Rhys Jervis
Irvington, NJ ****.********@*****.*** 973-***-**** Linkedin.com/in/jervis
Education & Professional Development
The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine
Master of Science, Statistics (with Distinction) June 2019 Bachelor of Science, Actuarial Science Upper (2nd Class Award) June 2016 Udacity – Data Scientist Nanodegree August 2020 – October 2020 Data Camp – Data Analyst with Python November 2019 Coursera – Improving Deep Neural Networks April 2019 Online Learning
Professional Experience
Starbucks
Barista – Manhattan, New York August 2019 – August 2020
• Increased operating efficiency by offering solutions to reoccurring problems
• Responsible for opening and closing the store and supporting team members to implement successful orders
• Established relationships with customers while providing excellent customer service University of the West Indies, St. Augustine September 2017 – December 2017 Demonstrator (the equivalent of Teaching Assistant (TA))
• Taught R programming language to undergrad students, which consisted of 30 students during a class period
• Reviewed statistics concepts from the lecture for students, which enabled students to obtain a better understanding of lecture topics
• Marked student transcripts for the lecturer and assisted with grade distribution Assistant Invigilator June 2017, December 2016 & 2017
• Assisted in the setup of examination facilities
• Aided in maintaining integrity during examinations for the professor, over a 3-week duration for a range of 50-500 students depending on the course
• Distributed and collected examination transcripts and materials Relevant Projects
Occupational Safety and Health Practices – COVID-19
• Remotely analyzed data for OSH health care system practices and COVID-19 in the different Regional Health Authorities
(RHA) in Trinidad & Tobago
• Assisted in the creation of questionnaire templates for interviewers based on the outputs of the analyzed data
• Used the data obtained to create visualizations
Article Search github.com/sahleone/Document-Search-COVID-19
• Implemented search methods to sort corpus of articles from medical journals
• Python; Latent Dirichlet allocation, Cosine Similarity, and a Keyword Search Email classification github.com/sahleone/Spam Detection
• Classified a corpus of emails as junk and not junk using multiple machine learning methods
• R; Random Forest, Multilayer Perceptron, Sparse Logistic Regression L1/L2 Fraud Detection
• Identified fraudulent credit card transactions in an unbalanced dataset with 248, 806 entries giving an F1 score of 0.84
• Successfully predicted credit card approvals with an accuracy of 85.4% Skills
• Data Science: Python, R, SQL, NumPy, Scikit-Learn
• Data Visualization: Tableau
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)