Vanessa Rys

Experience

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  De hobbit

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2006

  Student Employee

  Packaging and quality inspection of 'fettakaas' (cheese)

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  De Pascalino

  Sept 2007 - Dec 2009

  Student Employee

  I mainly worked at weekends, in the kitchen as well as behind the bar.

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  J.O.C De Redekiel

  Nov 2010 - Aug 2014

  Job responsibilities as chairwoman:• Responsible for the daily routine • Ultimate responsibility for the decisions made by the organization, the security and the material• Preparing and conducting meetings• Make the decisions if the other members are not able to settle the matter. However, one have to bow for the majority (no right of veto)• Keep oneself informed of activities organized by fellow members of the board, so that you can inform other people when asking about it• Preparation and execution of activities in collaboration with the members of the board• Be representative of the youth house for external activities• Justify for one's actions • Preparing and leading Interviews for the recruitment of a new permanent representative Show less

  • Chairwoman (volunteer work)

    Nov 2012 - Aug 2014

  • Treasurer (volunteer work)

    Nov 2010 - Nov 2012
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  De krokant

  Dec 2010 - Feb 2013

  Student Employee

  I mainly worked at weekends, in the kitchen as well as behind the bar.

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  Gemeente Maldegem

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2011

  Student Employee

  Responsible for the organization and direction of the 'Grabbelpas' activity, preparation of the activities organized by the youth service, administration (inspection of the membership lists, completion of the database of the different associations in Maldegem, report), responsible for the social media

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  Gemeente Maldegem

  Jul 2012 - Jul 2012

  Student Employee

  Responsible for the organization and direction of the 'Grabbelpas' activity, preparation of the activities organized by the youth service, administration (inspection of the membership lists, report), responsible for the social media

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  Gemeente Maldegem

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2013

  Student Employee

  Responsible for the organization and direction of the 'Grabbelpas' activity, preparation of the activities organized by the youth service, administration (inspection of the membership lists, report), promotion of the Bebat contest (http://www.bebat.be/een-speelplein-voor-uw-dorp), responsible for the social media

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  Proximus

  Oct 2014 - Dec 2017

  Business Intelligence Specialist

  Analysis of mobile location data which is stored on a Hadoop Big Data platform. Using different techniques we were able to extract several behavioral patterns. The resulting information on customer profiles are used in tourism as well as traffic related companies for decision making.Achievements:• Extracting profile information by performing big data analytics on anonymized mobile location data• End to end custom reports for external customers - public (tourist) services, transport services• Creating new reporting products for the sales department based on new insights and customer feedback• First automated basic interactive visualization of reports (html5, python, Folium)• Help develop an automated web portal which gives access to standardized location reports• Design spatial database with Belgian geographical codes on different levels (neighborhood, muncipal, district, province and region), to and from different coding schemes (NIS and postal codes)Responsibilities: • Analysis of customer requirements for the customized reports• Development in Apache Hive, Oracle and python for the reports• Visualisation with Qgis, Folium (python package) and html5• Analytical models and algorithms to find behavior patterns in movements of people• Demoing the end product to the client and support on remaining questions• Conduct data quality control and improvementsTechnologies used within the organisation:Hortonworks (as the main big data distribution, using hadoop version 2.6 and 2.7)Apache Hive, Apache Pig, Apache sqoop, Apache Tez, Apache oozie, Apache SparkProgramming languages used:SQLPython 2.7 (Pandas, GeoPandas, Folium, Shapely, Sklearn, Vincent, Matplotlib,...)HTML5Spark (not in production, rather limited and experimental)Pig (used once in a project)Bash (used to automate the execution of python scripts)Visualization software used:Qgis, MapInfo Show less

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  Saxo Bank

  Jul 2018 - now

  Senior Business Intelligence Developer

  Diverisfy content pool for AI recommendations in trading platform and responsible for building and maintaining configuration layer for client communications.Achievements: • Responsible for maintaining and extending the communication platform - an ASP.NET application - towards end-users. Several of the newly added functionalities allowed for greater flexibility within the marketing and sales department by using precise targeting in various channels. I´ve also grown the platform from a single user to 50+ users. • Created several analytical marketing reports from scratch which gave insights into customer interactions with the communication distributed via our platform. These insights are used by marketing and C-level management to substantiate the effectiveness of a campaign. • Integrated several new content sources into the recommendation engine to diversify the available content which improves the digital experience of a customer in our platform. This contributed to an improvement of our click-through rate by 2% in 2 years.Responsibilities: • Project management and development of content integration • Develop and scale the communication platform • Experimental design of communication strategy using A/B testing • Data analysis of customer interactions • Expand domain model and build aggregates for the data model to support reportingTechnologies:Databases: SQL ServerProgramming languages: C#, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, DAX, RFrameworks: ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET Web Pages, JQueryOthers: Apache Kafka, Power BI, Azure DevOps, ElasticSearch, SonarQube, Confluence Show less