← Back to Skills

SQL

I’ve built my SQL experience through a combination of professional practice and formal coursework. At SafeNest, I apply SQL weekly to clean and transform data for grant reporting, automate ETL pipelines, and support dashboards. This hands-on work taught me how to design practical queries, optimize performance, and troubleshoot real-world issues.

At the College of Southern Nevada (CIT 180: Introduction to Databases), I learned relational modeling, normalization, and structured query writing (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, subqueries, indexes). That foundation complements the applied problem-solving I do at work.

How SQL fits my data workflow

APIs / FilesCSV • JSON • RESTPython (pandas)Clean • reshape • validateSQLstaging → relational model → queriesBI ToolsPower BI / ExcelStakeholdersSQL is the core: persistent storage & relational logic powering clean views to BI