Tim Hope

Experience

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  Various Restaurants/cafes

  May 2000 - Jun 2005

  Chef/Hospitality Roles

  Just to show he's not just a 'Data Spook', I'm also a qualified Chef and have worked multiple roles in kitchens across New Zealand and filling in Front of House when required.

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  ACNielsen

  Jan 2006 - Jun 2006

  Field Researcher

  This was a fixed term contract to interview participants for an annual survey conducted by the Department of Justice. Over this time, I conducted over 60 face to face/cold called interviews using a laptop based questionnaire

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  Christchurch College of Education

  Feb 2006 - Dec 2006

  Database Administration Assistant

  This was a fixed term contract to assist in the migration of student information to the University of Canterbury's Student management system following the merger of the two institutions. Additional duties included maintaining the integrity of the College's student data for statutory reporting and general ad-hoc reporting.

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  Agribusiness and Economic Research Unit

  Feb 2007 - May 2007

  Research Assistant

  This was a fixed term contract analyzing qualitative and quantitative data measuring the performance of New Zealand's Sheep-Meat industry.

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  Arc Innovations

  May 2007 - Nov 2010

  This was a fixed term contract to mature an asset management and billing tool that I had developed in my previous role at Arc. This role was responsible for maintaining the data integrity and reporting for Arc's asset management and billing systems.

  • Data and Process Analyst

    Mar 2010 - Nov 2010

  • Operations Analyst

    May 2007 - Mar 2010
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  Kimi Hauora Wairau (Marlborough PHO NMDHB)

  Jun 2010 - Jul 2011

  Information Manager

  This was a fixed contract to develop reporting tools and data management systems to capture and report on primary health initiatives. This involved working with internal staff, primary health providers (local GPs), and directors of national health initiatives. The key deliverable for this project was a datastore and reporting tool built in MS Access that could be used by the PHO to report back to GPs on Cardiovascular screening initiatives in the region.

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  Marlborough Young Professionals

  Aug 2010 - May 2013

  Committee Member

  This was a volunteer role to coordinate social and professional networking events for professionals just starting out their careers in Marlborough.

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  Contact Energy Ltd

  Jul 2011 - now

  Reporting to the Manager of the Wholesale Energy group, this role oversees a team of three Developers and a Business Analyst tasked with delivering data engineering, modeling, visual analytics, and data science solutions.Key Achievements:Led the adoption of the Neo analytics platform as the primary tool for sharing Trading data within the business. Neo now supports over 250 custom charts, dashboards, and reports for teams across New Zealand.Pioneered the adoption of R and Rstudio as the primary advanced modeling suite for Trading. This included organizing boot camps and hackathons with external vendors to enhance user proficiency. Trading now operates over a dozen production-grade machine learning, actuarial, and anomaly detection models, many of which run autonomously on our AWS cloud infrastructure.Championed the use of SharePoint and Azure DevOps (Git) to help the broader Wholesale Trading team manage version control for their unstructured data and code-based projects. One team took it a step further by leveraging Azure DevOps's planning and sprint management functionality to transition to an Agile culture modeled off the approach used in my team.Noteworthy Projects:Led a six-month initiative to migrate a legacy SAS model to our new R platform. Adopting modern coding standards, and improved engineering, reduced the solve times for the model from over half an hour to under 5 minutes. This enabled the model to pick up on market changes being within minutes of them being published improving the time available to act on them.Led the migration of a demand forecasting model from Excel to R. While we experimented with machine learning models, we ultimately chose a statistical regression approach because of the improved accuracy and reduced computational overhead meaning it would run on more cost-effective cloud infrastructure.Actively engaged in graduate intern programs to support product enhancements and inject fresh ideas into our team. Show less

  • Data Manager - Wholesale Trading

    Jul 2012 - now

  • Business Analyst

    Jul 2011 - Jul 2012