Khalid Ahmed

Glendale Heights, IL

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-ahmed-8a5408b

Phone: 630-***-****

Email: adg2wf@r.postjobfree.com

Experience Summary

Self-motivated and performance driven Information Technology professional, who achieves consistent results and works well under pressure. Experienced in design, development, and implementation of Data warehouse, reporting and data visualization tools such as Business Objects, Crystal, and Tableau. Competent in all steps involved in the systems development life cycle including Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Skills/Qualifications

Business Objects 4.2

Crystal Reports

SQL, Stored Procedures

Tableau

Data Warehouse and Data Marts

SQL Server

Hadoop

Visual Studio, .Net

JavaScript, HTML

Professional Experience

Business Intelligence Analyst

DRL Enterprises, Glen View, IL Feb 2020 – Present

Responsible for fulfilling data requirements for business users using Business Objects and SQL

Support and maintain BO Universes and workspaces built on SQL Server and SSAS data.

Application Developer

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL Aug 2001 – Feb 2020

Analyze requirements from business analysts, prepare technical designs, and build solutions to business problems using SQL, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, and Tableau.

Develop reports in Business Objects and Crystal for sales leaders and insurance agents providing time sensitive commissions and profit sharing data.

Create and maintain dashboards in Tableau for sales leaders furnishing key information about their sales performance.

Collaborated on a team in designing and developing the Allstate Profit Sharing system. This system renders critical financial data to insurance agencies monthly.

Saved data retrieval time for more than 8000 agents by using a process in Business Objects that delivers personalized reports to their inboxes.

Responsible for migrating analytical reports from Oracle to Hadoop resulting in saving more than 1 terabyte of space in Oracle.

As a subject matter expert for the BI platform, offer guidance and technical support to other developers so they can respond to user’s requests and issues.

Built a user interface application using Visual Basic and .Net that allows interactive analysis of data.

Support and maintain a web portal which consolidates reports, dashboards, and tools in one location for ease of access.

Systems Consultant

Genisys Consulting, Elk Grove, IL 1999 – 2001

Implemented an application for a financial firm using Visual Basic and SQL Server that managed customer’s retirement plan data.

Designed a Mail label system in Access 97 for Chicago Board of Trade for generating mailing labels used in client communications.

Systems Consultant

Systems Resources Consulting, Downers Grove, IL 1997 – 1999

Worked as a consultant for clients in the financial and insurance industry to engineer solutions using Visual Basic, Access, and SQL Server.

Programmer/Analyst

Zurich-American Insurance, Schaumburg, IL 1995 – 1997

Contributed on the Policy Database system built on Visual Basic and SQL Server platforms. This maintained policy information that helped underwriters in making informed decisions.

Education

DeVry Institute of Technology, Addison, IL

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

Graduation: 1995

Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, India

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

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