Amos Okech

Amos Okech

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Data Scientist at Co-op Bank, Financial Engineer

  • Education

    • African Institute of Mathematical Sciences

      2013 - 2014
      MSc Mathematics Distinction

      Activities and Societies: Programming Challenges. Playing Table Tennis, Football.

    • WorldQuant University

      2019 - 2020
      Master's degree Financial engineering 95%

      Courses Done- Financial Markets- Econometrics- Discrete Time Stochastic Processes- Continuous Time Stochastic Processes- Computational Finance- Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing- Machine Learning in Finance-Case Studies in Risk Management-Data Feeds and TechnologyCapstone Project: Expected Shortfall as an Alternative to Value at Risk

    • University of Cape Town

      2013 - 2014
      Master's degree Mathematical Sciences Distinction

      Activities and Societies: Playing football. Did a lot of courses in Applied mathematics and Pure Mathematics and a handful in statistics.Graduated with distinction.Dissertation Title "A robust A-stable collocation method for solving a class of stiff initial value problems"

    • Moi University

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Statistics First Class Honors

      Activities and Societies: Member of Mathematics club Awarded a scholarship to University of Cape Town by AIMS to undertake a Masters degree.

    • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

      2016 - 2018
      Masters of Science Computational Mathematics
  • Experience

    • Millward Brown

      Sept 2012 - Jul 2013
      Field Research Assistant

      Collectind Data from the field and submitting them to the supervisor.

    • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

      Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
      Student

      Structured Masters Student.Specialising in Mathematical sciences.Graduated with Distinction.

    • Laikipia University

      Sept 2016 - Jan 2021
      Mathematics Part time Lecturer

      Taught the following units-ODE-PDE-Calculus II and Calculus III-Basic Mathematics-General Mathematics

    • Kabarak University

      Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
      Parttime Lecturer

      Taught school based program -ODE 2-complex analysis-Linear Algebra IStatisticsLinear Algebra II

    • Dalberg Research

      Sept 2020 - Feb 2021
      Machine Learning Specialist

      -Writing machine learning algorithms to group customers into distinct clusters with distinct characteristics.-Writing machine learning algorithms to reduce the number of questions in a questionnaire to fewer questions that can be conducted in a phone interview.

    • NCBA Group

      Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
      Data Scientist

      -Products worked on: Fuliza | M-Shwari | M-Pawa | MoKash RW | MomoKash CIV | Loop-Analysis and prediction of transaction volumes-Generating actionable insights by applying statistical techniques such as predictive statistical models, segmentation analysis, customer profiling, analysis, credit scoring, churn prediction and data mining-Credit Risk Evaluation-Performing Data Governance Role to ensure Corporate Compliance & Service Quality.

    • Co-operative Bank of Kenya

      Feb 2022 - now
      Data Scientist - Lead

      Projects I've worked on:- IFRS9 Life-time Probability of default model development.- Automation of Salaried limits procedures using Apache Airflow.- Continuous monitoring of model drift using PSI and CSI.- SME and MSMEs model calibration for the existing model.- Developing and fine tuning the secured MSME working capital limits.- Process optimization and automation. Preparing models for production placement.- Building and automating reports and dashboards to be used by branches on MSME limits qualified applicants.- Automating a report for the customer care team with reasons as to why a customer has no limit (which reduced backlog cases to the Business intelligence team).- Improving User experience design to the Mcoop cash design by mapping customers most preferred channels to appear on top of the app.- Enhancing the Early warning system with a more probabilistic approach.- Built consumer scorecard for salaried customers taking into account to expand scope for customers with no defined employers in the company data warehouse.- Working on business scorecard for new to borrow customers.- Credit limit management for scored customers.- Setting up model risk management framework to the existing models and focusing on risk analytics to prioritize the universal concerns of incorrect modeling data, poorly functioning models, fraud, regulatory concerns, contamination and interconnected risks.- Writing and maintaining Portfolio at Risk (PAR) packages to be used by the credit management team to track the e-credit portfolios.- Writing, maintaining and automating overdrawn accounts procedures to load reports being consumed by remedial team to recover defaulted e-credit loans.- Real time limits alert for customers using debit cards getting in-sufficient credits alerts using Apache Kafka. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

      Coursera
      Oct 2020
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    • Introduction to Tensorflow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

      Coursera
      Sept 2020
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    • The Data Scientist's Toolbox

      Coursera
      Oct 2020
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    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

      Coursera
      Oct 2020
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    • Convolutional Neural Networks in Tensorflow

      Coursera
      Oct 2020
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    • Machine Learning

      WorldQuant University
      Jun 2019
    • SQL for Data Science

      Coursera
      Sept 2020
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    • Natural Language Processing in Tensorflow

      Coursera
      Aug 2020
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    • Convolutional Neural Networks

      Coursera
      Sept 2020
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    • Data Science

      WorldQuant University
      Mar 2019
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Mathematics Teacher

      Issued by Kiamunyeki Secondary School on Jan 2007
      Kiamunyeki Secondary SchoolAssociated with Amos Okech
    • High School Mathematics Teacher

      Issued by Nakuru Park-View High School on May 2010
      Nakuru Park-View High SchoolAssociated with Amos Okech