Super Users of the Quarter - Q2 2020

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As we are nearing the end of this Super User season, this was the last opportunity for our Super Users to shine, before we invite new Super Users into the program. 

The following Super User Superstars have shown outstanding dedication to the Power BI Community, helping out by answering questions, posting blogs, and more. Find out who made it to the top of the Super User leaderboards!

Super User Superstars 2020 Q2:

Vanessa van Gelder (@vanessafvg)
Vanessa is a Data and Analytics consultant in the UK. For 25+ years she has worked in a spectrum of roles across various industries in the data and analytics arena. Since the excel days of 'Power BI' she has been an evangelist of the product and the value of data visualisation. She has been involved in the roll out of Power BI in various organisations and enjoys helping people learn to use Power BI, and of course loves to build an insightful dashboard. Currently studying data science and working as a data visualiastion scientist she loves being part a super user in the Power BI community, and loves the challenge of helping people solve their Power BI challenges.

Ed Hansberry (@edhans) - Twitter @ehansalytics

Ed Hansberry is a CPA and has spent most of his career in the accounting department as a Controller, Director of Finance, and a few other roles in general business management. He has been manipulating data and streamlining business processes across multiple departments and during his career using Excel, Access, VBA, and most recently Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps. He earned an MCSA in BI Reporting from Microsoft in 2018 demonstrating proficiency in data analysis, visual reporting, data modeling, and more. He has spoken at the Orange County Power BI User's Group where he is co-organizer, and at the 2019 Power Platform World Tour in Anaheim and San Diego on optimizing Power Query. He is currently the principal at eHansalytics, a consulting company specializing in Power BI and other Power Platform technologies.

@Tahreem24

Tahreem is working as BI developer at top Digital Media Firm at Mumbai, India. She has rich exprience in BI tools like Power BI, SSAS, Tabular Model, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Cloud etc.  She is also a Microsoft Certified Professional in Power BI and Microsoft Certified in Azure Fundamentals. She encourages others and provides support whenever required.

Marcus Wegener (@Mwegener)

Marcus Wegener works as Business Intelligence Developer at KUMAVISION AG, one of the world's largest implementation partners for Microsoft Dynamics. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert for Data Management and Analytics and loves to inspire others with his solutions. His #mission is clear: "Get the most out of data, with Power BI."

https://kumavision.com/en/bi/power-bi

@AlB

Top of the Tiers 2020 Q2:

Super User I: nickyvv

Nicky van Vroenhoven is a BI professional focused at the Microsoft stack. He mainly works with Power BI, Biml and T-SQL. After working 9 years in BI-consultancy jobs in several industries and companies, he is currently working as a Lead BI Developer at the DWH team at Van Lanschot Kempen in The Netherlands. Nicky has spoken at several User Groups, SQL Saturday Events, and the Power BI World Tour about Power BI. In addition he enjoys tweeting and blogging about topics like Power BI, Power Platform, DAX and SQL Server at nickyvv.com.

Super User II: az38

Aleksei Zhukov www.linkedin.com/in/alekseizhukov 

Aleksei has 10+ years experience in work with and around data, mostly in telecom sector

Starting from data-driven decision making engineering roles and understanding its needs, now Aleksei specializes in delivering quality data to end-point business users

He works with a data of different nature: networks performance, operational effectiveness, finance and sales analysis and sports stats as a hobby and life passion

Microsoft environment certified expert Aleksei loves to share his knowledges in Power BI and other Microsoft products deeply inside and widely outside his multinational employer.

Super User III: MFelix

Miguel Félix is a business analyst in an industrial company, with 20 year experience from areas so diverse as banking to an event and communication group. Since university always made his own tools in Excel and VBA to improve the analysis and ways to show data that allowed users to have quick insights.

With Power Query and Power BI the insights are easier and faster, and takes BI to a different level since removes the dependency on specialized professional to have data as we need and when we need it.

Super User IV: amitchandak

Amit has vast experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, ML and Data Science. He has built multiple BI products and solutions over the years and now predominantly works with MSBI Stack, Azure and Power BI, Python, R, SQL Server, Oracle, Citus DB, Spark, and Elastic Search, etc. and has worked on developing BI Solutions for different verticals in the past. These include Healthcare, Logistics, Hospitality, Travel, FMCG, Consumer Durable, FinTech, Media, Automotive, Spend Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, Order Management.

Amit currently heads the Analytics Division at Kanerika Software as Chief Analytics Officer. He is also a mentor for B-school and loves Blogging on BI. He is thrilled to be part of the Power BI super user community as he would love to take this opportunity to use his experience and skills to solve complex business problems and also motivates other team members to learn about real-world data issues.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitchandak78/

2020 Q2 Super Users Leaderboard

Showcasing the top overall and the top of each tier for the quarter:

June Super Users Leaderboard

Showcasing the top overall and the top of each tier for the month of June:

Congratulations to everyone who made it on the leaderboards!

You can learn more about Super Users here.

Have any of the above Super Users helped you? Make sure to leave them a comment below to let them know they are appreciated!