
Amos Okech
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About me
Data Scientist at Co-op Bank, Financial Engineer
Education

African Institute of Mathematical Sciences
2013 - 2014MSc Mathematics DistinctionActivities and Societies: Programming Challenges. Playing Table Tennis, Football.

WorldQuant University
2019 - 2020Master'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 - 2014Master's degree Mathematical Sciences DistinctionActivities 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 - 2012Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Statistics First Class HonorsActivities 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 - 2018Masters of Science Computational Mathematics
Experience

Millward Brown
Sept 2012 - Jul 2013Field Research AssistantCollectind Data from the field and submitting them to the supervisor.

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Aug 2013 - Jun 2014StudentStructured Masters Student.Specialising in Mathematical sciences.Graduated with Distinction.

Laikipia University
Sept 2016 - Jan 2021Mathematics Part time LecturerTaught the following units-ODE-PDE-Calculus II and Calculus III-Basic Mathematics-General Mathematics

Kabarak University
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020Parttime LecturerTaught school based program -ODE 2-complex analysis-Linear Algebra IStatisticsLinear Algebra II

Dalberg Research
Sept 2020 - Feb 2021Machine 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 2022Data 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 - nowData Scientist - LeadProjects 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
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization
CourseraOct 2020 - View certificate

Introduction to Tensorflow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
CourseraSept 2020 - View certificate

The Data Scientist's Toolbox
CourseraOct 2020 - View certificate

Neural Networks and Deep Learning
CourseraOct 2020 - View certificate

Convolutional Neural Networks in Tensorflow
CourseraOct 2020 
Machine Learning
WorldQuant UniversityJun 2019- View certificate

SQL for Data Science
CourseraSept 2020 - View certificate

Natural Language Processing in Tensorflow
CourseraAug 2020 - View certificate

Convolutional Neural Networks
CourseraSept 2020 
Data Science
WorldQuant UniversityMar 2019
Volunteer Experience
Mathematics Teacher
Issued by Kiamunyeki Secondary School on Jan 2007
Associated with Amos OkechHigh School Mathematics Teacher
Issued by Nakuru Park-View High School on May 2010
Associated with Amos Okech
Languages
- enEnglish
- kiKiswahili
- luLuo (kenya and tanzania)
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