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Chris van den Berg
Data Scientist
The Netherlands
cvandenberg@gmail.com
Profile
All round data scientist with 8+ years of experience in the data analytics and AI space
Results
- • At BNP Paribas, set up and integrated the front-office surveillance tool ForcePoint FBA
- • At Rabobank, built a fraud detection system running in production using Machine Learning, successfully classifying millions of transactions a day
- • Setup Customer Journey Monitoring at Rabobank
- • Worked on a wide range of (inter)national fraud and cybercrime investigations at PwC
Expertise
Machine Learning • Test-Driven Development • SCRUM • Python (Pandas, Scikit Learn, etc) • SQL (Oracle, Microsoft, Postgres) • Spark • MapReduce (Hive, Pig and streaming) • Tableau • Java • R • Linux • GIT • Rust • Elasticsearch • Google Cloud Platform •
Professional Experience
BNP Paribas Amsterdam
2020 - Now Senior Datascientist
Continuing the global rollout of the highly visible big data platform FBA. Manage a codebase across three regions (Americas, EMEA and APAC). Greatly reduce the False Positive alerting rate using statistical and machine learning techniques. Contribute to the platform strategy and lead its expansion to various business areas.
BNP Paribas New York
2018 - 2020 Datascientist (Vice President)
Setup the holistic supervisory and surveillance platform ForcePoint FBA. Designed and built various parts of the BNPP specific tooling, including Entity Resolution, NLP systems, and visualising reports. Working mainly with ElasticSearch, Python and PostgreSQL.
Rabobank U.A.
2016 – 2017 Medior Datascientist
Working on bank-wide data science projects. Developed a production grade automated transaction fraud detection system using machine learning techniques in Python and R. Utilizing a Hadoop cluster using MapReduce and Spark to generate insights, varying from one-of customer segmentation analysis to fully automated dashboards displaying various KPI’s based on “big” data sources such as financial transaction data and web log data.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory N.V
2013 - 2015 Senior Consultant Forensic Technology Solutions
2011 - 2013 Analyst Forensic Technology Solutions
Working on a daily basis on a variety of international fraud investigations. Topics include among others: financial fraud, insider-trading, cybercrime, price-fixing, money laundering, FCPA investigations, and criminal investigations. Responsibilities include the collection, processing, and analysis of large structured and unstructured datasets, often in a forensically sound way suitable for presentation in court. Experience with a broad set of tools to perform these tasks, for example data analysis tools such as SQL, R, Python and Matlab, as well as data visualization tools such as Tableau and various JavaScript libraries.
Logica (currently CGI)
2011 Intern
- Graduation internship on the topic “automatic rose grading”
Education
2008 - 2011 Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and Self Organization, VU University
- Degree: Master of Science (graduated Cum Laude)
The subject of my Master Thesis was the development and evaluation of an automatic rose grading system. This thesis won the Logica “Working Tomorrow Graduate Award” for best thesis.
2009 - 2010 Member of the Board of the student rowing club RSVU ‘Okeanos’
Commissioner materials of the rowing club. Responsible for the fleet of rowing boats. I received a full time stipend from the university for this position.
2004 - 2008 Artificial Intelligence, VU University
- Degree: Bachelor of Science, BSc
My final bachelor project involved comparing different spam detection methods in email.
1998 – 2004 Secondary school, The Rijnlands Lyceum Oestgeest
- Degree: Atheneum. Six years pre-university track education (VWO)
Courses and Certificates
- Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Associate (2014)
- ElasticSearch Core training
- Google Cloud Platform training CP300
- Professional Scrum Master 1
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- German
Volunteer work
- Treasurer of the alumni club of the student rowing club ‘Okeanos’, 2017 - 2019
Sports and leisures
Rowing (crew in 2007 and 2008, winner of the national sprint championship, coach of lightweight 4 in 2009), Running (New York Marathon 2008, Athens Marathon 2010, as well as occasional coaching), mountaineering, cycling, travelling.