Walid Sharaar

- Owned the development and continuous improvement of BI solutions across the full reporting lifecycle. - Built analytical dashboards and reporting solutions for business units to support data-driven decisions. - Optimized complex SQL queries in Google BigQuery to improve reporting performance. - Implemented self-service BI solutions to reduce manual analysis effort. - Collaborated with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical BI solutions.

- Designed and built 8+ Power BI dashboards for the Banking Practice Department, giving management full visibility into issue tracking and KPIs for the first time and cut manual reporting time. - Ran ad-hoc analyses in T-SQL and MS Excel at the request of senior management - Integrated multiple data sources (ERP, DWH, CRM) to create a consistent reporting foundation. - Partnered closely with Finance and IT stakeholders to define, document, and validate KPI structures and data indicators.

- Sole technical point of contact for integrating 11 heterogeneous ERP systems, establishing the data foundation for company-wide controlling reports. - Analyzed financial data and managed the controlling database (DWH) for the senior management level. - Developed Power BI reports and Excel dashboards to steer operational finance metrics, feeding directly into leadership's budget decisions. - Maintained regular stakeholder communication to define KPI structures and ensure data availability.

- Worked closely with business stakeholders to capture and translate complex requirements into technical data models and reporting specifications. - Performed statistical analyses to identify correlations, trends, and anomalies in complex datasets; cleaned and structured raw data for high-performance BI visualizations. - Designed and implemented automated ETL processes to extract heterogeneous data from multiple systems as the basis for strategic business analyses.

- Analyzed, consolidated, and prepared complex, heterogeneous data sources for strategic reports, providing evidence-based planning input directly to senior ministry leadership. - Replaced error-prone manual processes with a modern, digitized data architecture (MS SQL, ASP.NET MVC, MS Access VBA), significantly reducing data-entry errors and sustaining data quality. - Actively contributed to the central Data Warehouse team, modeling and integrating business-critical KPIs into subject-specific data marts.

Data Design, Data Handling and Decision Making, Data Visualization and interpretation, Technology Trend and Monitoring, Information Systems and Business Strategy Alignment, Project and Portfolio Management, and Dissertation Project.

Java Programming, Database Management Systems, Software Engineering, Operating Systems Concepts, Probability and Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Scripting Programming with Python, Distributed Web Application, Computer Graphics, Software Quality, and Project Management.