Data Analyst

Huyen Nguyen

Phone: +1-202-***-**** Email: *****.*******@*************.***.***

LinkedIn: [in/huyen-khanh-nguyen] GitHub: [huyenkn] Education

University of Maryland, College Park - Robert H. Smith School of Business Maryland, USA Master of Science in Business Analytics (STEM) Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 GPA: 3.7/4.0

Coursework:Data mining and predictive analytics, Big data and AI, Machine learning, Database management systems, Web analytics. Technical Skills

• Programming proficiency: SQL, Python (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Beautiful Soup), R (dplyr, tidyverse), Excel.

• Data visualization expertise: Tableau, R (ggplot, ggnet, gganimate), Python (Matplotlib, Seaborn).

• Technologies: Linux Terminal, Amazon Web Services, Apache Spark (MLlib), Databricks, Hadoop (Hive, Pig). Certifications and Awards

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Maryland, USA

• Acquired comprehensive understanding of AWS services and technologies. Nov 2020

• Learned to strategically design well-architected distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and fault-tolerant. Airbnb High-Booking Rate Prediction - R [code/report]Maryland, USA Gradient boosting classifier that predicts popularity of Airbnb listings May 2020

• Won 1st place at UMaryland Business Analytics program’s machine learning competition.

• Augmented feature set with domain-knowledge inspired features such as demographic statistics and cluster-based lexical features.

• Deployed boosting classifier (XGBoost) that attained an accuracy of 84.7% and outperformed contest baseline by 9.2%. Projects

Interactive Analysis of Figure Skating International Competitions - Tableau [live visualization]

• Analyzed correlations of contestant scores with various gender-based, spatial, and temporal covariates.

• Computed statistical evidence to demonstrate significant biases from home-country judges.

• Created interactive dashboards that embed dynamic components on a variety of chart types. Fake News Detection - Python, PyTorch [code/report] End-to-end system for assessing relatedness of an article’s headline and body

• Implemented linear (perceptron, logistic regression) and deep learning models (neural network) with tf-idf-weighted features.

• Surpassed gradient-boosting baselines provided by the Fake News Challenge organizers (accuracy: 77.2%, +2% improvement) TERPCravingz - SQL, Python, R, Tableau, ArcGIS [code/report] Restaurant recommendation system with review analysis and university bus-route information

• Displayed to students and business owners analyses of Yelp reviews and Shuttle-UM bus-route information.

• Designed an SQL relational database that answers categorical and geographical questions about 5000 local restaurants. Work Experience

LifeLenz Utah, USA

Analytics Consultant Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

• Capstone project: Developed models of user behavior and retention rate to enhance LifeLenz’s Employee scheduling application.

- Explored usage patterns in Google Analytics data to estimate new-feature effectiveness and inform app infrastructure’s changes.

- Built machine learning models that improve retention rate by identifying inactive users (Random forest - accuracy: 89%). Grant Thornton Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Auditor – Financial Risk Analyst Aug 2015 – Sep 2017

• Led teams and performed risk analysis of financial reports at about 40 international companies.

- Applied advanced Excel and Grant Thornton global data processing and analysis softwares to process data and identify risk.

- Operated statistical sampling methods on large-scale datasets with professional judgement to provide sufficient evidential matter.

- Proposed appropriate adjustments to clients and published audit financial reports to end users. PepsiCo Beverage Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Risk Management Analyst Intern Jan 2015 – Apr 2015

• Effectuated data analysis procedures developed by PepsiCo Global in internal control activities.

- Assessed sustainability of internal control practices in all company procedures.

- Conducted quality control on sale promotion activities. Extracurriculars

Grant Thornton - Head of Recreational Division Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

• Organized celebratory musical events. Sep 2016 - Sep 2017

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