SHANTHI KORLEPARA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Strong Leader, Manager, and an Active Team Player with the ability to persuade colleagues at all levels to drive the business with data.
• Experienced in IT, Data, BI architecture, Solution design, implementation, and management abiding to the best practices.
• In depth knowledge of Databases, Data warehouses, Data modeling, ETL, Dataflow, Power BI, DAX, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Fabric Analytics and Performance tuning.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and provide alternative solutions.
• Strong presentation, communication, negotiation skills with the ability to work, learn, collaborate, and cultivate win-win relationships at all levels of organization. Excellent team building. Coaching and mentoring skills.
• Experienced in driving projects using Agile methodology in Scrum Framework.

PROJECT SUMMARY

• Designed and developed data models, ETL packages, OLAP cubes, and reports utilizing Power BI applying best practices.
• Actively responded to RFP & added details of various solutions possible to stakeholders.
• Provided in depth details of licensing, cost & storage required for the solution.
• Communicated clearly about risks if any and provided risk mitigation plans.
• Led the BI development team to design a BI solution framework that resulted in 3year, $3M contract.
• Supported business development efforts (proposals and client presentations).
• Presented PBI capabilities to client with proven use cases detailing the possible complexities & risks if any.
• Estimated efforts and resource cost for BI solutions.
• Acquainted with Advanced Visualization Techniques: Explored the latest visualizations and understood how to effectively represent complex data sets that convey meaningful insights.
• Gained proficiency in data modelling techniques and mastered the Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) language for creating powerful calculations and measures. Transformed data using M language.
• Performance Optimization: Applied strategies to optimize report and dashboard performance resulting in 70% improvement in end user experience.
• Data Integration: Procure good knowledge on how to efficiently connect, transform, and integrate data from various sources to create cohesive and insightful reports.
• Power Query Enhancements: Explored the enhanced capabilities of Power Query to streamline data preparation and cleansing.
• Sharing and Collaboration: shared reports/Apps securely, collaborated with team members, and managed access to dashboards.
• Custom Development and Extensions: Identified the possibilities of custom visuals, extensions, and embedded Power BI into other applications.
• Documented source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and architecture design
• Identified opportunities to add value to the client's organization by effective use of information.
• Built relationships with key stakeholders responsible for information and performance management.
• Mentored junior developers and trained them for Hackathon.
• Provided training in DIAD and AID sessions.
• Continuously designed prototypes for POC's/ MVP's specific to client requirements.
• Captured core competitive knowledge and deliver it back to product and engineering teams to enhance team capabilities.
• Documented best practices and lessons learnt to develop and deploy solutions, feeding them into the knowledge base for reuse.