Matthew Bowyer Analytics and Data Science Manager

Curriculum vitae

Matthew Bowyer — CV

Analytics and Data Science Manager with across business intelligence, operational analytics, financial analysis, data science and reporting automation.

Profile

Analytics and Data Science Manager with across analytics, business intelligence, financial analysis, data science, machine learning and reporting automation. Leads global analytics, data science and applied AI delivery across 29 countries, with regular engagement with C-suite leadership. Combines leadership with hands-on delivery across Python, SQL, predictive and prescriptive analytics, statistical modelling, feature engineering, MLOps and GenAI. Proven track record of productionising analytical workflows, governing reusable data and ML assets, and delivering decision support across millions of devices, SIMs and customer records.

Experience

  • Manager: Data Analytics & Global Reporting

    Cartrack · Jun 2024 – Present · South Africa

    Leads global analytics, reporting automation, data science, machine learning and applied AI delivery across 29 countries and major business functions including sales, finance, marketing, operations, telematics and R&D. Leads predictive and prescriptive analytics, forecasting, anomaly detection and decision-support across datasets spanning millions of devices, SIMs and customer records; owns ML lifecycle activities including experimentation, validation, tuning, calibration and model monitoring; productionises business-critical analytics and ML workflows, replacing multi-day manual processes with unattended execution.

    Evidence: inputs/Matthew_Bowyer_CV_2026.pdf — Cartrack, Jun 2024 - Present.

  • SIM Usage Analyst

    Cartrack · Jan 2024 – May 2024 · South Africa

    Analysed global SIM usage, device health, firmware performance and operational trends across Cartrack's international fleet, using large operational datasets to support issue prioritisation and decision-making. Performed exploratory analysis, anomaly detection and trend analysis, and improved visibility into fleet, connectivity and device health through repeatable analytical reporting and data-quality checks.

    Evidence: inputs/Matthew_Bowyer_CV_2026.pdf — Cartrack, Jan 2024 - May 2024.

  • Data Scientist

    Greendoor Group · Mar 2023 – Jan 2024 · South Africa

    Led analytics, data science and machine learning initiatives across Greendoor Group and its African subsidiaries, supporting operational, financial, fleet and executive decision-making. Built predictive and prescriptive models and production-oriented analytical solutions using Python, MySQL, Tableau and AWS-based data pipelines, and applied model monitoring, governance and decision-science practices.

    Evidence: inputs/Matthew_Bowyer_CV_2026.pdf — Greendoor Group, Mar 2023 - Jan 2024.

  • Data Analyst

    Smith Yong and Associates · Jan 2019 – Feb 2023 · Gauteng, South Africa

    Supported audit, financial analysis, inventory verification and data quality initiatives through structured reporting and analysis. Analysed financial and operational records to support audit and business review processes, led physical inventory verifications, and cleaned, validated and improved datasets to support reliable analysis and decision-making.

    Evidence: inputs/Matthew_Bowyer_CV_2026.pdf — Smith Yong and Associates, Jan 2019 - Feb 2023.

Leadership & Additional Achievements

  • Vice Chairman & Athlete Representative

    Gauteng Weightlifting Association · Feb 2025 – Present

    Elected to represent athlete interests and work with the association executive on athlete development, competition planning and strategic improvements. Serves as a liaison with the South African Weightlifting Federation.

  • Executive Committee Member

    Gauteng Weightlifting Association · Jul 2023 – Feb 2025

    Initiated and managed automated tracking and uploading of technical official statistics, improving the timeliness and accuracy of federation records, and supported automation of athlete and event record tracking, website maintenance and technical operations.

  • South African Presidents Team Representative

    RLSS Commonwealth Festival of Lifesaving · 2019 · Leeds, UK

    Represented South Africa in Leeds, UK; won an individual silver medal with a provincial record and contributed to two team medal finishes.

Education

  • MSc Data Science

    University of Essex Online · Completed · Jan 2024 – Jun 2026 · Merit

    Taught modules in research methods and professional practice, machine learning, deciphering big data, visualising data, the data professional and numerical analysis. Thesis: A Multimodal Driver Behaviour Evaluation System: Combining Telematics, VLMs and LLMs.

  • BSc (Hons) Data Science

    The Open University · Completed · Mar 2020 – Jul 2023

    Twelve 30-credit modules grounding statistics, mathematics, computing, algorithms and machine learning. Evidenced by the module pages in this portfolio.

Capabilities

  • Leadership & Strategy Analytics strategy, data strategy, AI/ML capability building, executive decision support, stakeholder management, cross-functional delivery, mentoring.
  • Data Science & AI Python, SQL, machine learning, statistical modelling, predictive and prescriptive analytics, decision science, optimisation, feature engineering and selection, experimentation, hypothesis testing, model validation, tuning, calibration, performance benchmarking, GenAI, LLMs, RAG, VLMs.
  • Engineering & Platforms Databricks, MLflow, Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, Feature Store, MLOps, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data modelling, model monitoring and drift, data and model governance, data quality, lineage, AWS, MySQL, Tableau.

Selected projects

  • Essex MSc Data Science Thesis Multimodal driver behaviour evaluation combining telematics data, vision-language models and large language models.
  • UoEOMScDataScience e-portfolio The University of Essex Online MSc e-portfolio - the body of academic work this site presents.
  • Pringle Padel Company website for a client, built to present the business, its services and its brand.
  • The Bowyer Collective Photography portfolio website for Chloe's Photography.
  • Chloe's Travelling Tutors Business website presenting tutoring services to prospective clients.
  • Padel Scraper Python web-scraping system collecting padel results and transforming them into structured JSON (private repository).

Full detail, including the academic modules and downloadable artefacts, is on the Projects & Modules and Evidence pages.

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