Victor Johansson

Victor Johansson

Senior Analytics Consultant, Yellow Elk AB

Profile

Senior analytics consultant at Yellow Elk. Before that, leading the Swedish Data Analyst Chapter at Volvo Group. Based in Gothenburg. Educational background covering economics, statistics and software engineering. Work experience as data analyst and BI developer (back-end and front-end) within different industries such as real-estate, tourism/hospitality and retail. Driven and motivated by creating business insights and problem solving.

Work experience

Senior consultant at Yellow Elk

jan 2024 - [now]

Senior analytics and BI consultant. Offering services in data engineering, back-end BI development, front-end BI development and advice/strategies around data-driven transformation. Based in Gothenburg.

Chapter Lead Data Analyst Sweden at Volvo Group

aug 2022 - jan 2024

Leading the group of Data Analysts in Sweden. Line manager role (~15 employees), responsible for the Swedish branch of DAs. Upskilling, trainings, recruitment, development of ways of working etc. Based in Arendal, Gothenburg.

Business Intelligence Specialist at Atea

aug 2021 - aug 2022

Business Intelligence consultant. Back-end and front-end, mainly using the Microsoft BI suite. Based in Mölndal.

Senior consultant at CGI/Acando

aug 2019 - aug 2021

Business Intelligence consultant. Back-end and front-end (mostly SQL Server, SSAS and Power BI). Based in Gothenburg.

Self-employed consultant at VIXE

aug 2018 - jul 2019

Self-employed consultant with focus on data analysis, web statistics and BI.

Analyst at West Sweden Tourism Board

aug 2015 - jul 2018

Responisble for tourism and hospitality analysis at Turistrådet Västsverige (West Sweden Tourism Board). Evaluations and reports regarding the tourism industry as a whole, as well as specific actions taken by the West Sweden Tourism Board to promote tourism (such as marketing campaigns and business development actions).

Market analyst at Boplats Göteborg

aug 2012 - jul 2015

Analyzing the regional (Gothenburg and surrounding areas) market for rental housing contracts. Communication (oral presenations and written reports) of the results to different stakeholders such as landlord companies, local municipalities and the public. Frequent use of statistical methods, data mining and report compilation.

Key skills

  • Power BI
  • Excel
  • T-SQL
  • DAX
  • Stata
  • Data Visualization
  • Google Analytics
  • OOP

Educational background

Mid Sweden University

Courses in software engineering (2018-2019, 60 credits (SWE))

Courses in object-oriented programming (C++, Java), data modelling and networking.

School of Business, Economics and Law (University of Gothenburg)

PhD level courses (2014, 15 credits (SWE))

Courses at PhD level, such as advanced microeconomic theory and game theory.

School of Business, Economics and Law (University of Gothenburg)

MSc in Economics (2007-2012, 300 credits (SWE))

Five years of studies resulting in a MSc with a major in industrial organization.

Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid

Various courses (2009, 30 credits (SWE))

Courses on different topics related to business and economics.

Licenses and Certifications

MCSA: SQL Database Development

Certified 2020-09. SQL Server 2016.

Microsoft Certified Professional. Based on exams 70-761 (Quering Data with T-SQL) and 70-762 (Developing SQL Databases).

Databricks: Data Analyst

Certified 2023-05.

Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate. Based on official Data Analyst Learning Plan from Databricks Academy.