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Detailed experiences as below. Also please see my LinkedIn profile.

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Basics

Name Eugene Sui Ki Chan
Label Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email eugene.sk.chan@gmail.com
Phone +1 (647) 323 2208
Url https://skchanah.github.io/
Summary British and Hong Kong Chinese
Extensive experience in Python for data science, machine learning engineering and data-driven internal business consulting.

Work

  • 2023.01 - 2023.09
    Data Scientist & Data Manager
    Source One Financial - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Teamwork and Coaching Coached a sub-team of 2 junior data analysts to manage >100 daily EDWs, ETL RPAs, models and QlikSense dashboards, for operation researches in fraud detection, revenue excellence, CRM partnership, credit and income, funding and booking processes, debt sales, etc.

    Data-driven Revenue Planning Spearheaded revenue maximization strategy and negotiation with external CS/Collection partners. Leveraged credit and behavioural metadata to identify potential revenue verticals and successfully reduced ~20% of 31+ days delinquency.

    Internal Consulting Partnered with C-suits, Sales, Operations, Credit and Finance teams on data project consulting, data-driven decision making and any ad hoc business questions.
    • RoBERTa-base keywords & intention identification model for alternative data (call transcripts and text notes), equivalent to 20 man-hours weekly saving.
    • XGBoost-powered CAD 28M bad debt selling, along with sell side due-diligence and buy-side relationship management; recorded recovery ~15%.
  • 2022.09 - 2023.01
    Data Scientist & Interim Data Analytic Manager (Seconded)
    Source One Financial - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 2021.08 - 2022.06
    Pricing and Analytics Specialist, Advanced Analytics
    Merck Sharp Dohme (Merck & Co.) - Hong Kong SAR, China
    Architectual Change Management Co-evolved APAC data ecosystem from data governance, interfacing, ETL, RPAs to pilot prediction algorithms, business intelligence and storytelling, and coordinated data pipeline development with > 200 sales & marketing teammates, regional-level data engineers, external data owners and service providers.
    • XGBoost digital segmentation for all customer accounts (>30,000) via SageMaker.
    • Marketing data (MarTech) ventures on social listening, advertisement placement, cross-channel A/B testing and performance marketing automations on a flagship franchise to bring over 30% YOY growth in Lead.
    • Greedy learning (XGBoost, SVM and GAM), Epsilon Greedy and Statistics (Thompson Sampling) for cross-functional policy and pricing researches (~ USD YOY 1B revenue generators); pitched up to kick start an experimental pricing initiative supported by DataIku framework and QlikSense dashboards.
  • 2021.01 - 2021.07
    Associate, Data Science
    Pfizer - Hong Kong SAR, China
    DataStrategy & Change Management Assisted Asia Pacific management to drive a half-year strategy change management via customer analysis and segmentation via XGBoost tree analysis, KPIs and MBOs setting, competitor analysis and idiosyncratic country capability development plans, reshaping work for >2,000 colleagues in 10 Asia countries and reduced ~20% work hours.

    Internal Consulting and Cross-functional Partnership Led FP&A automation, local analytics, data mining and internal consulting, as an one-year interim Insight Lead and Information Security Officer. Co-led implementation of a cross-market Salesforce backed ecosystem (pioneer of 10 Emerging Asia countries), which consists of data lake, enterprise data warehouses (GCP, Azure), APIs, Adobe Analytics platform, customer facing CRMs and built-in business intelligence, with >100 Billion row daily data refresh.
    • XGBoost customer segregation algorithm for performance marketing of omni-channel flagship campaigns media buy, social media and music platforms.
    • Training and testing support of a global YOLO-3-powered computer vision product for a rare disease, pioneering in the Asia Pacific (> 10 countries).
  • 2019.07 - 2021.01
    Graduate Trainee, Data Science and Analytics
    Pfizer - Emerging Asia and Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2019.02 - 2019.07
    Environmental Management Analyst, Global Group Operations (Part-time)
    Hutchison Ports - Global Headquarter, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2017.07 - 2017.12
    Junior Program Assistant
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2017.07 - 2017.12
    Financial Accounting Advisory Intern
    Ernst and Young - Greater China
  • 2016.01 - 2018.12
    Co-founder, Marketing & Engagement
    The Project CR Team
    The Project CR Team was formed on the belief that students can do more with their university in order to achieve sustainability. The main project is an initiation of a take-away box programme (currently named The Take-away Box Circular Programme) with the HKUST Sustainability Unit.

    A pilot programme has been held between Feb and March 2018 on the HKUST Campus as proof-of-concept to the school. Over 400 users have registered for the programme with over 300 transactions within the 4 weeks. The programme was also covered by two local public medias, including Oriental Daily and RTHK. Our team has developed a proposal to HKUST to implement our created system within the school's management system. HKUST has since approved of our proposal and will be implementing a borrow-return system in Fall 2019.
    • Co-led operation logistics and a team of more than 20 students and staff to propose a new sustainable dinning blueprint to University management.
    • Oversaw marketing and user engagement function, including researches, event planning and management, business cooperation and cross-media exposure; championed business communication and partnerships with suppliers, non-profitable organizations, media and University bodies.

Education

  • 2021.01 - 2022.12
    Postgraduate Studies
    Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
    Artificial Intelligence
    • CS229 Machine Learning
    • CS224N Natural Language Processing
    • CS229W Graphical Neural Network
  • 2014.09 - 2018.08
    BSc in Environmental Management and Technology
    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
    Clean Technology and Sustainable Business

Skills

Programming and Scripting Languages
Python
C++17
SQL
PySpark
R
Git
UNIX Command Line
BASH
Octave
MatLab
Regex
Ruby
HTML
CSS
Data Frameworks
DataIku
Huggingface API
OpenAI API
CUDA (C++, Python)
Databricks
AWS Cloud
BigQuery
Azure Lab
Snowflake
Hadoop
Docker
Kubernetes
Business Intelligence
Tableau
QlikSense
PowerBI
Excel (VBA, M, DAX)
EasyMorph
Performance Marketing
Google Analytics
Adobe Analytics
Adobe Launch
Google Tag Manager

Languages

English
Native
Cantonese
Native
Mandarin
Native
German
Limited Working Proficiency
Japanese
Limited Working Proficiency