WAQAS ISHAQ

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 848-226-8272
Summary
7+ years of experience in (Power BI desktop, Power BI desktop Pro, Power BI Service, Power BI
report server), and other related IT development technologies like MS BI Stack (MS SQL Server, SSIS,
SSAS, SSRS), and MS Excel PowerPivot.

 Proficiency in Data Modelling and Dimensional Analysis.

 Effective liaison between Business Analysts, Developers, Quality Assurance, Systems
Support and Customers/Users with a reputation for timely resolution of issues and a drive
for business results.
 Experience in communicating with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and end -
users to better understand, analysed, communicate, and validate requirements.
 Working with Query Editor to connect to different data sources and working on Data
models.
 Creating new Calculated Tables, Calculated Columns and Measures.
 Experience in developing custom reports, and different types of Tabular Reports, Matrix
Reports, Ad-hoc Reports, Drilldown, Parameterized, Cascading, Conditional, Table,
Matrix, Chart, and Sub Reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
 Creating relationships between different tables from different data sources.
 Working with Power BI Service for creating Dashboards and sharing them to business
users.
 Working with DAX formulae for creating variables like Previous Month, Previous Quarter,
etc. and creating interactive visuals using geographic data.
 5+ years of experience in SQL/TSQL.
 Creating complex Custom Views using Toad and SQL Developer to create data sets for
Power BI dashboards.
 Creating powerful calculations, key metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
 Functional Domain experience includes banking, healthcare, finance, and process
manufacturing.
 Excellent communication, interpersonal, problem solving, and analytical skills.
 Ability to work in groups as well as individually with minimum supervision.
 Ability to adapt to fast changing skills and work.
 Willing to learn new technologies as and when needed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Microsoft Azure, SQL Server/DB2, TSQL, OLAP, BI Suite, Reporting and Analytics, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, ETL, MS
Excel PowerPivot, Power BI desktop, Power BI desktop Pro, DAX, Microsoft Office Share point Server
(MOSS).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: UACS, Richmond VA

Role: Sr. BI Developer April 2018 - Till Date
Responsibilities:
  Implementation and delivery of MSBI platform solutions to develop and deploy ETL,
analytical, reporting, and scorecard/dashboards on SQL Server 2019 using SSAS, SSIS/DTS,
SSRS.
 Migration of DTS packages to SSIS packages.
 Generated ad-hoc reports, sub-reports, drill-down reports, drill-through reports and
parameterized reports to provide visible data for data analysts and business using SSRS.
 Built daily, weekly, monthly graphs and charts of loan data using R and Stored Procedures.
 Involved in designing, developing and testing of the ETL strategy to populate the data
from various source systems using SSIS.
 Created SSIS packages to Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) from transactional system (OLTP)
to analytical system (OLAP).
 Created hierarchies and attributes as part of dimensional modelling.
 Scheduled and maintained nightly and weekly loads of data by creating and scheduling
the respective jobs.
 Developed high level daily summary reports (Flash reports), and monthly business
summary reports (Monthly Management Report) and setup different email subscriptions
for different business units as needed.
 Provided documentation for all the reports, SSIS packages, SSAS cubes, and data models.
 Participated in the Agile methodology’s daily scrum and other sprint meetings; developed
and prioritized product backlogs and the sprint burnt down charts etc. to meet the daily
deliverables and timelines.
 Conversion of SSRS Reports to PowerBI paginated reports.
 Using Azure Data Source to build Dashboards in PowerBI
 Experience in creating Data Driven, Drill Through, Drill Down, Tabular, Matrix reports &
created charts, graphs using SQL Server Reporting Services 2015/2012/2008 R2.
 Tuned and optimized queries by altering database design, analysing different query
options and indexing strategies.
 Well experienced in Published reports and dashboards using Power BI.
 Created reports in Power BI by importing data, shaped and transformed data for business
intelligence (BI), Visualize data, author reports, scheduled automated refresh of
reports and created and share dashboards based on reports in Power BI desktop.
 Well experienced working with very large databases and Performance tuning.
 Experience in Designing reports using Report Designer, Report Builder3.1, Report
Manager, creating parameterized reports & managing subscriptions.
 Worked on Report Manager to subscribe reports, Assign roles, user access with respect to
security.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point), Microsoft Azure, SQL Server 2019,
PowerBI Desktop Pro, SSIS, SSAS, OLAP, OLTP, ETL

Role: Power BI Developer

Client: ABC Fitness, Dallas TX June 2016 - Mar 2018
Responsibilities:

 Involved in Full Life Cycle Development (SDLC), provided value added services with
development teams and clients throughout the life span of a project, strategic consulting,
coding, setting project deliverables, and managing complex development schedules and
tasks.
 Developed dashboards consisting of several reports, some with special features such as
parameters (including cascading), drill down, and drill through, sub-reports, gauges,
 indicators and conditional formatting, stored procedures and MDX queries for data
retrieval.
 Provided visual intelligence through deployed executive dashboards analysing Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) developed in SSRS.
 Deployed and scheduled for weekly ETL runs.
 Utilized TSQL to pull loan data from various database sources and created various reports,
dashboards and scorecards to support loan business decision making.
 Managed and developed existing and new ETL processes for SQL Server reports.
 Designed SSIS packages to dynamically load data from multiple sources such as Excel and
XML files and SQL Server OLTP database to SQL server using Business Intelligence
Development Studio.
 Refreshed staging tables with ETL, Scaled SSIS to make it work more reliable.
 Scheduled and monitored all maintenance activities of SQL Server 2000/2005 to meet
business requirements activities including database consistency check, data backup &
restore strategy, index defragmentation.
 Wrote enterprise reports and stored procedures upon requests. Designed report models
to meet business requirements and allowed users to perform fast queries.
 Provided Production Support.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point), SQL Server 2000/2005, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS,
OLTP, ETL, Power BI Desktop
Role: BI Developer
Client: ITVISION360 Nov 2014 – May 2016
Responsibilities:

 Participated in the identification, understanding, and documentation of business

requirements, keeping in mind the need for the application based on the project scope
and SDLC methodology.
 Communicated regularly with both IT and non-IT teams to ensure knowledge transfer
between cross functional teams.
 Extensively involved in Data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) process from
source to target systems.
 Validated the data integrity of the data loads and used data modelling tools to create the
reporting databases.
 Actively supported business users for change requests.
 Created and modified SQL Stored Procedures.
 Performed business analysis and wrote SQL scripts to analyse data and parse to Excel.
 Creating Excel macros and VBA code to massage data in Excel as well as link to SPs in SQL.
 Designed SSIS packages to transfer data between servers, load data into database;
Scheduled the tasks to do these jobs periodically and perform data transformations.
 Designed and implemented report layouts according to reporting standards of the
department.
 Worked on exporting reports in multiple formats including MS Word, Excel, CSV, and PDF.
 Responsible for making the report available for scheduling and viewing on demand.

Environment: MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point), SQL 2005/2008, Microsoft Power BI
Desktop Pro, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, ETL