
- A rolling Potato fathering no fungus -
- Một củ khoai lăn không úng mầm -
RESUME
Education
Foreign Trade University of Vietnam
International Economics (2015-2019)
GPA: 3.89/4 (equivalent to 9.0/10)
Honor: Graduated as valedictorian
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Seokyeong University
Korean Language Training course under the Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) (2021-2022) - GKS Scholar
GPA: 95.4/100 (Topik 5)
Activities: Participated in cultural programs (VANK, KINU, Korea National Gugak Center); volunteered at Korea Red Cross.
Award: Contribution Award Recipient
Pusan National University
Statistics (2022 - non-completion) - GKS Scholar
Scholarship awardee under the School of Natural Science, but couldn’t resist sneaking into a Database class at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, and earned an A+.
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Hanoi University of Science, VNU
Pre-Master's in Data Science (2024)
GPA: 9.1/10
Gained new appreciation for the beauty of mathematics, enjoyed Object-Oriented Programming with Java, and found network protocols surprisingly engaging.
Skills
Human Languages:
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English (IELTS 7.5)
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Korean (TOPIK 5) - enough to buy an "ice-scream" from a street vendor
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Vietnamese (mother tongue) - full capability of bad-word cursing
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French (absolute beginner) - with delight in nasal twangs and throat-growls
Software & Tools:
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Visualization and BI: PowerBI
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Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DBeaver for all connection (yet to come Trino and MinIO)
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Design and Diagraming: Drawio, Visio, Balsamiq, Visio
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Coding: VSCode, Eclipse, Jupyter Notebook
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and ton of other open source tools
Work
experiences
Data Scientist/Data Analyst
FPT Information System (FPT IS - FIS) - www.fis.com.vn - is a member of the FPT Corporation which is the largest ICT company in the private sector in Vietnam.
Mar 2021 - present
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Data Warehouse synchronization: work with BA to collect requirements, and collaborate with other team members to brainstorm, design, and create jobs to synchronize data from multiple sources to the data warehouse using Impala SQL.
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Data Science: Use Python with various techniques and methodologies to tackle Machine Learning and Data Science problems like Employee Churn, Customer Churn, Customer Segmentation, Cross-sell Up-sell, Inventory Demand Forecast, and Optimization (though time-series is not the love of my life), to name but a few.
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Others: host and participate in seminars related to Data Governance, Data Science, and MLOps, do web scraping and prompt tuning LLMs for fun, conduct API testing for real, provide interns and juniors with guidance, and the list goes on.
Recognition and Gains:
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Successfully built a toolkit (demo version) that helps enhance data cleaning and feature selection process in ML model applications.
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Successfully synchronized the CRM Data Warehouse which was later applied to the automated reporting jobs of the CRM team.
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Data Governance - Data BA
M_Service (Momo) - www.momo.vn - a financial technology company providing e-payment services in Vietnam under the brand Momo. Momo is known as the most-used e-wallet in Vietnam.
May 2020 - Dec 2020
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Corporate with other business units to brainstorm, define, and analyze business requirements, to come up with ideas and propose solutions for users' pain points within data.
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Support the Business Intelligence team in data quality enhancing, metrics defining, and reporting using Google Data Studio.
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Support in constructing workflow charts and diagrams, studying system capabilities, and writing specifications using Draw.io, Visio, and Atlassian.
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Work as a coordinator alongside Data Scientists to deliver a training program in Data Science to Momo staff, and create course slides in Algebra, Naive Bayes, and Linear Regression sessions.
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Work with senior staff in improving data quality (i.e. build reference data management system, issue data process for business, support other technical teams in database design, etc.)
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Data Business Analyst
Five9 Vietnam - www.five9.vn - a pioneer enterprise that brought IBM cognitive computing to Vietnam and applied AI in several businesses such as health care, and finance, along with analyzing social networking sites' data to conduct variable reports satisfying customers' demands
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
• Manage data, work with technical tools such as Excel, Power BI, and others to collect, analyze and interpret data.
• Involve in building data models to analyze and insight into users on social networks together with participating in testing activities of model and algorithm.
• Exploit and document the requirements using tools like Visio and Balsamiq to analyze and propose appropriate solutions, create mockups, as well as come up with new ideas for developing new features, upgrading old versions, or changes from stakeholders' requirements.
Recognition and Gains:
- Our products were well-received by many big names in various fields namely Abbott, Maritime Bank, BIDV, et cetera.
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Research Intern
DEPOCEN - www.depocen.org - an independent research organization has a reputation among the development and policy research and consultancy community with its wide range of socio-economic issues
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
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Collect and backcheck data for research
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Arrange and conduct interviews with respondents to collect survey responses.
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Translate research documents.
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Help with other research work.
Languages
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Python (Intermediate)
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SQL (Intermediate)
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Java (Abandoned)
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R (toddler)
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HTML (Beginner)
Certifications
& Courses
IBM Data Science & Google Data Analytics Specialization - 2 comprehensive courses provided by IBM and Google respectively via Coursera
2021 - 2022
University of Michigan Python 3 Programming Specialization - a fun and thorough course provided by UMich via Coursera
2021 - 2022
Vietnam Summer School in Research 2018 - founded by Harvard postdoc fellow Dr. Jenny Tue Anh and Harvard University Ph.D. Candidate Vu Thanh Chau
Aug 2018
• I took part in VSSR as a participant in the introductory and intensive 4-day course Quantitative Methods in Macroeconomics focusing on analyzing macro-data using R
Honors
& Awards
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Korean Government Scholarship for Graduate Degree 2020 - KGSP (also known as Global Korea Scholarship ) is a fully-funded scholarship program provided by the Korean Government (NIIED) for international students. Trang, who was selected as a Scholar, would be funded to pursue a Master's Degree in Statistics at Pusan National University.
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1st rank Bachelor's degree in International Economics
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Foreign Trade University Scholarship for Outstanding Performance (6 times since 2015)
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Vietcombank Scholarship for Outstanding Performance (2017)