Owen O'Connor

Owen O'Connor

County Galway, Ireland
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Experienced Data Scientist working in the football industry having previously worked in…

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Experience

  • FIFA Graphic

    FIFA

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    Liverpool, United Kingdom

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    Luxembourg

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    Galway

Education

  • The University of Sheffield Graphic

    The University of Sheffield

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    Part time distance learning masters. Modules include Data Analytics, Stochastic Processes, Linear Modelling, Bayesian Statistics as well as the use of R. Achieved a result of 70% in my Dissertation.
    Dissertation Title: Anomaly Detection In Time Series

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    This was an intensive and very practical software design and development course that involved a project as well as a 3 month internship that I undertook in Avaya in Galway

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    Graduated with a 1st class honour for my undergrad in Maths and Computer Science which included a semester abroad in Hong Kong. Graduated with a 2nd class honour from my Higher Diploma in Software Design and Development

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Trócaire Graphic

    Charity Worker

    Trócaire

    - Present 13 years 3 months

    Organised and participated in a cycle to raise money for chairy. The cycle was over 300km in distance starting in Co. Galway up to Tory Island in Co. Donegal, the cycle spanned over 3 days, was published in the local paper and raised over €1000 for charity

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    English Teacher

    International Volunteer HQ

    - 7 months

    Education

    Volunteered in both Nepal, Bali, Thailand and Hong Kong teaching English to children.

Projects

  • Random Knots

    Investigating the probability of finding a randomly generated mathematical Stick Knot. The stick knot was created by projected points randomly on the unit sphere and sequentially connecting them. Then group theory was used to determine whether it was knotted. I investigated this problem by writing a computer program in GAP

Honors & Awards

  • University Scholarship

    National University of Ireland Galway

    The Certificate and Scholarship was based on good grades from 3rd year

  • Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology Student Exchange

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    In the Autumn of 2013 I was selected to go on a student exchange to Hong Kong. Only 4 people out of the 3rd year science discipline were selected. The exchange took place from February to June of 2014. I achieved a 1.1 grade whilst out there

Test Scores

  • 4th Year Results

    Score: 81.5

    Cryptography - 96%
    Neural Network - 80%
    Internet/Object Oriented Programming - 82%
    Advanced Operating Systems - 81%
    Artificial Intelligence - 98%
    Rings - 65%
    Mathematics Project - 80%
    Functional Analysis - 67%
    Measure Theory - 73%
    Field Theory - 86%
    Applied Statistics - 90%

  • 3rd Year Results

    Score: 1.1

    Average result of 78% for the year

  • Leaving Cert Results

    Score: 500 Points

    English (H) - A1
    Irish (O) - B1
    French (H) - C2
    DCG (H) - A1
    Chemistry (H) - D2
    Maths (H) - B1
    History (H) - A2

    Note: "H" denotes Higher Level and "O denotes Ordinary Level

Languages

  • English

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