Cost:

Free for FWA Members  |  Non-Members: $10

Registration closes at 11:59 pm EST on Oct 21, 2024.

 

Description: 

Join FWA President Annette Stewart and featured guests for Transition Tuesdays!

This forum will gather via zoom on the third Tuesday of each month from 6-7 pm. Come share space with other FWA members for support and tips on advancing your career and navigating professional transitions. Sessions will be interactive and are open to all levels. Annette will be joined by Marat Khandros and Jackie Du for a discussion of this week's topic, "From Business Analyst to Data Scientist: Transitioning into a Career in AI." 

Bios:

Marat Khandros

Marat started in the tech world as a Java developer in 2004 after graduating Polytechnic University (now part of NYU) in Comp Sci, and Masters in IT Mgmt right after.  Throughout the next decade or so, he worked in tech giants such as Veritas, CenturyLink and Symantec until moving to the banking industry aka RBC.  The common thread was automation and self service capabilities to internal clients including developers, site reliability engineers, and data engineers; essentially safely mitigating time intensive process and manual toil from the equation, implicitly injecting agility into the tech stack.

At RBC, Marat spent 8 years in Tech Infrastructure - constantly solving problems through code, and (unbiased, emotionless) data driven insights before moving to the Digital Channels part of the organization, managing shared platforms that underpin RBC’s Online, Mobile and Direct Investing systems.  Any success he has seen is owned to amazing partnerships and brilliant people (like Jackie!) who live/breath technology.

Jackie Du

I am currently a Senior Manager at RBC, primarily working on data engineering & data science projects. I graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a Bachelor’s in Economics. September 2024 marked my third year working at RBC, although I did take a brief two-year hiatus to earn my Master’s in Statistics from Duke University.

While I have spent my entire full-time career at RBC, I have held a variety of roles within the Technology side of the bank, notably starting as a business analyst out of undergrad and then transitioning to my now technical role after discovering my passion for all things data. Currently, I am the technical lead for a capacity management project, focusing on increasing data accessibility via automation and providing intelligent insights to our internal clients – ultimately to reduce capacity-related incidents. Outside of work, I am an avid fan of tennis & basketball, and I love to cook!

This event is organized by Annette Stewart, President of the FWA of New York, Inc.