Eric McVittie

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ABOUT ERIC MCVITTIE

I am an energetic and innovative data scientist leader with an excellent track record for defining, designing and successfully deploying data science solutions across a range of use cases. I am currently seeking data science leadership positions (contract or permanent) within in the UK.I have extensive experience of advising internal and external stakeholders within diverse client organizations on the most effective data science solutions to support improvements in critical business process and decisions. I have wide, critical knowledge and hands-on experience of advanced data science and machine learning methods. • Team leader and project advisor / director / manager with a successful track record in leading the delivery of complex projects to meet or exceed client expectations, on-time and within budget.• Passionate about constantly development my own knowledge and skills, and with supporting the development of colleagues through coaching and mentoring.• Commercially-minded development leader identifying, designing, implementing and bringing to market numerous successful new data products and propositions.• Excellent communications skills: Confident, experienced public speaker, communicating complex ideas to senior stakeholders and/or large audiences; report writing and data visualisation.• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of Data Science tools in Python and R. BI and visualisation tools. Data Science development and deployment in AWS. • Experience with selecting and applying best-practice supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to a wide range of business use cases, interpreting and critically evaluating their results (including ML interpretation/explanation methods).• Subject Matter Expertise: Retail & Commercial Credit Markets & Credit Risk, Business bureau data (S&P, D&B), Business Risk, Consumer Behaviour, Regulatory Credit analytics, Basel AIRB, IFRS 9/CECL, Economic Modelling & Forecasting.• More than 200 successful research and consulting projects for more than 100 high-profile clients in financial services, retail, communications services, utilities and the public sector.