Data Scientist
Summary
I am an experienced data scientist, with strong background in consulting, project management and technical roles, in various sectors such as Banking, Fmcg, Maritime and Education. I am currently leading a team of data scientists, building risk and marketing models in R, while in my previous job I was leading the analytics part of the Assortment Optimization solution for the FMCG US market.
I have successfully implemented several international projects, I was nominated employee of the year over 200 colleagues, and received jubilant feedback for an assignment in U.S.
Education
10/2013-01/2015 | Specialization degree (turned into MSc) in Big Data & Business Analytics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece |
03/2004-05/2008 | Ph.D. degree in Computational Statistics
University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Science & Technology, Tripolis, Greece. |
10/1997-09/2002 | Bachelor in Electronic and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. |
Experience
5/2016- Present | Clayton- EuroRisk, Athens , Greece
Data Scientist/ Analytics Manager – Propensity to buy modelling, customer segmentation and profiling to identify optimal target audience for marketing activities. – Formulation of credit risk assessment and Probability of Default models – Development of a tool for Non-Performing Loans Management – Macro-Economic Modelling for IFRS 9 Implementation – Building decks, client facing and project management officer roles |
10/2015- 4/2016 | IRI-ACE, Remote
Data Scientist/ Analytics Consultant – Scientific Development for Sales Prediction of innovation products introduced in the market. – Distance based approach of similarity between products and identification of Transferable Demand and Category Incrementality – Classification scheme for the segmentation of customers based on demographics and purchasing behaviour – Implementation (process, documentation) of ISO certification |
6/2015-9/2015 |
IRI-US, Chicago, USA
Analytics Consultant – Building decks, client insights, defining project specs – Provide training for software and methodology in client/internal teams – Project Management , coordination of offshore teams |
10/2013 -5/2015 |
IRI-ACE, Athens, Greece
Data Scientist / Project Manager – Leading the Assortment Optimization Solution for the US Market (SAS) – In charge of the Forecasting Solution. Time Series Analysis (R) – Marketing Mix Modelling. Pricing impact analysis, Optimization of Budget Spend and maximization of ROI for EU clients – Development of a tool for the prediction of potential risks in the sales strategy for FMCG Companies (R) – Leading a team of 4 analysts |
7/2012- 6/2013 |
Ministry of Education, Athens, Greece
Consultant / Advisor of the Deputy Minister – NSRF programs management – Preparation on the parliamentary control – Responsible for IT Policy – Management of educational and administrative personnel |
7/2011- 5/2012 |
Otesat –Maritel (Maritime Industry), Piraeus , Greece
Business / Product Development Analyst – Setting products’ specifications and follow up projects – Market research and competitor analysis – Business process modeling and documentation – Data analysis and reporting for telecom data |
9/2009-8/2010 |
European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands
R&D Engineer – Statistical signal processing and research activity on SNR estimation – Implementation of a DVB-S2 software simulator – Analytics for the performance evaluation of CCSDS & ECSS protocols – Test campaign for the performance evaluation of a combined terrestrial (802.11n) and satellite communication system |
10/2005-6/2009 and 10/2010-6/2011 |
Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus , Athens ,Greece
Adjunct Professor Teaching the Courses : Probability and Statistics – Stochastic Processes – Signals and Systems- Signal Processing – Programming I (C) – Programming II (VB) |
3/2003-2/2004 | Research and IT Corps of Greek Army, Chios & Athens, Greece
Network Administrator – Administration of the Greek Army headquarters LAN – Set-up and maintenance of the computing systems |