$200

Hourly Consulting Rate

Philip Munyua

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Computer Software/Engineering

Consumer Goods

Financial Services

Information Technology/IT

Location Supported

Kenya

Rwanda

Tanzania

Uganda

United States

Languages Supported

English

Swahili

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Data scientists

Product Specialization

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services

About

I am a PhD trained Technical Leader with 15 years’ experience in Data Science Practice; data mining, modeling (Machine Learning, Deep Learning) and Analytics and providing innovative business intelligence (strategic business insights) to Executive Leadership and Business Unit Managers.

My career is founded on executing leadership in data science practice spanning across functional business and finance units; investments, insurance, consumer welfare, marketing, product, sales, and IT (engineering).

Over the course of my career I have been driven by taking on new challenges. I have led teams of IT professionals in development of PoCs and Softwares that have had immense impact on Businesses. More recently, at CPG Financials in NYC, I led a team of 12 Business analysts, Software Designers & Developers, Testers, and DevOp Engineers in Development of Customer Self-Service Transactional Software that greatly reduced the customer service costs in addition to improving customer relations.

My strengths, according to independently evaluated ‘CliftonStrength’ test by Gallup, include; Individualization, Learner, Restorative, Achiever and Includer where I work independently and build teams and draw up the best in each team player for efficient delivery of business insights/innovations that lead to transformative growth across corporations (efficiency-increased revenues and cut costs). I have expertise and experience in evaluating minute technical details of data, innovating and reinventing systems to embolden C level executive leadership while remaining calm under pressure and acting as a positive role model and representative to my Corporation.

I have,

• Extensive experience in all aspects of Data Science which involve; Data and Graph mining, Machine Learning, Artificial and Business Intelligence, Data and Business Analytics and Statistical and Mathematical Modelling.
• Deep expertise and knowledge in mathematical, statistical, econometrics modeling and development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms and prototypes ready for production.
• Statistical, Machine and Deep Learning techniques: Clustering (SOM-Self Organizing Maps, BM-Boltzmann Machine, AE-AutoEncoders), Classification (ANN-Artificial Neural Networks, CNN-Convolutional Neural Networks, RNN-Recurrent Neural Networks), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Regression Techniques (Linear, Logistic, Hierarchical, Spatial, Time Series)

Experiences in a variety of computing languages (Python, R, JavaScript, NodeJS, HTML, CSS, MySQL/Hive, Mongo/DB, JQuery), platforms (Windows, Linux) cloud and distributed computing environments (Hadoop/MapReduce, MS Azure & AWS) and Machine learning/Deep learning (SciKit-Learn, NLTK, Keras, Theano, TensorFlow, PyTorch).

Top Project Highlights

Transactional Software development Owner in an Agile Software Development framework

Scrum Team Owner of transactional enterprise software development projects in an agile software development framework

Clients Financial Vulnerability Risk Modeling

Voice of client Sentiment Analysis and Topic Extraction (NLP)

Client/Consumer Demand Projection Models

Employment

Data Science Consultant

2019 - Present
    • Consults on Research/Analytics, Data Science, Business and Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning and Quantitative Finance projects for Private and Public firms mostly in Developing World.
    • Development of news and financial market performance platform/application

Business Intelligence Manager & Sr. Data Science

2017 - 2019
    • Leads the Business Intelligence Unit team of Research and Data Section at CPG Financial Services Cooperation. My main role is to use data (while applying all Data Science practice tools) to provide business intelligence to Executive Leadership and Business Unit Managers.
    • Responsible for developing AI/Data Science/Machine Learning Infrastructure for the Corporation.
    • Sits in Data Governance meetings that are responsible for data variety organization, flow and efficient use (in the new Enterprise Data Warehouse)
    • Scrum Team Owner of transactional enterprise software development projects in an agile software development framework

    Ongoing and Completed Projects.

    • Clients Financial Vulnerability Risk Modeling
    • Voice of client Sentiment Analysis and Topic Extraction (NLP)
    • Data Science in-house business units modeling with structured and unstructured (Text heavy data)
    • Transactional Software development Owner in an Agile Software Development framework
    • Client/Consumer Demand Projection Models

Senior Technical Leader-Data Science Consultant to Client Microsoft

2016 - 2017
    • Led a team of Data Scientists, Managers and Developers (Software Engineers) to solve client Microsoft(MS) business problems with data through development of production ready POC (Proof of concepts) and application of all Data Science tools including Machine Learning, statistical and mathematical modeling skills.
    • Data Acquisition and Assembly/ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) from various sources including Databases, Warehouses, Web and Flatfiles. Tools: SQL, MS-Server, R-Server and Python
    • Data Modeling-Machine Learning/Statistical/mathematical modeling and Analysis (Learning Analytics). Tools: Python, R, R-Server, MS-Server, MS Azure, MS ML studio.
    • Inference and forecasting (Predictive Analytics) and reporting the actionable insights from the data reporting actionable Insights through interactive business tools (i.e Power BI), Slides and Reports.

    Completed POC/Prototypes.

    • Classification of Microsoft X-BOX-Live Consumers based on Business Potential
    • Apartment Cluster Filters using MS Bing Search API

Data Science Consultant to World Bank

2016 - 2016
    • Consult on broad areas including data science, spatial econometrics, machine learning, information technology and systems and economic policy. Tools: R, SQL and Stata software.
    • Solve clients’ problems from inception to completion applying,
    • Data acquisition (extraction, assembly and cleaning) from Data Bases.
    • Data preparation (Cleaning, Statistical explorations and transformation- classification/scaling/dimensionality reduction- Transforming Analytics)
    • Data modelling and Analysis (Learning Analytics)
    • Inference and forecasting (Predictive Analytics)
    • Reporting the actionable insights from the data.

    Completed Projects: World Bank DECRG Short Term Consultancies.

Lead Analyst-Data Scientist

2014 - 2015
    • Contributed to the understanding of evolution and optimal operation of online communities and social networks through application of data and graph mining with igraph, spded libraries of R software on structured and unstructured data from nanoHUB.org cyberinfrastructure platform.
    • Explored data visually and statistically, classified/clustered and analyzed through machine learning algorithms (mathematical and statistical modelling) using R software libraries.
    • Developed both supervised and unsupervised learning machine learning and statistical algorithms to establish patterns of formation, operation and sustenance of software developers’ community network using R Software.
    • Developed efficiency evaluation application for developer communities through application of stochastic dominance, bootstrapping and exponential random graph statistical models on dynamic (time-series) data.
    • Formulated statistical algorithms model to evaluate the impact of developer community network on growth of software developers with supervised Bayesian spatial logistic, fixed effect and interaction statistical and economic models with spdep library of R software.
    • Established a social structure and communication channel embedded diffusion model to forecast software usage (revenues) while applying supervised and unsupervised learning models including, bass predictive model, Bayesian spatial probit model and network science.

    Completed Projects:.

    • Efficient Management of Information Flow Systems in a Two-Way Market Online Platform
    • Establishment and Management of Growing Online Communities and Ecosystems
    • Prediction of Diffusion of Innovation/Products tool based on Advanced Collaborative filters in an Online Setting

Education

PhD in Computer Information Systems
2012-2016

College: Purdue University in USA

MS in Applied Economics
2011-2012

College: Purdue University in USA

MA in Sustained Development
2009-2010

College: Columbia University in NY, NY, USA

BS in Math and Computer Science
1997-2001

College: University of Nairobi in Nairobi Kenya

Certification

Designing Architectures in AWS
2019-2019
Natural Language Processing in Python
2017-2017
Deep Learning
2019-2019
Web Development in Python and Flask
2020-2020
Big Data with MapReduce and Hadoop
2019-2019

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