James (Manh Ha) Le

Sydney, NSW Australia · 0468955869 · manhha92@gmail.com

Data professional with innovative and data-driven mindset, who can initiate, own and implement an end-to-end data project from architecture, ingestion, transformation, visualisation to actionable insights.

Data practitioner who stays in the frontline of technology innovation and is well-equipped with business acumen, leadership and interpersonal skills.


Experience

NSW Government - Department of Customer Service

A/Senior Data Analyst & Data Analyst

Ongoing position after NSW Grad Program. Working for ICT/Digital Sourcing - Digital NSW

July 2022 - Current

NSW Government - Department of Customer Service

Graduate - Digital

2022 NSW Government Graduate Program - Finished 1st rotation

February 2022 - July 2022

University of Wollongong (UOW) – Australia

Researcher / PhD Candidate

Computational chemistry. Reaction simulation using Python, C++ on NCI's Gadi (Australian National University supercomputer)

July 2015 - October 2020

Portfolio

Portfolio can be provided upon request, including:

  • - Initiatives
  • - Data architecture
  • - Data visualisation
  • - Data transformation
  • - Data integration
  • - Platform monitoring
  • - Automation
  • - App development

Skills

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NSW Government Capabilities

Focus capabilities

Capabilities group/sets Capability name Behavioural indicators Level James' status
Personal Attributes Manage Self - Act as a professional role model for colleagues, set high personal goals and take pride in their achievement
- Actively seek, reflect and act on feedback on own performance
- Translate negative feedback into an opportunity to improve
- Demonstrate a strong interest in new knowledge and emerging practices relevant to the organisation
- Take the initiative and act in a decisive way
Advanced - Keep strong motivation in learning, expand domain knowledge into diverse fields such as data, procurement, government, finance
- Proactive in seeking feedback from teammate and manager to improve work delivery as well as maintain high performance
Relationships Communicate Effectively - Tailor communication to diverse audiences
- Clearly explain complex concepts and arguments to individuals and groups
- Create opportunities for others to be heard, listen attentively and encourage them to express their views
- Share information across teams and units to enable informed decision making
- Write fluently in plain English and in a range of styles and formats
- Use contemporary communication channels to share information, engage and interact with diverse audiences
Adept - Present data insight to various internal and external stakeholders such as teammate, Category Management team, other teams in DCS as well as different agencies and clusters
- Keep awareness of what stakeholder want to know and tailor delivery method from high level to specific detail into data
Relationships Commit to Customer Service - Take responsibility for delivering high-quality customer-focused services
- Design processes and policies based on the customer’s point of view and needs
- Understand and measure what is important to customers
- Use data and information to monitor and improve customer service delivery
- Find opportunities to cooperate with internal and external stakeholders to improve outcomes for customers
- Maintain relationships with key customers in area of expertise
- Connect and collaborate with relevant customers within the community
Adept - Know the customers in the context of Whole of Government Arrangements of ICT procurement, which are NSW agencies and ICT suppliers in different categories such as telecommunications, hardware, software, cloud, services
- Create and maintain good procurement environment for agencies and suppliers via meetings and communication
Relationships Work Collaboratively - Encourage a culture that recognises the value of collaboration
- Build cooperation and overcome barriers to information sharing and communication across teams and units
- Share lessons learned across teams and units
- Identify opportunities to leverage the strengths of others to solve issues and develop better processes and approaches to work
- Actively use collaboration tools, including digital technologies, to engage diverse audiences in solving problems and improving services
Adept - Build strong relationship with teammate based on communication and work delivery, be across all team tasks to identify any opportunities to support team goals
- Use different types of technologies to leverage collaboration among team members such as Teams, Sharepoint
Results Deliver Results - Use own and others’ expertise to achieve outcomes, and take responsibility for delivering intended outcomes
- Make sure staff understand expected goals and acknowledge staff success in achieving these
- Identify resource needs and ensure goals are achieved within set budgets and deadlines
- Use business data to evaluate outcomes and inform continuous improvement
- Identify priorities that need to change and ensure the allocation of resources meets new business needs
- Ensure that the financial implications of changed priorities are explicit and budgeted for
Adept - Maintain high performance in work delivery, set priority based on understanding the scope, effect and importance of work, aim for 3-5 days tasks turn around
- Use data-driven decisions as the primary tool for delivering high quality tasks
Results Think and Solve Problems - Research and apply critical thinking techniques in analysing information, identify interrelationships and make recommendations based on relevant evidence
- Anticipate, identify and address issues and potential problems that may have an impact on organisational objectives and the user experience
- Apply creative-thinking techniques to generate new ideas and options to address issues and improve the user experience
- Seek contributions and ideas from people with diverse backgrounds and experience
- Participate in and contribute to team or unit initiatives to resolve common issues or barriers to effectiveness
- Identify and share business process improvements to enhance effectiveness
Advanced - Use strong analytical skill and technology literacy to analyse, interpret, transform the problem and find the best solution
- Continuously train analytical mindset to identify problem and suggest solution for current business processes and future visions of the team
Business Enablers Technology - Identify opportunities to use a broad range of technologies to collaborate
- Monitor compliance with cybersecurity and the use of technology policies
- Identify ways to maximise the value of available technology to achieve business strategies and outcomes
- Monitor compliance with the organisation’s records, information and knowledge management requirements
Advanced - Keep high motivation in exploring the latest technologies which can support the bottleneck of business processes, keep looking into current resources to identify useful tools and knowledge
- Organise works using data mindset and the support of technologies
- Attend different trainings in different fields to broaden knowledge horizon in using technology
People Management Foundational - In development

Education

Professional Education

Microsoft DP-600 - Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (May 2025)

Meta Database Engineer Professional Certificate (Jan 2025 - Apr 2025)

Stanford Online - Databases series (EdX) (Sep 2024 - Dec 2024): Relational Databases and SQL , Advanced Topics in SQL , OLAP and Recursion , Modeling and Theory , Semistructured Data

Microsoft DP-203T00 - Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (Jun 2024)

Microsoft DP-300T00 - Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions (Mar 2024)

Microsoft PL-300T00 - Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (May 2023)

Microsoft Power Up Program – Power Platform (Aug 2023 - Oct 2023)

Business Analyst to Data Analyst (Jun 2022)

Finance for Non-Financial Professionals Journey (May 2022)

Google Data Analytics Specialization Professional Certificate (May 2021 - Jul 2021)

May 2021 - Current

University of Wollongong (UOW) – Australia

Doctor of Philosophy - Material and Manufacturing Engineering. PhD thesis special commendations.

July 2015 - October 2020

Others & Reference

  • My data journey & projects as a Data Analyst, please click here
  • My data journey & projects before NSW Graduate Program, please click here
  • Excellent references will be provided upon request