Yun He, Developer in Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada
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Yun He

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BI Data Engineer and Developer

Location
Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada
Toptal Member Since
October 4, 2023

Yun is a senior developer with 20+ years of experience in business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing. She specializes in the implementation of business analytics and reporting solutions. This includes capturing business needs for data integration, data modeling, and report building. In addition, Yun has a strong background in enterprise Power BI tenant administration, ensuring best practices, enforcing security policies, optimizing cost and capacity utilization, and tuning performance.

Portfolio

Kruger
Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)...
CAE
Microsoft Power BI, DAX, Power Query M, Azure Data Factory, Administration...
McGill University
Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Microsoft Power BI, Fabric, DAX, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)

The most amazing...

...project I've delivered involved optimizing a large enterprise Power BI dashboard, resulting in 10x faster performance and an 85% reduction in dataset size.

Work Experience

Senior BI Data Engineer | Data Modeler

2023 - PRESENT
Kruger
  • Oversaw the design, development, and implementation of data warehousing, reporting, and analytics solutions that deliver information efficiently, aiming to make large or complex data more accessible, understandable, and usable.
  • Worked with stakeholders to capture business needs, lead, and participate in designing, developing, and implementing Power BI analytics and reporting solutions that meet business objectives and facilitate decision-making.
  • Architected and developed data models, ETL packages, SQL Server Integration Services cubes like OLAP and Tabular, and Power BI reports, applying best practices to the development lifecycle.
  • Developed and implemented advanced visualization applications and executive-level interactive reports and dashboards using Power BI: service, Desktop, and Report Server. Ensured Power BI data model security design and performance tuning.
  • Analyzed the existing BI system to identify areas for improvement and optimize data flows. Identified opportunities to add value to the client's organization through effective information management.
  • Steered all the development in the company's BI environment. Coached and monitored users to implement best practices. Ensured BI solutions adhered to data governance processes and participated in data governance initiatives.
Technologies: Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SSAS Tabular, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Oracle, DAX, Power Query M, SQL Server BI, Data Modeling, Star Schema, Data Warehouse Design, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, SQL, BI Reporting

Senior Power BI Developer and Administrator

2022 - 2023
CAE
  • Oversaw all the Power BI development in the enterprise environment. Coached and monitored users to ensure best practices in implementing datasets and dashboards and provided feedback to the business community when deviations occurred.
  • Ensured Power BI data model security design and performance tuning, making large or complex data more accessible, understandable, and usable.
  • Engaged with clients and analytics business partners to understand business needs and translate requirements into advanced visualization designs and sustainable tools.
  • Designed, developed, and implemented advanced visualization applications and executive-level interactive reports and dashboards using Power BI Desktop and Power BI service.
  • Monitored Power BI service and gateway performance and analyzed usage data and trends to derive appropriate courses of action, ensuring optimized system performance.
  • Configured, updated, and managed Microsoft Power BI tenant-level service. Defined and enforced security policies and optimized Power BI cost and capacity utilization.
  • Installed, upgraded, and maintained Power BI gateway servers and created and updated gateway connections.
Technologies: Microsoft Power BI, DAX, Power Query M, Azure Data Factory, Administration, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Star Schema, On-premises Data Gateway, Azure SQL Databases, Oracle, Azure Data Lake, Data Warehouse Design, Azure, ETL, Data Visualization, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, SQL, BI Reporting

BI Developer | Data Analyst | Data Modeler

2001 - 2022
McGill University
  • Worked with stakeholders to capture business needs as the Power BI leader of the team. Headed the design, development, and implementation of analytics and reporting solutions to meet business objectives and facilitate decision-making.
  • Captured, analyzed, and performed cleansing of business data to ensure quality data for reporting solutions. Developed on-premises and cloud ETL/ELT to integrate and aggregate data from multiple sources and provide business insights.
  • Designed multidimensional and tabular data models for BI reporting solutions to achieve fast query performance against business data.
  • Defined, configured, and implemented data security and management for Power BI reporting solutions.
  • Monitored Power BI usage and performance and managed datasets, data models, and on-premises gateways as a Power BI tenant administrator. Established policies and guidelines to help users take proper action.
Technologies: Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), On-premises Data Gateway, Data Warehouse Design, Azure Synapse, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), DAX, Power Query M, Oracle PL/SQL, Toad, Star Schema, Azure, ETL, Data Warehousing, Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW), Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, SQL, BI Reporting

GDEU Government Reporting System

An enrollment data management system primarily used to track student enrollment data within the Québec education network. This data is used to analyze retention and graduation rates, forecast needs, and monitor new courses, programs, and degrees. The system also provides insights to determine the allocation of operating funds and financial aid to universities and students.

Electronic Factbook

A data warehousing and reporting system that provides current and historical statistical information about the university. It included reports on admission, enrollment, degree granted, teaching distribution, and tenure-stream academics.

Industrial Sales and Inventory

A data warehousing and reporting system that provides current and historical statistical and trend information on the manufacturer's sales amount, revenue, profit, contribution margin, budget, and inventory.

Languages

T-SQL (Transact-SQL), SQL, Power Query M

Tools

Microsoft Power BI, On-premises Data Gateway, Toad, SQL Server BI

Other

DAX, Data Analytics, Star Schema, Data Visualization, Data Engineering, BI Reporting, Data Warehouse Design, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Software Engineering, Data Gateway, Administration

Paradigms

ETL, Agile Software Development

Platforms

Azure, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Dedicated SQL Pool (formerly SQL DW), Azure Synapse, Oracle

Libraries/APIs

Fabric

Storage

Data Lakes, SSAS Tabular, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Oracle PL/SQL, Azure SQL Databases, Azure SQL

2001 - 2005

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1985 - 1989

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Sun Yat-sen University (a.k.a. Zhongshan University) - Guangzhou, Haizhu District, China

NOVEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT

Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft

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