
Abu Bakar Nisar Alvi
Senior Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Power BI & Microsoft Fabric Consultant with 8+ years of expertise in business intelligence and data analytics. Delivered 1000+ training hours to Fortune 500 companies across UK, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, with proven track record managing $300M digital transformation programs. Specialized in end-to-end BI solutions and data-driven business growth strategies.
Work experience
Principal Consultant & Co-founder
RADEC Technologies Pvt LtdFreelance
Apr 2016 - Present
10 years 7 months
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Responsible for overall strategic vision of the company, with consultative support from other team members. - Develop strategic business plans and processes, manage contracts, SOWs and other commercial agreements to pursue growth opportunities for the company. - Lead the IT product development team on multiple software development projects using the best practices of Agile project management, Data Analytics solutions using BI tools and technologies like Power BI and Fabric. -As an Agile PM and coach, developed in-house processes for SDLC including capturing the user stories, performing backlog grooming, conducting iteration planning and retrospective meetings as per Scrum and XP best practices - Conducted more than 05 x public training batches on Power BI comprising 100+ participants and multiple corporate trainings to 150+ participants on using Power BI. - Secured a USD 100,000/- grant from DFID, under the Ilm Ideas2 program, for developing solution 'EDUPi', low cost innovation for classroom based blended learning. The product won the Silver Award for "Best in Social Inclusion" from Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) in 2018. - Increased the business growth by 300% in a new and tough private schools' market through strategic partnerships and digital outreach.
Power BI Consultant and Trainer
DA Trendz
Oct 2023 - Oct 2025
2 years 1 month
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Provide Data Analytics and Power BI consultancy on projects related to leading companies in the Gulf Region, primarily in Saudi Arabia.
Power BI / Fabric Consultant and Trainer
Zeki BI
Apr 2023 - Oct 2025
2 years 7 months
Leeds, UK
As a Power BI / Fabric consultant and trainer, provide services to some of the top corporate clients in the United Kingdom Consultancy: - Performing comprehensive assessment of the underlying data estate for client businesses and playing it back to the business leaders identifying areas for business growth based on utilization of data. - Performing detailed business analysis focusing on a specific data use case for the client and developing an end to end architecture of the proposed BI / Fabric solution that needs to be adopted for the business function. - Using advanced development techniques to build end-to-end analytics solutions based on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Within Power BI using dimensional data modeling for reporting, advanced DAX and conditional formatting techniques for report development. - Multiple 5 x days technical assessment of digital transformation data estate, including suggesting roadmap for undertaking BI and analytics projects for clients in manufacturing and housing industries. - 10 x days Business Requirement Gathering for a Business Intelligence application for a leading housing association in the UK. Training: - 2 days intermediate level corporate Power BI training to team of analysts of SISK. - 1 day intermediate level corporate Power BI training to analysts of PRS for Music in UK - 2 days intermediate level corporate Power BI training to team of analysts of HLM Architects.
Content Creator
Enterprise DNA
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year
Auckland, New Zealand
As an Enterprise DNA Expert, responsible for developing video based learning content related to Microsoft Power BI and other Power Platform tools
Senior Digital Consultant
World Bank Group
Nov 2018 - Jul 2023
4 years 9 months
Jakarta, Indonesia
As a senior digital specialist, had multiple roles to give expert opinion on areas related to digital transformation of social enterprises. - Developed a comprehensive Power BI dashboard for mapping the environmental risk vulnerability matrices across various regions of Indonesia. - Offered continuous consultancy support for digital strategy, primarily focusing on digital transformation of processes. - Provided project management support to the WBG Social Development Unit (SDU) for a key US $300 Million digital transformation program 'Institutional Strengthening for Village Service Delivery (2020-24)', being executed for the Government of Indonesia. I was also engaged with senior government stakeholders, effectively negotiating the concept of building an automated, data-driven, digital village governance model in Indonesia.
Practice Lead / Trainer Data Visualization and Business Intelligence
Dice Analytics
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
1 year 7 months
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
- Responsible to conduct corporate and public trainings on Business Intelligence and Data Visualization tools like Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. - July 2021 -Dec 2022 : Conducted public training on Power BI and Tableau to around 500+ students - July 2021 - Dec 2022: Conducted corporate trainings in Pakistan on Power BI and Tableau for multiple clients including Jazz, Zong, KPRA, Unilever , reaching out to 300+ participants
Consultant, Youth Employment Program
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board (KPITB)
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 2 months
Peshawar, Pakistan
- To design, manage and supervise around 15,000 trainings to be imparted under the KP Youth Employment Program in 2017-2018
Ministry of Defence, Government of Pakistan
Dec 1999 - Mar 2016
16 years 4 months
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
General Manager
Dec 2011 - Mar 2016
4 years 4 months
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
- The major responsibility was product design and development related to large scale embedded systems projects worth millions of dollars for the premier R&D organization of the country. Experience also includes program management of handling multiple projects. - Hands-on project management including HR, Admin, procurement and financial aspects of multiple projects including appraisals, regular reporting / presentations to senior management - Development of project master plans, workflow / task management, work assignment plans, production and technology process sheets, production scheduling documentation and deadline management for multiple projects
Technical Manager
Dec 2004 - Dec 2011
7 years 1 month
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
- My primary responsibility was development of intelligent embedded systems for deployment in mission critical applications. Other roles and responsibilities included - Compliance of Industrial and mil-grade Quality Assurance and Quality Control standards in product development - Preparation of design and technical specification for multiple high end products used in data acquisition systems - Development of high end technology solutions based on multi-layered PCB design, low power digital electronics and low cost MEMS sensors based design in multiple mission critical applications
Assistant Manager
Dec 1999 - Dec 2004
5 years 1 month
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
- My primary responsibility was to work as a hard core Embedded Hardware / Software Design engineer, along with some responsibilities related to project management. - I worked on embedded system tools and high level programming languages like C/C++ and also extensive work in assembly language programming. - I also assisted my team members in developing Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and performing hardware / software integration. - Some of the work involved field level visits for product integration, testing and commissioning. - The technical details of the work are company proprietary and confidential
Education
University of Sussex
MS in Satellite Communications and Space Systems
2005 - 2006
2 years
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
1996 - 1999
4 years