David Wambui
Brookings,SOUTH DAKOTA
Summary
Highly skilled data scientist with three years of data-driven experience, adept at leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to extract actionable insights from complex datasets. Proficient in programming languages like Python and R, as well as data visualization tools like Tableau. Demonstrated success in conducting in-depth research, designing predictive models, and presenting findings to stakeholders. Passionate about solving real-world problems through data-driven approaches and committed to driving innovation in the field of data science. I am also a committed member of the Association of Data Scientists (ADaSCI) a body that helps members to advance their career in data science by being chartered.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Research Assistant
SDSU Agricultural Biosystems Engineering Dpt.
06.2023 - Current
- Responsible for gathering, organizing, and cleaning experimental data, ensuring its quality and integrity
- Performing statistical analysis on collected data to identify trends, patterns, and correlations relevant to research objectives
- Designing and implementing machine learning models to predict outcomes or classify data based on experimental findings
- Creating clear and compelling visualizations to communicate research results effectively to stakeholders
- Collaborating with researchers to design experiments and help ensure data collection methods align with research goals
- Investigating and developing predictive models to forecast future trends and behavior based on experimental data
- Applying NLP techniques to analyze textual data and extract meaningful insights from experimental observations
- Managing and maintaining databases to store experimental data securely and efficiently
- Summarizing research findings and producing reports to share results with scientific community or project stakeholders
- Focusing on specific domain, such as healthcare, finance, or environmental science, to apply data science techniques and methodologies to address domain- specific research questions.
IT operations Graduate assistant
South Dakota State University foundation
10.2021 - 05.2023
- Understand potential and emerging information security threats, vulnerabilities, and control techniques and create processes
- Research on policies and procedures for internal control systems
- Define and execute vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and security audits to deliver recommendations on addressing any open risks or highlight strengths
- Engage in ongoing communications with peers in Systems and Networking groups as well as various business groups to ensure an understanding of security service offerings
- Continually investigate and introduce security processes improvement measures, metrics, and present solutions
- Working with various internal teams leads to crafting client information security vision and standards to ensure security needed of clients are met
- Keep up with current technological innovations and determine best investments for clients
- Review design and development of security models as well as establish procedures and guidelines for hardware, software and network security that support established information security practices
- Uncover security risks, flaws, and vulnerabilities by performing internal Active
- Directory or external pen tests, audits, assessments
- Provide security component design, testing and deployment for disaster recovery solutions, daily operation processes and supporting network infrastructures
- Deploy, integrate, and configure security solutions and or any enhancements to existing security solutions in accordance with standard best operating procedures.
Auditor & Business
MGI ALEKIM LLP
08.2018 - 01.2021
- Carrying out audit engagements, which includes planning, executing, and completing financial audits
- Performing detailed data analysis procedures on financial statements and adjusting working papers from the client's database
- Performing predictive statistical analysis to come up with reports
- Presentation of financial statements to clients
- Interacting with large sets of data to extract Audit evidence required in Audit and
- Assurance
- Identifying vulnerability and assessment of internal controls systems
- Proactively briefing Audit managers on the necessary ways to resolve clients’ problems and offering recommendations
- Ensuring information is adequately gathered during meetings with various stakeholders to come up with reports
- Proactively briefing Audit managers on the necessary ways to resolve clients’ problems and offering recommendations
- Ensuring information is adequately gathered during meetings with various stakeholders to come up with reports
- Working closely with managerial staff, technicians, and clients
- Providing guidance, coaching, training, and leadership to junior staff.
Audit Assistant
Regional
09.2018 - 07.2020
- Presenting final audited financial reports during the annual general meeting and before the directors of different companies
- Communicating to clients and handling work-related issues through meetings
- Maintaining companies’ records (hard and soft copies) of all the work done while ensuring confidentiality against competing parties
- Monitoring and overseeing grant budgets
- Conducting effective planning, organizing, and administering of activities in the office and the organization
- Carrying out Audits for clients within a given cluster (Group of Clients)
- Handling Vast Tax-related issues to ensure all clients are fully compliant
- Assisting in the preparation of monthly bank reconciliations
- Strengthening client's internal accounting systems through management reports and recommendations
- Carrying out daily posting of project expenditures in different accounting systems (QuickBooks, SAGE, and ERP
Education
Master of Science - - Ms. Data Science, GPA: 3.5.
South Dakota State University
Brookings,SDBachelor of Business Administration - undefined
The Presbyterian University of East
Certificate in Data Science And Machine Learning -
Purdue University
Skills
- Unstructured Data
- Marketing Strategies
- Logistic Regression
- Artificial intelligence
- Problem-solving
- Data analysis and modeling
Timeline
Data Research Assistant
SDSU Agricultural Biosystems Engineering Dpt.
06.2023 - Current
IT operations Graduate assistant
South Dakota State University foundation
10.2021 - 05.2023
Audit Assistant
Regional
09.2018 - 07.2020
Auditor & Business
MGI ALEKIM LLP
08.2018 - 01.2021
Master of Science - - Ms. Data Science, GPA: 3.5.
South Dakota State University
Bachelor of Business Administration - undefined
The Presbyterian University of East
Certificate in Data Science And Machine Learning -
Purdue University
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