wayde herman

• Building data visualizations in Plotly/Tableau for a Southern African Development Community website to explore gender equality in Southern Africa.

• Collaborated in developing models for financial time series forecasting. • Beat client specified baselines by implementing transfer learning with CNN and RNN models using ETF data. • Delivered progress presentations to clients at weekly meetings. • Used company’s custom data pipeline API as well as SQL to construct unified views for machine learning model pipeline for manufacturing client. • Debugged various front-end tickets focusing on Jenkins and React issues.

• Brand building and marketing, both traditional and digital, focusing on social media. • Directed the planning and executing of over 250 events, of up to 1000 attendees, during this time frame. • Maintained relationships with venues, musical artists and sponsors. • Held numerous charity fundraising events, last of which was for Molo Mhlaba, a primary school for underprivileged girls. • Increased average attendance by ~200%. • Managed finances including securing numerous sponsorship deals.