Chukwuebuka Akanno

Enthusiast and committed data analyst with over 4 years of expertise in gathering, processing, and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data into business insights in a variety of industries. Inventive in problem solving and figuring out changes for the best use of organisational data from a variety of sources. Adaptable team player with an ability to work in a cross-functional team, build relationships, and agree with the data management team. Stellar track record of leading top-performing teams to accomplish organisational milestones within defined time in a high quality. In addition, I am competent with tools such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Structured Query Language (SQL), Tableau, Power BI, Python, and R Studio. Astute organiser with excellent communication, decision-making, analytical and presentation skills. 

Data Analyst

Tritek Consulting Limited, United Kingdom, September 2022 – Present 

Role: Extracting, processing, interpreting, and reporting data using Excel, SQL, and Power BI to provide high data quality and real-time insights into the product and sales demand. Building operational reporting in Power BI to find an area of improvement for contractors as well as financial key performance indicator.

Key Achievement:

• Created predictive models using machine learning to determine patterns in customer behaviours and identified seasonal sale trends that enabled targeted products to increase sales by 10%.
• Effectively managing stakeholders' expectations through flexible use of the collaborative initiatives, leading to an average of 95% overall stakeholders' satisfaction across multiple projects.
• Completely visualised organisation’s data to show growth history over the years and hence forecasted growth projections for the coming 10 years in other to aid strategic business decisions.

Data Analyst and Research Engineer

University of Nigeria, Nigeria, July 2019 – August 2022

Role: Utilised statistical methods to analyse data and produce comprehensive reports while delivering visualisation dashboards as well as considering efficiency through proper optimisation. Interfaced with university’s planning team for proper interpretation of data structure for performance evaluation while implementing necessary process and software to improve on the data quality. 

Key Achievement:

• Performed data wrangling operations on three different data sources which produced tidy and quality data and saved about 40% of the time used for analysis. 
• Implemented machine learning for the prediction of energy consumption, which was achieved with an accuracy of 95% through the optimisation process. 
• Communicated and promoted some data findings through technical report writing, journal publications, workshops, meetings, and conferences to stakeholders.
• Successfully improved the efficiency of analysis by 90% through the implementation of new analytical processes as well as software for effective optimisation.

Assistant Research and Data Analyst

University of Nigeria, August 2016 – June 2019

Role: Assisted in the generation of data from the laboratory while guiding projects to meet clients’ timescales, budgets and agreed specifications. Analysed varieties of data using MS excel. Collaborated with data engineers and institutions in building dashboards, offering insights, resolutions, and appropriate recommendations for end-user.

Key Achievement:

• Integrated and assessed data from various sources to build a master dataset, saving 20% of data processing and extraction time. 
• Oversaw and resolved students’ complaint by investigating problems, developing solutions, and ensuring that issues do not reoccur.
• Enhanced my skills on the use of various data analysis tools and software applications, which enabled me to support the completion of 3 key projects within 1 year.

• MSc in Environmental Engineering

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

September 2019- September 2020

(Distinction)

• Mobility programme in Data Science 

University of Valladolid, Spain

January 2019-June 2019

• B.Eng. Civil Engineering

University of Nigeria

September 2009-January 2015

(First Class)