Samuel Cossette
Graduate Policy Project Assistant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSamuel Cossette is a policy-minded project officer and former Shell Recharge implementation lead with 12 years of experience driving customer-focused programs and people-centered change across energy and public sectors. He has led cross-functional projects that cut fraud by 98%, piloted grid-balancing incentives for EV drivers, and represented 600+ colleagues as chair of a works council negotiating major policy and remuneration changes. Comfortable with data, Samuel built and maintained operational dashboards, led root-cause analyses to improve CX, and autonomously constructed a global subsea cable database during graduate research. Now at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada while completing an MPPGA at UBC, he blends technical curiosity from cognitive psychology and applied research with practical stakeholder negotiation skills. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic connector who translates complex technical and policy problems into actionable, equitable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School studies, High School studies at Collège Notre-Dame de Rivière-du-LoupThe University of MelbourneBachelor's degree, Honours Arts and Science - Cognitive Science & Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Honours Arts and Science - Cognitive Science & Psychology at McGill UniversityMSc Psychology - Applied Cognitive Psychology, MSc Psychology - Applied Cognitive Psychology at Leiden UniversityMaster of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA), Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) at The University of British ColumbiaHealth Sciences, Health Sciences at International Baccalaureate
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (37)
edi10
x1210
iban9
validation9
parser9
edifact9
grammar8
census-data8
parsing8
data-journalism8
ruby7
census7
api7
ocr6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samueltc/ABBYY
Sep 2013 - Mar 2020
Simple Python wrapper for ABBYY Cloud OCR
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 7 months
python-wrapperpythonpython3ocr
adventice/census
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
2016 Canadian Census Data Wrangling
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
wranglingcensuscanadiandata-wranglingcensus-data
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