Calvin Dudek

Public is a venture capital and public sector advisory firm that helps startups transform the public sector. Adviser to the founders, Daniel Korski, ex-deputy head of the No.10 policy unit and venture investor, Alexander de Carvalho. Led the a digital transformation project with different British government units including Crown Commercial Services and Government Digital Services to create a new central procurement platform for the central and local government.

Led the data science R&D team at DWP Digital as part of the digital transformation efforts of the central government. Challenged the status quo and developed new digital products and customer journeys. My team's mission was to make better use of DWPs data. Initiated different programs that led to useable prototypes for conversational agents for service automation (chatbots), a DWP pension Alexa Skill (voice-interface), an A.I. supported knowledge management systems with a bot interface and insider  fraud detection application. Technologies used included Apache spark, various bot frameworks, elastic search, docker, node, python and tensorflow.

Led the development of the product and core technology behinds Faction's paid social advertising solution. Managed the development and integration of the machine learning and data pipeline using Apache Spark. Funded by Entrepreneur First, Europe’s leading start-up accelerator. 

Development new algorithm for lookalike audience targeting on Apache Spark in my dissertation: "Response prediction in behavioural targeted display advertising with latent semantic user segmentation". 

Led the commercialisation strategy and sales programmes for Google's emerging ad products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This also included working with and selling to Google's top tier European clients as well as partnering with product, engineering and sales teams to identify trends, seize opportunities and continuously deliver product updates. Created roll-out plans, delivered trainings, specified new requirements and developed prototypes including leading-edge data applications to drive business growth. 

Google 20% Project Work – Managed the Google Campus Mentoring program as well as redesigned the internal and external processes for recruiting Mentee and Mentor.

Analytically evaluated volumes, growth rates and return-on-investment characteristics of international strategies under detailed consideration of competitive dynamics, shifts in user behaviours, economic indicators and statistical forecasting models. 

Went through various departments and roles including product management, sales, marketing, customer operations and strategy.

Executive education course about how to operate private equity and venture capital companies.

Computer science program covering mathematics, statistics, machine intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, cloud computing, security as well as graph and social network analysis.

Computer science program covering various business modules, database modelling, software engineering, managing software projects and enterprise information systems.