Alaa Alboush

<p>Built a shared organizational semantic model in Power BI across multiple data domains, usingDatabricks as the data warehouse to enable scalable and consistent analytics.</p><p> Created a Power BI learning path to upskill users across the company, accelerate self-service BIadoption, and strengthen analytics capabilities by sharing Microsoft Fabric and Power BI updates,tips, and best practices.</p><p> Served as a key support point for the analytics community, answering questions related to data,dashboards, and reporting while helping improve overall BI usage.</p><p> Applied GitHub, VS Code, and TMDL to enhance development workflows, version control, andsemantic model management.</p>

<p>Founded EpicTech Solutions with a focus on providing data-driven insights and business intelligence(BI) solutions to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency.</p><p> Led the development of analytics solutions for key clients, including Acne Studios, Save the ChildrenInternational, NCC Sverige AB, and One of Sweden’s Largest Banks, utilizing advanced BI toolssuch as Power BI to deliver actionable insights.</p>

<p>Led Power BI governance and administration efforts across a large-scale enterprise environment,including full tenant configuration, deployment pipelines, and Microsoft Fabric integration.</p><p> Built a centralized monitoring and metadata extraction solution to enhance data lineage, governance,and analytics oversight at the tenant level.</p><p> Executed a full tenant migration with minimal disruption, securely transitioning all users, workspaces,and reports using PowerShell and REST APIs.</p><p> Drove integration efforts across platforms including SQL Server, Databricks, ServiceNow,Atlassian,and others, while establishing robust security frameworks using Power BI REST APIs and AzureLogic Apps, and GitHub.</p>

<p>Led the implementation of BI & Dashboard projects in Power BI, focusing on improving projectmanagement methodologies across the organization.</p><p> Collaborated closely with stakeholders and IT departments to define architectural requirements for BIand Analytics, driving major/minor development enhancements and strategic insights for projectmanagement.</p><p> Creating a comprehensive set of standard metrics and KPIs to measure project managementperformance organization-wide</p>

<p>Enhanced customer data analysis, employing advanced analytics and BI tools to drive businessstrategies, optimize customer engagement, and improve overall CRM program effectiveness.</p><p> Worked extensively with Google Big Query for data warehousing and analytics, enhancing dataprocessing and analysis capabilities.</p><p> Utilized Power BI, Looker, and Qlik Sense for creating intuitive data visualizations and dashboards,providing actionable insights to support data-driven business strategies and customer engagementinitiatives.</p>

<p>Provided BI consulting services, developing and implementing Power BI solutions that supportedbusiness objectives, including data visualization and insights generation for strategic decision-making</p><p> Completed a Python fundamentals course, enhancing my ability to read and comprehend Python scripts</p>

<p>Responsible for creating Power BI dashboards and reports to monitor KPIs and metrics, significantlyimproving the strategic decision-making process for group management and other stakeholders.</p><p> Managed and modeled large datasets, built data pipelines, and integrated Power Apps with PowerBI and Excel, streamlining the reporting process and enhancing organizational performance.</p>

<p>Spearheaded the transition from Tableau to PowerBI, enhancing the loyalty team's data analysiscapabilities and supporting data-driven decision-making.</p><p> Developed and maintained PowerBI and Tableau reports, facilitating a comprehensive understandingof loyalty performance strategies and customer behavior shifts.</p><p> Contributed to creating a data cube, enabling self-service reporting for management and significantlyimproving access to key business insights.</p><p> Designed and implemented ETL processes using Azure Data Factory to automate data ingestion andtransformation from multiple sources, significantly reducing manual workload and improving datareliability.</p>

<p>Spearheaded the development and implementation of the department’s first KPI dashboard byanalyzing AP, AR, bank transactions, and VAT data, enhancing financial performance tracking andstrategic decision-making.</p><p> Managed and optimized data from multiple source systems, ensuring high data integrity andreliability for financial reporting, while serving as SAP S/4HANA Key User and resolving complexdata issues.</p><p> Enabled cross-functional collaboration by delivering actionable financial insights and reports,fostering a data-driven culture and supporting continuous process improvement.</p>

<p>Managed multi-location cashier operations, improved financial reporting accuracy and efficiency, ledimplementation of a cloud-based banking system, and ensured compliance through financialreporting and book closings.</p>