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Randy Boyes

Randy Boyes

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Data Scientist & Epidemiologist building models of human decision-making

Director Of Analytics at Presage Group Inc.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada🇨🇦
Preferred workplace:Remote (same country)Remote (worldwide)Remote (same region)
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Recently completed Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Epidemiology at Queen's University. Currently working as the Director of Analytics at Presage Group, a small GTA-based consulting company focused on projects in human decision-making in the airline industry.

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Career: 6

Director Of Analytics

Presage Group Inc.

Full-time · Remote

Mar 2021 - Present

- Responsible for development and implementation of analytics to provide best in class results for clients - Provide advice to the Executive team on current and future tool and platform needs - Provide subject matter expertise in automation, analytics, and data visualization - Identify processes as candidates for automation to reduce instability and human error - Support the operations and development of the analytics team to support the enterprise

Data Scientist

Sunnybrook

Remote

Sep 2020 - May 2021

Data Scientist

University of Manitoba

Contract · Remote

Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

Lecturer

Queen's University - School of Policy Studies

Kingston, ON

Sep 2015 - Jul 2019

I have taught MPA 805: Quantitative Analysis (Fall 2015, 2016, 2018) and MPA 806: Analytical Tools for Policy Research (Spring 2016 - 2019).

Teaching Assistant

Queen's University

Kingston, ON

Sep 2014 - Dec 2017

Teaching assistant for EPID 301 (Fall 2017), EPID 803 (Winter 2017, Fall 2014), and EPID 806 (Winter 2014). Responsibilities have included marking reports and exams, answering student questions by email and in individual and group meetings, leading tutorial sessions, and course administration.

Tutor

Queen's University

Kingston, ON

Sep 2010 - Dec 2014

Teaching introductory in individual meetings and in group sessions. Content of the lessons varied according to student's needs and level of understanding. Topics have included Physics, Statistics, Calculus, and Chemistry.

Education: 4

Queen's University

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Health Sciences (Epidemiology)

Sep 2016 - Dec 2023

Queen's University

Master's Degree, Epidemiology

Sep 2013 - Jul 2015

Activities / Societies: Queen's UAEM, Research Group

Queen's University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Life Sciences

Sep 2009 - May 2013

Activities / Societies: MindFind Tutoring, Queen's UAEM, Research Group

Capernwray Bible School

Certificate

2007 - 2008

Projects: 2

Julia for Positron

github.com/TidierOrg/positron-julia

May 2026 - Present

Julia support for Posit's IDE Positron.

TidierPlots.jl

github.com/TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jl

May 2023 - Present

TidierPlots is a reimplementation of R's ggplot2 in julia. While still in development, it supports many of ggplot's main features, including most geoms, scales, themes, labels, facetting, and patchwork-style grid layouts. Since Makie.jl is used to generate the plots, both fully interactive plotting for notebooks and publication-quality PDF output are supported with no change in syntax.

Credentials: 1

Statistical Data Analysis Using SAS

SAS

Sep 2014

Publications: 7

The Post-Secondary Student Stressors Index: proof of concept and implications for use

Journal of American College Health

Mar 2022

Measuring care costs of elderly patients and their family caregivers in intensive care units: Findings from the REALISTIC 80 study

Aging & Society

Nov 2013

Volunteering: 2

Firefighter

Wolfe Island Fire Department

Sep 2024 - Present

Medical, fire suppression, and search and rescue first responder for Wolfe Island, ON.

Intern

Africa Inland Mission International

Jan 2009 - May 2009

Language learning and health education in remote villages near Ikotos, South Sudan.

Awards: 1

Team First Place

Toronto Health Hackathon

Oct 2019

Languages: 1

English(Native or bilingual)

Skills: 40

Other

Academic ResearchAcademic WritingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksBiostatisticsC++Computer VisionConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
Data AnalysisData GovernanceData PreparationData ScienceData VisualizationDeep LearningDeep Neural Networks (DNN)EpidemiologyFirebaseGeographic Information Systems (GIS)Health ResearchHealth Services ResearchHigher EducationInterdisciplinary ResearchJulia (Programming Language)Large Language Models (LLM)LaTeXMachine LearningPredictive ModelingPublic HealthPython (Programming Language)RResearchSASSPSSSQLStatistical Data AnalysisStatistical ModelingStatisticsSurvey DesignTeachingUniversity Teaching