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Paulo Costa

@paulo_costa

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Passionate senior data consultant with a background in retail operations, sales and technology.

Portugal

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior-level roles where I can lead data modelling, dbt and Looker implementations, mentor teams, and drive data warehouse migrations and performance improvements.

Experienced in Data modelling and transformation (dbt and Dataform, data validation, data visualization (Looker) and data warehouse architecture (BigQuery and Snowflake).
Migration projects, greenfield implementations, health-checks and enhancements.
Experienced in client facing scenarios in international contexts and working with multi-functional teams. Native English Speaker. Great team player (consolidated in previous leadership roles) with an eye for detail, quick learner, client centered and fluent in several languages. Focusing on further developing technology skills and tools.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Department Manager

Decathlon

Led department operations including merchandising, recruitment and coaching, and contributed to store commercial project to meet sales and EBITDA targets within a €12M annual budget.

P&L management Merchandising Team Leadership Recruitment Budgeting Performance Management

Looker Consultant

Slice

Designed and built business performance dashboards, supported LookML best practices, administered Looker instances and trained users to improve reporting accuracy and adoption.

Looker LookML Data Visualization Dashboarding User Training Performance Tuning SQL Analytics

Senior Data Consultant

Datatonic Americas

Led dbt and Dataform data modelling, transformation and warehouse architecture (BigQuery, Snowflake) for clients, delivering migrations, greenfield implementations and QA that improved data reliability and analytics performance.

DBT dataform BigQuery Snowflake Data Modelling ETL Data Validation Looker Agile

Key Account Manager

Farfetch

Managed European high-end retail partners on the Farfetch marketplace, driving partner performance, product selection and sell-through to improve commercial KPIs.

Account Management Partner Relations Performance Analysis Retail Operations Stakeholder Management

Data Consultant / Project Manager

Sensormatic Solutions

Built data-warehouse reports for traffic and inventory intelligence using BigQuery and Looker, defined reporting requirements, and developed ETL and data models to support KPI measurement and business cases.

Google BigQuery Looker Data Warehousing ETL SQL KPI Analysis Reporting Stakeholder Management

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Rumos

Course, Database and Business Intelligence

2018 - 2019

Database and Business Intelligence course covering relational databases, business intelligence concepts and Microsoft SQL Server topics, including preparation for Microsoft certifications.

Porto Business School

Master's Degree, Management

2013 - 2014

Master's Degree in Management Control and Performance Evaluation with coursework in strategic planning, project management, balanced scorecard, budgeting, cost management and investment analysis.

Portuguese Catholic University

Bachelor's Degree, Environmental Engineering

1998 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering with foundational coursework in mathematics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, bioprocessing, process control, statistics, programming and industrial engineering topics.