Brandon Heidinger
Business Intelligence | Data Modeling | Data Strategy
- Role
- Business Intelligence Engineer Ii at Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
- Location
- Columbus, OH, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brandon Heidinger
Data professional with extensive experience across the BI lifecycle - from data modeling and warehousing to reporting, governance, and administration. Beyond hands-on development, I excel at aligning technical teams and business leaders around shared goals. I’m dedicated to continuous learning and proactively stay ahead of emerging AI trends to drive productivity and innovation.Areas of Expertise:• BI Solution Architecture & Data Modeling• Data Visualization & Reporting (Power BI)• Advanced SQL & DAX Optimization• Cloud Data Warehousing (Snowflake, Databricks)• Cloud Cost Observability & Optimization• BI Performance Tuning & Scalability• Data Governance, Administration & Security• Stakeholder Training, Enablement & Communication• AI & Emerging Tech Integration
Experience
Business Intelligence Engineer Ii
Nov 2023 — Present · Columbus, OH, US
In my current role as a BI Engineer II, I design and optimize enterprise-scale data models and cloud analytics solutions. Additionally, I lead initiatives that enhance performance, reduce costs, and increase visibility across cloud operations.• Achieved $200K annual cost savings by parameterizing Power BI models to route workloads to Snowflake warehouses optimized separately for import and direct query scenarios• Accelerated model refresh by 56%(45 to 20 minutes) by aligning incremental refresh policy with upstream stored procedures.• Reduced the size of primary semantic model by 43%(105GB → 60GB) by leveraging DAX Studio to identify and remove redundant high-cardinality columns• Developed observability models and reporting for cloud data platforms, enabling the Data Platform Engineering team to monitor query activity, cost trends, and batch performance• Host bi-weekly office hours to support technical business “Power Users”, solving complex BI challenges and sharing best practices
Education
The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), Operations Management, Logistics Management
2013 — 2017
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