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In my last semester project, I ended up becoming the go‑to person for anything SQL-related on a data analytics dashboard we built for our university’s career center. They needed a set of weekly pipeline reports for about 12,000 student profiles and 400+ employers. Our initial queries were taking 30–40 seconds, which wasn’t usable. I volunteered to own the reporting pieces. I broke the work into three parts: data model cleanup, core reporting views, and final dashboards. I set up a simple Kanban board in Trello so the 4 of us could track tasks and dependencies, and I did quick 10‑minute standups twice a week. I worked with the career center analyst to lock in requirements, then paired with a teammate to normalize a few key tables and add indexes on the top 5 queried columns. That cut query time down to under 3 seconds and reduced report creation effort by about 60%. We delivered one week ahead of the agreed deadline.
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