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I am a seasoned data scientist with a track record of delivering end-to-end analytics solutions across financial services and consumer markets. I have led projects from NLP processing and fraud risk management to real-time market monitoring and forecasting, blending statistical methods with machine learning to drive actionable insights and risk controls. I enjoy turning messy data into clear business outcomes and building scalable data products that empower analysts and decision-makers. I developed a Natural Language Processing model that analyzes financial consumer complaints to automatically extract themes, sentiment, and risk indicators, enabling regulatory bodies to identify misconduct trends and enhance supervisory effectiveness. I also built cross-market monitoring apps for real-time tracking in the South African financial market and deployed forecasting models to anticipate short-term trends, supporting proactive decision-making.…I am a seasoned data scientist with a track record of delivering end-to-end analytics solutions across financial services and consumer markets. I have led projects from NLP processing and fraud risk management to real-time market monitoring and forecasting, blending statistical methods with machine learning to drive actionable insights and risk controls. I enjoy turning messy data into clear business outcomes and building scalable data products that empower analysts and decision-makers. I developed a Natural Language Processing model that analyzes financial consumer complaints to automatically extract themes, sentiment, and risk indicators, enabling regulatory bodies to identify misconduct trends and enhance supervisory effectiveness. I also built cross-market monitoring apps for real-time tracking in the South African financial market and deployed forecasting models to anticipate short-term trends, supporting proactive decision-making.

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I am a seasoned data scientist with a track record of delivering end-to-end analytics solutions across financial services and consumer markets. I have led projects from NLP processing and fraud risk management to real-time market monitoring and forecasting, blending statistical methods with machine learning to drive actionable insights and risk controls. I enjoy turning messy data into clear business outcomes and building scalable data products that empower analysts and decision-makers. I developed a Natural Language Processing model that analyzes financial consumer complaints to automatically extract themes, sentiment, and risk indicators, enabling regulatory bodies to identify misconduct trends and enhance supervisory effectiveness. I also built cross-market monitoring apps for real-time tracking in the South African financial market and deployed forecasting models to anticipate short-term trends, supporting proactive decision-making.…I am a seasoned data scientist with a track record of delivering end-to-end analytics solutions across financial services and consumer markets. I have led projects from NLP processing and fraud risk management to real-time market monitoring and forecasting, blending statistical methods with machine learning to drive actionable insights and risk controls. I enjoy turning messy data into clear business outcomes and building scalable data products that empower analysts and decision-makers. I developed a Natural Language Processing model that analyzes financial consumer complaints to automatically extract themes, sentiment, and risk indicators, enabling regulatory bodies to identify misconduct trends and enhance supervisory effectiveness. I also built cross-market monitoring apps for real-time tracking in the South African financial market and deployed forecasting models to anticipate short-term trends, supporting proactive decision-making.

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I am a seasoned data scientist with a track record of delivering end-to-end analytics solutions across financial services and consumer markets. I have led projects from NLP processing and fraud risk management to real-time market monitoring and forecasting, blending statistical methods with machine learning to drive actionable insights and risk controls. I enjoy turning messy data into clear business outcomes and building scalable data products that empower analysts and decision-makers.

I developed a Natural Language Processing model that analyzes financial consumer complaints to automatically extract themes, sentiment, and risk indicators, enabling regulatory bodies to identify misconduct trends and enhance supervisory effectiveness. I also built cross-market monitoring apps for real-time tracking in the South African financial market and deployed forecasting models to anticipate short-term trends, supporting proactive decision-making.

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Senior Specialist Data Scientist (LLMs) at Bit Ventures

October 1, 2024 - Present

Provides smart, secure payment collection solutions with fraud risk management, utilizing online live ness detection and biometric verification to enhance cash flow and reduce fraud.

Senior Specialist Data Scientist at Absa Group (Contractor)

February 1, 2024 - Present

Engineered financial risk crime analytics and conducted advanced data analysis using PCA-based patterns, trends, and red-flag behaviors in Mule accounts. Designed and implemented an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to predict anomalous activity and built a cross-market monitoring app that tracks real-time market moves and applies an LSTM forecasting model for short-term trends.

Specialized Data Scientist / Analyst at ShopRite X (Contractor)

June 1, 2023 - Present

Remote/Cape Town Price and Promotion Effectiveness: cannibalization modeling to assess impact of promos on substitute products, market-basket analysis to identify cross-selling opportunities, and customer segmentation to guide targeted marketing strategies.

Senior Specialist Data Scientist at Standard Bank South Africa

January 1, 2020 - Present

Developed a comprehensive data science framework and AI architecture to support business decisions; automated reporting through interactive, real-time dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Flex Dashboard); built time-series forecasts for staff training completion rates based on historical data.

Data Scientist at Standard Bank South Africa

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020

Customer churn prediction model identifying likely to leave in coming months; automated text analytics on customer complaints to extract sentiments; speech analytics model to convert call-center speech to text for sentiment analysis and service quality; time-series forecasts for staff training completion rates.