Endeavour Hills, Victoria, Australia
A Data Analyst/Engineer/Biomedical scientist with over 4 years of experience in Australian Banking sector and 10-year experience in biomedical research. Strong record in data analytics and solution design in data warehousing environments. Have extensive experience in PL/SQL, SQL, Unix scripting and Oracle database management. In my previous role I worked at a non-for-profit institute where I performed research focusing on finding underlying mechanisms and searching for potential treatments of the atherosclerosis and HIV associated neurocognitive disorder. My research involved leading and participating in multiple collaborative projects and has resulted in multiple publications in respected international journals. I have a strong technological knowledge that I happily shares with my colleagues and have implemented a number of new biochemical/biomolecular and statistical methods into the workplace.
Incident management including guiding critical incident recovery Management of multiple projects involving hardware migration, new dataflow optimisation etc. Impact assessment Solution design Team management for day to day activities
Long term placement in one of Australia's largest financial institutes Data analysis/extraction Data lineage and quality analysis ORACLE Database maintenance Code uplift and data extraction
This internship was a part of Master of Analytics Course and involved working with a team of other students and a representative from Reesby extract data from company sources using NLP. This data was used to create a knowledge graph and a recommender system based on that graph to find similar nodes.
The Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis laboratory focuses research on cholesterol metabolism, in particular studying and developing therapeutics to enhance cholesterol removal from vessel walls. Another point of interest for the laboratory is the effect of HIV on cholesterol metabolism and its contribution to HIV associated co-morbidities. During my employment I oversaw multiple minor projects and two large projects: • ApoAI mimetic peptides as potential treatment for atherosclerosis • Novel pathogenic mechanisms of HIV-associated fatigue and neurocognitive disorder Both projects have resulted in multiple first author papers. For the former project I have been awarded a travel grant to work at National Institutes of Health in USA to further our previous collaborative efforts and to establish other collaborative projects. My duties on these projects included researching, designing, planning and conducting the experiments; gathering, analysing and presenting data to peers, managing/coordinating the work of junior staff and assisting the Lab head in procuring funding by applying for multiple grants. My other duties involved introducing new of biotechnology methods to the laboratory and assisting other stuff with their use. Supervising and mentoring students and dealing with various government bodies and ethics boards to obtain permissions for experimental procedures. Further I was in charge of all of the in vivo studies in the lab and microscopic image analysis. The latter involved designing algorithms to extract relevant data, automating data extraction through the use of macros and in later years streamlining statistical analysis of that data In addition to my laboratory duties, I was a safety representative working with the OH&S committee to establish a safe working environment at the institute and in the last year of employment I have volunteered to be a fire warden.
Supported by the Miller grant I visited NIH to learn several novel in vivo surgical techniques. Furthermore, I also worked on establishing new collaborative study across NIH and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in area of ApoAI mimetic peptides and their effect on atherosclerosis
Vascular Biology and Atherosclerosis laboratory focuses on studying the interplay between immunological cells and proinflammatory molecules and their effect on vasculature. Of particular interest are the interactions between vasculature and lymphocytes in context of atherosclerosis. In this role, I was leading two projects in collaboration with an industry partner: • Contribution of MIF to atherosclerotic lesion progression from immune and vascular sources • The effect of MIF on proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells and was assisting with a number of other projects including studying the role of IL-4 in cardiac fibrosis, which resulted in journal publication. My other duties included: Supervising and mentoring honours student to design and complete their project. Preparing and presenting results at conferences as well as assisting in grant writing. As part of my commitment to OH&S I have volunteered to be the fire warden for my floor during my employment.