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Branden Rushton

Celina,OH

Summary

Results-driven Business Intelligence Developer with 7+ years of experience seeking to leverage expertise in data analytics, ETL development, and Power BI to drive data-driven decision-making in a dynamic organization.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Analytics Engineer

TrueRX Health Management Services
Remote
09.2022 - Current
  • Defined and documented requirements for the organization's Enterprise Data Warehouse as a part of the Data Governance initiative
  • Developed ETL pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics to populate data warehouse tables in an Azure SQL cloud environment
  • Collaborated with the business intelligence team to identify and deploy new data warehouse assets for use in Power BI reporting
  • Developed SQL queries, stored procedures, and views to support data requirements from various departments across the organization
  • Maintained a Power BI paginated report used by the account management team to send clients data on their prescription drug plans.

Production Support Manager

Crown Equipment
New Bremen, OH
11.2021 - 06.2022
  • Managed a team of 17 Business Analysts responsible for supporting Crown's global SAP solution production environment
  • Redesigned and automated the teams data reporting strategy by developing Power BI dashboards that monitor key performance indicators of the SAP Production Support team
  • Saved 8-16 hours of monthly manual work while increasing data visibility refresh from once per month to once per day
  • Collaborated with business analysts and key users to coordinate continuous improvement initiatives between the SAP team and the power users from the business.

Business Intelligence Engineer

Quaker Windows & Doors
Freeburg, MO
03.2021 - 10.2021
  • Led the design and implementation of an enterprise data warehouse project using Kimball and Agile methodologies
  • Successfully designed, developed and monitored 8 star schemas, making up 50+ SQL tables and well over 50M data points
  • Developed and maintained self-service BI reports in both Qlik Sense and Power BI, saving 10+ hours weekly in manual labor
  • These reports were used for Inventory Forecasting, Sales Budget Analysis, and Executive Summaries
  • Utilized Microsoft Azure DevOps for continuous improvement and deployment of SSIS packages to be stored in our EWD (SQL On-Premise)
  • Identified and implemented opportunities for data quality improvement within the enterprise data warehouse.

Business Analyst

Crown Equipment
New Bremen, OH
08.2018 - 03.2021
  • Lead a team of 30 personnel charged with identifying and cleansing master data from legacy systems for migration into SAP
  • This team cleansed and prepped 500+ different data points for over 100,000 different manufactured and warehoused materials, resulting in a 90% drop in data defects at Go-Live compared to the previous release
  • Developed and maintained 5 dashboards in Excel and Power BI to report overall progress of data cleansing project to Executive Management daily
  • Provided Excel and Power BI training and support to other business analysts on the SAP team internally
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements in order to identify gaps in the data cleansing project
  • Resulted in 25+ additional data steward rules that if missed, would have impacted manufacturing production during Go-Live.

Data Analyst

International Brake Industries
Lima, OH
01.2017 - 07.2018
  • Extracted, structured, and analyzed data sets in Power BI from the JDE ERP system to identify operational strengths and weaknesses
  • Redesigned the executive daily sales report in Power BI, saving IT staff 3 hours every morning in manual labor
  • This report was the primary tool for all of Executive Management to monitor sales and manufacturing activity from the prior day
  • Created and maintained a year-over-year sales tracker for the sales department to monitor account and sales rep actuals vs budget
  • Redesigned the procurement processes for 1000 raw materials through a reorder point system and ABC analysis
  • This system cut missing inventory by 20% and increasing sales, while keeping only increasing carrying inventory by a negligible amount.

Education

MBA -

University of Delaware
12.2016

Bachelor of Science: Electrical Engineering -

Ohio Northern University
05.2014

Skills

  • Business Intelligence: 7 years of experience in data mining, data warehousing, and actionable report generation
  • Data Modeling: Proficient in dimensional data modeling techniques for optimized data structures
  • ETL Development: Strong skills in ETL pipeline design and development
  • Requirements Gathering: Proven ability to gather and document project requirements
  • Data Visualization: Expertise in creating interactive and insightful reports using Power BI
  • Data Integration: Proficient in Azure Data Pipelines and SQL Server for data integration
  • Microsoft Excel: Advanced Excel skills for data analysis and reporting

Work Availability

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Timeline

Data Analytics Engineer

TrueRX Health Management Services
09.2022 - Current

Production Support Manager

Crown Equipment
11.2021 - 06.2022

Business Intelligence Engineer

Quaker Windows & Doors
03.2021 - 10.2021

Business Analyst

Crown Equipment
08.2018 - 03.2021

Data Analyst

International Brake Industries
01.2017 - 07.2018

MBA -

University of Delaware

Bachelor of Science: Electrical Engineering -

Ohio Northern University
Branden Rushton