SUMMARY

• 5+ years experience in Tableau development and performing several demonstrations of Tableau functionalities and efficient data visualizations approaches.
• Over 8 years' experience with Business Intelligence, providing end - to-end business intelligence solutions
• Experience in designing and developing the dashboards and publishing dashboards on Tableau Server, and providing users with action links and quick filters to easily access and manipulate information.
• Hands-on experience with both Tableau Desktop, Tableau online, and Tableau Server
• Experience in Data Blending, creating Parameters and creating Level Of Detail Expressions
• Experience managing DEV, UAT and PROD environments with deployments and unit testing
• Experience in interacting with Business users conducting interviews to gather, analyze and document business requirements and excellent oral and written communication skills
• Extensive experience in OBIEE repository (Physical, Business Model and Mapping and Presentation layers) for both Stand-Alone and Integrated OBIEE implementations.
• Proficient in implementing comprehensive Security functionality - creating Application Roles and administering Data and Object level security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Tableau
• Tableau Prep
• BI Publisher (RTF and XML)
• OBIEE Answers
• SQL Developer
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Power BI
• OBIEE, 10g, 11g and 12C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Tableau Developer

Responsibilities:

• Consulting with clients and internal stakeholders to gather requirements and plan milestones in the research, development, and implementation phases of the project lifecycle
• Collaborating with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
• Performing quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations.
• Creating stories and dashboards in Tableau using multiple data connections that included Oracle and excel using the blending technique
• Creating reports and dashboards using facts, attributes, hierarchies, transformations, filters, prompts, calculated fields, sets, groups, and parameters in Tableau.
• Creating effective visualizations based on the type of reports and data being reported.
• Creating stories so as to identify data trends
• Creating conditional formatting calculations
• Creating complicated calculations like YTD, Month AGO using parameters to make reports more dynamic
• Creating and maintaining Level of Detail expressions
• Developing story telling dashboards.
• Creating links between dashboards making it easier for users to navigate from one to another
• Publishing workbooks on to Tableau Server making sure the dashboards are posted on the right sites and projects
• Applying security to different projects. Allowing or denying access to different groups and users
• Applying refresh options on workbooks that use extracts as data source
• Modifying existing queries to improvement performance
• Educating users of how to navigate reports in Tableau server with the use of filters and links.
• Mentoring self-service developing teams on the best practices on how to develop effective and interactive reports and dashboards
• Performing several demonstrations of Tableau functionalities and efficient data visualizations approaches using Tableau to the Senior Management

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Tableau Developer

Responsibilities:

• Defining functional and technical documents based on data availability, quality and profiling on source data systems.
• Proactively monitoring and addressing reporting issues including server performance, and quickly resolving performance issues.
• Participating pro-actively in projects in an agile environment
• Cleaning data in Tableau Prep.
• Creating dashboards and Analytics using Tableau Desktop & Tableau Online/Servers
• Designing & deploying the end to end process of Data Visualization using Tableau.
• Creating worksheets, dashboards, and workbooks
• Participating in design sessions, developing design documents, and participating in acceptance testing and knowledge transfer activities
• Effectively communicating and presenting ideas and project status
• Creating dynamic dashboards using parameters, filters, calculated fields and applying level of details functionality.
• Administering Tableau Server by managing users ( adding and removing), updating permissions, scheduling extract refresh.
• Conditionallyformatting reports using calculated fields
• Using Microsoft Server Management Studio to validate data against Tableau
• Creating complex visualizations like view selectors using parameters and calculated fields
• Educating the Users on how to use the reports and navigate dashboards
• Providing production support and maintaining dashboards and workbooks.
• Converting about 15 OBIEE dashboards into Tableau
• Analyzing the Business Requirements Documents, performing gap analysis and meeting with the users discussing implementation solutions.
• Recommending best practices to fellow developers on implementing new features and effectively automating reports and dashboards.
• Assisting in performance tuning and employing best practices to make sure reports are running faster and efficiently.
• Reverse engineering OBIEE reports to figure out what Subject Areas were used, what columns we are bringing in and what calculations to use.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Tableau Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and creating data visualizations (reports and dashboards) as required to support user stories
• Creating dashboards and workbooks using excel spreadsheets, and SQL Server databases as datasources.
• Supporting the Business Intelligence/Analytics data analyst with the understanding of business and data requirements, and iteratively designing visualizations for initial concepts and prototypes presented to customers for feedback
• Developing Tableau based ad hoc user Interface for end users
• Performing detailed data analysis (i.e. determine the structure, content, and quality of the data through examination of source systems and data samples)
• Defining, executing and interpreting complex/nested SQL queries
• Establishing standards and best practices for dashboards and related technologies
• Managing a repository of re-usable data visualization templates and views
• Administering Tableau server in multiple environments, as needed
• Creating security roles, filters and groups based on organizational responsibility
• Applying reporting security to protect and restrict data.
• Building prototypes for demonstration and illustration purposes for peer groups, Business partners, or senior leaders.
• Collaborating with other BI Analysts and Engineers around data/table structures in order to optimize for Tableau Dashboards and other self-service needs.
• Supporting peers and stakeholders as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) through troubleshooting and analysis of results.
• Maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction through the implementation, investigation, analysis, training and relationship building efforts.
• Communicating and driving discussions on data and insights, context, and implications with business and technology partners.
• Documenting and communicating technical specifications to ensure that proper and optimized techniques, queries, and final deliverables are understood and incorporated into data and analytics processes.
• Working as a Team Lead supporting an offshore team of 5 people. Communicating business requirements and report design requirements.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Tableau Developer

Responsibilities:

• Consulting with clients and internal stakeholders to gather requirements and plan milestones in the research, development, and implementation phases of the project lifecycle
• Collaborating with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.
• Performing quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations.
• Creating stories and dashboards in Tableau using multiple data connections that included Oracle and excel using the blending technique
• Creating reports and dashboards using facts, attributes, hierarchies, transformations, filters, prompts, calculated fields, sets, groups, and parameters in Tableau.
• Creating effective visualizations based on the type of reports and data being reported.
• Creating stories so as to identify data trends
• Creating conditional formatting calculations
• Creating complicated calculations like YTD, Month AGO using parameters to make reports more dynamic
• Creating and maintaining Level of Detail expressions
• Developing story telling dashboards.
• Creating links between dashboards making it easier for users to navigate from one to another
• Publishing workbooks on to Tableau Server making sure the dashboards are posted on the right sites and projects
• Applying security to different projects. Allowing or denying access to different groups and users
• Applying refresh options on workbooks that use extracts as data source
• Modifying existing queries to improvement performance
• Educating users of how to navigate reports in Tableau server with the use of filters and links.
• Mentoring self-service developing teams on the best practices on how to develop effective and interactive reports and dashboards
• Performing several demonstrations of Tableau functionalities and efficient data visualizations approaches using Tableau to the Senior Management

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Tableau Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and understanding business requirements.
• Developing business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.
• Analyzing client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Creating Business Requirements Documentation to highlight mappings to data sources and custom column calculations
• Generating various dashboards in Tableau server using multiple sources such as Oracle / Excel
• Strong understanding of advanced Tableau features including calculated fields, parameters, table calculations, row-level security, and dashboard actions
• Using Data Blending to create relationships between multiple data sources
• Developing effective dashboards in Tableau Desktop
• Creating parameters, calculations, actions links and conditional formatting using Tableau Desktop
• Creating calculated columns using complicated functions like TO DATE and AGO functions
• Effectively using Parameters to make the reports more dynamic
• Using parameters to view a single report using multiple dimensions.
• Creating multiple date options to view one report using parameters e.g. Viewing a report by last 30 days, last twelve months or last 15 weeks
• Creating histograms, pie charts, box plots, scatter plots for inventory management - background maps illustrating the potential revenue change across different geographic markets. Using time-series statistics for price variance across different vendors, and using heat maps to show different activities across business units.
• Publishing dashboards on to Tableau Server, and providing users with quick filters to easily access and manipulate information
• Implementing Tableau Mobile to help those users who are always travelling and don’t have access to the system
• Creating and maintaining Level of Detail Expressions
• Publishing stories to server considering the site and projects being used
• Applying security to different projects
• Applying User Filters to restrict or grant permission to appropriate users
• Creating schedules on the server on when to refresh data especially data from extracts
• Building SQL automations helping in improving data processing speeds
• Modifying existing SQL queries to improve performance
• Creating Functional Specification Documentation (FSD) to show what I worked on and what I used to create the Worksheets, Dashboards and Stories

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

OBIEE & BIP Developer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with DBAs and Project Manager to gather design requirements, create and review technical design documents based on the business requirements.
• Going through the BRD (Business Requirements Document) with the Project Manager, Business Analyst, DBA, ETL specialist and the user
• Preparing the FSD (Functional System Design) together with the DBAs.
• Recommending and developing reports for validation of data using the PeopleSoft query tool and SQL query.
• Using PeopleSoft as a data source creating Tardy reports that showed when employees clocked in for work, how may breaks they are taking and how many hours they are working in total.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Tableau Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performing requirements gathering, analysis, scope and time estimation of ETLs, reports and dashboards
• Creating Business Requirements Documentation and going through gap analysis with the users and developers
• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
• Going through Functional System Design document to make sure business needs are met and addressed
• Developing Tableau reports that provide clear visualizations of various industry-specific KPIs.
• Creating Ad-hoc reports for users in Tableau using various data sources.
• Developing Tableau workbooks from multiple data sources using Data Blending.
• Managing data blending calculations to avoid getting nulls when measures are combined.
• Creating stories and dashboards in Tableau Desktop
• Creating reports that analyzed the data using Statistical features in Tableau to develop trend analysis
• Creating actions, parameters, Filter Local, Global, hierarchies and calculated sets for dashboards and worksheets using Tableau Desktop
• Building, publishing customized interactive reports and dashboards, report scheduling using Tableau server
• Creating Tableau Dashboards with interactive views, trends and drill downs along with user level security