AravindKumar Data+Analyst
AravindKumar Data+Analyst
Data Analyst with 7+ years of experience in with strong knowledge in Design, Analysis of Data warehousing and
Reporting projects using Power BI, Tableau, and SSRS.
Strong hands-on experience in building reports, SQL querying, Data Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL),
PL SQL, OLAP, OLTP, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS.
Experience working in all phases of SDLC using methodologies like Waterfall, Agile Scrum.
Expertise in working with relational databases such as Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8x, SQL Server, My SQL, DB2 and
Teradata.
Extensive experience in developing Stored Procedures, Functions, Views and Triggers, Complex SQL queries using
SQL Server, TSQL and Oracle PL/SQL.
Strong experience in developing Data Warehouses and Data Marts using Informatica Power Center (Repository
Manager, Designer, Workflow Manager, Workflow Monitor, Metadata Manger), Power Exchange, Power Connect
as ETL tool on Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server Databases.
Experience in designing data models with expertise in creating Star & Snow-flake schemas, FACT and dimensions
tables, physical and logical Data Modeling using Erwin.
Extensively worked on Tableau Desktop connecting to various data sources including Excel, SQL Server, Oracle and
DB2 databases. Moreover, created reports connecting single and multiple data sources and invoked stored
procedures from server databases using Tableau Desktop.
Proficient in design and development of various dashboards, reports utilizing Tableau Visualizations like Dual Axis,
Bar Graphs, Scatter Plots, Pie-Charts, Heat Maps, Bubble Charts, Tree Maps, Funnel Charts, Box Plots, Waterfall
Charts, Geographic Visualization and other making use of actions, other local and global filters.
Good understanding of Tableau Server options for publishing and sharing reports across various user groups.
Outstanding knowledge in Microsoft Office suite MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio.
Experienced in developing Power BI reports and dashboards from multiple data sources using data blending.
Created different visualizations in the reports using custom visuals like Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts, Cards,
Slicers, etc. Also, using different transformation inside edit query into clean-up the data.
Developed Tableau data visualization using Cross tabs, Heat maps, Box and Whisker charts, Scatter Plots,
Geographic Maps, Pie Charts, Donut Charts, Bar Charts, and Density Charts.
Automated reports generated on a weekly and monthly basis.
Resolved performance issues with scalability by changing the graphs.
Strong experience in drawing business insights and developing story - telling dashboards, advanced reports and
interactive visualizations to support decision making.
Expert in Python and its libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn and Scikit-Learn.
Experienced in python data manipulation for loading and extraction as well as with python libraries such as
NumPy, SciPy and Pandas to develop variety of models and algorithms for analytic purposes.
Proficient in Machine Learning algorithms including Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Elastic Net Regression,
K-Means, KNN, Decision Trees and Random Forests.
Strong experience in designing SSIS packages.
Worked on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) including in building cubes and writing MDX queries.
Worked on SQL Server Reporting Services in generating parameterized, linked, drilldown and sub reports.
A polished communicator, with excellent analytical and inter-personnel skills and versatile team player.
Experienced in Agile Methodologies like attending daily Scrums maintaining User Stories and Burn down Charts,
Backlog Grooming and Retrospective.
Technical Skills:
Database Tools Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012/2014, Oracle 9g/10g/11g, PL/SQL, MS Access, Teradata.
Data Modeling Tools Dimensional Data Modeling, Star Schema Modeling, Snow-Flake Modeling, FACT and
Dimensions Tables, Conceptual, Logical Data Physical Modeling, Erwin r7.2/3/4, Visio.
Reporting & Other Tools Power BI Desktop, Tableau Desktop, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server
Analysis Services (SSAS), MS Excel.
Data Integration & ETL SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services), Data Transformation Services (DTS), Informatica,
Tools Alteryx, Azure Data factory.
SQL Server Tools SQL Server Management Studio, SQL server profiler, FTP, TOAD.
Languages SQL, PL/SQL, T SQL, Python, C#.
Libraries NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn and Scikit-Learn.
Controllers Git, Visual studio 2008.
Scheduling Tools Autosys, Control-M.
Methodologies Agile Scrum and Waterfall.
Cloud Services AWS (EMR, EC2, S3, Athena) and Azure (Blob Storage, Azure Data Warehouse, Azure HD
Insights, MS-SQL Server).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Charter Communications, Negaunee, MI August 2022 to
Present Senior Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
Collaborated with Subject Matter Experts (SME) and Product Owners to define data requirements and source-to-
target mapping necessary to support advanced analytics initiatives including the interfaces between applications,
databases and platforms.
Interacted and engaged with business users to meet their immediate and future needs.
Designed, developed, built, tested, and maintained Tableau Analytics and functional reports based on user
requirements.
Used Dimensional Modeling (DMR) and Relational Modeling and Snowflake Schema modeling techniques to
develop models.
Created different KPI's using Table calculations and calculated key figures manipulating strings, arithmetic
calculations, aggregation options and logical functions.
Worked extensively with advance analytics like lines and bands, trend lines.
Expertise in working with data building Groups, Hierarchies and sets.
Developed Tableau workbooks to perform YTD, QTD, and MTD type of analysis.
Extensively used advance chart visualizations in Tableau like dual axis, Box Plots, Bullet Graphs, Tree Maps, Bubble
charts, Waterfall charts, funnel charts, Heat Maps, Scatter plots, Geographic maps, Line chart, Pie charts etc.
Assisted business users in solving complex problems. Familiarity with best practices around visualization and
design.
Developed, published customized interactive reports and dashboards and managed report scheduling using
Tableau.
Published reports/dashboards on Tableau server and created & managed tableau server groups and permissions.
Mastered in different formatting techniques, using annotations and mark labels.
Developed effective and interactive dashboards using Parameters and Actions.
Having good ability to design and deploy rich Graphic visualizations with Drill Down and DropDown menu option
and parameterized using Tableau.
Strong dashboard design experience with less performance issues in dashboard and passionate practitioner of
effective data visualization.
Provided production support to Tableau users and wrote custom SQL to support business requirements.
Published and shared views on Tableau server, scheduled extract refresh and subscriptions.
Involved in administration tasks such as creating and managing Sites, setting permissions, managing ownerships,
and providing access to the users using user filters and adding them to the specific group.
Develop simple/complex SQL queries, query tuning for data preparation for reporting.
Designed, developed, and debugged stored procedures, configuration files, and ETL packages for data migration
using SQL, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, and Azure Data Factory.
Written Complex queries in KQL (Kusto Query Language) to analyze the data in Azure.
Built interactive dashboards in Azure AppInsights.
Used Alteryx to extract the data from Azure App insights and loaded the data into Relational Database.
Environment: Tableau Server 2019.2, Tableau Desktop 2019.2, SQL Server 2016, Confidential Azure AppInsights, SQL
Azure, Azure storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Cloud, KQL (Kusto Query Language), SQL Scripting, Alteryx, MS Excel.
Nationwide, Columbus, OH December 2019 to July
2022
Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
Extracted data for reporting from multiple data sources like SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis, Service Azure SQL
Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, etc.
Connecting to various data sources, importing data, and transforming data for Business intelligence.
Worked on Azure cloud database servers, Azure Data Warehouse and Blob Storage for ETL use.
Implemented Copy activity, Custom Azure Data Factory Pipeline Activities for On-cloud ETL processing.
Created a Datawarehouse and Integrated different systems data into the Warehouse. Worked with multiple
teams combining the different Databases to a single Universe.
Created SQL Joins, sub-queries and other SQL code to implement business rules.
Utilized Power BI to create various analytical dashboards and interactive reports that help business users to get
quick insight of the data.
Designed, developed, and deployed Power BI scripts and performing efficient detailed analysis.
Worked on Power BI reports using multiple types of visualizations including line charts, doughnut charts, tables,
matrix, KPI, scatter plots, box plots, etc.
Published and maintained workspaces in Power BI Service, allotted the time refresh for the data, maintained the
apps and workbooks.
Used DAX functions to create measure and calculated fields to analyze data for logical visualization and used
Power Queries to transform the data.
Run DAX queries and functions in Power BI.
Maintained Excel workbooks, such as development of pivot tables, exporting data from external SQL databases,
producing reports, and updating spreadsheet information.
Created Power Pivot models and Power Pivot reports, published reports onto SharePoint and deploy models into
SQL Server SSAS instance.
Good knowledge in Power BI Embedded functionality to embed Power BI reports into their own web apps.
Researched and fixed data issues pointed out by QA team during regression tests. Interfaced with business users
to verify business rules and communicated changes to ETL development team.
Worked with data architects’ team to make appropriate changes to the data models.
Managed, updated, and manipulated report orientation and structures with the use of advanced Excel functions
including Pivot Tables and V-Lookups.
Environment: Power Bi Desktop, Power Bi Service, SQL Server, SSAS, DAX, Microsoft Azure, ETL, Teradata, MS-Office
Suite (Word, Power Point, Excel), Scrum/Agile, SharePoint.
Ditech Fort Washington, PA. May 2017 to November
2019
Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
Collected requirements from report developers and designed report demos to satisfy user demand supporting
decision making.
Collaborated with data engineers and operation team to implement the ETL process to ensure that the data
warehouse is up to date for reporting purposes, wrote and optimized SQL queries to perform data extraction to fit
the analytics requirements.
Used Git 2.x for version control. Used Agile methodology and SCRUM process for project development.
Participated in all phases of data mining, including data collection, data cleaning, developing models, validation,
visualization, and performed gap analysis.
Created SQL Stored procedures, CTE, Trigger to validate, extract, transform and load data into Data Warehouse
and Data Mart.
Familiar with the AWS data stack, including services like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon RDS. Extracted
data from these sources and optimized queries to ensure fast and efficient data retrieval.
Developed Tableau data visualization using Cross tabs, Heat maps, Box and Whisker charts, Scatter Plots,
Geographic Maps, Pie Charts, Donut Charts, Bar Charts, and Density Charts
Utilized quick filters, action filters, parameter controls, achieved functionalities such as dynamic displaying title,
commentary, and corresponding records, collapse and expand the table, sub-report linkage, dynamic tooltip
displaying, etc.
Developed Custom Functions and Complex formulas for reports used calculations, sorts, filters, and sections to
enhance the data presented in reports.
Preparing dashboards using calculated fields, parameters, calculations, groups, sets and hierarchies in Tableau.
Involved in automating reports generated on a weekly and monthly basis on Tableau Desktop.
Resolved performance issue with scalability by tuning parameters or changing the graphs.
Published reports on to Tableau Server, which allowed end users to understand the data on the fly with the usage
of quick filters for on demand needed information.
Experienced in setting up and managing Tableau Server on AWS which involved configuring security settings,
managing user access, and optimizing performance.
Produced comprehensive analysis report on legacy data, data structure and statistical summary with Python.
Performed data preprocessing and feature engineering for further predictive models including Support Vector
Machine, Naive Bayes Classifier to predict potential.
Used Pandas, NumPy, Seaborn, SciPy, Matplotlib , scikit-learn, NLTK in Python for developing various machine
learning algorithms. Utilized machine learning algorithms such as linear regression, multivariate regression, naive
Bayes, Random Forests, K-means, & KNN for data analysis.
Worked on different data formats such as JSON, XML, and performed machine learning algorithms in Python.
Boosted the performance of regression models by applying polynomial transformation and feature selection.
Delivered presentation to executives on current loan performance and future trend.
Involved in daily meeting to report progress and share insights with teammates from other groups.
Environment: Tableau Desktop, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL, Git, Oracle, DB2, Business Objects, PL/SQL, MS Excel, ER/Studio.
Created SSIS Packages to import and export data from Excel, Text files and transformed data from various data
sources using OLE DB connection by creating various SSIS packages.
Developed, deployed, and monitored SSIS Packages.
Performed operations like Data reconciliation, validation and error handling after Extracting data into SQL Server.
Designed and implemented ETL processes based in SQL T-SQL stored procedures, triggers, views, tables, user
defined functions and security using SQL SERVER 2012, SQL Server Integration Service.
Extensively used SSIS transformations such as Lookup, Derived column, Data conversion, Lookup Aggregator,
Conditional split, SQL task, Multicast, Derived Column, Script task and Send Mail task etc.
Wrote Triggers and Stored Procedures to capture updated and deleted data from OLTP systems.
Identified slow running query and optimization of stored procedures and tested applications for performance,
data integrity using SQL Profiler.
Extensively worked with SSIS tool suite, designed and created mapping using various SSIS transformations like
OLEDB command, Conditional Split, Multicast and Derived Column.
Used SSIS to build up high performance data integration solutions including extraction, transformation, and Load
ETL.
Developed, monitored, and deployed SSIS packages. Scheduled and executed SSIS Packages by using SQL Server
Agent.
Environment: SSIS, Business Objects, SQL Server, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL, SQL Profiler