Nikhil R

Email ID: [email protected]

Contact No: 585-417-0323

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 Around 10 years of experience working in Microsoft BI tools and designed and developed Power BI reports
and dashboards from multiple data sources using data blending.
 Dynamic MSBI professional in Design, Implementation, Administration, and support of Business Intelligence
using MSBI and Power BI. Expertise in Power BI, Power BI Pro, Power BI Mobile.
 Ability to work with various types and stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes including
Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
 Strong knowledge in Power BI on how to import, shape, and transform data for business intelligence (BI), Vi-
sualize data, author reports, schedule automated refresh of reports and create and share dashboards based
on reports in Power BI desktop.
 Led the development of end-to-end Power BI reporting solution for large clients including data modeling,
dashboards, apps and content packs, SQL queries and ETL processing, workflow and transformations
 Experienced in Reporting tools SSRS, Crystal Reports, Business Object and Visualization Tools Power BI and
tableau.
 Excellent understanding of Data Warehousing methodologies and concepts, including Star schema,
Snowflake, ETL processes, Dimensional modeling and reporting tools.
 Worked on all aspects of the ETL pipeline, as well as aggregated and reported on operational system metrics,
using Microsoft BI stack like SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS.
 Database development for both OLTP and OLAP systems using MS SQL Server.
 Proficient in creating objects such as Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, User defined functions, cursors, de-
rived tables, common table expressions (CTEs) on Microsoft SQL Server.
 Formed various measures and calculated columns utilizing DAX in Power BI to answer business questions.
Performed time series analysis using DAX expressions in Power BI.
 Excellent hands-on experience in groups, hierarchies and measures, KPIs, well verse in creating DAX (Data
Analysis Expressions) functions in creating Power BI dashboards reports.
 Imported data using Azure Data Link (ADL) to SQL Server in Power BI to generate reports.
 Experience in Microsoft Azure Portal, Azure Data bricks, and Azure Cosmos DB and creating data pipelines
and building governance model
 Designed Power BI data visualization utilizing cross tabs, maps, scatter plots, pie, bar and density chart
 Created and managed workspaces, apps, dashboards and packs for various business users across multiple
tenants.
 Build solution driven dashboards by developing different chart types including Crosstab's, Heat/Geo/Tree
Maps, Pie/Bar Charts, Circle Views, Line/Area Charts, Scatter Plots, Bullet Graphs, and Histograms in Power
BI Pro.
 Deployed the Power BI reports to Power BI services and pinned visuals to make dashboards out of it.
 Shared dashboards and reports with user groups by using Power BI App and content packs.
 Formulated complicated reports like parameter-based reports, graphical reports, excel reports, drill-down
chart and tabular report using Power BI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Reporting Package Power BI (Desktop, Server, Pro), MS (SSAS, SSRS)

Integration Tools (ETL/ELT) Microsoft SSIS, ADF
Data Modelling Star and Snowflake with Erwin, Visio, SQL Architect etc.
Cloud reporting services Azure
Database tools Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, SQL developer
MS Office MS-Excel, MS-Access, MS- Power Point, Office 365, SharePoint
Databases Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, MySQL, XML
 Operating Systems Windows, Linux
Languages SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Walmart, Bentonville, AR
Senior Power BI Developer July 2020- Till date
Responsibilities:
 Converted functional requirements into technical specifications and performed required data analysis, data
mapping, functional testing, unit testing, and test case preparation using required tools based on project
needs.
 Involved in creating new stored procedures and optimizing existing queries and stored procedures.
 Used Power BI to develop data analysis prototype, and used Power View and Power Map to visualize reports
 Published Power BI Reports in the required originations and Made Power BI Dashboards available in Web
clients and mobile.
 Implemented Power BI as enterprise reporting tool and responsible for managing user licenses, creating and
assigning work spaces to Power BI premium capacity.
 Created Power BI usage metrics report to help Power BI Service administrators to analyze the utilization of
premium capacity resources.
 Expertise in creating different visualizations using Slicers, Lines, Pies, Histograms, Maps, Scatter, Bullets, Heat
Maps, Treemaps, etc.
 Implementing Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, and Service Bus Queues for large enter-
prise-level ERP Integration systems.
 Implemented Azure Storage - Storage accounts, blob storage, and Azure SQL Server. Explored on the Azure
storage accounts like Blob storage.
 Familiar on Azure service bus and service bus triggers.
 Deployment of Power BI using deployment Pipelines.
 Worked with both technology and business concepts in an ever-changing environment. Developed quick
Power BI prototype visualizations using local datasets while working in parallel with data integration team
for data automation.
 Worked on Rest API to connect and get data.
 Explore data in a Variety of ways and across multiple visualizations using Power BI
 Used Power BI Gateways to keep the dashboards and reports up to date.
 Installed and Configured Enterprise Gateway and Personal Gateway in Power Bi Services.
 Published reports and dashboards using Power BI.

Cloud Catalogs LLC. Atlanta, GA

Sr. Power BI Developer Aug 2018- June 2020
Responsibilities:
 Developed calculated columns and measures using DAX in Power BI
 Used the tabular model cubes as the source in Power BI to visualize the data.
 Created Power BI dashboard and generated reports.
 Performed Power BI Desktop Data modeling, which cleans, transforms, mash up Data from multiple sources.
 Created multiple transformations and loaded data from multiple sources into the Power BI Dashboard.
 Published Power BI Desktop to the cloud.
 Created interactive reports customized for the business using Power BI Desktop.
 Installed and configured and maintained Power BI Report Server.
 Worked closely with Business Analyst, Data Modeler and all team within the organization to understand business
processes.
 Developed complex SQL queries to obtain complex data from tables.
 Read source data from Azure SQL DB, CSV, ORACLE 11g, and SQL Server 2016. Through Power BI.
 Read different formats of Source data from hive like JSON, ORC, TXT.
 Generated context filters and data source filters while handling large volume of data.
 Hands on experience in utilizing DAX functions which includes Aggregation, Counting, Logical, information, Text
and date functions in source data.
  Used DAX table functions including FILTER, ALL, VALUES, DISTINCT and RELATEDTABLE.
 Have used Z-order to overlap the reports on each other using Power BI.
 Used Power BI, Power Pivot to develop data analysis prototype, and used Power View and Power Map to visualize
reports
 Create and customize simple visualizations, Combination charts, Slicers, Map visualizations, Matrixes and tables,
Scatter charts, Waterfall and funnel charts, Gauges and single-number cards.
 Published Power BI Reports in the required originations and Made Power BI Dashboards available in Web clients.
 Created multiple data model and used as a common data source for the reporting purpose.
 Used Power BI Gateways to keep the dashboards and reports up to date.
 In Power BI developed reports by different time intelligence like year to data (YTD), Month to date (MTD), same
period last year.
 Created Row level security so based on role, the end user can view the data.
 Analyzing reporting requirements and develop various Dashboards, using trend lines and reference lines.
 Created no of views, calculated tables, calculated columns and measures.
 Created SQL Queries for testing the tableau Dashboards.
 Hand on Experience in UNIX to write basic commands, Moving files from HDFS to local and vice versa.
Environment: MS SQL Server 2012, MS SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), EDW, Power BI Desktop, Power BI
Service, Data Gateway, DAX, T SQL, SQL Profiler, XML, MS Excel, Windows 8, DAX Studio, M Query.

Q2 Lab Solutions, Atlanta, GA

Power BI Developer Jan 2016- Jun 2018
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
 Developed calculated columns and measures using DAX in Power BI
 Used the tabular model cubes as the source in Power BI to visualize the data.
 Created Power BI dashboard and generated reports.
 Performed Power BI Desktop Data modeling, which cleans, transforms, mash up Data from multiple sources.
 Created multiple transformations and loaded data from multiple sources into the Power BI Dashboard.
 Published Power BI Desktop to the cloud.
 Created interactive reports customized for the business using Power BI Desktop.
 Installed and configured and maintained Power BI Report Server.
 Worked closely with Business Analyst, Data Modeler and all team within the organization to understand business
processes.
 Developed complex SQL queries to obtain complex data from tables.
 Read source data from Azure SQL DB, CSV, ORACLE 11g, SQL Server 2016. through Power BI.
 Read different formats of Source data from hive like JSON, ORC, TXT.
 Generated context filters and data source filters while handling large volume of data.
 Hands on experience in utilizing DAX functions which includes Aggregation, Counting, Logical, information, Text
and date functions in source data.
 Used DAX table functions including FILTER, ALL, VALUES, DISTINCT and RELATEDTABLE.
 Have used Z-order to overlap the reports on each other using Power BI.
 Used Power BI, Power Pivot to develop data analysis prototype, and used Power View and Power Map to visualize
reports
 Create and customize simple visualizations, Combination charts, Slicers, Map visualizations, Matrixes and tables,
Scatter charts, Waterfall and funnel charts, Gauges and single-number cards.
 Published Power BI Reports in the required originations and Made Power BI Dashboards available in Web clients.
 Created multiple data model and used as a common data source for the reporting purpose.
 Used Power BI Gateways to keep the dashboards and reports up to date.
 In Power BI developed reports by different time intelligence like year to data (YTD), Month to date (MTD), same
period last year.
 Created Row level security so based on role, the end user can view the data.
 Analyzing reporting requirements and develop various Dashboards, using trend lines and reference lines.
 Created no of views, calculated tables, calculated columns and measures.
 Created SQL Queries for testing the tableau Dashboards.
 Hand on Experience in Unix to write basic commands, Moving files from HDFS to local and vice versa.
Environment: MS SQL Server 2012, MS SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), EDW, Power BI Desktop, Power BI
Service, Data Gateway, DAX, T SQL, SQL Profiler, XML, MS Excel, Windows 8, DAX Studio, M Query.

Grant Thornton, Washington, DC

Role: SQL / Power BI Developer June 2015 - Dec 2015
Responsibilities:
Developed Power BI reports and dashboards from multiple sources using data blending.
• Explored data in a variety of ways and across multiple visualizations using power BI.
• Performed and worked with dimensions, measures, DAX and, MDX queries.
• Designed attractive dashboards with visualizations such as maps, funnel chart, waterfall charts and word
cloud in Power BI.
• Assisted in production and non-production OLAP cubes, wrote queries to produce reports using SQL server,
SSAS.
• Designed Power BI data visualization utilizing cross tabs, maps, scatter plots, pie, bar and density charts.
• Creating gateways in power BI.
• Participating in Daily stand up Agile/Scrum meetings to discuss regarding the enhancements to be made for
the existing requirements.
• Utilized Power Query in Power BI to Pivot and Un-pivot the data model for data cleansing and data massag -
ing.
• Enhance and modify Power BI dashboard to make it understandable for different audience
• Designed, developed, deployed and processed Tabular Models using Azure Analysis Service, MS Excel for less
than one million Journal Entries.
• Designed and created data extracts, supporting SSRS, Power BI or other visualization tools and reporting ap -
plications (Power BI).
• Developed SQL queries to validate the data such as checking duplicates, null values, truncated values and en-
suring correct data aggregations.
• Developed complex SQL Views, Common Table Expressions, and Temporary Tables
• Involved in trouble shooting of performance issues which were associated with Tableau reports.
• Provided maintenance and development of bug fixes for the existing and new Power BI Reports.
• Involved in generating and maintaining SQL scripts.
• Utilized Power BI (Power View) to create various analytical dashboards that depicts critical KPIs such as legal
case matter, billing hours and case proceedings along with slicers and dicers enabling end-user to make fil-
ters.
• Generated ad-hoc reports in Excel Power Pivot and sheared them using Power BI to the decision makers for
strategic planning.
• Utilized Power BI gateway to keep dashboards and reports up to-date with on premise data sources.
• Implemented code check-in/check-out and managed multiple versions of complicated code within TFS. .
• Perform thorough unit testing on all relevant platforms to ensure proper implementation.

Infosys LTD
SQL BI Developer June 14- Dec 2014
Responsibilities:
• Understood existing business model and customer requirements. Prepared business and technical under-
standing documents for the existing applications.
• Created new database objects like Procedures, Functions, Packages, Triggers, Indexes and Views using T-SQL
in SQL Server 2010.
• Created Stored Procedures to transform the data and worked extensively in T-SQL for various needs of the
transformations while loading the data.
• Worked on migration to SSIS packages across instance; also, tuning of SSIS packages and T-SQL queries.
• Developed Excel macros for data automation.
• Implemented various SSIS Transformations like Slowly Changing Dimension- SCDs type 2, Data Conversion,
Derived Column, Lookup, Fuzzy Group, Multicast, etc.
• Fields are updated on time basis like day, month, quarter, year using SSIS packages.
• Monitored performance and optimization of SSIS packages for maximum efficiency.
 • Created cubes in SSAS using multi-dimensional model based on business requirements and created addi-
tional measures.
• Created Batch Stored Procedures for in the Report Scheduler according to the monthly, weekly, or daily.
• Generated SSRS Dashboard with quick/context/global filters, parameters, and calculated fields on SSRS re -
ports.
• Created SSRS Dashboards with interactive views, trends, and drill downs along with user level security.
• Created stored procedures to build the Fact tables in the data mart for multi-Dimensional analysis using SSAS
and produced ad-hoc, standard and super user Ad Hoc Reports using SSRS.
• Built APIs by using visual basic scripts.
• Understood and modified the data as per the requirement using the Query Editor and
• Data view in SSRS. Handled transformations on the data using Power Query in SSRS.
• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to author, manage and deliver paper-based, Web-
based reports and Interactive Dashboards.
• Migrated different kinds of records using Reporting Services Migration Tool by performing necessary steps to
prevent loss of reports. Automated few of the daily routine tasks thereby reduced few man hours of effort.
• Involved in the preparation of the unit test case documents and unit testing of the enhanced macro codes, T-
SQL queries. Prepared detailed document of the know issues for future reference.

MagikMinds Software Services Pvt. Ltd

Role: SSIS/SSRS Developer Jul 2013 to June 2014
Responsibilities:
 Generated Complex reports like reports using Cascading parameters, Snapshot reports, Drill- down Reports, Drill-
 Through Reports, Parameterized Reports and Report Models and ad hoc reports using SQL Server Reporting Ser-
vices (SSRS) also based on Business Requirement Document Designed and created Report templates, bar graphs
and pie charts based on the financial data.
 Server 2008 instances and to load into staging and then to DW for further Data Analysis merge join and derived
column.
 Conversion, Conditional Split, Bulk Insert, xml task, merge, and union all, lookup and
 Created Complex ETL packages using SSIS to extract data from multiple sources, gave roles, user access with re-
spect to security in report manager.
 Successfully Installed and configured MS SQL Server 2008r2 on the production server.
 Working experience in database backup, restore and point in time recovery.
 Designed system including tables, Stored Procedures, Indexes, UDF and triggers.
 Involved in maintaining PL/SQL scripts and stored procedures. Unnecessary columns, eliminated redundant and
 Inconsistent data, normalized tables,
 Developed and rendered monthly, weekly, and Daily reports as per the requirement and
 Optimized the performance of queries with modification in T-SQL queries, removed and reporting by using multi-
ple transformations provided by SSIS such as Data
 Evaluated database performance and performed maintenance duties such as Tuning, Backup/Restore, panning
and replication.
 Established joins and created indexes wherever necessary.
 Improved performance and stability of database systems.
 Implemented SSIS (ETL) to extract and transform data from Xml, Flat files/CSV, SQL