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Erin Gilheany

Erin Gilheany

Clonsilla

Summary

Accomplished data science and analytics professional with expertise in SQL, Python, R, and AWS. Proven track record in delivering end-to-end solutions across diverse architectures. Demonstrated leadership and strategic stakeholder engagement skills. Committed to advancing climate and sustainability initiatives through data-driven decision-making and machine learning applications.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Data Scientist

Ayvens Insurance
Dublin, Leinster
2024.10 - Current
  • Developed end-to-end risk based pricing tools that expanded our business offering from the fleet market to the 20% more profitable private and small business market.
  • Developed a frequency, severity and cost per car modelling framework, reducing full model build and refresh to be completed in less than 1 week.
  • Built infrastructure frameworks for analytics applications to be used within the business, enabling central build, control and management of IBNR and pricing tools.

Senior Data Scientist

Klarna
Berlin, Germany
2022.03 - 2024.05

Tech: Amazon Web Services (Redshift, S3, SageMaker, Lambda), Python, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Qlik Sense, Airflow

  • Led Customer Revenue Prediction model that reduced unprofitable retention marketing spend in US market by 50%.
  • Machine Learning Lead within cross competence team, planning
    associated analytical work, working directly with various
    stakeholders across organisation
  • End to end ML lifecycle implementation of revenue prediction
    model to enable optimised targeting and consumer level decisions
    within marketing and underwriting
  • Deployed and maintained automated batch scoring service on AWS infrastructure
  • Deep dives, storytelling and sizing opportunities to enable investment and strategic decision making by c-suite executives and product managers.

Senior Data Scientist

AXA Insurance Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
2021.04 - 2022.03

Tech: R, R Shiny, SQL Server, Salesforce, Command Line Interface (CLI), Git

Senior Data Scientist (2021 - 2022)

  • Analytical lead for enterprise wide strategic project, involving acquisition of transformative tools within marketing, operations and loyalty business areas, with over 2 million EUR invested.
  • Interpersonal leadership role, specifically recruited, on-boarded, mentored and developed team members, including data analyst and data scientist profiles
  • Assessment and validation of strategic initiatives, with establishment and development of supporting dashboards and KPIs
  • Review, feedback and contribution of multiple colleagues code, technical documentation, output and presentations
  • Drive best practices, efficiency, generalisation and reproducibility in coding/processes.

Data Scientist (2018 - 2020)

  • Promoted to Senior Data Scientist.
  • Focused on customer related problems including segmentation, targeting, prioritization, personalisation and communications.
  • Delivery of end-to-end analytical projects, both supervised and unsupervised, from requirements gathering, build, test, communication, implementation, support, maintenance and continuous improvement
  • Collaborated with team to enhance overall value through adaptive data sources, strategies and methodologies.

Data Scientist

Liberty Insurance Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
2016.12 - 2018.11

Tech: Emblem, Radar, SAS, R, SQL Server, Excel

  • Built first technical pricing models for Home Insurance policies within Liberty Insurance Ireland.
  • Pricing Lead for Implementation and Testing of Pricing Model in Rating Engine.
  • Ensure extensive data validation of underlying data.
  • Proposed new automated pricing process to reduce time taken to build and validate model by 40%
  • Committee member of Liberty's Global Data Science Community, responsible for organising Liberty's yearly internal data science conference.

Insurance & Pricing Analyst

Cartrawler
Dublin, Ireland
2014.09 - 2016.06

Tech: SQL, Excel, Tableau, R

  • Led analytics on new insurance model with allowed for increase of margin from 20% to 70+%.
  • Developed all analytical processes around pricing and claims analysis based on new shared risk responsibility model that was implemented with partners AXA
  • This included creating self-service Tableau dashboards for all interested parties within company, weekly reports to senior executives, strategic growth analysis for new markets and management of insurance pricing globally.

Education

Postgraduate Diploma - Climate Adaptation and Sustainability (Part-Time)

University of Limerick
Limerick
2025.01 -

Master of Science - Data Analytics

National College of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
2014.09 - 2016.09

Bachelor of Science - Financial and Actuarial Mathematics

Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
2007.09 - 2012.05

Skills

  • PLEXOS
  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • Airflow
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Qlik Sense
  • Tableau
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Modelling
  • Sustainability
  • Leadership and Mentoring
  • Story-telling and communication
  • Strategic and Proactive
  • Machine Learning/Data Science
  • Design Thinking
  • Project Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Data Analysis & Visualization
  • Stakeholder Management

Certification

  • Certified PLEXOS Professional - Energy Exemplar - Issued Aug 2024
  • Data Science for Environmental Modelling and Renewables - University of Glasgow - Issued Jul 2024
  • End-to-End Machine Learning with Tensorflow on GCP - Google - Issued Nov 2021
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - Microsoft - Issued Apr 2020

Timeline

Postgraduate Diploma - Climate Adaptation and Sustainability (Part-Time)

University of Limerick
2025.01 -

Senior Data Scientist

Ayvens Insurance
2024.10 - Current

Senior Data Scientist

Klarna
2022.03 - 2024.05

Senior Data Scientist

AXA Insurance Ireland
2021.04 - 2022.03

Data Scientist

Liberty Insurance Ireland
2016.12 - 2018.11

Insurance & Pricing Analyst

Cartrawler
2014.09 - 2016.06

Master of Science - Data Analytics

National College of Ireland
2014.09 - 2016.09

Bachelor of Science - Financial and Actuarial Mathematics

Dublin City University
2007.09 - 2012.05
Erin Gilheany