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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1
Language
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
Statistical modeling
Machine learning
Intelligence gathering
Data Mining
Data interpretation
R
SQL
Python
Pyspark
Other (command line, git, docker, aws, sed, awk, C)
Training, Mentoring & Development
Teamwork
Conflict resolution
Critical thinking
Research project design
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