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Welcome! My mission is to help you work your data for reliable and effective decisions. I am a seasoned professional with over three decades of consulting experience, particularly focused on public sector and higher ed. Regardless of the domain, flexibility, accuracy, timeliness of data is now an imperative - the golden nugget that makes the investment in cloud ERPs worthwhile. This site contains professional content as well as a private blog. Browse, read, and enjoy. Hope the lessons here help you on your own unique data journey.
The Long Road
My data journey began in the late 80s with my first job for a library software company. The markup language used to codify complex data about published material was the grandfather of xml and use of semi-structured data. Even though the coding medium was not nearly as sophisticated, reusable and repeatable as the tools in our arsenal today, this opportunity opened my eyes to what the subsequent decades would bring.
After spending seven years working with over nearly a million lines of code and shaping it into object-oriented paradigm, I had the brilliant opportunity to work for a Big Four. This radical shift from the back-rooms to client-facing interaction, selling, delivery and project financials set me on a lifelong quest of finding stories hidden in data.
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"We are counting things and there are only so many ways to count them". This became my mantra.
Assisted by teams of analysts and technologists, we set out on a path of discovery, one domain at a time. Finance, HCM, facilities, students, grants, classroom utilizations, auxiliary services - the processes in public sector and higher ed because known to us like the back of our hand. Along with that came data models that became plug-and-play constructs for our clients.
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Long story short, in 2002, I started a company and I became employee number 1. Fast forward twenty years and we arrived at a point where we counted the biggest names in our vertical as our clients, we had a subscription-based cloud offering and a solid reputation in the market. In 2021, a significant portion of the assets of the company was purchased by Deloitte. This has given me the freedom to pursue my other passion - writing. And here we are.