SKILLS
Python
SQL
Git and Github
Power BI
Excel
Word
Powerpoint
Problem Solving
Leadership
Collaborative
Communication
Time Management
Team Player
Conflict Management
EXPERIENCE
Umuzi Academy
Data Science Learner
November 2023 - Present
Participate in design thinking to enhance Umuzi by creating a prototype for booking live tutors and obtaining student support.
Work on data exploratory analysis, OOP, GitHub version control, statistical data analysis, and data wrangling with Python.
Create and managed SQL databases, including running a shop database.
Interact with GitHub REST API.
Collaborate with other interns on code reviews and in meetings to resolve problems.
Built a personal portfolio with HTML and CSS.
BCX
Data Science Intern: Admin - CMO Support
September 2022 – May 2024
Data analysis for customer experience surveys and creating Power BI Dashboards for internal staff.
Data Integrity and Data Quality management on Sales Force.
Development of a 'Single Pane Of Glass' for a network system server using Apache Spark and Apache Hive.
Nkomati Mine
Graduate Metallurgist
2014 - 2018
Conducted processing plant metal accounting. Documented physical and chemical properties of materials before, during, and after completing standardized tests. Planned and evaluated new projects, consulting with other engineers and corporate executives as necessary.
PROJECTS
Analyzed Eskom’s energy supply data to gain insight into critical issues facing Eskom’s energy supply using Power BI.
Built a classification model to analyze tweet sentiments regarding climate change. Deployed a Streamlit application for the tweet classifier, hosted on AWS EC2 instance.
Using NLP, built a model that identifies any of South Africa’s official languages within a given text.
Built a movie recommendation application using content and collaborative-based filtering.
Built a regression model to predict load shortfall for Spanish cities using Sklearn libraries.
QUALIFICATION
Umuzi Academy
November 2023 – Present
National Certificate in Information Technology (System Development) (SAQA ID 48872)
ExploreAI Academy
Certificate
2022
National Certificate: System Development
University ofthe Witwatersrand
2013
BSc in Engineering (Metallurgy & Materials)
ABOUT ME
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 Python programming and statistical analysis.