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LINUS PRAVEEN

LINUS PRAVEEN

UK

Summary

Business Intelligence Consultant with 9+ years of experience focused across multiple areas of expertise with a specialization in front end design, schema development, environment support and modernization.

Accomplished Senior Consultant competent at developing project and implementation plans. Gifted with strong analytical and project management skills. Successful history of adapting to new challenges and finding effective solutions.

Results-driven professional leveraging problem-solving skills to overhaul, improve and refine business practices. Strategic thinker with advanced analysis skills. Confidently tackles large scale challenges, prioritising greater organisational efficiency. Highly-effective Business Analyst effective at delivering quality system requirement documentation ahead of tight deadlines. Business process mapping and end-user testing expertise.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Consultant

MicroStrategy Ltd.
Chiswick, London
04.2021 - Current


• MicroStrategy schema definition, design, implementation and performance tuning, testing, and troubleshooting of BI solutions

• Analysis and interpretation of business requirements and translation into functional and technical requirement specifications

• Assistance with project planning, estimating, approach definition and implementation planning

• Support, design, build and test MicroStrategy objects, projects, reports, dashboards, cubes

• Work closely with DBAs on data model or database changes required to support BI projects data model recommendations, created UI design templates and created plans for modernising the BI platform

  • Analysed database and schema design and made recommendations for best practices and improvement of dataworkflow
  • Decreased database load by refactoring data structures and implementing custom analytics cubes and efficient project management reports
  • Created automation using Python and Workstation and utilized Rest API calls to to manage the BI platform
  • Constructed custom Platform Analytics dataset for real-time statistics retrieval
  • Collaborated with sales teams for cloud migration, including discovery and POV phase
  • Custom SDK plugin development and custom python automation script design.

Senior BI Developer

SHL Group
Thames Ditton
01.2015 - 04.2021
  • SHL (part of CEB/ Gartner) is a global psychometric test publisher, talent measurement consultancy and occupational psychology specialists with results of over 25 billion data points.
  • Led and collaborated with onshore/offshore developers on 4 projects, designing and developing MicroStrategy dashboards and reports as per specifications
  • Interacted with Business Analysts, stakeholders, and ETL teams to shape requirements, analyze business data, and design logical and user story-based schemas
  • Automated the manual data entry and analysis process between the different sources, increasing the data accuracy and efficiency by 90%
  • Created optimized reports, Intelligent Cubes, and dashboards for Visual Insight users, enhancing overall user experience
  • Expertise in architecting schema objects, dashboard, and document design for various platforms, including Web, Office, and distribution services
  • Utilized Pass-through functions and relationship filters for complex reporting
  • Presented demos, trained new MicroStrategy users, and mentored team members in BI technologies
  • Led 4 version upgrades and prepared for cloud migration

Triage Analyst

SHL Group
Thames Ditton
01.2013 - 12.2015
  • The role covered a range of critical responsibilities including Incident, Change, and Release management
  • This involves initial incident assessment, potential escalation to relevant teams, and utilizing the HPSM Support tool for defect confirmation and bug fixes
  • Meeting client SLAs, especially regarding service availability and server alert monitoring, is paramount
  • Collaborating with various teams such as Server, Database, Security
  • Storage, and Network is essential for incident resolution and application usage monitoring
  • Additionally, close collaboration with Product Management and Business Analysts aids in system enhancement to minimize incidents
  • The position involves Manual Software Testing during Monthly Maintenance and Releases
  • Efforts include investigating incidents for immediate resolution or proper delegation to resolver teams
  • Constructing knowledge base articles and training call-raising teams contributes to incident reduction
  • Working with the QA team to develop test cases for incident prevention is vital
  • Lastly, the role encompasses running issue logs and generating reports to analyze usage patterns, sharing findings with the development team for technical assessment.

Senior Technical Support Specialist

SHL Group
05.2010 - 01.2013
  • Ensure high level of customer service to achieve agreed SLAs. To provide a high level of customer service to clients at all times. To ensure all support calls and emails are
    answered and resolved within the agreed SLAs and logged appropriately.
  • To ensure client complaints are dealt with and logged in line with the SHL
    complaints escalation policy.veloped knowledge-sharing methodologies, diagnostic tools and creative processes to improve end-user experience.
  • Developed knowledge-sharing methodologies, diagnostic tools and creative processes to improve end-user experience.
  • Performed on-site beta testing for new systems to identify and resolve potential problems.

Education

MCA -

MicroStrategy Certified Architect

Comptia Network+, A+, IT Technician -

Comptia Academy London

Application Associate -

SAP BW– Application Associate Training Program

Skills

  • Data, Business Intelligence
  • MS SQL, MySQL, Data Analysis, ETL
  • Data: Wrangling, Big Data, Redshift
  • Cloud: AWS Azure Cloud Console
  • Programming :Python SQL R


Core Competencies

  • Dossier, Document & Report Design
  • Schema Design, Project Architecting
  • Library Config & Deployment
  • Workstation, Platform Analytics
  • Customisation User Interface Design
  • Tableau Power BI


Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • MicroStrategy Certified Architect MCA
  • MicroStrategy Certified Analyst
  • Analytics Architect Data Scientist
  • SAP BW Application Associate
  • Comptia Network
  • Communication Skills
  • Business intelligence analysis and solutions

Timeline

Senior Consultant

MicroStrategy Ltd.
04.2021 - Current

Senior BI Developer

SHL Group
01.2015 - 04.2021

Triage Analyst

SHL Group
01.2013 - 12.2015

Senior Technical Support Specialist

SHL Group
05.2010 - 01.2013

MCA -

MicroStrategy Certified Architect

Comptia Network+, A+, IT Technician -

Comptia Academy London

Application Associate -

SAP BW– Application Associate Training Program
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