Justin Furlotte

Data Scientist at Fiddlehead Technology

Justin Furlotte has a diverse work experience in various industries. Justin is currently a Data Scientist at Fiddlehead Technology, where they provide data-driven insights for the food and beverage industry. Justin'sresponsibilities include statistical time series forecasting on point of sale data and building automatic forecasting/model selection pipelines.

Prior to their current role, Justin worked as a Junior Data Scientist at Fiddlehead Technology. Before that, they served as the Head Teaching Assistant at The University of British Columbia for the Differential Calculus course MATH 110. In this role, they managed workshops and other Teaching Assistants, created problem sets and lecture plans, and delivered tutorials that received high reviews from student evaluations.

Justin also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of British Columbia, where they further developed their teaching and leadership skills. Justin was responsible for assisting with educational activities for the university.

Additionally, Justin has experience as an R&D Scientist at C-Therm Technologies Ltd., where they designed and implemented regression algorithms in Python for obtaining thermal conductivity, diffusivity, and effusivity from experimental data. Justin also contributed to other R&D projects, resulting in a publication in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Justin's previous experience includes working as a Natural Resources Tech at Nepisiguit Salmon Association, where they collected data on the local juvenile salmon population and developed a program to automate statistical calculations. Justin also worked in the Record of Employment Department at Service Canada.

In summary, Justin Furlotte has demonstrated expertise in data science, teaching, research and development, and statistical analysis throughout their professional career.

Justin Furlotte completed their Master of Science (MS) in Mathematics at The University of British Columbia from 2020 to 2022. Prior to that, they obtained their Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Mathematics and Physics from the University of New Brunswick, attending from 2015 to 2019.

In terms of additional certifications, Justin Furlotte pursued various courses on Coursera. In July 2022, they obtained certification in "Introduction to Git and GitHub" and "Practical Time Series Analysis". Later, in August 2022, they completed the course "Applied Text Mining in Python". Justin also acquired proficiency in Microsoft Azure through the completion of courses like "Create Machine Learning Models in Microsoft Azure" in January 2023 and "Microsoft Azure Machine Learning for Data Scientists" in February 2023.

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Timeline

  • Data Scientist

    June 1, 2023 - present

  • Junior Data Scientist

    July, 2022