Abdullah Siddiqi
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
Business Intelligence Analyst with 5+ years of experience using predictive modeling and data visualization to optimize business decisions. Led projects that cut costs by 17% and boosted operational efficiency, delivering data-driven strategies at Team Global Express. Skilled in analytics, process optimization, and stakeholder collaboration to drive impactful business outcomes.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
BI Analyst - Network Performance and Strategy
Team Global Express
Melbourne, Australia
06.2023 - Current
- Delivered comprehensive insights to GM and EGM-level stakeholders, offering strategic guidance to enhance service delivery (DIFOT), and improve business performance.
- Translated complex business requirements into technical solutions using SQL, Power BI, and Python, aligning business needs with data capabilities.
- Led a customer churn analysis project through cohort analysis, predicting at-risk customers, and identifying an $8 million churn risk, enabling targeted retention strategies.
- Cultivated strong relationships with operational and cross-functional teams, and stakeholders, including customers, to drive collaborative success.
- Optimized delivery routes using k-means clustering to group delivery locations, reducing transportation costs by up to 17% in select areas.
- Conducted a cost-benefit analysis using Python, comparing in-house fleet performance to third-party logistics, achieving a 6% reduction in transportation costs.
- Developed a customer segmentation model based on freight profiles to optimize containerization and enhance storage efficiency.
- Authored advanced SQL and Python scripts to extract data from Snowflake data warehouses, and created pipelines using AWS Glue, supporting business intelligence tool development.
- Designed and built automated Power BI reports using DAX and data modeling techniques, incorporating advanced functionalities to meet diverse business needs.
- Enhanced data processing efficiency by 30% through the development and optimization of data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric, using Lakehouse architecture.
Business Analyst - Data and Insights Specialist
Essity Australasia
Melbourne, Australia
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Created spend reports and communicated spend data to the Director of Procurement using Power BI, including designing data flows, publishing reports, and managing workspaces.
- Worked on a request for proposal (freight tender); building models for apple-to-apple price comparison by extracting and transforming historical data, and conducting ROI analysis, assisting the leadership team in making data-driven decisions.
- Suported Commercial Analyst on detention data worth 5 million $, related to Freight, to allocate responsibility between Freight Forwarders.
- Automation of workflow processes using Power Platforms and Python scripts for sustainable solutions.
- Implemented an end-to-end vendor approval system using Power Platforms, which reduced the vendor onboarding process time by 40%.
- Support Business Functions (Procurement and Supply Chain): Creating RFP models by mining large datasets, transforming, and analyzing them using SQL, Power Query, and Python.
Data Analyst
Al-Qalam - Student Support Trust
Melbourne, Australia
01.2020 - 07.2021
- Gather and organize student-related data from various sources (surveys, program records, partner institutions, etc.).
- Provide data-backed evidence to support grant proposals and donor reports.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and visualizations for internal stakeholders, donors, and partner organizations.
Jr.Data Scientist
CareCloud
Pakistan
07.2018 - 07.2019
- Automated the medical billing process using OCR and Python to extract data from PDF documents and save it directly into the database, eliminating manual effort entirely.
- Prediction of claim denials using classification algorithms, and handling imbalanced data using resampling techniques.
Education
Master of Science - Data Science
Deakin University
Melbourne, Australia07.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences
06.2018
Skills
- Data modeling
- Stakeholder management
- EDA
- Statistical analysis
- Predictive and prescriptive analysis
- Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI
- Snowflake
- Data Lake
- Power Platform
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- SQL
- Python
- Adept communicator
- Power Query
- Project Management
- Agile development
- Process Improvement
Accomplishments
- Emerging Leadership Programme (Team Global Express)
- Awarded the Green Team Monthly Award three times in a row for outstanding performance (Team Global Express)
- Successful Automation of Lease and Vendor approval System (Essity)
- Recipient of Deakin Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Scholarship 2019
- Dean's Honor List (Fall 2014)
Projects
Uber Analytics (Thesis) - Modelling Uber trips data using Deep Learning to predict travel time and creating a power BI Report to visualize data points.
VOXPOPULI - Evaluate Sentiment Analysis - Developed a sentiment analysis model based on a data set provided by education sector for analysing student feedback.
Certification
- Microsoft SQL for Beginners
- Power BI
- Power Automate Beginner to Pro
- ENS Negotiation Skills Training
Timeline
BI Analyst - Network Performance and Strategy
Team Global Express
06.2023 - Current
Business Analyst - Data and Insights Specialist
Essity Australasia
07.2021 - 06.2023
Data Analyst
Al-Qalam - Student Support Trust
01.2020 - 07.2021
Jr.Data Scientist
CareCloud
07.2018 - 07.2019
Master of Science - Data Science
Deakin University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences
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