Austin Junior Mnthambala
Data Analyst | Aspiring Data Strategy Governor
Based in Lilongwe
About
I'm an experienced IT professional with a passion for data and analytics. My expertise includes developing efficient strategies and implementing projects at various levels. I believe in the potential of Data Science and Governance and continuously enhance my skills in several areas, including Python programming, big data handling, IT service management, and IT business processes. I value collaboration and communication and strive to establish constructive communication within my team.
Skills
Projects
Experience
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
IT/Marketing Assistant
• Improved workplace productivity via the implementation of IT solutions • Maintained website to optimize data retrieval and storage processes, resulting in a 25% improvement in website performance and user experience. • Facilitated effective stakeholder communication through various channels. • Enhanced data integrity by implementing IT systems to optimize data retrieval and storage processes, ensuring 65% improved database health and performance
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Lead Frontend Engineer
• Designed intuitive UI/UX experiences for high-traffic web applications. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate UX designs into efficient, maintainable React codebase. • Utilized data-driven insights to optimize features and RESTful API usage, resulting in a 25% improvement in platform speed and user engagement metrics. • Utilized creative problem-solving techniques with the team to troubleshoot and resolve complex deployment issues, resulting in improved data integrity and accessibility for key projects • Identified possible data architecture for the kutenga platform (AWS, Google Bigquery)
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Information Technology Intern
• Facilitated efficient information sharing between various departments and stakeholders. • Managed project budgets effectively, ensuring timely completion of deliverables, leading to seamless data maintenance and optimization, and improved database health and performance. • Maintained and optimized the database of universities and colleges, ensuring accurate information availability for impactful insights. • Managed network communication channels to enable seamless collaboration between teams. • Maintained database health and optimized data retrieval processes, resulting in a 20% increase in website performance and user satisfaction. Created compelling content and managed social media platforms to increase engagement with stakeholders.
Sept 2023 - Current
Part-time Data Analyst at IIT Ltd
• Data Collection • Data Analysis • Data Visualization
Education
2016 - 2021
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in ICT at Daeyang University:College of ICT
2012 - 2015
IGCSE at Lilongwe Private School
April 8, 2023
Data Analyst Certification from Udacity
Learned how to analyze data using in-demand Python libraries like NumPy and pandas. I started by going over the basics of the data analysis process, then dived into advanced data wrangling skills to work with messy, complex real-world datasets. Finally, I created a highly customized visualizations using the Matplotlib Python library.
March 18, 2024
Big Data Foundations - Level 2 from IBM
This badge earner understands the big data ecosystem and Hadoop commands and operations to work with big data. The earner also has foundational knowledge of Spark and its operations including RDDs, DataFrames, and the various libraries associated with the Spark Core (MLlib, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, GraphX).