for quality control as well as TMAC’s first junior geologist.

Executed 3 historical data processing projects with at least 20,000 entries using Python to ensure data is quantifiable for geologists in future projects.

Standardized naming convention of photos and

streamlined the workflow using VBA which saved 16

geologists’ time by 50% and decreased errors by 30%. GIS & Data Management Intern

Sept. 2017 - May 2018

De Beers Canada Inc. Toronto, Ontario

De Beers is a diamond exploration and mining company operating in many countries in the world.

Transformed traditional data collection into a paperless technique using 2 GIS programs so that the collection could withstand difficult weather conditions during exploration programs. To optimize users’ experience, conducted design review of the apps with 6 senior

geologists. Ultimately deployed software in the field and improved sampling efficiency of exploration

programs by 50%.

Research Intern

May 2017 - Aug. 2017

Center for Global Change Science Toronto, Ontario

CGCS is a research group focusing on understanding the global scale effects of human activities on the Earth.

Used R to analyze 34 years of vegetation and

atmospheric data to study the peak season plant

activity in the northern hemisphere. Concluded that peak activity is occurring earlier and vegetation is getting denser. I used this findings to co-author an academic paper that was published on Global Change Biology.

To complete this project, I self-learned R with the supervisor’s guidance to derive insights in one summer. Education

University of Toronto

June 2018

HBSc. Geology Specialist and Geographic Information System Minor

Received 11 academic excellence awards during

university.

Coursera

Machine Learning, Stanford University (In Progress) This course introduced topics in machine learning such as supervised and unsupervised learning, best

practices in machine learning and case studies using MATLAB/Octave.

Data Science Professional Certificate, IBM (Oct. 2019) This nine-course specialization covered the

fundamentals of data science, databases and SQL for data science, data analysis, visualization and machine learning with Python.

Python for Everybody Specialization, University of Michigan

(Oct. 2018)

This five-course specialization covered web scraping, using databases, data processing and visualization with Python.

Leadership & Volunteer Experience

President

Sept. 2017 – Apr. 2018

Women in Mining University of Toronto Chapter

Led 7 executive members to raise $1550 from

sponsorships to organize 5 talks and a panel discussion that attracted 40 attendants.

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