Andreas Withaeckx

Andreas Withaeckx

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Co-Founder at ReqCon | the AI copilot for construction

  • Education

    • Vita Et Pax College Schoten

      2003 - 2009
      Latijn Wiskunde Wetenschappen
    • Universiteit Gent

      2014 - 2015
      Master of Science - MS Master of Science in Marketing Analysis
    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

      2009 - 2014
      Master's degree Handelsingenieur
    • Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

      2013 - 2013
      Master Business engineering
  • Experience

    • Proximus

      Sept 2015 - Jul 2022

      As a data scientist at Proximus, I am working on projects for the customer operations team that can be tackled with data science. Moreover I am advising the business on the data – driven roadmap, data – related projects with external partners, decisions related to choice of technology and other data – related strategic decisions. Projects include:1. Customer operations interventions: - Solution prediction: Using data on a customer’s technical situation, creating an analytical model that is able to predict what will be the most suitable solution to his technical problems (Python & Spark). - Process improvement: Analyzing which interventions are dealt with in an inefficient way and providing ways of improving their efficiency.2. Capacity planning: using time series forecasting algorithms to explain and predict the required personnel capacity, both for field interventions by field technicians as well as call center capacity planning (Python). Show less As a Management Trainee at Proximus I worked on several projects in three different departments (Customer and Market Insights, Data warehouse, Customer Operations), changing jobs every 10 months in 2 years. This allowed me to have a broad view on the company and the opportunity to work on a wide range of challenges that have been tackled with data science:- Building a tool to help prioritize fiber rollout planning by identifying geographical zones with a high ‘Fiber appetite’, using a clustering algorithm. Tool used by the business to determine allocation of +20M in Fiber budget. (R programming, R Shiny)- Understanding and predicting technical failures in the fixed-line network in order to improve internet customer satisfaction, using classification algorithms (Python & Spark).- Reducing the number of calls to call centers by providing quick and useful insights for support teams into data generated by customer calls, using an anomaly detection algorithm to identify problems with services and networks (R programming & R Shiny).- Improving mobile network coverage by providing performance metrics to network maintenance teams, leading to significant cost reductions. (Python & Spark).- … Show less

      • Data Science Team Lead

        Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
      • Data Scientist

        Sept 2017 - Jul 2022
      • Management Trainee - Big Data Expert

        Sept 2015 - Aug 2017
    • Proximus Ada

      Apr 2022 - Aug 2024

      AI lead for Proximus, leading a team of +20 AI engineers

      • Proximus AI lead

        Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
      • Data Science Team Lead

        Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
    • ReqCon

      Oct 2023 - now
      Co-Founder
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • EdX - Data Science with Apache Spark

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    • Tackling the Challenges of Big Data

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
      Oct 2015
    • Prince2 Foundations

      PeopleCert
      Mar 2018
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate

      Microsoft
      Jun 2020
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Andreas Withaeckx
      DengueHack Winner: data4good hackathon European Data Innovation Hub The European Data Innovation Hub has organized an open data4good hackathon that focused on using data science to combat the spread of the dengue virus.Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection. Potentially lethal, dengue is a flu-like illness that nearly half the world’s population is at risk of contracting. The challenge was to tap into private and public datasets to generate new insights and improve our understanding of this infection.More info on https://denguehack.org/