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DANIEL FOLEY

Data Scientist
Howth

Summary

Former Economist turned Data Scientist with a passion for data, analytics and continuous development. Background in Economics, Statistics, Machine Learning and 8 years of experience working with data both in the public and private sectors.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Principal Data Scientist

OptumRx
03.2023 - Current

I'm a Principal Data Scientist focused on automating and modernizing drug pricing for the companies largest line of business.

  • Led the migration and automation of 4 pricing models in companies largest line of business, significantly improving the scale and efficiency of generic pricing updates.
  • Designed and deployed a new modelling tool, facilitating scenario analysis and providing key insights to shape the following year's strategic pricing direction.
  • Lead a group of Data Scientist focusing on identifying and executing automation projects across network pricing.

Data Scientist

Wildlife Studios
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Part of team of Data Scientists and ML engineers responsible for producing over 1 million daily LTV predictions for consumption by user acquisition operations.
  • Designed a new Bayesian methodology to produce LTV predictions to guide the business in determining marketing spend for new game launches.
  • Developed a new UA experiment dashboard to help assess the risk return tradeoff and make faster decisions regarding new UA campaigns which account for approximately 15% of total marketing budget.
  • Conducted many root cause live ops analyses as the primary data scientist for two of our live games, involving clear communication of complex topics to a non-technical audience.

Data Scientist

PRODUCT MADNESS
08.2019 - 01.2022
  • Developed and maintained core player lifecycle models used to predict user churn, repeat payment and first time conversion propensity for each of the companies 4 apps.
  • Worked closely with product teams to integrate core models and design AB tests resulting in conversion rate uplift of 2%.
  • Built and maintained ETL pipelines for different projects including player lifecycle and in house segmentation system.
  • Designed a new methodology and provided comprehensive analysis and recommendations underpinning the new loyalty program in the company.

Data Scientist

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
11.2018 - 08.2019
  • Led strategy and implementation of reproducible analytical pipelines (RAP) to automate production of statistical reporting in DWP.
  • Developed data pipeline for user logs and created dashboard to track user engagement metrics helping to improve insight into how users interact with the departments products.

Education

MASTER OF ARTS (MA) - Economics

University College Dublin
Dublin
09.2014 - 01.2015

BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA) - Economics and English

University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin
04.2001 - 01.2013

Skills

Statistics

Machine learning

Optimisation

SQL

Python

Pyspark

Econometrics

Causal Inference

Git

AWS, GCP, Databricks

Airflow

Project Management

Time Series

Timeline

Principal Data Scientist

OptumRx
03.2023 - Current

Data Scientist

Wildlife Studios
01.2022 - 01.2023

Data Scientist

PRODUCT MADNESS
08.2019 - 01.2022

Data Scientist

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS
11.2018 - 08.2019

MASTER OF ARTS (MA) - Economics

University College Dublin
09.2014 - 01.2015

BACHELOR OF ARTS (BA) - Economics and English

University College Dublin
04.2001 - 01.2013
DANIEL FOLEYData Scientist