Piyumini Wijenayake Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Australia

Providing leadership and hands-on analytics support for the Analytics portfolio of the GrokLearning global platform.• Responsible for cross portfolio planning and coordination (testimonials available on LinkedIn)• Coaching & mentoring for the analytics team (testimonials available on LinkedIn)• Analytics strategy planning, OKRs, insights for sales & marketing (PowerBI, SQL, PostgreSQL, Python, AWS)• Building & maintaining analytics dashboards and analytics functions (Python, PowerBI, SQL, Excel, ETL)• Planning and executing analytics projects, project ideation• Providing analytics support for product lines (Big data, NLP, ML, Python, Pandas, SQL, PowerBI, text mining, Excel, web scraping, ETL)• Churn analytics, product analytics, customer analytics (Python, PowerBI, PostgreSQL, ETL, Github)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Performed the role of Senior Consultant for data analytics projects of PwC’s large corporate clients (Subject to Legal Professional Privilege). • Held responsibilities in all aspects of the project life cycle (project planning, engaging with multiple stakeholders from multiple organizations, requirements gathering, data analytics, building client dashboards, quality assurance, testing, review and documentation - SQL, PostgreSQL, PowerBI, Python, Pandas, T-SQL, Redshift, Microsoft SQL server, Alteryx, Github).• Worked on multiple projects for multiple large Australian corporations (Python, PowerBI, SQL, Redshift, Microsoft SQL server, Alteryx).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles: Subject coordinator, Subject assessor, moderator and LecturerConducted lectures, tutorials, lab classes and collaborative workshops for the following courses and obtained exceptional student feedback ratings.Master of Data Science program:Data Mining (CSE5DMI)Machine Learning (CSE5ML)Master of Business Analytics program:Principles of Business Analytics (BUS5PB)Data Warehouse Concepts & Design (CSE5DWD) Visual Analytics (BUS5VA)Bachelors courses:Computational Intelligence for Data Analytics(CSE3CI) Economics of Innovation (ECO3EIN)Disruption in Business (BUS1DIB)Evaluate & Negotiate (BUS2ENS)Employment Relations (MGT2EMR)Advertising and sales Promotion (MKT3ADV)Big Ideas in Business (BUS1BIB) –Academic and Professional skills developmen

Melbourne, Australia

Conducted an AI & advanced analytics research project for the La Trobe Business Intelligence unit resulting in the development of AI & analytics solutions based on machine learning and big data.Project outcomes:• Designed and implemented a novel analytics solution that enables contemporary organizations to monitor their brand image (customer perception) in near real time, benchmark against competitors and provide insights to improve their products, focus areas and business processes using social media data such as Whirlpool forums (big data analytics, data modelling, deep learning, sentiment analysis, Python, R, ML, NLP, Pandas, Matplotlib, text mining, feature engineering, TensorFlow, Keras, SciPy, SciKit-Learn, deep learning, neural networks, customer jopurney modelling, brand personality, digital storytelling, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Tableau, Excel, SAP EW, data lakes, Java, PyTorch, SAP Lumira, Power BI, MySQL, Oracle, marketing analytics, cognitive computing).• Developed a novel technique for an organization to capture and monitor key digital stakeholders in social media using deep learning and unstructured text data sources (big data analytics, social media analytics, Python, word embedding, deep learning, online social roles, machine learning, NLP, Pandas, Matplotlib, text mining, feature engineering, TensorFlow, Keras, SciPy, SciKit-Learn, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Tableau, Excel, SAP EW, data lakes, Java, PyTorch, SAP Lumira, Power BI, MySQL, Oracle).• Designed a holistic model of a digital stakeholder for an organization to understand and serve customers proactively.Awards: Three Minute Thesis(3MT): First Place Award: La Trobe Business School (Two consecutive years : 2018 and 2019)

Melbourne, Australia

Provided personal coaching for professionals and leaders.Testimonials available on LinkedIn

Sri Lanka

Conducted lectures, tutorials and lab sessions for undergraduates in Computer Science and Software Engineering.Contributed in developing course modules, working as module leader, supervising IT projects and final year research projects.

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

Phd In Business Analytics, Advanced Analytics And Cognition

Activities and Societies: Graduate Research Student Representative for the La Trobe Business School (2017-2018)Topic: Leveraging Social.

B.Sc. Special Degree In Computer Science(Honours), Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Captain- University of Peradeniya women's Tennis Team (2006). Sports Council Committee Member - University.

Diploma, Drama & Theatre, Theatre-In-Education

Activities and Societies: Performed the lead role of ‘Desdemona’ on public stage in a complete production of William Shakespeare’s Othello.