Jordan Azbell
Altoona,IA
Summary
Results-driven Business Intelligence professional with 8+ years of experience in financial reporting, data engineering, and analytics. Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, optimize reporting architecture, and deliver actionable insights that support executive decision-making. Skilled in Power BI, SQL, and Tableau, with a track record of driving automation, improving performance, and fostering collaboration to achieve strategic business goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Business Intelligence Consultant
EMC
Des Moines, IA
05.2024 - Current
- Directed transformation of enterprise financial reporting by implementing a unified Power BI semantic model, improving data consistency and reducing maintenance overhead.
- Automated complex daily refresh processes for Sales Funnel dashboards, saving significant manual effort and ensuring timely insights for stakeholders.
- Mentored new team members on data architecture, Power BI, and reporting standards, accelerating onboarding and ensuring consistency.
- Partnered with team members to design and deliver the first incurred-loss reporting suite, enhancing financial risk visibility and supporting compliance initiatives.
- Optimized report performance by 75%, reducing load times and improving capacity utilization across enterprise workspaces.
Enterprise Reporting Developer II
Kum & Go, Maverik
Des Moines, IA
03.2023 - 05.2024
- Designed and maintained over 1,000 Tableau dashboards with interactive visualizations, improving reporting efficiency and user experience.
- Led initiatives to optimize reporting processes, reducing refresh times and improving data accuracy for business-critical insights.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver advanced analytics solutions, including calculated fields, LOD expressions, and dynamic parameters.
- Migrated 50+ Tableau reports to Google Looker, ensuring continuity and scalability of BI solutions.
Data Engineer
Kum & Go
Des Moines, IA
09.2021 - 03.2023
- Collaborated with IT and business partners to establish long term solutions to complex problems that fit the overall strategy.
- Designed and implemented ETL processes leveraging SSIS packages and stored procedures for incremental fact tables and Type 2 slowly changing dimension tables.
- Utilized Power BI to monitor on-premises ETL operations, offering invaluable insights into data processing performance by tracking run times and row counts.
- Diagnosed and resolved critical ETL issues, ensuring uninterrupted data flow and compliance with business requirements.
- Led the development of comprehensive mapping documentation for legacy ETL processes, enabling a seamless migration of the enterprise data warehouse to a cloud-based architecture and ensuring data integrity throughout the transition.
Software Engineer II
Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA
05.2019 - 08.2021
- Ensured timely delivery of accurate data to business stakeholders through effective management of on-demand ETL operations.
- Developed robust data sources using Oracle, creating seamless connections to reporting tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Provided efficient on-call support for diagnosing and troubleshooting failed ETL jobs.
- Implemented SQL-based diagnostics for ETL jobs, enhancing reliability and minimizing downtime.
IT-Quality Assurance Analyst II
Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA
05.2015 - 05.2019
- Designed, executed, and maintained automated test scripts, improving QA efficiency and reducing manual testing time.
- Collaborated with software development teams to define product requirements and create test plans for BI solutions.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Management Information Systems
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA05.2015
Skills
- Snowflake/SQL
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Data Modeling
- ETL Processes
- Reporting Optimization
- Process Automation
- Stakeholder Engagement
Timeline
Finance Business Intelligence Consultant
EMC
05.2024 - Current
Enterprise Reporting Developer II
Kum & Go, Maverik
03.2023 - 05.2024
Data Engineer
Kum & Go
09.2021 - 03.2023
Software Engineer II
Principal Financial Group
05.2019 - 08.2021
IT-Quality Assurance Analyst II
Principal Financial Group
05.2015 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Management Information Systems
University of Northern Iowa