Millie Hilgart

Serves as a board member for Starfish Greathearts Foundation Global.

- Document and translate client needs to the technical team
- Ensure data usability and data-centered design during product development
- Build out business cases for data products
- Analyze data and build data products

Interim Chief Executive Officer for the SA Chapter of Starfish Greathearts Foundation Global. The organization supports orphans and vulnerable children across South Africa through early childhood education, nutritional support, and primary healthcare services.

Starfish Greathearts Foundation was started almost 22 years ago to help combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Today, we support orphans and vulnerable children across South Africa with quality early childhood education, nutritional support, and primary healthcare services. I am proud to be a Greatheart!

Data Scientist/ Product Manager for global change decision support tools for South African local government

· Management of stakeholder relationships
· User-centred design for product management including needs assessment and design,
conducting and analysis of usability tests, usage analytics, and user acceptance tests
· Write user specifications and convert them into preliminary wireframes and w

· Consult on Data Storytelling/Data Visualisation projects
· Design and implement static and interactive data visualisations for websites/reports
· Consult on the experimental design and statistical analysis of field trials of various products.
· Statistical analysis and experimental design on an industrial scale
· Preparation of complex professional reports for scientific as well as non-scienti

- Co-hosted professional workshops for academic and industrial scientists
- Won over a skeptical research groups to create and provide statistical and introductory programming informative demonstrations, classes and collated materials to increase ownership of and confidence with data analysis by students
- Manage aspects of day-to-day operations as project supervisor while continuing to conduct re

- Designed a feature selection pipeline and generated a machine learning model to identify unique chemicals from closely related indigenous plants
- Trained educators in conducting specially designed experiments for children to facilitate understanding of the greater work of the research group and why their environment is important to the scientific community
- Rapidly learned and mastered varied

- Secured funding to conduct first medium-term independent research project
- Presented research at professional conferences
- Designed and implemented year long experiments

- Span cultural lines to conduct research
- Organised materials and recruited people to join study