About Me
Data Scientist familiar with gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Highly organized, m…
Data Scientist familiar with gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Highly organized, motivated and diligent with significant background in research.
Experience
Research Assistant
Collaborated with a senior researcher to successfully publish a paper titled "Lessons from Sri Lanka: Building Robust Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Capabilities."
Currently conducting research on mitigating climate crimes through law enforcement, collaborating with a senior researcher on various projects.
Constructed comprehensive media databases for research projects, ensuring ethical sourcing and compliance with licensing requirements.
Developed surveys and utilized data wrangling techniques with R to generate accurate and easily manageable research data for the team.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Collaborated with a senior researcher to successfully publish a paper titled 'Lessons from Sri Lanka: Building Robust Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Capabilities.'
Currently conducting research on mitigating climate crimes through law enforcement, collaborating with a senior researcher on various projects.
Constructed comprehensive media databases for research projects, ensuring ethical sourcing and compliance with licensing requirements.
Developed surveys and utilized data wrangling techniques with R to generate accurate and easily manageable research data for the team.
Research Intern
Recorded responses for primary research through surveys of a number of members of the public, informing the research of the senior economist.
Reduced the data collection times by 10%, and the report creation times by 25%, by improving the data templates, and by employing data cleansing techniques to assist in the building of reports.
Read, reviewed, and summarized 30 papers on Sri Lankan economic conditions, allowing senior economists to focus their time on compiling data from the papers into their research.
Data Analyst Intern
Reduced the time required to send the company’s weekly emails by a factor of 3 and increased the reliability of the emailing solution by creating templates, reducing the time required by employees to send the emails, and reducing the number of people required to complete the task.
Developed a strategy to implement SAP Analytics Cloud to build cashflow forecasts by building reports on the cloud, cutting report building times in half.
Created PowerApps and PowerAutomate workflows for internal systems that reduced manual processes by 20%.
Business Intelligence Analyst Intern
Implemented QlikView and QlikSense for the Finance Department, which provided the department with the ability to analyze financial metrics on a quarterly basis.
Restructured data to clean up the data and standardize the file format across financials being inputted into the Qlik solution.
Identified potential for predictive applications and conducted exploratory analysis using QlikView & Facebook Prophet which improves process time by 40%.
RESEARCH INTERN
Recorded responses for primary research through surveys of a number of members of the public, informing the research of the senior economist
Reduced the data collection times by 10%, and the report creation times by 25%, by improving the data templates, and by employing data cleansing techniques to assist in the building of reports
Read, reviewed, and summarized 30 papers on Sri Lankan economic conditions, allowing senior economists to focus their time on compiling data from the papers into their research.
DATA ANALYST INTERN
Reduced the time required to send the company’s weekly emails by a factor of 3 and increased the reliability of the emailing solution by creating templates, reducing the time required by employees to send the emails, and reducing the number of people required to complete the task.
Developed a strategy to implement SAP Analytics Cloud to build cashflow forecasts by building reports on the cloud, cutting report building times in half.
Created PowerApps and PowerAutomate workflows for internal systems that reduced manual processes by 20%.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYST INTERN
Implemented QlikView and QlikSense for the Finance Department, which provided the department with the ability to analyze financial metrics on a quarterly basis
Restructured data to clean up the data and standardize the file format across financials being inputted into the Qlik solution. This process reduced the variance in data points and improved the accuracy of the data by 90%.
Identified potential for predictive applications and conducted exploratory analysis using QlikView & Facebook Prophet which improves process time by 40%