KENNETH NEBA

www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-neba-***8a8a1

931-***-**** adkcj1@r.postjobfree.com

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Quantitative Methods, Linux Administration, Samba server, NFS DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure), Microsoft Office Software Suite, Deep Learning, Regression Analysis, Data Structure, machine learning, Data Visualization, Big Data, Generalized Linear Models, Time Series Analysis and forecasting, Python, R, PHP, Power BI, SAS, Apache Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow, SQL, Minitab, ProxMox Virtual Environment, Project Management, ITIL V3, Digital signal Processing, Apache tomcat, Windows, Computer hardware Maintenance

EDUCATION

Virginia Tech

PhD Computer Science and Applications January 2021 to date Austin Peay State University August 2018 - May 2020 Master’s in computer science and Quantitative Methods. GPA:3.90 Concentration: Predictive Analytics

University of Buea - Cameroon October 2010 - December 2014 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Networks and System Maintenance. PROJECTS

Regression model to predict housing prices, Determining the spread of coronavirus using SIR Model: A case study of Tennessee In United States, Model to improve email spam detection based on random forest, Traffic sign recognition using TensorFlow, Model to predict student success at APSU, A Regression model to predict cancer mortality rate, NLP on student response from study abroad program at APSU Certiftcation: Optimization & A/B Testing Statistics, DevOps, Power BI, Biometrics & clinical trials operation

EXPERIENCE

Manager at Global Power Economic Trading Group LLC May 2020 – Present Manage over 25 workers, organize transportation and delivery of goods, schedule goods pickup and shipment time.

Freelance Data Analyst May 2020 – Present

Analyze and report data on contract bases for individuals and organizations, continuous self-development Social Survey January 2020- March

2020

Developer support Intern

Analyze company data from surveys, create new data pipelines using AWS and develop and debug application, create, and manage user account, manage user groups. Austin Peay State University (Learning Opportunity Center) August 2018 Present Graduate Research Assistant

Analyze data collected to determine how certain programs at Austin Peay State University impact the life of students and their education based on the hypothesis in question and Predict success of student, NLP on student response after a post-interview from study abroad trip. Presprint June 2016 - August 2018

Linux System and Server Administrator/Data Analyst

- Building, deploying and maintaining Linux (CentOS 6, 7 and soon 8) servers

- Troubleshooting and addressing issues related to disk failures that render raid non-optimal

- Use a plethora of in-house automated tools to troubleshoot network, application and systems issues

- Patch and upgrade nodes to address system vulnerabilities

- Interface with other niches (e.g network, infrastructure, windows, PC support, Cloud, storage) within the department to achieve common goals

- Address user concerns channeled via the Jira ticketing system

- Coach/advise end users on building highly available systems with redundancy in mind via eliminating SPOF(Single Point of Failure)

- Configure and maintain both Hardware RAID and software RAID on nodes

- Utilize git for version control and repo management

- Utilize systems monitoring tools like Nagios & Zabbix to determine systems health.

- Decommission and retire both physical and virtual hosts.

- Manage users; including user creation, deletion as well as permissions

- Install and Deploy new software via custom and standard yum repos.

- Patch existing software to address vulnerabilities

- install and configure Samba and NFS servers

-Install and configure web servers

- Utilize collaboration tools (Slack & MS Teams) to coordinate with teammates and Systems POC (point of contacts) on projects/tasks that especially on high impact tasks requiring downtime. Presprint July 2015 - June 2016

IT Technician/ Data Analyst

-Repaired and maintain computer Hardware and software, DataCard machine.

-Provide technical support to technicians in the company.

-Analyze production data and market trends to improve productivity.

-Troubleshoot and fix network problems.

Emma4Christ Electronics July 2012 - June 2016

Manager / IT Technician/ Network Engineer

-Organize repair works for customers and schedule workers for various task.

-Manage stock and supply chain.

-Repair computer systems.

-Design and Implement Local Area Network (LAN).

-Carry out cost estimate for IT office setup and oversee the implementation.

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