About
John is an AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialist with experience in recommendation systems, NLP, and time series. He is driven by building a bridge between the Business and Data Science. He is a recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Award, College of Computing & Informatics Drexel University in 2021. He is a Data Professional with more than a decade of software engineering experience in Investment Banking, Insurance, Food Retail and Distribution industries and a teaching background in Physics.
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Data Science
Drexel University
June 2021
- CGPA 4.0/4.0
- Recipient of 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics
- Published an international paper entitled The Impact of driver distraction and secondary tasks with and without other co-occurring driving behaviors on the level of road traffic crashes in the best journal of “Human Factors and Ergonomics” according to Scimago Journal Ranking (Accident Analysis and Prevention) (April 2021)
- Capstone Project: “Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Network” which was selected for oral research presentation at the 2021 Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference
- Drexel CCI Healthcare Informatics Research Lab Researcher
Bachelor of Science in Physics with Specialization in Computer Applications / Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Mathematics (Double-degree program)
De La Salle University - Manila
August 2006
- Undergraduate Thesis entitled “Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution of the Cosecant-squared Potential Well” (August 2006)
- Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Scholar
- De La Salle University (DLSU) Academic Scholar
WORK EXPERIENCE
Nicholas and Company
- Data Engineer (2021-Present)
DXC Technology
- Data Scientist (2019-2021)
Safeway Philtech Inc (through IT Manager’s Inc)
- Senior IT Consultant (2016-2019)
Software International Corporation (M)
- Senior Software Engineer (2014-2015)
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (through Seven Seven Softwares Inc)
- Senior Software Engineer (2011-2014)
- Software Engineer (2010-2011)
Central Mindanao University
- Physics Instructor (2008-2009)
University of the Philippines Diliman
- Physics Instructor (2007-2008)
SKILLS
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Data Visualization
- Data Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Research