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Abdul Farah

Chicago,IL

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Analyst

Vizient Inc.
Chicago, IL
08.2016 - Current
  • Used business objects, business intelligence and other reporting tools to extract data from data solutions and data warehouses.
  • Analyzed large amounts of data to identify trends and find patterns, signals and hidden stories within data.
  • Served as primary point of contact for projects for analytics request, including creating data sets and coordinating ad-hoc analyses to address member inquiries and resolve anomalies.
  • Created Interactive Power BI Dashboard for members performance employing different statistical models.
  • Environment: Tableau, Power BI, CDB/RM, MS Excel/VBA, SAS, Database / SQL.

Business Data Analysts

ABBVIE - ABBOTT LAB
Chicago, IL
05.2012 - 04.2016
  • Researched / Analyzed at what sources of hire predictably deliver the best performing among GM population – Using Logistics Regression
  • Designed and maintained HR metrics dashboard, ETMR Scorecard, ad hoc and monthly for senior executives .
  • Build ad-hoc report solutions as requested by multiple business units using multiple data sets in a variety of formats. Typical report will include - Dependent Info, Hires, Terms, Promos, Transfers, Success factors Changes, Long Term incentivize, Impact Goal, Compensation History, Headcount & many more
  • Worked with HR Strategy to promote self service BI reporting
  • Environment: Workday, Tableau, IBM MVS / Base SAS, SAS/SQL, SAP ECC,BI Portal, MS Excel/VBA, database, SQL, TOAD.

Data Analyst

HEWLETT PACKARD
06.2010 - 04.2012
  • Designed and maintained SAP queries to perform weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports to provide operational and financial data to different managers ans Set up master data and problem solving in inventory and warehouse control.
  • Created and maintained VBA automations for management team and whole COC team to process data in a more efficient way.
  • Generated weekly reports to identify variance between actual operation result and standards in supply chain systems, then reviewed and traced the variances

Marketing Database Specialists

MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Dubai, UAE
08.2008 - 04.2009
  • Servicing Company Sales force by providing highly accurate, validated data, and advanced business intelligence, for decision support and Ad Hoc process
  • The ‘business owner’ of the transition process to new CRM systems (working with Systems team), along with others in the wider CRM team.
  • Identifies the right prospects through data mining that yields to expansion in revenue pipeline
  • Maintains and enhances customer satisfaction and improvement in business flow by producing necessary reports and continuous data augmentation

Data Analyst

CCC INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.
Chicago, IL
02.2000 - 07.2007
  • Conduct statistical research to accurately identify market influences and vehicle attributes that impact a vehicle’s market value, including but not limited to market trends, geographical differences, condition, age, vehicles type, etc. Construct and modify existing statistical models.
  • Extract data from a large dataset and perform relevant statistical analyses of administrative and automated claims databases, surveys and vehicle packages data captured during vehicle valuation.
  • Modified and developed SAS reporting programs for Vehicle component assessment to meet business requirements and conducted statistical modeling for both linear and nonlinear regression.
  • Continuously prepared flowcharts indicating the input data sets, sorting and merging techniques and wrote SAS code accordingly.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Windsor
Windsor, ON

Certificate of Modern Programming - Computer Science

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON

Skills

  • Predictive Modeling
  • Dashboard Design
  • BI Tool and System Design
  • Spreadsheet Development
  • Business Intelligence Systems

Timeline

Senior Data Analyst

Vizient Inc.
08.2016 - Current

Business Data Analysts

ABBVIE - ABBOTT LAB
05.2012 - 04.2016

Data Analyst

HEWLETT PACKARD
06.2010 - 04.2012

Marketing Database Specialists

MICROSOFT CORPORATION
08.2008 - 04.2009

Data Analyst

CCC INFORMATION SERVICES, INC.
02.2000 - 07.2007

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

University of Windsor

Certificate of Modern Programming - Computer Science

University of Waterloo

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