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Alfred Matthew

Toronto,ON

Summary

A visionary technologist and problem-solver, with polymath background in business intelligence, data science/machine learning/AI, and cloud solutions. Resourceful & dependable professional, capable of operating effectively under minimal guidance, adapting to new challenges and responsibilities as they arise; w/tech. vendors & in banking sector. A natural in leadership, teamwork roles - seeks opportunities to direct & impact business outcomes. Excellent English-speaker and communicator, w/adequate French.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfred-m-21a3a4167

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Generative AI Archiect/Consultant

Private Practice
Toronto
04.2023 - Current
  • Creating customized, LLM applications to solve challenges encountered in the conduct of clients’ day-to-day operations
  • Role entails: Developing custom LLM applications for diverse client needs incl. marketing, university applications, trading, non-profit funding, linguistic study, regattas, tourism...
  • Specializing in business requirements elicitation, tool selection, advanced prompt-engineering, RAG & fine-tuning approaches, using Python 3.10, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, Vertex AI, Langchain, Streamlit technologies among others
  • Specialized(vendor) cloud deployment.

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer/Infra. Analytics

Google LLC (employee)
Toronto
04.2022 - 04.2023
  • Managed stable cloud systems, consulted on business needs & operations leading to increased operational visibility, insight, & productivity in production
  • Role entailed: Managed Google Cloud Platform systems, enhancing client operations with a focus on GCP IaaS infrastructure, consulting with top global clients on GCP's suite including GCE, GKE, VPCs, VMs,,MIGs, containers etc
  • Authored technical articles and achieved GCP certification.
  • Insight-to-implementation expertise

Data Scientist

FCC (Canadian Crown lender: contract)
Toronto
10.2020 - 04.2022
  • Transformed business requirements into meaningful insights & analytics solutions, utilizing data science/analytics skills
  • Role leveraged Python & SQL to architect/design & develop analytics solutions, including financial modeling using risk simulators, performance dashboards, LSTM time series prediction among others..
  • Provided mentorship in data science best practices and facilitated analytics solution delivery within cross-functional teams.

Data Scientist

BBInsight Inc. (employee) (pandemic aborted)
Atlanta, Georgia
12.2019 - 03.2020
  • Role description is academic; qualified, was hired (with US visa issued) but pandemic aborted
  • (TN-approved/Atlanta, Georgia, Employee) BBInsight Inc
  • To conduct research, develop, and improve algorithms to learn, build advanced search capabilities over healthcare documents
  • Role entailed: Development of algorithms for advanced healthcare document search using NLP and machine learning techniques
  • Focused on cloud and open-source technologies for application development and mentored junior team members.

Technology R&D Consultant

Benefact Consulting Group (employee)
Toronto
04.2019 - 10.2019
  • Won research funding for projects involving blockchain, business intelligence, specialized algorithm development etc
  • Across various industries
  • Conducted in-depth technical interviews and analyses to identify innovative project aspects for SR&ED funding awards.

Data Scientist

Composite Favourability Index (startup)
Toronto
11.2017 - 04.2019
  • Lead technology & marketing functions of the tourism-focused, sentiment analysis publication: Oversaw technology and marketing for a tourism-focused sentiment analysis platform, implementing a data preprocessing ETL pipeline and retraining/fine-tuning NLP models for domain suitability
  • Utilized Tableau Public for data visualization.
  • Insight-to-implementation expertise

Business Analyst/Application Architect

Bank of Montreal (contract)
Toronto
01.2017 - 10.2017
  • Responsible for overall technical design of the Client Data Initiative (Capital Markets)/CDI, and for approving technical decisions within the project
  • Led technical design & integration for the Client Data Initiative, focusing on enterprise data communications infrastructure and integration with Fenergo, client-onboarding software supporting KYC, & AML.

Principal Eng. Architect/Analyst (CEP Analytics)

Software AG, Progress Software (employee), TD Securities (contract)
Toronto
02.2014 - 08.2016
  • Delivered industrial-strength, real-time, event processing system architectures & IoT consulting service products - using internal CASE tool - to Fortune 500 clients: Johnson & Johnson, Standard & Poors, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo etc., involving domain-driven designs in capital markets, real-time dashboards, and predictive models in customer behavior, etc
  • Developed & delivered CEP (Apama) technical training.
  • Led requirements gathering, solution design, development & deployment in capital markets, focusing on real-time solutions for algorithmic trading (equities, ETF), process automation, market surveillance, FX aggregation using complex event processing software and Java, Oracle 10g, and Tableau.
  • Insight-to-implementation expertise.

Education

MBA - Management (MIS)

St. John Fisher, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St. John Fisher University
Rochester, NY

Skills

  • Machine learning & Big data technologies - libSVM, R, Zementis/PMML 41, Time Series Analysis & Forecasting (also using LSTM RNNs, predictively w/trade data), algorithms incl linear, logistic regressions, clustering, SVMs, un/supervised algorithms, ANNs, CNNs, RNNs, Stanford OpenNLP, Jupyter Notebook 126, Scala 211, Python 3 (pandas, sklearn, serial, itertools, statsmodels, Keras ) Tensorflow 114 Keras, Large Language Model/LLM/ChatGPT (OpenAI) API, Hugging Face/Langchain/Transformer, Streamlit 10, Tableau 104, Informatica (ETL), Spark 22, GCP (Vertex AI, Big Query, PubSub, Cloud Storage, Docker, Cloud Registry, Kubernetes), AWS (Sagemaker), Jenkins
  • Platforms – UNIX Solaris 10, Linux kernel 26, web 20, Windows 10, Windows 2008 server, Google App Engine/GCP
  • Foundation Technology skills - ANSI C & C, system/driver-level software development on Solaris 210, bash, native multi-threaded applications, Sun Studio (C/C compilers), SGE (map/reduce: big data compute platform), Dtrace, parallelization techniques (OpenMP, MPI), XDR, TCP/IP on Solaris, Harvest 521, mdb, Java SDK 12 – 18 (on various professional & personal projects), Visual C, WinAPI, Visual Studio 2008/C#/NET 20, Visual Basic, MySQL, Perl, lex, jflex, yacc, sed, SQL, MFC, OCI, DB-Library, XML(Java: SAX, C: Xerxes), FIX 42/44, ODBC, JDBC, Reuters C#/C API, Oracle 10g, Eclipse, Ant, sbt, SVN, GIT, Jira
  • Capital Markets areas - equities, ETFs, FIX, market data, market surveillance, algorithms, microstructure, Level 1, Level 2, back office, eod reports

Certification

2023 (Summer) DeepLearning.AI Building Systems w/the ChatGPT API, LangChain Chat w/Your Data

2022 (Winter) Google Cloud Certificate: Associate Cloud Engineer

2020 (Winter) Google Cloud Certificate: Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning

2020 (Spring) IBM Certificate: Docker Essentials

2020 (Spring) IBM Certificate: Deep Learning & Neural Networks with Keras

2020 (Spring) Google Cloud Certificate: Google Kubernetes Engine

2019 (Fall) SoloLearn Certificate: Python 3

2017 (Winter) Stanford University Certificate: Machine Learning

2011 (Winter) University of Toronto Time Series Analysis and Forecasting (certificate graduate course)

Accomplishments

  • Academic Award Uni. scholarship

Affiliations

  • cycling
  • reading
  • wooden board games
  • parks
  • sailing
  • pickleball

Timeline

Generative AI Archiect/Consultant

Private Practice
04.2023 - Current

Senior Technical Solutions Engineer/Infra. Analytics

Google LLC (employee)
04.2022 - 04.2023

Data Scientist

FCC (Canadian Crown lender: contract)
10.2020 - 04.2022

Data Scientist

BBInsight Inc. (employee) (pandemic aborted)
12.2019 - 03.2020

Technology R&D Consultant

Benefact Consulting Group (employee)
04.2019 - 10.2019

Data Scientist

Composite Favourability Index (startup)
11.2017 - 04.2019

Business Analyst/Application Architect

Bank of Montreal (contract)
01.2017 - 10.2017

Principal Eng. Architect/Analyst (CEP Analytics)

Software AG, Progress Software (employee), TD Securities (contract)
02.2014 - 08.2016

MBA - Management (MIS)

St. John Fisher, Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

St. John Fisher University

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