Francois Ascani

About Francois Ascani

I am an independent and empathic thinker and doer – with strong expertise in data science,machine learning and coding – who has passion, natural talent, and motivation inleadership and in developing talent.I built machine learning/predictive scores for marketing, delivered dozens of data-driven insights, developed data pipelines to integrate a third-party SaaS application, participated in strategic discussions to build a modern data science program, and led PhDs, data scientists, analysts, and engineers. My professional values are to develop a culture of state-of-the-art data science in close relationshipwith business experts, to help develop my team members and give them meaning and motivation totheir work, to serve my internal customers in a positive, yet, engaging environment, to give back toand serve my local community to the best of my capabilities.

Experience

1. VP, Enterprise Data & Analytics (Eda) Manager, Data Platform Delivery

   First Hawaiian Bank

   Aug 2023 — Present · Honolulu County, HI, US

   Lead a team of data platform engineers to manage, govern, develop, monitor, and provide support for First Hawaiian Bank\'s data & analytics platforms (both on cloud and on-premise). These include Snowflake, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Customer Data Platform (Amperity), FIS Business Intelligence reporting service Web Intelligence, Gitlab, Datadog, and the AWS layer supporting them. We work closely with our solution architect, data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, product managers and decision makers to make sure these platforms bring the most value to the bank and to their work.

Education

• ENSTA

  Master of Science - MS, Environment, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science

• University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Master of Science - MS, Oceanography, Chemical and Physical

• ENSTA

  Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science

• University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Oceanography