About Christian
- Development of predictive algorithms for retail players to assist buyers in identifying star products and optimizing supplies (FutureScore.io)
- Industrialization of AI applications: customer profiling for personalized marketing campaigns, optimization of stock allocation and replenishment (Kering)
- Development of a BitCoin trading algorithm based on an LSTM neural network (Keras)
- Development of an algorithm for extracting nutritional data from product packaging photos (Open Food Facts)
- I am productive and autonomous in the main technologies required in data science: Python, SQL, Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn, SciKitLearn, Keras/TensorFlow, FastAI/PyTorch) as well as Spark
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Experience
- FreelanceData Science and Analytics consultantCONSULTING AND AUDITSMarch 2019 - Today (7 years and 3 months)Paris, FranceFashionData, since February 2020:FashionData is the data innovation team of a group of textile brands: Jules, Pimkie, Orsay, Rougegorge. Within the data scientist team, I am responsible for creating an application that allows buyers to optimize their store quantities by identifying and suggesting products with similar characteristics. Technical environment: Python, GoogleCloud, SQL.FutureScore, Nov2019 - Feb 2020:FutureScore offers a cloud solution that manages micro-surveys on Facebook to test the appetite of target populations for new products from textile retail players (Décathlon, Jennyfer, Etam, Célio). I developed the algorithms to transform survey results into a product potential score, thus helping buyers identify future star products and optimize their purchases. Technical environment: Python, GoogleCloud, RidgeLasso and GradientBoosting algorithms.Bouygues Telecom, October 2019:analysis of customer service data to identify events in subscribers' lives that lead to an increase in call volume to the call center. Technical environment: Python, SQL, Spark / DataBricks, Azure Cloud.OpenFoodFacts, June - September 2019:Development of an algorithm to extract nutritional information from product packaging photos to populate an open-source food transparency database. Use of Google Cloud OCR, Kmeans and DBSCAN, FuzzyWuzzy.Personal projects May-June 2019:Several POCs delivered during my data science certificate using Python / PySpark, pandas, SciKitLearn, Azure cloud, available on github.com/cgandon. Notably, the creation of a recommendation tool to optimize Bitcoin purchases/sales: Python development, API calls to marketplaces and Twitter, training and application of a Keras LSTM neural network.
- SAP Freelance consultantSAP BI consultant, BW/IP/BPCCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2002 - December 2008 (7 years)Paris, FranceI participated in 10+ SAP implementations as a freelance consultant & developer in the field of Business intelligence, merchandise and financial planning:
- Retail customers: Reliance Retail (India),, Body Shop (UK),, Printemps, BricoDépôt.
- Other industries: Rolex, Hewlett Packard, Orange (UK), Arcelor, L’Oréal, Lyreco.
- Technical expertise: BW (certified), SAP ECC and IS-Retail, BPC, BI-IP, SAP Merchandise & Assortment Planning, ABAP (OO), FI (certified), CO (certified).
- Business expertise: business intelligence and analytics retail operations, financial planning and control, supply chain operations.
- CTACFranceDirector and FounderCONSULTING AND AUDITSJanuary 2008 - December 2013 (6 years)Paris, FranceStarted and developed a consultancy specialized in SAP retail. In parallel of delivering projects to our customers, I ensured all aspects of business administration and development: strategy, pre-sales, partnership, recruitment and coaching of consultants, commercial relationships. I was at the same time ensuring the lead role delivering SAP projects to our customers on the field. Retail customers: Miss Etam (NL), Casino, Jack Wills (UK), Trafic (BE), Tally Weijl (CH), 3Suisses, GoSport
- Main achievements: growing from 0 to 15 employees and 2M€ sales /year, secured a reseller agreement with SAP France (VAR).
- Business expertise: Entrepreneur and business administration, seasonal/fashion merchandise management, omni-channel retail operations.
- Technical expertise: SAP BW, BI-IP, ABAP (OO), IS-Retail, Business Object
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Education
- Master in International businessKedge Grenoble2001
- Data Science Full StackJedha2019Jedha Paris (https://jedha.co/bootcamp_fullstack/) Machine Learning supervisé Machine Learning non supervisé Deep learning Python, SQL, Spark, Cloud, Web Scrapping