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Work History
Education
Skills
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Anupa Wickramarachchi

Ludvika,Sweden
Anupa Wickramarachchi

Summary

With over seven years of experience in Data Analytics, excels at leading and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Expertise lies in transforming complex business requirements into strategic actions using data analysis and visualizations to communicate effectively with stakeholders. Adept at planning, coordinating, and overseeing multi-disciplinary teams in agile environments to ensure high-quality project outcomes.

Overview

8
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Svepreg AB
Ludvika, Sweden

Freelance Consultant
01.2024 - Current

Job overview

  • Svepreg AB is a startup that revolutionizes timber measurement with efficient, sustainable solutions, helping the forest industry measure and transport timber better, and creating new opportunities.
  • Assisting in sourcing over 5000 images for model training using Python as a tool for data scraping.

Stax Inc
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Consumer Analytics Lead
01.2020 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Managed over 100 data analytics projects in agile environments, and designed suitable analytical methods to derive insights into solving customer problems, product development, and corporate strategy
  • Collaborated with stakeholders and internal teams, to understand client requirements and transform them into project objectives.
  • Managed team talent requirements, handled recruitment, training, and development, and contributed to setting up team KPIs and performance management.

Stax Inc
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Senior Associate
01.2019 - 01.2020

Job overview

  • Decoding stakeholder requests into project objectives.
  • Translating and mapping project objectives into appropriate analytical methods to derive insights into stakeholder problems.
  • Assisting with team competency management, training, and development.
  • Assisting with team recruitment and talent management.
  • Created standards and tools to improve team productivity and high-quality deliveries.
  • Designed data structuring tools using Python which improved team efficiency by 50%.

Stax Inc
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Business Analyst
01.2017 - 01.2019

Job overview

  • Analyzed consumers, business processes, and systems, through statistical modelling and analysis to generate data-driven insights for corporate and investment decisions.
  • Used creative visualizations and dashboards to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders.

Stax Inc
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Junior Statistical Analyst
01.2016 - 01.2017

Job overview

  • Responsible for programming over 40 consumer surveys.
  • Assisting senior analysts with complex statistical modelling and analysis.
  • Performed consumer profiling for cluster analysis.

Education

Dalarna University
Sweden

Master of Science in Business Intelligence
01.2023 - 01.2024

University Overview

Cardiff Metropolitan University
United Kingdom

Master in Business Administration
03.2021 - 01.2023

University Overview

Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

BSc. Industrial Management & Statistics
10.2011 - 08.2015

University Overview

Charted Institute of Personnel Management
Sri Lanka

Certificate in Human Resource Management
09.2012 - 12.2012

University Overview

Skills

  • Communication/Negotiations
  • Cross-team Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Adaptability/Problem Solving
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Modeling & Analysis
  • Data Visualization and Reporting
  • Storytelling and Insight Generation
  • Python/R
  • Power BI
  • SPSS
  • Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
  • Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint

Languages

English (Professional)
Fluent
Svenska (Learning)
Beginner

Affiliations

Affiliations
  • Music/Photography
  • Sustainability
  • Innovation
  • AI

References

References

Ilias Thomas

Senior Lecturer, Dalarna University

Mobile: +46 23-77 82 82

Email: ith@du.se

Jorgen Bond

Business Coach, Dalarna Science Park

Mobile: +46 73-920 03 60

Email: jorgen.bond@dalarnasciencepark.se

Jacob Ode

Business Developer, Dalarna Science Park

Mobile: +46 76-096 15 20

Email: jacob.ode@dalarnasciencepark.se

Timeline

Freelance Consultant
Svepreg AB
01.2024 - Current
Dalarna University
Master of Science in Business Intelligence
01.2023 - 01.2024
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Master in Business Administration
03.2021 - 01.2023
Consumer Analytics Lead
Stax Inc
01.2020 - 01.2023
Senior Associate
Stax Inc
01.2019 - 01.2020
Business Analyst
Stax Inc
01.2017 - 01.2019
Junior Statistical Analyst
Stax Inc
01.2016 - 01.2017
Charted Institute of Personnel Management
Certificate in Human Resource Management
09.2012 - 12.2012
Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
BSc. Industrial Management & Statistics
10.2011 - 08.2015
Anupa Wickramarachchi