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José Alfredo Méndez Barrera

Data Scientist / Actuary
Mexico City,CMX

Summary

I´m a an endless student, passionate of research and find hidden patterns that answer the day by day riddles. An actuary doing Data Science for 8 years already. I have experience in academy, public, health and banking sector.

I´ve developed:

  • Statistical models with classical and machine learning techniques
  • Data products
  • Automatization process (informal packages)
  • Contributed work for modeling regulations

A Soccer lover, mountains seeker, crazy about music, a movies fan, ambitious triathlon racer and a soon to be marathon runner

Overview

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5
5
years of post-secondary education
9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Associate Data Scientist

BBVA Mx
Mexico City, Mexico City
08.2016 - Current
  • Innovated the structure and enginery of the collections credit risk models by collaborating with the end-users and internal stakeholders, identifying and gathering analytical requirements for their new and true needs and developing robust statistical predictors whose performances are reflected on the anticipated identification of future defaults, the recovery gain debt and the optimizing resources
  • Designed algorithms, frameworks, dashboards and visualizations tools for an automatized use of the internal team.
  • Coached, developed and motivated team members, providing coaching and mentoring to former and new data scientists colleagues by mini seminars on R, Python, command line, version-control system, own algorithms, internal-methodology and data mining techniques.
  • Collaborated at the migration and implementation of own packages to Python and Pyspark

Junior Data Scientist

National Institute of Elections
04.2014 - 05.2016
  • Provided comprehensive analysis and recommend solutions to address complex electoral policy problems and issues using data from internal and external sources and applied advanced analytical methods to assess factors impacting people's civil responsibility and their electoral involvement across the history of electoral processes.
  • Built some dashboard to visualize the people's electoral participation distribution across the country and their change under the most relevant factors in order to help to be a more data-driven decision electoral institute

Data Scientist Trainee

Federal Institute of Elections
05.2013 - 04.2014
  • Leveraged analytics to drive the understanding of the institute unexplored data, their insights and make proposals that would help to make more efficient electoral processes and improve the parties expenses' audit.

Founder and Advisory Teacher

Academy N+1
06.2012 - 08.2013
  • Founder and advisory teacher in mathematics for highschool, Undergraduate and Engineering.
  • Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and analytic geometry, pre-calculus, differential and integral calculus, Financial Mathematics, Probability and Statistics

Education

Master of Science - Data Science

Institute Technological Autonomous of Mexico
08.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Actuarial Science

Autonomous University of Yucatan
08.2008 - 04.2012

Skills

    Statistical analysis

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Timeline

Associate Data Scientist

BBVA Mx
08.2016 - Current

Master of Science - Data Science

Institute Technological Autonomous of Mexico
08.2015 - 05.2017

Junior Data Scientist

National Institute of Elections
04.2014 - 05.2016

Data Scientist Trainee

Federal Institute of Elections
05.2013 - 04.2014

Founder and Advisory Teacher

Academy N+1
06.2012 - 08.2013

Bachelor of Science - Actuarial Science

Autonomous University of Yucatan
08.2008 - 04.2012

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