Sky's Resume

Work Experience

Government of Alberta

June 2025 - Present

Senior Data Scientist

Edmonton, AB

  • Lead the data science team by creating and assigning projects to meet our strategic direction.
  • Conduct code review and approve pull requests for our codebase.
  • Lead our IT team for the maintenance and enhancement of our 5TB SQL database.
  • Conduct research on complex actuarial and statistical topics such as Alberta's first chance discount and the ethicacy of certain rating variables.
  • Lower expenses for third-party actuaries by more than $25,000 annually by reviewing complex filings and drafting reports internally.
  • Determine if insurers are excessively profitable and required to return premiums to Albertans.
  • Lead the project to alter industry data reporting to reflect Alberta's care-first reforms.

Government of Alberta

October 2022 - June 2025

Data Scientist

Edmonton, AB

  • Leveraged the Cloudera platform to deploy R Shiny applications to the cloud.
  • Summarized insurance data and created graphics with R and Rmarkdown.
  • Improved data accessibility within the organisation and for the public by utilising SQL to create Power BI dashboards.
  • Utilised Git for version control, documentation and project management.
  • Presented data analytics to various stakeholders such as our board and the Government.
  • Reviewed insurer rate filings with complex segmentation or machine learning.

University of Alberta

August 2022 - December 2022

Research Contractor

Edmonton, AB

  • Constructed a rich panel dataset (4 million rows, 100+ features) on Edmonton and Calgary real estate.
  • Created measures on crime, transit accessibility, development activity, pollution levels and more.
  • Insight: Half the properties in the City of Edmonton do not live within 1km of a grocery store.

City of Edmonton

May 2021 - September 2021

Student Business Analyst

Edmonton, AB

  • Determined if City initiatives to reduce permit timelines were successful using internal data.
  • Communicated success and failure of programs to senior City leadership.
  • Improved team forecasting by introducing time series machine learning models for variable selection.
  • Reduced data gathering times by using R to pull regularly used data through API requests.

Education

University of Alberta

June 2022

Master of Arts, Economics

Edmonton, AB

  • Masters thesis was quantifying the impact on real estate prices of Edmonton's Valley Line. Effect was quantified by distance to new stations, project stage, and property value quantiles.
  • Focused on industrial organization, particularly competition, and econometrics.
  • Prioritized classes with computer science components and programming.