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Celestine Abindekwe

Data scientist
Kigali

Summary

A data scientist with a background in computer science and training. Designed and managed projects resulting in positive impacts for stakeholders. Familiar with gathering, cleaning, and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Implemented and rolled out smart digital classrooms in early education to improve vulnerable children's practice in EdTech. Qualifications include analytical, statistical, and programming skills to collect, analyze, visualize, and interpret large data sets toward statistical model development and model evaluations. Currently growing through the geospatial data analysis career field.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

GEOSPATIAL DATA SCIENTIST

VIDA
8 2022 - Current
  • Screening, analyzing and reporting of geographical information
  • Propose feasibility of projects in different locations based on analytical discovery
  • Prepare demonstrations and tutorials, and guide customer on how to navigate and utilize company platform.
  • Present insight to end user in a simple and approachable manner.

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FREELANCING SALES AGENT

Bank Of Kigali General Insurance
09.2019 - Current
  • Sold general insurance coverage to 10 clients and 3 companies, which increased the sales by 10%.
  • Assisted call-in customers with questions and orders.

REPAIR DATA ANALYST

BBOXX-Africa
03.2022 - 08.2022
  • Finding and forecasting failure rate of repair centers using python
  • Creating Dashboards of Repair centers that increase insight on what is failing, at what rate, and for what symptoms.
  • Used statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful business reports.
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.

MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

TFE
09.2021 - 05.2022
  • Identify potential mini-grid developers for refinancing
  • Segmenting clients into classes, predicting income from 5 to 15 years
  • Obtaining feasible profitable and non-profitable connections which increased 90% of exploration on what segment of customer to focus on when thinking of investment.

TRAINER

ERP Statistics Lab
07.2018 - 06.2020
  • Consulted and trained more than 20 trainees in STATA software and provided data collection as well as data entry, which improved their data analysis skills.

DIGITAL LITERACY OFFICER

One Laptop Per Child
03.2013 - 05.2020
  • Management of Kigali Corner Branch, including trainings, troubleshooting and customer related tasks
  • Planned and implemented a smart digital classroom with a scratch programming competition for improving digital literacy in primary schools in Kigali and providing technical support.

Education

Masters of Science in Information Technology, Applied Machine Learning -

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
08.2020 - 05.2022

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science -

UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA
09.2013 - 08.2017

Skills

Programming Language - Python, SQL, BigQuerry

Visualization Tools: PowerBI, Plotly, Matplotliv, QGIS

Machine Learning - linear regression, logistic regression, big data, data inference, Data Modeling and Evaluation

Communication skills - Verbal, Reporting, Visualization

Certification

Certified alumni of the TechWomen program cohort 2022 in collaboration with the U.S. government, Institute of International education and TechWomen program

Languages

English
French

Timeline

REPAIR DATA ANALYST

BBOXX-Africa
03.2022 - 08.2022

MACHINE LEARNING INTERN

TFE
09.2021 - 05.2022

Masters of Science in Information Technology, Applied Machine Learning -

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
08.2020 - 05.2022

FREELANCING SALES AGENT

Bank Of Kigali General Insurance
09.2019 - Current

TRAINER

ERP Statistics Lab
07.2018 - 06.2020

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science -

UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA
09.2013 - 08.2017

DIGITAL LITERACY OFFICER

One Laptop Per Child
03.2013 - 05.2020

GEOSPATIAL DATA SCIENTIST

VIDA
8 2022 - Current
Certified alumni of the TechWomen program cohort 2022 in collaboration with the U.S. government, Institute of International education and TechWomen program
Certified in contributing to peacebuilding and conflict management by the East African Youth Forum, aimed at guiding young leaders towards ethical living.
Redwoods Leadership and the MasterCard Foundation, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, have certified a readiness leadership program.
Celestine AbindekweData scientist