Work Experience

Government of Alberta

June 2025 - Present

Senior Data Scientist

Edmonton, AB

  • Led the Data Science team within the Treasury Board focused on auto insurance regulation.
  • Improved organization efficiency and data accessibility by developing an internal web app, ARROW.
    • ARROW utilizes R Shiny with advanced logging and testing for full code coverage.
    • Provided non-technical staff with access to large complex data which reduced workload frictions.
  • Leveraged on-premises and cloud platforms to deploy ARROW with production and testing environments.
  • Implemented a > 5TB SQL server to streamline and enhance our data capabilities and reporting.
  • Utilised Git and Azure Dev Ops for version/environment control and collaborative development.
    • Assign tasks and conduct code review for junior members of the team.
  • Created policy following legislation to determine insurer profitability and mandate return of excess profits.
  • Provided data and narrative for our annual Market and Trends reports, used to brief the minister and public.

Government of Alberta

October 2022 - June 2025

Data Scientist

Edmonton, AB

  • Conducted forecasts on KPIs using seasonal ARIMA, ETS, and STL time series models.
  • Improved data transparency with the public by utilising SQL and Power BI dashboards for our website.
  • Lowered expenses >$50,000 per year by reviewing machine learning filings/conducting studies internally.
  • Presented economic studies and complex statistical topics monthly to our board.

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, competition, and econometrics.
  • Prioritized classes with computer science components and programming.