Christopher Paquet

or this contract, I played a pivotal role in supporting the Global Service leadership by providing timely recurring and ad-hoc analyses crucial for financial forecasting and cost savings initiatives. Collaborating seamlessly with a diverse spectrum of teams at Waters, including IT, data science, product/finance, sales, and service, I worked diligently to establish an "aligned data story." This involved partnering with cross-functional teams to identify optimal sources of information. Additionally, I showcased my expertise by presenting end-to-end workflow demonstrations for internal clients, offering comprehensive insights through meticulously crafted reports and analytics. Fueled by creativity, I tackled data and analytical challenges head-on, contributing innovative solutions that positively impacted the organization's strategic decision-making processes.Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments and software, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for more than 60 years. For this contract, I played a pivotal role in supporting the Global Service leadership by providing timely recurring and ad-hoc analyses crucial for financial forecasting and cost savings initiatives. Collaborating seamlessly with a diverse spectrum of teams at Waters, including IT, data science, product/finance, sales, and service, I worked diligently to establish an "aligned data story." This involved partnering with cross-functional teams to identify optimal sources of information. Additionally, I showcased my expertise by presenting end-to-end workflow demonstrations for internal clients, offering comprehensive insights through meticulously crafted reports and analytics. Fueled by creativity, I tackled data and analytical challenges head-on, contributing innovative solutions that positively impacted the organization's strategic decision-making processes.
Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Query and +16 skills

Spearheaded comprehensive financial forecasting and cost-saving initiatives for Global Service leadership, delivering timely recurring and ad-hoc analyses.
Developed optimized reports and data models utilizing advanced tools such as DAX Studio and Tabular Editor 3.
Collaborated seamlessly with diverse teams at Waters, including IT, data science, product/finance, sales, and service.
Contributed valuable insights to enhance the Azure data warehouse, ensuring alignment with the organization's data story.
Leveraged Figma for wireframing UI/UX design and meticulously documented both code and work for transparency.
Applied creative problem-solving techniques to address complex data and analytical challenges within the organization.
Developed bespoke custom data visualizations using Deneb, showcasing innovative solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Assumed a leadership role in conducting training sessions for the technical team, providing in-depth explanations of the model and report development process.
Facilitated knowledge transfer, ensuring a smooth handoff and empowering team members with the necessary skills and insights.

Orchestrated front-end development within a collaborative team of five, taking ownership of DAX encoding for Sales, Finance, and Operations teams, ensuring precision in calculations.
Effectively migrated legacy Tableau reporting to Power BI, actively collaborating with business stakeholders to comprehensively gather and understand upgrade requirements, skillfully translating them into seamless application features.
Demonstrated autonomy and efficiency in executing assigned tasks, consistently delivering high-quality results within established timelines and budgets.
Conducted comprehensive end-to-end workflow demonstrations for internal clients, effectively showcasing the functionality and insights embedded in the reports and analytics created.

Directed the development of over 30 Microsoft Power BI applications aimed at extracting actionable insights in the realm of revenue operations.
Encompassing key areas such as marketing funnel, attribution modeling, pipeline generation, customer engagement, web analytics, and product analysis, these applications significantly contributed to informed decision-making.
Initiated the project with approximately 70 business users and successfully demonstrated the viability of its concepts, leading to a subsequent company-wide rollout the following year, encompassing over 750 employees.
Upheld data integrity standards through meticulous QA audits, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of information.
Proactively addressed challenges by closely collaborating with Microsoft and other vendors.
These BI applications seamlessly integrated with critical business systems, including Salesforce, AWS, and Office365, enhancing cross-functional data accessibility and usability.

Integrated RingCentral to Salesforce Lightning as well as configured all SIP phones such as Yealink and Polycom devices.
Spearheaded a data quality strategy which involved reducing duplicate records by more than 98%, standardizing all address fields using Salesforce’s state and country picklist feature, configuring validation rules to ensure the completeness of records and enriching company data using Data.com.
Spurred their Pardot implementation, alongside the marketing team, by integrating it to Salesforce, Olark, Google AdWord and Google Analytics.