Co-Founder and Chief Instructor at WeCloudData


      WeCloudData
  

About us

  Only Kik lets you connect with friends, groups, and the world around you through chat. Just ask, “What’s your Kik?”

We believe the smartphone era represents a transformation as big as the rise of the PC or the creation of the Internet. Your smartphone is actually part of you: always on, always connected, and always with you. And your smartphone puts the world in your pocket, wherever and whenever you want it.

We believe that chat is at the core of the smartphone era.  

Over 40% of American youth use Kik to chat, browse and share with their friends, putting Kik in a unique position. Our Promoted Chats and other marketing tools let brands engage their fans and followers in a whole new way. And for developers, we've built APIs and libraries to help optimize their web sites for mobile and for Kik.

By building our messenger, our tools for brands, and our platform for developers, we believe we have the opportunity to dominate in chat.

Kik is headquarted in Waterloo, Ontario, and has offices in New York, Toronto and Tel Aviv. We're hiring! Check out our careers page at www.kik.com/careers


      Kik Interactive, Inc.
  

I teach the CKME134 Big Data Tools course at Ryerson University's Change School. In this course, I cover Hadoop, Spark, Recommender Systems and Graph Processing



      Ryerson University/Global Cityzens
  

- Head of Data Sciences. Recruited and developed a high-performance data science team, a team of data scientists, engineers and PhD researchers- Designed data science product roadmaps for targeted ads, reviewed and evaluated new technology platforms and helped shape the data science best practices - Architected and built complex big data pipelines that sift through trillions of log lines, classify user taste signals of various types including textual, geo-spatial and social graphs, and construct interest graphs that enable graph-based inference and personalization- Developed graph-based demographic attribute inference pipelines that powers the targeted advertising platform- Established Hadoop-based big data machine learning best practices at BBM- As a member of the leadership team, worked closely with product, development and sales teams to identify new data and analytics opportunities for revenue optimization- Collaborated with Universities on NSERC funded research projects including location recommendation and mobile application recommendation

    
      
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Who We Are
BlackBerry is a mobile-native software and services company dedicated to securing the Enterprise of Things. BlackBerry Secure software provides the embedded intelligence for the Enterprise of Things so that the Internet of Things can thrive.

What We Do
Today’s BlackBerry is a software company with a standard of security for managing the network of mobile and wearable devices, desktops and laptops, and other endpoints within enterprises. In addition to developing and providing applications, our BlackBerry Secure platform enables enterprises and independent developers to create applications for smartphones, medical devices, connected cars, consumer appliances and industrial machinery, and much more. The result is a secure Enterprise of Things where enterprise customers can transform their organizations for 360-degree secure mobility and have complete confidence in their endpoint management.
BlackBerry Secure applications are showing up in every industry where secure mobile communications are critical.

Our software:
•	Prevents hackers from penetrating devices and computers.
•	Enables automakers to build smarter, secure connected cars.
•	Provides intelligence for secure supply chain communications.
•	Ensures patient confidentiality in healthcare. 
•	Safeguards assets in the financial industry.
•	Manages crisis communications between and among government agencies and forces. 

BlackBerry holds 80+ security certifications. We hold the top position in all six categories of Gartner’s high-security mobility management study. We are ranked among the top 10% of all cybersecurity providers.  All G7 governments and 15 of G20 are BlackBerry customers. BlackBerry Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) software is the most widely-deployed among Fortune 500 companies.

For more information, visit www.BlackBerry.com.

BlackBerry

- Built various machine learning models that helped marketing and CRM fight customer attrition and created customer segmentation for high-value customer acquisition - Pioneered research in mobile application recommendation and helped the company architect an interest graph based recommender that was integrated into the production system- Explored large network graphs and designed effective social influencer models to find high-value customers and help CRM design effective retention and communications campaigns

    
      
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- Involved in the predicted customer lifetime value (CLTV) segmentation using k-means clustering and data visualization. Profiled customer segments across 70+ attributes and tracked customer movements across value segments. - Built descriptive tree models to help retention team understand key business drivers of customer churn (SAS Enterprise Miner Environment). - Helped the field sales team with offer optimization by leveraging the propensity model scores and customer value scores. Automated next-best-offer recommendation in SAS.- Developed and fully automated 30+ daily/weekly/monthly reports using SAS, EXCEL and VBA.- Coached team members on reporting automation and SAS coding.

    
      
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      Rogers Communications
  

Dalhousie University

Jilin University  (simplified Chinese: 吉林大学; traditional Chinese: 吉林大學; often abbreviated JLU or 吉大) is a comprehensive and national key university. JLU offers a variety of degree programs. It has now 115 undergraduate programs, 192 Master's degree program, 105 doctoral degree programs, and seventeen post-doctoral programs. In 2003 the university enrolled 59,000 full-time students, including more than 10,000 graduate students. At present there are 6,540 faculty members, with twenty members of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1270 full professors, and 1652 associate professors.

Located in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin Province in Northeast China, the university has eight campuses in five districts which are home to thirty-nine colleges covering eleven academic disciplines, including philosophy, economics, law, literature, education, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management. The University has sixteen disciplinary areas,five national key laboratories, and eight national bases for the development of basic science. Other resources include five research bases for humanities and social sciences, seven key laboratories sponsored by the Ministry of Education and eleven by other ministries of Chinese government.

Co-Founder and Chief Instructor at WeCloudData

WeCloudData

Co-Founder and Chief Instructor

I-Future Data Technology Inc.

Chief Data Officer

Kik Interactive, Inc.

Data Scientist

Ryerson University/Global Cityzens

Instructor (Big Data)

BlackBerry

Manager, Data Sciences R&D

BlackBerry

Senior Data Scientist, Data Sciences

Rogers Communications

Senior Data Mining Analyst

Dalhousie University

Data Mining

Master of E-Commerce

Dalhousie University

Internetworking

Master of Engineering

Jilin University

Computer Science

Bachelor of Science