Work Experience
Senior Data Scientist, Credit Scorecard Development
Duration: April 2024 – Present
Summary: Led the development of a rule-based scorecard using customer loan and transaction features to categorize users by credit and transaction behavior.
Responsibilities: Developing scorecard, enabling informed decision-making for Product and Risk teams, and increasing loan uptake by 12%.
Technologies: Machine Learning, Evidently AI, Business Intelligence
Senior Data Scientist, Credit Scoring Model Optimization
Duration: April 2024 – Present
Summary: Optimized the company's existing credit scoring model to improve risk differentiation.
Responsibilities: Enhancing ROC-AUC metric from 67% to 71% and reducing lending exposure to high-risk borrowers.
Technologies: Machine Learning, DataOps
Senior Data Scientist, Loan Portfolio Analysis Dashboard
Duration: April 2024 – Present
Summary: Led development of a loan portfolio analysis dashboard for loan reconciliation.
Responsibilities: Enabled successful loan reconciliation for top lenders, reducing unresolved loans.
Technologies: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning
Senior Data Scientist, Customer Account Integration
Duration: April 2024 – Present
Summary: Integrated various customer accounts into the company's transaction database.
Responsibilities: Achieved a 15% average increase in total customer account volume.
Technologies: Data Engineering, Cloud Computing, Big Data
Senior Data Scientist, AI Monitoring Deployment
Duration: Apr 2022 – Mar 2024
Summary: Deployed AI monitoring tool for model and data drift detection.
Responsibilities: Improved model reliability by monitoring data drift and model performance drift.
Technologies: MLOps, Evidently AI, Machine Learning
Senior Data Scientist, Transaction Classifier Development
Duration: Apr 2022 – Mar 2024
Summary: Built and implemented a high-accuracy Transaction Classifier using NLP.
Responsibilities: Categorized customer transactions with a classification success rate of 98%.
Technologies: NLP, Machine Learning, Python
Senior Data Scientist, Subscribers Transaction Analysis
Duration: Apr 2022 – Mar 2024
Summary: Conducted analysis of subscribers transactions to improve targeted marketing strategies.
Responsibilities: Provided insights to MTN Nigeria using data analytics techniques.
Technologies: Big Data, Machine Learning, Analytics
Senior Data Scientist, eNaira Machine Learning Models
Duration: Apr 2022 – Mar 2024
Summary: Developed machine learning models for CBN eNaira to predict customer lifetime value.
Responsibilities: Enhanced financial planning and decision-making capabilities.
Technologies: Machine Learning, Forecasting, Python
Data Scientist, Telecom Data Analysis
Duration: Jul 2021 – Mar 2022
Summary: Analysed telecom data to identify demographic and socio-economic trends.
Responsibilities: Provided key insights from analysis of over 80 million subscribers.
Technologies: Data Science, AWS QuickSight, Analytics
Data Scientist, Named Entity Recognition Model
Duration: Jul 2021 – Mar 2022
Summary: Engineered an NER model to automate entity extraction from transactional text.
Responsibilities: Significantly automated processes and enhanced transactional data handling.
Technologies: NLP, Spacy, Python
Data Scientist, Campaign Strategy Optimization
Duration: Jul 2021 – Mar 2022
Summary: Conducted A/B testing to optimize marketing campaigns for reach effectiveness.
Responsibilities: Maximized campaign performance and effectiveness through A/B experiments.
Technologies: A/B Testing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning
Data Scientist, Credit Risk Assessment
Duration: Jan 2020 – Jun 2021
Summary: Built and managed the implementation of machine learning algorithms for credit risk assessment.
Responsibilities: Developed credit risk scorecards and improved collection processes.
Technologies: Machine Learning, Risk Analysis, Python
Education
- Master of Science in Computer Science
- Mar. 2018 – Jan. 2021
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- Aug. 2011 – June 2015
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