Smartsheet and Power BI systems your team can trust at audit time.
I’ve led data and analytics teams for 15+ years. I help compliance, PMO and operations leaders in regulated industries fix the reports nobody trusts and the workflows that grew into a mess.
- Smartsheet + Power BI
- Healthcare, pharma, finance, construction
- Fixed scope, fixed price
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Sound familiar?
Most teams I talk to don’t need more dashboards. They need the ones they have to be right, fast and owned.
Our Smartsheet setup grew organically and now nobody knows which sheet is the real one.
Sheet sprawl, broken cross-sheet links, automations nobody maintains.
Two reports show different totals for the same thing.
Definitions, exclusions and timing that drifted apart without anyone deciding.
The report takes a minute to load, so people export to Excel.
Flat models, heavy DAX and refresh schedules that fight business hours.
The audit is in six weeks and we can’t show where this number came from.
No lineage, no validation steps, no record of who owns exceptions.
Start with a free audit
A focused review of one Smartsheet workspace or one Power BI report your team depends on. No cost, no obligation, and you keep the report.
45-minute review call
You walk me through the workspace or report and the decision it’s meant to support. I look at structure, data flow and where trust breaks down.
Written report in 5 business days
A 4–6 page audit: findings ranked by severity, business impact in plain language, and effort to fix each one.
A clear next step
One fixed-price option to fix the top issue. Take it, do it yourself with the report, or do nothing. Your call.
What the audit checks
- Workspace structure, permissions and sheet sprawl
- Automations, approvals and broken cross-sheet references
- Power BI data model, DAX performance and load times
- Refresh reliability, gateways and ownership
- Row-level security, access reviews and audit trail
- Data definitions, lineage and ownership
- Whether anyone actually uses the report, and for what
How we work together
Every engagement has a defined scope and price before it starts. No open-ended hourly billing.
Free audit
One workspace or report. Written findings and a fixed-price recommendation within 5 business days.
Fixed-scope project
Fix the top findings: rebuild a model, clean up a workspace, or migrate from Tableau. Definitions, validation and ownership are set up as part of the work. Usually 2–8 weeks.
Ongoing support
Fixes, new reports and a second pair of eyes before audits. For teams without a dedicated BI owner.
A good fit if you
- Have 50–500 people and work under regulatory or audit pressure
- Already use Smartsheet, Power BI or both
- Have a small BI team, or none, and a report you don’t fully trust
- Want a defined outcome, not extra hands
Probably not a fit if you
- Need staff augmentation with no defined scope
- Can’t give access to the environment being reviewed
- Want a one-day training with no follow-through
Beyond the dashboard
A report is only as trustworthy as what feeds it. I work on the whole path, from the source system to the decision.
Your data sources, connected properly
Oracle, SQL Server, SharePoint and Excel sources brought into Power BI with reliable refresh. Tableau-to-Power BI migrations for teams consolidating on Microsoft 365.
Governance built into the work
Agreed definitions, validation checks, clear owners and access reviews, so the numbers hold up when an auditor or executive asks where they came from.
Python for the heavy lifting
Automated data prep and quality checks, plus scoring and forecasting models when a project needs more than a dashboard.
I’m Saif Aman.
I lead a data analytics and data science team in a large, regulated operation. My day-to-day is reporting systems, data quality controls and the conversations that turn findings into decisions.
I also hire data people, which is why I know what a working analytics function looks like from the inside: clear definitions, validated numbers and someone who owns each report. That’s what I build for clients. My own work spans Oracle and SQL data pipelines, Power BI and Tableau reporting, and Python automation such as a nightly data-quality check that scans thousands of inspection records for duplicates, missing fields and late entries, and flags them before they reach a dashboard. Delivery is backed by a small team of Smartsheet, Power BI, Python and SQL specialists, so you get senior judgment without a senior-only price.
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Resume Diagnostic
Find out why a resume isn’t getting callbacks for the roles you want.
- You send one target job posting and your resume
- 45-minute review call
- Marked-up resume with gaps ranked by impact
- Rewritten summary and top bullets
- Delivered within 3 business days
Interview Diagnostic
Practice the interview as it will actually run, and hear what a hiring manager hears.
- 60-minute mock interview built from a real posting
- Behavioral questions plus a SQL, Power BI or analytics case
- Scored feedback on every answer
- Your five strongest stories, tightened
Career Accelerator
From application to offer, with a hiring manager in your corner for a month.
- Both diagnostics included
- Resume tailored for up to 3 target roles
- LinkedIn profile rewrite
- Two more mock interviews, three in total
- Weekly check-in and email support between calls
Pay by card or PayPal once we’ve confirmed the package fits your situation. If it doesn’t, there’s no charge. I take a limited number of Accelerator clients each month.
Why a dashboard can be accurate and still mislead
A chart may calculate perfectly while the process underneath it changes. If a form is replaced or a definition shifts halfway through a reporting period, the trend shows a break that looks like performance.
Before I present a result like that, I ask three questions:
- What changed in how the data was collected?
- Which records are still comparable?
- Who needs to act on the answer?
If your team is making decisions off a chart like this, that’s exactly what the free audit is for.
Tell me about the report you don’t trust.
Book a 15-minute intro call, or send a short note. I reply within one business day.
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