Daniel Okeeffe

About Daniel Okeeffe

Principal data scientist with over 10 years experience. • Experience in client facing data science rolls spanning multiple industries including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, insurance, brewing, energy, television media, and advertisement.• Development of machine learning models using various techniques, from problem concept, target creation, data analysis and exploration, feature engineering, model optimization, and evaluation. • Communication of data driven insights, model results, and complex subjects to key business stockholders.• Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics.• Effective communication skills for complex subjects, demonstrated via seminar presentations, scientific and outreach writing and teaching/tutoring.• Bilingual English and French speaker.

Experience

1. Staff Data Scientist

   Shopify

   Jan 2022 — Present · CT, US

   ML and experimentation lead for merchant smart tooling applications- Former lead data scientist for Shopify Retail POS and hardware- Former lead data model development for retail marketing attribution/CAC/ LTV- Former lead scientist responsible for customer intent modeling and classification- Causal inference and online experiment design/execution/analysis

Education

• University of Ottawa

  Honours Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics-Mathematics

  2006 — 2010

• University of Toronto

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Physics

  2010 — 2015

Skills

• Research
• Technical Seminars
• Science
• Teaching
• Mysql
• C
• Proposal Writing
• Scientific Writing
• Data Analysis
• Mathematics
• Microsoft Excel
• Science Outreach
• Apple Numbers
• Mentoring
• Presentations
• Tutoring
• Physics
• Python
• Latex
• Maple
• C Language
• Writing
• Matlab
• Machine Learning
• Higher Education
• Computational Physics
• Lecturing
• Theoretical Physics
• Statistics