Sheeraz Khalid Qazi
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PERSONAL STATEMENT
Proven Data Warehouse expert having experience working in start-ups as well as established cooperate. 8+ year experience in telecom industry overall 15+ years’ experience. Expert in requirement gathering as well as problem solving to provide exceptional internal / external user support and assist in resolving conflict. Addressing business needs though data visualization by designing interactive dashboards. Highly adaptable, flexible professional who embraces teamwork, but also enjoys working independently.
KEY SKILLS
Motivated, tenacious, and excited about development and progression.
Fantastic communication skills and relationship building.
Proven ability to work independently and to deadlines.
SQL programming and optimization
Great organisational skills
Proven strong work ethic, simply passionate about doing a great job!
Well-presented and well spoken.
Demonstrated ability to plan, multi-task and prioritise.
Goal-oriented, proactive.
Excellent timekeeping.
Report Designing and Optimizing
Data Visualizations
Data Analysis
Requirement Analysis
Dimension Modelling
MS SQL Administration
Demonstrated teamwork, communication (written and verbal), and organisational skills.
WORK HISTORY
04/2021 – 06/2021
Enterprise Data Optimisation Engineer
Afiniti, Karachi, Pakistan
Identify strategic areas where data can be simplified, remove unnecessary costs and increase operational efficiencies
Provide detailed data design and data processing technical guidance
Identify & improve inefficient data designs/processes to improve the quality, efficiency and performance of data solutions.
Provide SME code reviews
Perform technical ’walkthrough’ of Data Deliveries
Work side-by-side with Data Architecture and DB Management to ensure all solutions follow good/best practice
Promote, communicate, implement and apply architecture governance processes and related organisational principles, standards and policies including all governance processes that ensure architectural alignment of all solution throughout the solution lifecycle.
03/2021 – 04/2021
Principal DBA
Shispare, Karachi, Pakistan
Design and review ERD for new version of Warehouse Management System (WMS).
Compiling Data Dictionary of ERD.
Helping developers by sharing the best practices and optimizing techniques of writing SQL queries.
02/2012 – 02/2020
Business Intelligence Senior Engineer
STC Specialized (Formerly Bravo – Public Telecom Company), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Facilitated the Dashboards for commercial / technical insights to the management.
Supported retention program by provide deep dive analytics to the commercial sector users.
Improved the end user experience and satisfaction by ensure the availability of BI services to the end users by optimizing reports execution procedures to 15 seconds instead of 15 minutes.
Achieved the BI project objectives by providing adequate knowledge, documentation, and support to the vendor for implementing the requirements.
Performed layer 1 for UAT for all the business requirements for all BI & BSS related projects.
Maintained and ensured 100% availability of corporate scorecard KPIs and the source data structures.
12/2010 – 11/2011
Data Architect
Saudi Network Service, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Increased the business end user experience by 20% through redesigning the existing INPATIENT Datamart analytics.
Understanding Business Processes and Requirement Analysis.
Redesign the existing Data Warehouse and OLAP model.
Identifying the SCD/RCD cases and defining CDC Methodology.
05/2010 – 10/2010
Database Analyst
Pragmetic Solution, Karachi, Pakistan
Increase the availability of database objects by 30% for internal customer by optimizing the database objects.
Designed and delivered the ETL methodology for the attendance management using Magnetic Card in Campus Management System (CMS)
06/2009 – 04/2010
Data warehouse Engineer
Tradekey, Karachi, Pakistan
Design and delivered the Data Warehouse and OLAP Model.
Maintained the availability of DWH Databases and ETL processes. Maintained, secured and backup of OLAP cubes.
Regularly followed the runbook with 0 failover. Increase the availability of database objects by 20% for internal customer by optimizing the database objects.
11/2008 - 03/2009
BI Developer
Royal Cyber Inc., Karachi, Pakistan
Ensured the 100% quality of the data after ETL process.
10/2007 - 10/2008
Database Administrator
Shams Software Service, Karachi, Pakistan
Increase the BI reports response time by 75% through optimizing the SQL scripting.
Reduced the 35% effort and time of developing teams by mentoring and coaching them on the optimization of database objects.
08/2005-10/2007
Database Administrator
Infinilogic Private Limited, Karachi, Pakistan
Reduced the failover and availability related risks of DWH source databases by centralizing the administration of fragmented databases. This resulted in merging of 1500 Customers Databases into Single Database.
Controlled the source database changes to be reflected through a controlled mechanism.
Implemented applications for the automation of administration and maintenance for database synchronization tasks. This reduced the time for maintenance and issue management.
EDUCATION
1999 - 2002
BS (Computer Science)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
CERTIFICATIONS
Since 2014
ITIL® FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE IN IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT