Corey Theiss
Creating Practical Data Science Solutions
I am seeking a challenging position in a fast paced company. My ideal career involves:
- Challenge and Innovation. I enjoy breaking new ground and testing the limits of technology.
- An Excellent Team. Fellowship among co-workers is rare. I don't want to be acquaintances with my co-workers; I want to be friends.
- Elegance. A good solution works; an outstanding solution is elegant.
- Over 20 years' experience using cutting-edge web technologies, from Spring MVC to Vue+Serverless.
- Created the analytics department for one of Canada's largest ad agencies.
- Architected several $2M+ projects, then led a team all the way through the lifecycle using a test-driven, agile methodology.
- Great communications skills!
- Proven time and again to be responsible, hard-working and especially creative.
- Languages: Java, Python, SQL, TypeScript
- Frameworks: Spark, SQLAlchemy, Jest, Vue, Django
- Databases: Redshift, PostgreSQL, HBase, DynamoDB, MongoDB
- Web Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, ES6, JSON
- Applications: IntelliJ, PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, TOAD
- Consulting on small to mid-sized engagements, helping companies develop a profitable data practice.
- Rapidly built over fifty tools spanning the entire stack by harnessing modern web technologies.
- Creating Alchemy: a data science, strategy, and insight platform.
- Developed a data pipeline that captures, parses, and validates gigabytes of data daily from a variety of sources for aggregation and analysis.
- Designed a data practice that combines and models data dimensionally on a columnar warehouse, against which queries and reports can run in a few seconds.
- Architected the integration of Spark for complex processing, such as campaign optimization, micro-segmentation, and content personalization.
- Created the marketing performance and analytics department for one of Canada's largest ad agencies.
- Developed a global analytics platform that aggregates, analyzes, and reports on client KPIs and customer-specific models.
- Drove tens of millions of dollars through media-buying models, connected to DoubleClick Bid Manager and Sizmek to deliver unparalleled performance.
- Led a team of 6 people, including 2 SAS ETL specialists.
- Created an enterprise web application designed to provide clients with cutting-edge market performance analytics, built on Java 6, Spring MVC, Hibernate, and Backbone.js technology.
- Developed a data pipeline that can process, clean, and aggregate millions of records, then display them in under a second.
- Designed a multi-tiered high-security platform proven to keep companies' vital data safe.
- Helped design and develop a high-performance B2B solution that allows thousands of clients to manage millions of natural gas consumers using Hibernate.
- Architected a SOX-compliant authentication and authorization model used in all web transactions with Union Gas.
- Led tracks on three separate projects with budgets ranging from $60,000 to $2,000,000.
- Awarded an Honours Bachelor of Math: Co-operative Computer Science with Information Systems option and Combinatorics & Optimization minor.
- Outstanding or Excellent rating in every internship performance evaluation.