Thilini Hetti Arachchige Email & Phone Number

Western Australia, Australia

Western Australia, Australia

Werribee, Victoria, Australia

🔹Collecting, testing and analyzing samples of barramundi larvae in different stages and other factors affecting production 🔹Involving for aquaculture operations (nursery and grow out facility) as a technician to resolve the problems based on quality and yield 🔹Identify and report common diseases in fish, and take the necessary steps to prevent them from occurring in RAS farming.🔹Worked in several departments from nursery to grow-out, and obtaining hands-on experience in entire process.🔹Monitored and managed the feed delivery based on commercial growth of fish by improving FCR🔹Evaluated growth of fish and graded fish using standard criteria while recommending revisions for procedures based on findings.🔹Organized and managed daily tasks using spreadsheets and schedules to ensure the timely delivery of targets

Bibra Lake Wa Australia

Baththulu Oya, Sri Lanka

🔹 Led the end-to-end operations of the disease diagnosis laboratory including development and maintenance of all accreditation and quality management systems.🔹 Collected, tested and analysed data samples of cultured species in different stages including other factors affecting production such as animal diseases, feed and water and introduced process changes, improving sustainability standards.🔹 Conducted comprehensive research of new industry developments, trends and behaviours whilst coaching farm managers on evidence-based techniques, improving the production quality by 5%.🔹 Developed new policies, strategies and codes of practice on Aquaculture monitoring processes and techniques to solve issues which led to an 8% increase in production efficiency.🔹 Developed training strategy and conducted various training programs to aquaculture farmers, aquatic disease diagnosing laboratories (Polymerase Chain Reaction Lab), enhancing knowledge of diseases, control of Algae, live feeds, water quality improvement, aquatic species culture and feeding programs.

Chilaw

🔹 Promoted to quality assurance manager with less than 2 years to lead a team of 10+ quality control biologists in the organisation.🔹 Conducted comprehensive operational audits, environmental impact assessments (EIA) whilst introducing new processes and implementing an accreditation system for laboratory and other operations, enhancing credibility and quality standards.🔹 Managed end-to-end project management tasks from planning, feasibility study, requirements gathering, proposal development, technical specification to development, testing and delivery for laboratory accreditation system.🔹 Implemented HACCP for hatchery and farm operations which resulted in increasing safety ratings, quality standards and overall customer satisfaction scores.

Chilaw

🔹 Collected, tested and analysed data samples of cultured species in farms, hatcheries and water whilst developing proposals and presentations to the senior leadership team to showcase findings and recommendations.🔹 Conducted comprehensive research for aquaculture operational and infrastructure development initiatives and maintained the database records accurately.🔹 Reviewed and analysed system operations and water quality maintenance activities and implemented new techniques, improving feed conversion ratio by 10% for shrimp production.🔹 Developed data-driven reports monitoring the stocking density, production rate which helped to implement proactive measures improving yield/hectare by 3%.

Master Of Science (Msc), Sustainable Aquaculture

Research project (100 credits) – Detection of Photorhabdus insect-related toxins A and B (PirA and PirB) in prawns in Western Australia: 💡.

Graduate Certificate In Strategic Procurement, Procurement

Special In Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Aquatic Resources & Technology

Course work -2009,2010, 2011,2012 💡 Completed an industrial training at the National Aquaculture Development Authority of Sri Lanka –.