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Armando Diaz

Armando Diaz

Senior Data Scientist
Charleston,SC

Summary

Data Scientist familiar with gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Highly organized, motivated and diligent with significant background in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Recommender Systems, Retention, Churn, Customer Segmentation, and Staff Performance.

Overview

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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Scientist

Relativity6
09.2017 - Current
  • Designed the data science backend where insurers, brokers, and agencies are able to see analytics, customer segmentation, propensity for retention purposes, cross-selling / recommender systems, and categorize agents/brokers that perform better for retention campaigns.
  • Provided comprehensive analysis and recommend solutions to address complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources and applied advanced analytical methods to assess factors impacting growth and profitability across product and service offerings. Hands on over 20 projects and PoCs for international insurance companies.
  • Developed data-gathering and reporting structures from ground up and strategized methods capitalizing on system features.
  • Gathered and evaluated quality assurance data to identify issues and improve process efficiency.

Freelance Economic Analyst / Algo Trading

PFAMEXICO
01.2018 - Current
  • Developed financial market analysis and database management using MongoDB and R.
  • Designed trading algorithms strategies using Interactive Brokers for the US and Mexican stock market.
  • Prepared orders to orchestrate transfers, tracked transactions and documented activities with detailed records.

Algorithmic Trading Strategy Developer

ITERA LABS
05.2018 - 07.2018
  • Developed trading algorithms strategies for the stock market, forex, and options trading.
  • Optimizing portfolio trading strategies to ensure profits in different time periods.

Education

Bachelor of Financial Engineering - BE -

ITESO Universidad Jesuita De Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
09.2014 - 12.2018

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Databricks - ETL: Data Extraction, Transformations and Loads, and Production SEP 2020 - Data engineers optimize and automate Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workloads using stream processing, job recovery strategies, and automation strategies like REST API integration.
  • Databricks - MLflow: Managing the Machine Learning Lifecycle SEP 2020 In this course data scientists and data engineers learn the best practices for managing experiments, projects, and models using MLflow.
  • Databricks - Structured Streaming SEP 2020 This training course targets data engineers who want to process big data using Apache Spark Structured Streaming.

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/6bc1301a-54f6-47f9-9b6a-1e4b8bed8a47

Work Availability

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Publications

Investment portfolio trading based on Markov chain and fuzzy logic IEEE LA-CCI JUNE 2018

  • A trading strategy is proposed for a portfolio composed of shares in the stock exchange. The performance of the trading algorithm is validated through simulations using real prices from the Mexican stock exchange.

Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value using Stacked Neural Networks: An Insurance Industry Application IEEE JULY 2019

  • Abstract— The proposed recommendation system is evaluated using transactional data from an Australian insurance company. We validated our results against a state of the art self-attention recommendation system, successfully extending its functionality to include lifetime value.

See publications, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Armando_Diaz-Gonzalez

Timeline

Algorithmic Trading Strategy Developer - ITERA LABS
05.2018 - 07.2018
Freelance Economic Analyst / Algo Trading - PFAMEXICO
01.2018 - Current
Senior Data Scientist - Relativity6
09.2017 - Current
ITESO Universidad Jesuita De Guadalajara - Bachelor of Financial Engineering - BE,
09.2014 - 12.2018
Armando DiazSenior Data Scientist