About — Giovanni Valdes

About

Analyst.

Builder. Operator.

I have a finance background and spent a year working inside a café in Honolulu — building systems, tracking financials, and making operational decisions. I then completed the Google Data Analytics program and applied SQL, Tableau, and BigQuery to a 100k+ row e-commerce dataset across two structured analyses.

7 Projects Built

4 Tools Certified

1 Real Business

Background

Analytics meets
the real world.

My foundation is finance — understanding numbers, modeling performance, and making data-driven decisions. I built on that by working inside a café in Honolulu, where I built operational systems and tracked financial performance.

I then completed the Google Data Analytics program — SQL, Tableau, and BigQuery — and applied those tools to a 100k+ row e-commerce dataset, producing two structured analyses with findings and Tableau dashboards.

See the Work

Giovanni — Shidler College of Business, UH Mānoa

B.B.A. — University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Shidler College of Business · Google Data Analytics Certified

Foundation

Finance Background

Built a foundation in financial analysis, modeling, and data-driven decision-making at the Shidler College of Business, UH Mānoa. Learned to see businesses through the lens of numbers — margins, costs, and performance.

Operations

Café Operations

Ran day-to-day operations for a café in Honolulu. Managed inventory, tracked financials, built internal workflows, and identified where systems were breaking down.

Systems

Building the Infrastructure

Built every major system from scratch — inventory tracking, profit margin analysis, performance dashboards, operational SOPs, and a fully custom-coded website.

Analytics

Google Data Analytics Certification

Completed the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate — 9 courses covering SQL, Tableau, Python, and BigQuery. Projects completed using SQL and Tableau.

Now

Seeking Data Analyst Roles

Actively looking for data analyst positions — remote or Honolulu-based. Google certified. Two dataset analyses completed. Five operational projects from a real business context.

What I Bring

Technical Analytics Skills

SQL in Google BigQuery and Tableau — certified through Google's Data Analytics program and applied to real business systems and structured datasets.

Business Context

I understand what the numbers mean because I've worked inside a business where those numbers drove real decisions — inventory purchasing, menu pricing, expense management, and performance reporting.

End-to-End Execution

From pulling raw data and writing queries to building dashboards and delivering recommendations — I handle the full analytics workflow independently, without needing to be walked through it.

How I Work

No fluff.
Just results.

Real Data First

Every analysis I've done is grounded in actual business data — not cleaned-up textbook examples or synthetic practice sets.

Numbers-Driven

Analytics is the lens I apply to every problem. Every project on this site started with a question the data could answer.

Clear Communication

A good analysis means nothing if the findings aren't communicated clearly. I build dashboards and reports people can actually use.

End-to-End

From data extraction to final recommendation, I own the full workflow — no hand-offs, no gaps in accountability.

Credentials

Education &
Certifications.

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Google Data Analytics

Professional Certificate — 9 courses covering SQL, Tableau, Python, and BigQuery. Completed April 2026. Verify: coursera.org/verify

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B.B.A. — Finance

Bachelor of Business Administration, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Concentration in Finance.

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Tools & Platforms

SQL · Google BigQuery · Tableau · Excel · Financial Modeling · HTML / CSS / JavaScript

Analytics meetsthe real world.