Kendal Garrett
Chicago,IL
Summary
Highly organized and dependable professional with a knack for effectively managing multiple priorities while maintaining a positive attitude. Demonstrated success in meeting team goals and a strong willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
BI Practice Lead
Lead BI development
06.2024 - Current
- Lead BI development, overseeing client dashboards, reporting, and database migration projects
- Research & Development for GTM Solutions & Strategy Implementation
- Served as PM role during contracts, structuring timelines, sprint, and stories related to epics
- Developed BI reporting practice for over 7 industries: Healthcare | Manufacturing | Supply Chain | Retail | Agricultural | E-Commerce | Environment Sustainability & Clean Energy
- Established governance standards, including security protocols and data catalog creation
- Designed and introduced leadership development, coaching and team management model, resulting in promotion of employees into increased levels of responsibility. (Power BI, Looker, Snowflake
- Derived forward-looking insights from ongoing analytics projects to offer predictive intelligence for ongoing business decision-making.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Drafted SOWs and contracts to secure client engagements and drive project success
- Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
- Spearheaded and implemented new projects to expand scope of engagement.
- Devised and deployed predictive models using machine learning algorithms to drive business decisions.
Senior Consultant
Pandata Group
06.2023 - 06.2024
- Championed & Development of project plans using SDLC Methods: Agile | DevOps | Waterfall
- Oversaw Development & Implementation of the Company's Operations & Marketing database
- Established Data Governance & Management Best Practices, with MDM tool & use case scenarios
- Responsible For Creating over 30 SOWs, Resulting in over $1.58 Mil in Business Revenue
- Worked with over 8 clients to provide various reports for C-Suite & Executives& Power BI Models
- Power BI - tutoring for clients with analyst new to software
- Maintained a 66% client retention rate within the first year
- Hold weekly meetings to gather requirements For Sprint: Task, Stories, Bugs
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Establish SOP (Standard Operations Procedure) with clients BI reporting architecture: DEV, UAT, PROD as it relates to ETL development
Business Intelligence Developer
H&R Block
05.2022 - 04.2024
- Served on cross functional team supporting analytics & developer
- Small Business Market, data integration into existing database & schema architecture
- Advanced Looker Development, Explore, Explorers, RLS Security
- Developed Models/Views for Pricing Team, Small Business Products, Marketing, E-Commerce Data
- Development of P&L Models & Reporting dashboards for small business sector
- Handled massive quantities of business intelligence data, personally managing as much as 4 terabytes.
Associate Consultant
Pandata Group
10.2021 - 06.2023
- Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues.
- Led various projects under guidance and supervision of chief consultant.
- Helped team of 7 lead consultants optimize efficiency of current systems by conducting training sessions.
- Developed effective improvement plans in alignment with goals and specifications.
- Provided advice, made recommendations and implemented problem-solving strategies when business needed to re-energize.
- Leverage CI/CD best practices, to ensure successful deployment of ML models and application code
- Assisted in Development & Launch of External Reporting Application
- Liaised with customers, management, and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions
- Designed physical table structures to client parameters, integrating business goals and data set characteristics to streamline data entry and processing.
- Cultivated positive relationships with vendors to deliver timely and cost-effective supply of services and materials.
- Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
- Created Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Extract, Transform, Load operations.
Data Visualization Designer
ALAS
03.2018 - 10.2021
- Developed & Maintained Business Reporting Dashboards For Internal Departments: Marketing, Finance, Loss Prevention, Mergers, Acquisitions & Membership
- Assisted in Development & Launch of External Reporting Application
- Assisted in Migration from legacy database to improved data warehouse
- Responsible For Developing Scripts used to create views/tables
- Created New Data Models & Reporting for Dept: Merger, Acquisitions' & Membership
Operations Analyst
Pangea
03.2018 - 05.2018
- Design LookML Models & Views, to be highly cohesive, dynamic using Looker
- Developed Operational Metrics for Field Leasing Agents, Call Center Closing Agents identify strong leads, and narrow window for closing a client
- Held District/level meetings regarding data finding of operations with Zone Leader's buildings
Education
BBA - Business Economics
LOYOLA CHICAGO
Chicago01.2017
BBA -
LOYOLA CHICAO
Chicago01.2017
Skills
- Power BI - [DAX/MDX]
- Looker - [LOOKML/YAML]
- Sigma - AWS
- Snowflake - [T-SQL, SNOWSQL]
- Figma/DrawIO
- Python - PySpark
- Project Management
- Database Architecture
- BI Design/Modelling
- Information Governance & Security
- Project development
- Feasibility analysis
Certification
- Snowflake Pro Core Certification
- Microsoft Associate Analyst
- Microsoft Fabric Solutions
Volunteerpositions
- Auxiliary Board President, Association House Of Chicago, 5/2022
- Auxiliary Board - Fundraising Chair 10/2020
Timeline
BI Practice Lead
Lead BI development
06.2024 - Current
Senior Consultant
Pandata Group
06.2023 - 06.2024
Business Intelligence Developer
H&R Block
05.2022 - 04.2024
Associate Consultant
Pandata Group
10.2021 - 06.2023
Data Visualization Designer
ALAS
03.2018 - 10.2021
Operations Analyst
Pangea
03.2018 - 05.2018
- Snowflake Pro Core Certification
- Microsoft Associate Analyst
- Microsoft Fabric Solutions
BBA - Business Economics
LOYOLA CHICAGO
BBA -
LOYOLA CHICAO
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