diff --git a/content/cv.md b/content/cv.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b5cb07 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/cv.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +## Sam Chance | Analytics Engineer | Cornwall, UK +***contact@sjplab.com*** + +4 years experience working in the tech industry as a Data Analyst and Analytics Engineer. Experienced at providing high quality consulting services to company stakeholders. Demonstrable proficiency in various programming languages. Strong educational background in a STEM field with Master's and Bachelor's degree. Excellent communication skills with competence at articulating complex ideas to non-technical people. Broad set of technical skills and talented at crafting creative solutions for novel problems. + +## Skills +- **Database Management**: BigQuery | Postgres | MongoDB (learning) +- **Analytics**: Data Engineering | Data Analysis (R, Pandas, Numpy, SPSS) | Data Modelling (DBT, Python, SQL) | Data Visualization | Dashboarding (Looker Studio, Apache ECharts) +- **Programming Languages**: proficient: SQL, Python, Bash | capable: R, Lua | learning: JavaScript, Nix +- **Code Collaboration & Version Control**: Git, Github, Self Hosted Gitea +- **Workflow Orchestration**: Apache Airflow | Prefect (learning) +- **CLI wizard**: Scripting (Bash, Python) | GNU Coreutils | Neovim +- **Geographic Information Systems**: QGIS | PostGIS | GDAL +- **Sysadmin**: Linux | Networking | SSH | Reverse Proxy (Nginx) | API Management | Containerization (Docker, LXC) | Nixos +- **Computers**: Cloud Computing (GCP) | Infrastructure Engineering (Homelab, Hypervisors, KVM) | x86 Architecture +- **AI Tooling**: Self Hosted LLMs | Ollama | Langchain | Open Interpreter +- **Web Development**: Hugo | JavaScript/HTML/CSS | Apache ECharts +- **Personal**: Full UK Driving License | Flexible Working | Autonomous Worker + +## Experience +### Growth Analyst / Analytics Engineer | What3Words | May 2020 to Apr 2024 +- Designed and implemented successful bespoke alerting system from scratch to detect anomalous behaviour in partner API usage (using python) +- General consultant to company stakeholders for resolving technical data related problems +- Built company KPI dashboard in Looker Studio along with underlying data pipelines and data models +- Built QA tool for Product Team to assess and monitor data quality +- Assisted with several large data migration projects in the Data Team +- Researched and implemented data mining techniques for Product and BD Teams +- Started as a Growth Analyst, then promoted to Analytics Engineer + +## Education +### MSc Marine Biology | Bangor University | 1 year +- Delivering technical presentations +- Programmatic statistical analysis of data +- **Thesis**: "Quantifying the Effectiveness of Indonesia's Protected Areas at Preventing Mangrove Deforestation" + * A GIS project that involved statistical modelling of satellite data using ArcGIS and R + +### BSc Marine Biology & Zoology | Bangor University | 3 years +- **Thesis**: "Biodiversity of Seamounts" + +## Personal Websites +- https://baseddata.io: A site where I publish analytical content based on open data. Still a work in progress. +- https://semitamaps.com: A free high-quality map printing service based on OpenStreetMaps.