Manish Dadhwal photographed against a painted forest valley at dusk.
Plate — the founderSurrey / 2026
Report PROF-01 · Revision 2026.09 Sheet 1 of 8

Curriculum vitae of

Manish
Dadhwal

I make enterprise data agree with itself.

PositionERP Data Analyst
EmployerRubicon Organics
LocatedSurrey, BC · Canada
SystemDynamics 365 Business Central
Service10 years, 1 month
StatusOpen to engagement
01ProfileSheet 2

Between the requirement and the record

Most ERP problems aren't software problems. They're a mismatch between what a team meant to record and what the system let them record. My work sits in that gap: gathering the requirement properly, configuring the module to match it, then proving with data that the match held.

At Rubicon Organics I support Finance, Supply Chain, Production and Cultivation on a single Business Central instance, with integrations reaching into SQL, Azure and Elevated Signals on the cultivation side. The reporting layer — Power BI, Power Query, DAX — is where the work becomes visible, but the durable part is upstream: validation rules, audit trails, SOPs, and root-cause fixes that stop an incident from returning.

Before Canada, seven years at Tata Consultancy Services in Delhi doing the same discipline at enterprise scale — KPI definition, reporting standards, and the liaison work between business users and IT. Outside the day job I build the automation side of the same problem through my own practice, Surrey AI Automation.

02TrajectorySheet 3

Ten years on one axis

Posting periods to scale, 2016 to date, with duration at right. The Lululemon engagement was a three-month contract by design.

Tata ConsultancyDelhi, India
7 yr 2 mo
LululemonVancouver, BC
3 mo
Rubicon OrganicsVancouver, BC
2 yr 8 mo
Surrey AI AutomationOwn practice
Ongoing
ITIL v4 ↓ MBA ↓
2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026
03Measured outcomesSheet 4

What changed, and by how much

Delivered at Rubicon Organics, January 2024 onward. Figures are printed in red where negative, per ledger convention — here every negative is an improvement.

Variance against pre-implementation baseline · scale 0–50%
MeasureBasisMagnitudeChange
Data synchronisation timeIntegration−40%
ERP training adoptionEnablement+35%
Recurring incidentsSupport−30%
Transaction data accuracyAudit+25%
Four measures · one shared scale0% ————— 25% ————— 50%Verified
04ExperienceSheet 5

Three systems, one discipline

ERP Data Analyst

Rubicon Organics

Jan 2024 — Present·Vancouver, BC·Full-time

  • Own ERP data analysis, reporting and system support for 70–100 users across Finance, Supply Chain, Production and Cultivation.
  • Configure, test and optimise Dynamics 365 Business Central modules and their integrations with SQL, Azure and Elevated Signals.
  • Built the validation and audit framework that lifted transaction accuracy 25% and surfaced errors for correction before month-end.
  • Run root-cause analysis and ship permanent fixes — recurring incidents down 30%.
  • Automate reporting with Power Query, DAX and Power Automate; maintain the Power BI and Excel models behind KPI review.
  • Lead UAT and end-user training, and contribute to data governance, SOP documentation and pipeline improvements.

Dynamics 365 BC · Power BI · SQL · Azure · DAX · Power Query · Power Automate

System Analyst

Lululemon

Oct 2023 — Jan 2024·Vancouver, BC·Contract

  • Analysed warehouse operations to gather requirements for system enhancements that improved order accuracy.
  • Configured and integrated label-printing and inventory applications — Zebra, BarTender, Manhattan Active — against core ERP modules.
  • Built ETL between warehouse label and inventory systems and central databases.
  • Performed root-cause analysis on data discrepancies and corrected them at source with the operations team, minimising supply-chain disruption.
  • Managed IT asset provisioning and user roles through a period of organisational change, supporting access security and continuity.

Manhattan Active · Zebra · BarTender · ETL · Excel

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services

Aug 2016 — Oct 2023·Delhi, India·7 years

  • Collected and formalised business requirements, KPIs and reporting standards, driving enterprise-wide alignment across procurement, finance and operations.
  • Designed resource and asset allocation models in Excel Power Query and Power Pivot, supporting planning and capacity reporting.
  • Built BI dashboards in Power BI and Tableau, and ran statistical analysis to surface trends that informed business strategy.
  • Streamlined data collection and reporting, automating repeated tasks to cut manual effort and raise accuracy.
  • Facilitated UAT cycles and change management through successive rollouts, acting as the standing liaison between business users and IT.

Power BI · Tableau · Power Pivot · Power Query · UAT

05Selected projectsSheet 6

Built outside the ticket queue

Surrey AI Automation

surreyaiautomation.online

2026·Own practice·Metro Vancouver

  • Founded an AI-automation practice serving data-heavy businesses in Metro Vancouver: Power BI dashboards, reporting automation and ERP/data integration on fixed-price engagements.
  • Designed and built the site end to end — hand-written HTML, CSS and JS with no build step, a serverless contact endpoint, and automated validators that gate every page on structure, metadata and link integrity before it ships.
The Surrey AI Automation founder page: a painted forest valley at dusk behind the Founder Vision headline card.
Plate I — Surrey AI Automation, founder pageDesigned & built end to end · 2026

Power BI · Cloudflare Pages · Serverless · HTML/CSS/JS

Batch-to-lot attribute propagation

Power Platform × Business Central

2026·Internal tooling

  • Operations manages product by batch; Business Central tracks attributes by lot, one batch to many. Every lot was edited by hand. Built a canvas app and flow that edits once at batch level and propagates, with a preview before writing and a per-lot result after.
  • Established the write path by testing rather than assuming — the vendor API turned out to be read-only, so writes were routed through a maintained OData endpoint with proper eTag concurrency control.
  • Encoded the integrity rules the dashboards depend on: coupled fields stay in step, propagation is scoped to a single item so one QA status cannot leak across unrelated SKUs, and destructive blank writes are refused outright.

Power Apps · Power Automate · OData v4 · Business Central · Python

Jarvis Agent OS

Multi-agent orchestration desktop

2026·Personal

  • A desktop application for running and supervising multiple AI coding agents side by side — embedded terminals, a code editor, git integration and local persistence in one workspace.
  • Built to scratch a real itch: keeping several long-running agent sessions legible without living in a dozen terminal tabs.

Electron · React · TypeScript · SQLite · node-pty

06MethodSheet 7

How I work

Four habits that account for most of the figures posted in section 03.

i.
Verify the path, don't assume it

Documentation describes the happy case. I test the actual endpoint before designing against it — which is how a read-only vendor API got caught before it became a shipped dead end.

Batch propagation
ii.
Fix the cause, not the ticket

A recurring incident is a design defect wearing a support costume. Tracing each one to its origin and correcting it there is what took recurrences down by a third.

−30% incidents
iii.
Validate upstream of the dashboard

A report that renders a wrong number confidently is worse than no report at all. Validation and audit rules sit at the point of entry, so errors surface while they are still correctable.

+25% accuracy
iv.
Automate the second time you do it

Manual reporting is a standing tax. Power Query, DAX and Power Automate retire the repeat work, and the hours go back into analysis nobody was doing before.

−40% sync time
07RegisterSheet 8

Tools, domains, credentials

Capability register
ClassHoldingsDaily
PlatformDynamics 365 Business Central, Power BI, SQL Server, Azure, Power Apps, Power Automate, Elevated Signals, Manhattan Active, Tableau2
DataDAX, Power Query, data modelling, ETL pipelines, OData / REST, Excel & Power Pivot, KPI design, statistical analysis2
PracticeRequirements gathering, ERP configuration, UAT & change management, data governance, root-cause analysis, SOP documentation, process mapping, stakeholder management2
Domains worked in
SectorExposureVia
Cannabis & CPGCultivation, production, lot and batch traceabilityRubicon
Apparel retailWarehouse, fulfilment, high-volume distributionLululemon
IT servicesProcurement, finance, enterprise reportingTCS
Finance operationsMonth-end, audit readiness, KPI reviewAll three
Education and certification
AwardInstitutionYear
MBA, Data AnalyticsUniversity Canada West — Vancouver, BC2023
ITIL v4 FoundationService management certification2019
BE, Electronics & TelecommunicationAmravati University — India2012

Open to conversations

Business systems analysis, ERP data work, and reporting roles — particularly where a Business Central instance needs someone who can hold both the requirement and the query. Automation engagements through Surrey AI Automation as well.

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