James Ding
Calgary,AB
Summary
Recent Data Science and Analytics graduate with hands-on industry experience building production data pipelines and analytics workflows using Python and SQL. Experienced in data cleaning, feature engineering, forecasting, and visualization to translate business questions into decision-support insights. Seeking a structured retail analytics rotation to develop forecasting and decision science capabilities in a data-driven environment.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
Data Analyst
AirSprint Inc.
Calgary, AB
05.2025 - Current
- Conducted demand forecasting analyses for transfer rentals, empty-leg availability, and reserve calendar utilization using historical booking and operational data.
- Built and evaluated baseline forecasting models to identify demand patterns, seasonality, and key drivers of utilization.
- Designed and deployed production data pipelines using AWS Lambda, S3, and Snowflake to automate the ingestion, transformation, and storage of operational and booking data.
- Built and maintained an automated Salesforce-to-Snowflake data pipeline using AWS services to ingest, transform, and warehouse CRM and operational data for analytics and reporting.
- Supported metric definition and interpretation by validating assumptions, data logic, and edge cases in operational reporting.
- Developed internal automation tools and scripts to improve data accessibility and usability for non-technical teams.
Education
Master of Science - Data Science & Analytics
University of Calgary
Calgary10-2026
Bachelor of Science - Agriculture Commerce
University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign
Champaign, IL05-2016
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
- Feature engineering
- Forecasting and time series analysis
- Statistical analysis
- Data cleaning and normalization
- ETL / ELT pipelines
- Api data ingestion
- Data quality and validation
- Data visualization
- Metric definition and interpretation
- AWS (Lambda, S3)
- Snowflake
Timeline
Data Analyst
AirSprint Inc.
05.2025 - Current
Master of Science - Data Science & Analytics
University of Calgary
Bachelor of Science - Agriculture Commerce
University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign