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Faiz UsmaniData & Automation Analyst | Microsoft Certified Fabric & PowerBI Associate.
Professional Summary

A competent professional with hands-on expertise in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, SQL, and Power Automate. I've helped global organizations save over €200k by streamlining business processes and driving smarter, data-driven decisions. With a Master’s in High Integrity Systems and a strong foundation across data analytics, web development, and project management, I bring both technical skill and business acumen to every project. Known for my work ethics, integrity, and creativity, I'm now excited to take on my next impactful role where I can build innovative solutions and help businesses grow.

Skills
Data Analytics — Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Fabric, Power Query, Excel, Python.
Data Engineering — Dimensional Modelling, ETL Pipelines, Dataflow Gen2, Lakehouse, Warehouse.
Automation — Power Automate (RPA, AI Builder), Workflow Optimization.
Project Management — Agile/Scrum Methodologies, OKRs, Stakeholder Management, OnePlan.
Platforms & Technologies — Azure Cloud Platform, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, GitHub, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Spring Boot.
Work Experience
07/2025 – PresentRemote

Data Analyst (Freelancer)

  • •Designing data models and dashboards for clients in the hospitality and energy sector.
  • •Helping clients in digital transformation of their services.
    • 11/2024 – 04/2025Frankfurt, Germany

    Data and Automation Analyst

    Quipu GmbH (Procredit Group)
  • •Optimized Power Query and DAX transformations of vital PowerBI reports by 50% and implemented governance policies using RBAC and RLS.
  • •Migrated semantic models to Fabric and designed data architecture (medallion, dimensional modelling) reducing refresh time from 2 hours to under 15 minutes using Lakehouses, Warehouse, Dataflow Gen2, Pipelines, and Spark Notebooks.
  • •Created Power Automate flows for a new Project Demand process bringing down inspection time from over a day to under 1 hour.
  • •Identified projects through analysis and automation of time logging data where the work is not being billed (€160k Euros).
    • 01/2022 – 03/2024Darmstadt, Germany

    Data and Automation Analyst

    Merck Group
  • •For 20+ countries analyzed telecom records in SQL, made ETL automation pipelines and prepared reports/dashboards (monthly average: €700k in cost, 90k GB in data usage) to display trends, KPIs and outliers in Excel and PowerBI.
  • •Took initiative & automated reporting and mailing tasks in Power Automate reducing various 2-3 hour tasks to under 30 seconds.
  • •Saved 5% of telecom expenses through internal controls and took data stewardship responsibilities for the telecom data (35k+ Users).
  • •Collaborated with stakeholders to define key business metrics using OKRs and RFPs for contract renegotiations with providers like AT&T, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom etc.
    • 09/2020 – 07/2021Darmstadt, Germany

    Software Engineer

    Hostmi GmbH
  • •Created data dictionaries, migrated their whole database to AWS and managed different sprints in Azure DevOps.
  • •Provided consultation to a partner company on improving their data and software architecture and redesigned their UI/UX.
  • •Developed a map-based app over GIS data stored in PostgreSQL to attain €75k Euros funding from the European Space Agency.
    • 11/2018 – 09/2019Moradabad, India

    Data and Marketing Analyst

    Metro Ceramics
  • •Generated sales lead (valuation: €20k) in the hospitality and retail sector through market & customer analysis and made reports for the executives.
  • •Under a minimal budget, effectively planned online marketing campaigns gaining 5k+ organic followers and brand recognition.
  • •Photographed and designed their catalog, presentations, and advertisements.
    • 11/2016 – 09/2018New Delhi, India

    Software Engineer / Analyst

    Infozech Software Pvt. Ltd.
  • •Worked on data modelling, munging, A/B testing, reconciling invoices, and ML tasks (descriptive and predictive analytics).
  • •Documented the business requirements then designed the UX and developed the UI for one of their upcoming products.
  • •Hackathon awards: Best trainee project (Feb 2017), Best use-case design(Jan 2018).
    • Education
    2020 – 2023Frankfurt, Germany

    MSc. High Integrity Systems (Computer Science)

    Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

    GPA: 1.9 (Scale- 1 maximum, 4 minimum)

    2012 – 2016New Delhi, India

    B.Tech in Computer Science

    Jamia Hamdard

    CGPA: 8.56/10, Head of Design - IEEE Student Branch, Sponsorship Head - College fest 2015/16.

    Projects

    Master's thesis - Analysis and Detection of Anomalies in Event Communication (Grade- 1.0)

    Analyzed 3M+ event data points with Python and Azure Data Explorer, identifying anomaly patterns that reduced system maintenance costs for the third largest energy provider company of Germany, EnBW AG.

    Elicitation using Automation and AI

    An automation project made on procuring financial tables and translating text to languages of countries where the ProCredit bank operates from the quarterly reports using AI builder and RPA in Power Automate and ChatGPT API.

    Microsoft Fabric end-to-end project using Google News API

    Set up a data pipeline that fetched the latest news json returned by the Rapid google API into a table, analyzed the news sentiments using Notebooks and visualized the results in PowerBI. The whole solution was managed in a deployment pipeline.

    CO2 emissions extraction from ESG reports of DAX Companies

    Built an automated solution to extract relevant pieces of info from the ESG reports of companies using table and text processing techniques in Python. Fed the info in Huggingface transformers to finally extract the Scope 1 and 2 emission values.

    Certificates
    Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)|Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)|Microsoft PL-900 (LinkedIn)|ITIL V4 (Udemy)|Generative AI (EIT Digital)|PwC Tech Consulting Simulation
    Languages
    English — Full Professional Proficiency, Hindi — Native or Bilingual Proficiency, German — Elementary Proficiency, Pursuing
    Interests
    Photography|Reading Novels|Dancing|Table Tennis|Weight Training|Badminton|Wildlife Enthusiast