Anoop - Author

I am Anoop Kumar V K, author of this BI blog. I am a Business Intelligence professional and entrepreneur with PublicBI and Reportpedia experiments. I am currently building a platform-based service in Data/BI/Analytics. Since 2017 I have been working at nights, holidays and weekends on my own business initiatives. Now I believe I am ready to take my learning to the next stage, investing time and energy to try out my business experiments and help improve businesses by building cost-effective solutions.

Experience summary :

Business Intelligence professional with over 35K hours (equivalent of 17+ years) of rich experience in implementing & leading several end-to-end business intelligence (data warehousing, analytics, data solutions) projects across various sectors for organizations based in Australia, Germany, the UK and the US in various roles.

• Creator of IBI, Agile KABI, PublicBI BIKON  and JobsBI.com among others.
• Envisioned Public Data Warehouse and PublicBI Solution.
• Highly passionate about data, BI and solutions.
• 2nd prize winner in EUDatathon2018, Brussels.
• Speaker at EU DataViz 2019, Luxembourg.
• Invited to present PublicBI EUProc solution at ESWG meeting, European Commission at Brussels. 
• Invited to present PublicBI EUProc solution at Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
• BI blogger at akvkbi.com. Non-BI blogging at akclarity.com
• At one point I was actively answering BI questions on Quora, see Anoop Kumar V K in Quora.

Sectors : Payments, EU Public Procurement, Energy Trading, Fleet Management, Retail, CPG & Gas Upstream.

• 5.5 Years at Wirecard, Munich and 8.5 Years at Infosys at various locations.
• Proven track record of recruiting and building high-performance BI/Analytics teams
• Leading and managing both co-located and offshore based BI teams. Lead by example. 
• Business & result oriented person with sound technical knowledge.
• Played various BI roles. 
• Expertise in Product Management / Ownership, Business Analysis, Project Management, Data Analysis, Data Governance, leading teams and departments.
• Recipient of several awards for excellence at work.
• Ability to grasp big picture quickly and be in the details when required.
• Recognized for setting up effective processes.
• Have an eye for useful & important topics, and a mind that gets highly creative from time to time.
• Innovative, highly proactive & organized.
• Experienced in mentoring & leading teams and leaders.
• Continuous learner, I like challenging the status quo & working on continuous self-improvement.
• Business improvement & positive change oriented with very sound DWBI skills.
• Hands-on on several front-end and back-end BI tools including ETL tools, Data Modeling tools, Analytics Platforms, Data Visualization tools, etc. 

BI Expertise

• Building, leading and managing BI teams / departments
• Business analysis and product ownership
• Envisaging dashboards, KPIs and metrics
• Solution design and architecture
• Working in in-house team and as an external
• Data warehousing 
• BI tools research
• Data modeling (especially Dimensional modeling)
• Data profiling
• Data cleansing
• Data visualization
• ETL jobs development (both with ETL tools and scripting)
• Project management
• Both on-premises and cloud-based solutions

Some of the BI tools I have hands-on experience are listed

ETL Tools : 

• Datastage
• Ab Initio 
• BODS

Data Visualization, Reporting and Analytics platforms : 

• Business Objects (BO)
• Microstrategy (both EE and Desktop)
• Google Data Studio 
• MS Excel
• Google Sheets
• Tableau
• Power BI
• IBM Watson Analytics

Databases

• Google Big Query
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• My SQL
• DB2

Languages

• Python

I am more than happy to connect with people. Connect with me on Linkedin.

I will try my best to answer your generic BI questions through the blog ASAP. 

Note : All views expressed by me in this blog are my own and not associated with any of my employers, clients, etc.