Charith Wijewardena Email & Phone Number

Macquarie Park, New South Wales, Australia

• Led data analysis and front-end reporting within Douglass for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. Since inheriting the project, I introduced the use of information graphics, automation and statistical programming tools to empower data-driven decision making.• Led the programming and modelling for an R&D project to explore the scope of artificial intelligence within the company in collaboration with medical staff. One of our highlights is an AI model which, if implemented, will alert thousands of patients across NSW to signs of extreme muscle damage based on routine liver function tests.• Built and maintained Power BI reports to improve workflow efficiency across departments. With some creativity, I was able to construct troubleshooting tools using bookmarking and complex DAX formulas that in one instance reduced the duration of a troubleshooting process from a few hours to a few minutes.

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

• Acted as first point of support in a high-intensity environment for upto 5 telephone crisis supporters simultaneously, providing guidance on how to manage challenging calls including those with imminent safety concerns.• Was responsible for ascertaining the risk to safety in calls, and initiating emergency intervention in situations involving imminent suicide etc.• Provided crisis supporters with call coaching, mentoring and guidance on operational procedures.

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

• Supported people in crisis and at risk of suicide.• Trained in issues relating to mental health, domestic violence, child protection etc.

• Managed the production of a pilot reverse-osmosis water treatment plant to test CMS's real-time membrane surveillance technology.• Conducted experimental labwork.• Developed code to automate data transfer between CMS’s on-site hardware and cloud-based database.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Built an electricity price prediction model using Power BI that Energetics could use to help clients optimise their energy investments.• Acquired comprehensive knowledge of MS Excel, MS PowerQuery, VBA, Power BI and DAX.• Gained insight into the energy sector including the workings of the AEMO and major electricity generators in the market.

• Co-founded a food-delivery startup which won the $2K grand prize at the UNSW Startup Games 2015.• Learnt about the different aspects of founding and developing a startup and running a small-scale business. • Handled the logistics of the business which included ensuring food orders were delivered in the shortest possible time, as well as hiring and supervising the 'runners' who delivered the orders.

• Tutored a 3rd year course in my 4th year of undergrad that taught students to mathematically model dynamical systems.• Taught students how to use MATLAB to solve differential equations and other engineering-related problems.

• Was awarded a Taste of Research scholarship for high academic merit. My project was to investigate targeted therapeutics for cancer treatment using Cerium oxide nanoparticles.• Developed proficiency in experimental techniques such as FTIR, Western Blot, MTS Assay, Cell Migration Assay, Fluorescence Microscopy, Immunocytochemistry, as well as working in a cell culture laboratory and maintaining a cell line.• Was one of two finalists chosen from my cohort to present our research findings at the Faculty of Engineering Poster Presentation Showcase.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Chemical, Hons.), Bachelor Of Science (Physics), 1St Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Society, Underwater Club, Outdoors Club• Ranked in the top 5% of my cohort.

Cima Certificate In Business Accounting

Developed foundational skills in areas of management accounting, financial accounting, commercial law and economics.