Samuel Fosto

. . Resource management

. . Management of a portfolio of several projects

• • Implementation of Data Governance (quality, KPI standardization, access)

• • Management of the evolution of the Data & BI platform towards Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Semantic Model)

. . 900+ users served in Data & Dashboards

• • Design of data architecture adapted to business challenges

• • Management of the BI team (Data Engineers, BI Developers)

• • Administration and optimization of Microsoft Power BI

. . Implementation of AI functionalities in Power BI (Q&A / conversational analysis)

. . Evolution of OLAP cubes (MDX) and creation of new tabular cubes (SSAS) with RLS and OLS security

Mission to optimize data management, storage, and security to improve analytical exploitation and decision-making within the Hyundai France network.

Design and implementation of a Power BI-based decision-making platform for Sales, Marketing, and Management Control departments, with the supervision of a team of 4 people.

Key achievements

. . Project management (planning, budget, costing, project risks, ...)

. . Data Governance (data access, GDPR, quality, standardization of indicator calculations, ...)

. . Architecture and technical implementation

. . Interaction with business teams (Marketing, Sales, Services)

. . Integration of data from partners and distributors

. . Creation of tabular Analysis Services cubes (SSAS) + Security (role, RLS)

. . Implementation of a hybrid On-Premise and Cloud Decision-making architecture (Data Lake + SQL Data Warehouse)

. . Design and deployment of Power BI reports

With the goal of improving performance management and decision-making within the Finance, Marketing, and Communication departments, managed in Agile (Scrum) mode a project to implement a decision-making platform based on Azure and Power BI.

Managed a team of 6 people.

• Project scoping with business managers and identification of key stakeholders

• Costing of developments and project planning

• Organization and facilitation of project committees

• Regular reporting to the CFO and CIO

• Coordination of project team activities and progress monitoring in Agile / Scrum methodology

• Facilitation of workshops for gathering and analyzing business needs

• Contribution to the implementation of the BI architecture based on: Azure, SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI

• Administration and organization of Azure resources: storage space management, access rights management, environment structuring

• Power BI Service platform administration

• Organization of acceptance testing (UAT) phases and business demonstrations

• Training users on the use of Power BI and the Azure platform

• Implementation of an Azure / Power BI analytical platform enabling Finance, Marketing, and Communication departments to access consolidated and automated indicators

• Improved availability and reliability of analytical data

• Accelerated decision-making thanks to interactive dashboards