Donal Nolan

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Head of Data at Prism Logistics · Recommendation systems

Prism Logistics
Edinburgh, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
13+ years experience
King's College London
English
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Overview

Head of Data at Prism Logistics, focused on recommendation systems. Taught SQL to 55 non-analysts. Before that: HSBC and Amazon.

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Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Sep 2022 - Present
    Prism Logistics · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  2. Data Scientist
    Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
    HSBC · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Taught SQL to 112 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  3. Data Scientist
    May 2017 - Feb 2020
    Amazon · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 2.7%.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Analyst
    Jul 2014 - May 2017
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 3.6%.
  5. Data Scientist
    Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
    AstraZeneca · 9 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 42 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from recommendations
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling recommendation systems.

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Education

  1. King's College London
    BSc, Operations Research
    2009 - 2012

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