Neil Jones - BI DEVELOPER, DataTrail Ltd

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Work Background

DematicSenior Professional Software Engineering • DEM - SIOP - Capacity Planning, Eng & Software

Apr. 2024 - Oct. 2024Grand Rapids, Michigan, United StatesAiding in the transition of Qlik reports to Power BI. Data model migration from Qlikview to Snowflake. knowledge transfer of Qlik reports in the NA region to EMEA

A2Dominion GroupBusiness Intelligence Developer

Aug. 2022 - Apr. 2024RemoteAug '22 - Jun '23 - Report transition for F&O division from Dynamics 365 to Power BI. Data housed in Azure Synapse and SQL. Jun '23 - Apr '24 - Compliance report creation for building safety in Power BI, multiple data sources housed in SQL and funneled into PBi.

DematicSenior Data Analyst

Oct. 2020 - Aug. 2022London, England, United Kingdom• Lead developer on North American operational forecast • Overseeing external consultant expectations, documentation provisions, relationship maintenance and day-to-day deliverables • Assisting the implementation of a Jira ticketing board and daily stand-ups to improve visibility and team performance • Facilitating in the migration from demand planning to statistical forecasting • Lead developer on EMEA and ANZA operational forecast inclusion • Providing reports and NPrinting maintenance with daily QMC updates • Senior analyst on day-to-day process improvements, troubleshooting and documentation

Rachel StollBI Developer

Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2020Remote• Demo data cleansing and data model creation • Created a simple user friendly dashboard for demo use that provided easy to understand metrics, but gave an in depth look at the demo data set • Provided clear and comprehensive user documentation on Power BI maintenance, exporting data, data connections, basic functionality, licensing and points of contact.

Pomerol PartnersSenior Business Intelligence Consultant

Mar. 2016 - Jul. 2020London, United KingdomPower BI Showcase | Senior Consultant • Built a dashboard from scratch using a local excel database with curated dummy sales data linked to real pharmacies and postcodes across the UK • Created visuals for 3 years of sales and cost data for a concise sales rep and region-based dashboard • Used Power Query to connect multiple excel files hosted on OneDrive Zimmer Biomet | Senior Consultant • Created a new QlikView focused BI environment from scratch to provide insight and forecasting with a focus on daily activities and performance monitoring • Created incremental, hourly updates tying two separate ERP systems together using loops in the load script and a waterfall styled QMC schedule • Provided report maintenance with hourly QMC updates along with detailed documentation at handover • Provided a technical plan of costing and road map, taking care of stakeholder management throughout the entire project lifecycle Dematic Corp. | Senior Consultant • Travelled between the US and the UK for face to face stakeholder management • Created the QlikView platform of applications for Materials Management, Factory Operations and SIOP Forecasting • Global BI Platform integration for North America, China, Australia and Europe • Provided reports and NPrinting maintenance with daily QMC updates • Worked on call for logic updates, requirement gathering and execution as well as ad hoc report building for stakeholders • Investigated data quality issues in SAP tables requiring in depth understanding of the table layouts and SAP transactions • Manipulated SAP tables to create a cross module connection and form better business insights than what SAP currently offers • Daily stakeholder engagements and management

Financial Ombudsman ServiceConsultant

Jun. 2015 - Mar. 2016London, United Kingdom- Data analysis. – checking data quality and accuracy, analysing requirements and timely distributing of case information. - Casework management - handling all aspects during the first stages of a consumer complaint, such as recording information, requesting missing information and updating all parties involved on the case progression. - Providing statistics on employee productivity to the team manager. - Creating a charity fundraiser – Creating an automated excel spreadsheet to allocate randomly selected teams to participants and record points and results for the rugby world cup with the proceeds going to charity. - Producing MI reporting on individual performance reviews. - Distributing daily consumer information and case updates to team members to improve cohesion.

Self-employedContractor

May. 2014 - Jun. 2015London, United Kingdom- Assist in the planning and construction of events. - Stakeholder management – providing assistance to engineers and clients on site as well as reporting on any problems and providing solutions. - Team Management - ensuring punctuality and delegating duties. - Reporting to high level management on job, team and individual related issues.

Y.M.C.A. of the Rockies: Snow Mountain RanchCrew Leader

Nov. 2013 - Feb. 2014Granby, Colorado, U.S.A.- Assist in the organisation and execution of lodge maintenance. - Leading a crew of workers through daily upkeep activities on site. - Assist management with the training and on boarding of new employees. - Provision of after hour assistance and ad hoc tasks when requested. - Reporting to management on team member performance, on-site issues and efficiency solutions.

Rhodes UniversitySports Team Manager

Feb. 2013 - Nov. 2013Grahamstown Area, South Africa- Day to day management of a sports team - Planning, organizing and communicating fixtures, fundraising events and end of season tours. - Budget administration - Reporting issues, solutions and general feedback to sports department.

Twing Sushi/ Wok RestaurantBar and Stock Manager

Jan. 2013 - Nov. 2013Grahamstown Area, South Africa- Doing weekly stock takes, and conducting all functions of restock - Assist with online advertising. - Assist in the creation of solutions to increase sales. - Ad hoc managerial duties. - Training/on boarding of new employees, performance monitoring and providing feedback to management.