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Data Analyst
who ships the report

Power BI · DAX · Power Query · Microsoft Fabric · SQL

I own Power BI reporting from business request to production. Ambiguous questions in, clear KPIs, semantic models and dashboards out — used daily by 300–400 people across Operations, Business and Finance.

Stack Power BI DAX Power Query (M) Star schema Microsoft Fabric SQL Azure DevOps
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Report users
±0
Operations · Business · Finance
Business domains
0
One shared KPI definition
Support → Data
0 mo
Own initiative, evening study
Reporting migration
0
QlikView → Power BI, Finance
Filters: Belgium PL-300 in progress
Impact

What I shipped

Six things from the current role that changed how people work with numbers — including the one that didn't make it to production.

Finance reporting

QlikView → Power BI migration

Led the migration of Finance reporting. Static exports became interactive historical analysis, so Finance can validate trends and follow performance over time instead of comparing screenshots.

One definition per KPI

Semantic models that hold up

Star-schema models built with SQL, Power Query and DAX time intelligence (YTD / YoY / LY) on Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse — so the same KPI means the same thing in every report.

RLS · refreshes · tuning

Governed, fast reports

Row-Level Security, scheduled refreshes and standardised practices in Power BI Service; performance handled with SQL pre-aggregation, Tabular Editor and Bravo.

Agile in the data team

Sprint planning + backlog dashboard

Proposed and helped introduce Agile sprint planning inside the data team, and built the dashboard management now uses to prioritise backlog items during planning.

Business analysis

GlowMate feature analysis

Delivered the requirements document for a feature on the group's internal AI platform: scope with MoSCoW, risks and functional modelling. Legal's compliance review deprioritised the feature; the platform itself went to production.

8 months

Support engineer → data analyst

Moved into data on my own initiative: evening Business Analysis course, contributions to an internal data initiative, then a full move into the reporting role.

Toolkit

The stack behind the reports

Grouped the way a model is: what builds it, what feeds it, what keeps it fast, and how the work gets agreed on.

Modelling & BI

  • Power BI
  • DAX (time intelligence)
  • Power Query (M)
  • Star schema
  • Semantic models
  • Row-Level Security

Data & platform

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse)
  • Power BI Service
  • Excel
  • Data quality

Performance & tooling

  • Performance tuning
  • SQL pre-aggregation
  • Tabular Editor
  • Bravo
  • Scheduled refreshes
  • Azure DevOps

Ways of working

  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder management
  • KPI definition
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Presenting to leadership
DAXmeasures / time-intelligence
// same definition, every report
Revenue YTD =
CALCULATE (
    [Revenue],
    DATESYTD ( 'Date'[Date] )
)

Revenue YoY % =
DIVIDE (
    [Revenue] - [Revenue LY],
    [Revenue LY]
)
Time intelligence lives in the model, not in ten different Excel files. That is usually the whole fix.
Career

Work experience

Oct 2025 – Present Current role

Data Analyst

Glowi Solutions · Belgium

End-to-end Power BI reporting for 300–400 users across Operations, Business and Finance, supporting management and executive decisions.

  • Translate business requirements from multiple domains into actionable KPIs, semantic models and dashboards people actually use.
  • Design and maintain scalable semantic models with star schema, SQL, Power Query, DAX time intelligence (YTD / YoY / LY) and Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse.
  • Led the Finance migration from QlikView to Power BI, replacing static reporting with interactive historical analysis.
  • Delivered the business analysis for a GlowMate feature: requirements document with MoSCoW scope, risks and functional modelling.
  • Present analytical solutions to stakeholders and leadership, and iterate on their feedback.
  • Introduced Agile sprint planning in the data team and built the backlog-prioritisation dashboard used during planning.
  • Govern quality with RLS, scheduled refreshes and standardised practices; tune performance with SQL pre-aggregation, Tabular Editor and Bravo.
Feb 2025 – Oct 2025

Support Engineer

Glowi Solutions · Belgium

  • First-line technical support by phone and email, handling incidents and service requests in HaloPSA.
  • Promoted to Data Analyst within eight months after an evening Business Analysis programme and work on an internal data initiative.
  • Supported the move from HaloPSA to Azure DevOps by sharing process knowledge and improving ticket management across teams.
2019 – 2024

Student Support

Open Line · Maastricht

  • Technical support in enterprise Microsoft environments: Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Azure.
  • Built troubleshooting, communication and customer-service skills while combining work with studies.
Academic projects

Built during Erasmus

Erasmus — University of Porto, AI & Data Analytics.

Python · OpenCV

Computer vision — object counting & self-driving simulation

Built a program that detects and counts objects from video input, then extended it into a self-driving-car simulation that follows the road and avoids obstacles in real time.

Python · scikit-learn

Machine learning — animal image classifier

Trained a classifier on a labelled animal dataset to decide whether an image contains an animal, using a train/test split to evaluate accuracy.

Background

Languages & education

Languages

Dutch Native
English Professional
German Basic
French Basic

How I work

Straight with stakeholders about scope and trade-offs, calm when a report breaks the morning of a board meeting, and happiest when a messy question turns into a KPI everyone agrees on.

Education & certification

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

In progress

Business Analysis

Evening course

Applied Information Technology

Coursework completed

Erasmus — AI & Data Analytics

University of Porto, Portugal

Secondary — Economics & Sciences

Completed

The BI skills come from applied work and self-study, with PL-300 running alongside to formalise them.

Contact

Let's talk

Open to Data Analyst, BI Analyst and Business Analyst roles in Belgium.