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ID : 1275

Education level : Master's degree

Work experience level : Expert- (more than year 7)

Work experience in total : Years

Job type : Online

Job time : Maandelijks

Last date of registration :

2022-12-20

I'm a Business Intelligence & Data Analytics professional who has 8+ years of experience. Power BI enthusiastic, public speaker and passionate for everything which transforms data into action! Working at Wiley in Sri Lanka as a Senior Data Analyst. What do I like the most? Sharing my thoughts, experience, best-practices and enthusiasm about Microsoft and other data platforms with others. I mostly do this in public speaking at user groups, conferences, customer presentations and end-user
training.

Senior Data Analyst - Wiley Global Technologies - (April 2021 - Present)

Plan and manage BI project deliveries
Design and Develop data models and reports using Microsoft Power BI

Assistant Manager - Business Intelligence & Analytics - Health Recon Connect LLC (November 2019 - April 2021)

As assistant manager drives the communication between management and other stake holders
Perform lead role in the BI and Analytics team with 5 members
Consult clients and team members are provide technical solutions
Capture the business requirements and writing to User-stories in JIRA
Follow the Agile practices
Ensure the productivity and quality of the team deliveries
Involve to Pre-sale activities and communicate with stake holders
Involving performance review activities

Senior Engineer - BI and Analytics - Ayra Analytics - (September 2019 - October 2019)

Plan and manage BI project deliveries
Perform Tech Lead role, consult team members, ensure the productivity and quality of the team deliveries
Conducting daily scrum meetings and follow-up the agile team
Capture the requirements and writing to User stories in JIRA
Design and Develop ETL solutions for integrating and load data from different sources like MS SQL Server, MySQL, CSV, Excel, PostgreSQL, DB2
Implementing Data Warehouse solutions
Design and Develop data models using Microsoft Power BI and SSAS Tabular
Mentor junior team members and provide technical solutions

Engineer - BI and Analytics - Ayra Analytics - (October 2017 - August 2019)

Plan and manage BI project deliveries
Perform Tech Lead role, consult team members, ensure the productivity and quality of the team deliveries
Conducting daily scrum meetings and follow-up the agile team
Capture the requirements and writing to User stories in JIRA
Design and Develop ETL solutions for integrating and load data from different sources like MS SQL Server, MySQL, CSV, Excel, PostgreSQL, DB2
Implementing Data Warehouse solutions
Design and Develop data models using Microsoft Power BI and SSAS Tabular
Mentor junior team members and provide technical solutions

Associate Software Engineer - David Pieris Technologies Pvt Ltd - (January 2017 - September 2017)

Evaluate Microsoft Power BI tool and demonstrate to the IT team
Gather requirements and create SRS documents
Implement PL/SQL scripts for automate E-mail notification module
Prepare User Manual for Accounting Module

Application Support Assistant - Goodhope Asia Holdings Ltd - January 2014 - December 2016)

Understand the information requirements at different levels to support the key business drivers from an enterprise standpoint and be a support resource in implementing and roll-out of Business Intelligence systems.
Administrating all data centre functionalities including application software and operating systems.
Database designing and data modeling and Implementation.
Consult with client groups to assess user needs and understand the business processes, convert user requirements into technical solutions.

Business Intelligence
Data Analysis
Tableau
Azure SQL Database
Data warehousing
MySQL
SSIS
Snowflake
Azure Data Factory
Power BI
Data Integration
DAX
Dimensional Modelling
Informatica
Azure Machine Learning Studio
OBIEE
Power Query
SQL Server
SSAS
Tabular
JIRA
Google Data Studio

Certifications
- PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (Reading)
- Introduction to Tableau - DataCamp
- Introduction to Data Science in Python - DataCamp
- MCP - 70-767- Implementing a Data Warehouse using SQL
- MCP - 70-461 - Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014
- Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist
Tech Community Speaker
- Frequently speaking at Global Data Communities, conducting technical sessions and recently conducted session in Power BI Summit 2022. And did Tableau training for the students at the University of Colombo for more than 190+ students. The objective was in the training to teach them how to use the Tableau tool to analyse and visualize data. Some of the session links given below.
Blogging
- Writing blog posts based on day-to-day experience on products & technologies and share with the community. https://samudrabandaranayake.wordpress.com/
Passion for Technology
- Have a great passion for technology, especially in data analytics and Microsoft technology stack
Community Meetup Talks
- Getting Started with Real-time streaming analytics in Power BI Power BI Summit (March 2022)
- Self Service Data Preparation Using Tableau (May 2021)
- Self Service Data Preparation Using Tableau Prep (Jan 2021)
- New Stars of Data (Aug 2020)
- Wrangling Dataflows in Azure Data Factory (Dec 2019)
- Data Preparation and Profiling (Jan 2019)
- BIML: ETL to the next level (Mar 2018)

Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, Tableau, Azure SQL Database, Data warehousing, MySQL, SSIS, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Data Integration, DAX, Dimensional Modelling, Informatica, Azure Machine Learning Studio, OBIEE, Power Query, SQL Server, SSAS, Tabular, JIRA, Google Data Studio