Antra Dzērve-Štrāla

Logically and mathematically inclined mind with quick learning and adapting abilities with Microsoft Certification (PL300) for working with Power BI.
My experience spans from leading a small team of analysts, summarizing analytical findings for reports presented to business users, to technical work with a number of BI tools, mainly Power BI + SQL, as well as taking part in educating people about Power BI application.


Experience

Analytics Team Lead

Cabonline Group

· Team lead for Analytics team located in Latvia
· Regular and ad hoc data analysis, analytical research mainly focused on operational data
· Work on existing KPI improvement, tracking and new KPI introduction
· Looker and Looker Studio report creation for analysis and visualizations
· Technical work with BigQuery and LookML
· Learning session preparation and lead for the whole Analytics team

February 2024 - Present

Data Analytics Consultant

Scandic Fusion

· Assistance in data warehouse upkeep, upgrades and adjustments based on business requirements. Work together with the business client to define necessary changes and pain-points.
· Working with insurance data serving as a bridge between the business needs and technical implementation and troubleshooting for different issues
· Work with on-premise and cloud-based data sources via the usage of SQL, Azure Databricks, DB2, AQT and other tools/applications

June 2023 - January 2024

Senior Data Analyst - Analytics process owner

Printful

· The owner of the Analytics process, which includes overseeing the analytical tasks and requests, onboarding new data analysts as well as assigning of tasks for other colleagues in the Analytics process.
· Analytical research, deep-dives in different topics, regular and ad-hoc report preparation
· Technical work with Power BI, SQL and other tools for business report creation
· Data-based assistance for Business Development, Marketing, Product, FP&A and other teams
· Technical learning session organizing and content preparation for data analysts

August 2022 - June 2023

Senior Data Analyst

Printful

· Team's consult for technical Power BI-related question and issue solving
· Work on existing KPI improvement, tracking and new KPI introduction
· Assistance in data preparation for yearly budgeting process
· Regular and ad hoc data analysis, analytical report writing
· Power BI report creation for analysis and visualizations (using MySQL and DAX)
· Data-based forecast creation for products and business-case like scenarios

March 2022 - August 2022

Data Analyst

Printful

· Regular and ad hoc data analysis
· Power BI report creation for analysis and visualisations
· Using MySQL and DAX for data extraction and analysis
· Creating data based forecasts

June 2020 - February 2022

Leading Expert

Central Finance and Contracting Agency

· Organizing evaluation process of a call with large proposal count
· Managing human resources for the evaluation of the specific call
· Organizing seminars and presenting the framework for the specific call to target group
· Dealing with large amount of information in a short amount of time
· Data extraction and analysis from data analysis tool Microstrategy
· Requires methodical attention to details

May 2018 - May 2020

Senior Expert

Central Finance and Contracting Agency

· Dealing with large amount of information in a short amount of time
· Evaluating proposals (containing textual explanation and numerical information) in respect of specific criteria and legal framework
· Occasional data extraction and analysis from data analysis tool Microstrategy
· Requires methodical attention to details

May 2016 - May 2018

Engineer

Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy

· Data analysis using MS Excel and specific data processing software
· Solving research problems with no definite solution to reach a successful result
· Dealing with vast amounts of scientific literature in English

September 2015 - September 2016

Education

ESF project 8.4.1.0/16/I/001 "Improvement of professional competence of employed persons"

Course - Python programming language (80h)
The course covered basics of Python programming language with practical tasks throughout the course as well as final exam - creation of a project on our own and presenting it. The project (web scraper) can be found on my GitHub.
August 2020 - October 2020

Riga Coding School

Web Development course (67h)
The course covered basics of web development needed to start looking into the field of WebDev. The topics taught about were as follows:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Bootstrap
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • PHP
  • Laravel
April 2019 - June 2019

University of Latvia

Master's degree in Physics

Degree in Physics means a strong logical mind and mathematical background. It implies analytical, logical and structured thinking and approach to problems.

2015 - 2017

University of Latvia

Bachelor's degree in Physics

Degree in Physics means a strong mathematical background and implies analytical, logical and structured thinking and approach to problems. Few example mathematical courses that needed to be studied during this degree are Advanced Calculus, Mathematical Statitistics and Probability Theory.

2012 - 2015

Riga State Gymnasium No.1

General secondary education curriculum in Math, Science and Technology

Riga State Gymnasium No.1 is a school oriented at Mathematics which allows one to create a stable base of knowledge in exact fields as well as a chosen specialty. For me the additional study direction was foreign languages which means additional training in English.

2009 - 2012

Additional skills and qualifications

Additional courses
  • Official Microsoft certification for Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300)
  • Power BI basics (Udemy Course)
  • Effective presentation skills
  • Business English (level C1, final score above 95%)
  • Data anaysis tool Microstrategy (course level 1 and 2, by Visma)
  • Basic data analysis course (for refreshing the existing knowledge of qualitative/quantitative data, descriptive statistics and its characteristics - deviations, dispersion etc.)
Other experience
  • From Sept 2023 - work as a lecturer about Power BI in BDA (Baltijas Datoru Akadēmija)
  • Volunteer mentor for Riga Tech Girls, Data and business analytics track (4th season, 5th season)

Interests

One of my hobbies for as long as I can remember has been singing in a choir, so one or two evenings almost every week is reserved for choral music. I enjoy reading fantasy genre books as well as watching the occasional Netflix series or master-minding a session for a Dungeons & Dragons game with friends.