Rikin Patel
Email - ***************@*****.*** Number - 732-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• Highly motivated Power BI developer witharound 6 years of IT experience having multiple skill set and extensive working experience in data warehousing and Business.
• Intelligence Technologies with expertise in SQL Server development, MSBI stack (TSQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), Azure, Power BI for building, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft - managed data centers.
• Experience in writing TSQL (DDL, DML AND DCL), developing/creating new database objects such as tables, views, indexes, complex stored procedures, function (UDF), cursors, and triggers, locking issues, BCP, common table expressions (CTEs).
• Experienced in client requirement analysis, physical, logical design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, and maintenance of business applications using SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS.
• Expert in generating on-demand and scheduled reports for business analysis or management decision using SQL Servers Reporting Services (SSRS), Tableau and POWER BI.
• Periodic reporting is done on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, which helps the client.
• Experienced in client requirement analysis, physical, logical design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, support, and maintenance of business applications using SQL Server 2014/2012/2008/2005, SSIS and SSRS2005/2008/2012/2014/2016.
• Expert on maintaining and managing Tableau and POWER BI-driven reports and dashboards.
• Developed the Canvas application in Power Apps to automate the manual data entry application.
• Responsible for creating Power BI reports and deploying it to Power BI Services.
• Responsible for building reports in Power BI from the Scratch. Expert database engineer, NoSQL and relational data modelling using Microsoft SQL Server.
• Extensive knowledge of data warehouse methodologies.
• Strong ability to analyze user requirements, Business Requirement Specifications.
• Hands on Experience in optimizing the queries by creating various clustered, non-clustered indexes and indexed views.
Extensive knowledge in Tuning T-SQL queries to improve the database performance.
• Performed data migration using tools like Data import/export and BCP between different heterogeneous systems and SQL Server.
• Designed and developed a new ETL/SSIS package that loads data from OLTP into our existing Data Warehouse based on technical specifications and business requirements.
• Involved in creating Jobs, SQL Mail Agent, Alerts and Scheduled DTS/SSIS Packages.
• Adept in creating Ad-hoc, Crosstab, Drill-down and Sub-Report using RDL in SSRS.
• Experienced in creating Report Models, generating Reports for business analysis and management purposes using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). WORK HISTORY
Power BI Developer, 03/2021 - Current
Centene Corporation – Remote NJ
• Designed, developed, and tested various Power BI and Tableau visualizations for dashboard and ad- hoc reporting solutions by connecting from different data sources and databases.
• Experience in creating Power BI reports using PL/SQL server and Oracle Databases
• Wrote T-SQL (DDL and DML) queries, stored procedures and used them to build packages and handled slowly changing dimensions to maintain the history of the data.
• Used DAX functions to create measure and calculated fields to analyze data for logical visualization and used Power Queries to transform the data.
• Expertise in generating reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2014/ 2005
• Primarily involved in Data Migration using SQL, SQL Azure, Azure storage, and Azure Data Factory, SSIS, PowerShell
• Superior involvement in developing reports and dashboards from multiple data sources such as on- premises and cloud using Power BI desktop.
• Build GSHS Reports in Power BI from scratch.
• Developed forecasting App using Power Apps and employed Power Automate to send emails to users.
• Experienced in Agile Methodologies like attending daily Scrums, maintaining User.
• Stories and Burn down Charts, Backlog Grooming and Retrospective
• Created custom fully automated solution using Windows PowerShell to export individual mailboxes from the Exchange environment and save them as separate PST files (Confidential)
• Used star and snowflake schema in designing cubes for creating SSAS packages.
• Created dashboard for school system financial information which includes revenue and expenditure by district.
• Developed applications in Qlik Sense Desktop and shared the apps with the team through Qlik Sense Cloud, showcased stories and presented dashboards to business users and cross functional teams.
• Developed data capture and navigation desktop and mobile apps in Microsoft Power apps that connect.
• Published reports and visualizations to Power BI Services and thereby created dashboards.
• Used Machine learning using “Python-Programming Language” for converting different language text to English for analysis.
• Implemented several DAX functions for various fact calculations for efficient data visualization in Power BI
• Designed, developed, and tested the ETL strategy to populate data from multiple source systems.
• Used various sources to pull data into Power BI such as SQL Server, oracle.
• Used advanced features of T-SQL to design and tune T-SQL to interface in azure.
• Designed Cubes with star schema and snowflake schema in SSAS and Executing
• Analysis Services Processing Task in SSIS for processing cubes in packages
• Developed POWER BI Ad hoc reports on top Existing Teradata data warehouse.
• Data migration from SQL to AWS building out a data warehouse.
• Using a query editor in Power BI performed certain operations like fetching data from different file
• Developed and published reports and dashboards using Power BI and written effective DAX formulas and expressions.
• Effectively visualized data (dashboards, reports, etc.) in QlikView, Qlik Sense and Micro Strategy for different business users and requirement
• Utilized Power Query in Power BI to Pivot and Un-pivot the data model for data cleansing and data massaging.
• Implementing SSRS solutions, used dashboards and gauges to enhance for the business users. Environment: MS SQL Server 2012/2008, Aws, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) T-SQL, Export Data, Python, Oracle Warehouse Builder SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Power BI Service Pro, SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), 11G, SQL Power BI Developer, 12/2019 - 02/2021
Nationwide Insurance - Chicago, IL
• Generated periodic reports based on the statistical analysis of the data from various time frames and division using power pivot, power query, power view.
• Developed and maintained SSIS Packages to integrate with different resources like MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, Flat files.
• Published Qlik Sense workbooks onto Qlik Sense test server and production server.
• Automated Contract expiration notification system using Microsoft Power Automate
• Generated ad-hoc reports in Excel Power Pivot and shared them using Power BI to the decision makers for strategic planning.
• Expert in Tabular Modelling, Multi-Dimensional Cubes, DAX and MDX (SSAS)
• Cassandra and PostgreSQL databases on a large scale
• As a part of Power BI Administration, configured Usage metrics, Users, Audit logs, Tenant settings, Dashboard settings, Power BI Apps settings, Power BI premium and Premium Capacity settings.
• Created data marts and multi-dimensional models like Star schema and Snowflake schema.
• Strong development skills with Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Storage Explorer
• Created PowerShell scripts to constantly monitor the health of the Exchange messaging infrastructure and notify my teammates or myself in the event of a problem.
• Developed Power Apps app using Share point and SQL as data sources.
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, monitoring, and optimization of SQL.
• Server and non-production database code as well as T-SQL code from developers and QA
• Gathering the requirements and writing the ad-hoc SQL query batches to update the data and metadata for delta and history loads.
• Used SQL Loader to load data from legacy system and developed PL/SQL programs to dump the data from the staging tables to the interface tables and concurrent programs to get data into oracle base tables.
• Created Power BI reports by using Joins in multiple tables from multiples database using complex SQL queries.
• Designed a Power BI data model with multiple fact tables and dimensions depending on the business requirements.
• Experience in custom visuals and groups creation in Power BI
• Experience in scheduling refresh of Power BI reports, hourly and on-demand
• Expertise in creating PL/SQL server Reports using SSRS 2008 Environment: MS SQL Server 2008R2, T-SQL, SQL Profiler, Aws, Visual Studio (2012), Power Bi Desktop, Team Foundation Server (2012), MS Analysis Services 2005, MSReporting Services, MS Access, Import & Export Data, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Power Bi Desktop, Power Bi pro, Source Control Management System Windows X
Power BI Developer, 05/2017 - 11/2019
Synchrony Financial– STAMFORD, CT
• Used Power BI to create customized, on-demand reports & ad-hoc reports from Excel and involved in the automation process of the reports from the Corporate Data Models
• Worked as Data Analyst to identify the sources and model the data for reporting.
• Worked in the Agile Methodology using the Microsoft VSTS leveraging Scrum.
• Process to finish the tasks in the Sprint time frame.
• Used Power BI's power query and power pivot functionality to transform and model the data.
• Designed and developed Power BI graphical solutions as per business objectives
• Implemented several DAX functions for various fact calculations for efficient data visualization.
• Used time intelligence functions for time series analysis.
• Installed and configured enterprise gateway & personal gateway in Power BI
• Services to keep dashboards and reports up to date.
• Worked on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), design of star schema and snowflake schema in Analysis Services (SSAS)
• Extracted data from Oracle, DB2, AS400, PL/SQL Server, Flat Files, Excel, and XML using SSIS and cleansed the data.
• Implemented Row Level Security
• Designed various Landing pages related to different functions of the Product.
• Line pointing to relevant dashboards using the specified templates.
• Involved in troubleshooting, resolving and validating data to improve data quality.
• Trained business users on leveraging reports and dashboards
• Developed Analysis documentation for future for developers. Environment: Power BI Desktop, SQL, MS Excel, Power BI Service Pro, (S3, IAM Redshift) MS SQL Server 2008R2, T-SQL, Source Control Management System WindowsSQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Export Data, SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) Oracle Warehouse Builder Data warehouse.
EDUCATION
• Bachelors in Computer Engineering & Technology – New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Microsoft Technical Associate: OS Fundamentals.