Charles Givre Lead Data Scientist, Deutsche Bank
Mr. Charles Givre recently joined Deutsche Bank as a lead data scientist in the Chief Information Security Office. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Givre worked as a Senior Lead Data Scientist for Booz Allen Hamilton for the last seven years where he works in the intersection of cyber security and data science. At Booz Allen, Mr. Givre worked on one of Booz Allen’s largest analytic programs where he led data science efforts and worked to expand the role of data science in the program.
Mr. Givre is passionate about teaching others data science and analytic skills and has taught data science classes all over the world at conferences, universities and for clients. Mr. Givre taught data science classes at BlackHat, the O’Reilly Security Conference, the Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security at Bar Ilan University. He is a sought-after speaker and has delivered presentations at major industry conferences such as Strata-Hadoop World, Open Data Science Conference and others.
One of Mr. Givre’s research interests is increasing the productivity of data science and analytic teams, and towards that end, he has been working extensively to promote the use of Apache Drill in security applications and is a committer for the Drill project. Mr. Givre teaches online classes for O’Reilly about Drill and Security Data Science and is a coauthor for the forthcoming O’Reilly book about Apache Drill. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. Givre, worked as a counterterrorism analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency for five years.
Mr. Givre holds a Masters Degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Brandeis University, as well as a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s of Music both from the University of Arizona. He speaks French reasonably well, plays trombone, lives in Baltimore with his family and in his non-existant spare time, is restoring a classic British sports car. Mr. Givre blogs at thedataist.com and tweets @cgivre.
