Teneika Askew

US Navy

The consultant has become the client! I've returned as Product Manager and leader in the Navy's first data focused consulting division, Data and Digital Transformation. I will be bringing my entrepreneurial spirt to build, launch and direct the Data Science as a Service and Analytics Enablement portfolio of products and services.

Stack: Databricks, AWS

Product Director - Data Science & Analytics Enablement 

CompTIA

• As a CAC appointee, I provide advice and guidance to CompTIA regarding the strategic direction of the industry's leading certifications related to data science & machine learning.

• As a SME, I contribute to the development phases of CompTIA’s Data Science+ certification exam. This includes participating in Job Task Analysis (JTA) workshops, helping to identify exam domains & objectives, and assisting with item writing & review.

Data Certification Advisory Committee (CAC)

Clicked

Artificial Intelligence Coach and Marketing Consultant

Correlation One

Empowerment is a 4-5 month, high-intensity, part-time program teaching data skills through real world business cases and live, business provided or fellow researched datasets while solving AI challenges.

Introduced 7+ sponsors/partners . (OneTen, McKinsey, Hulu, Accenture, JFF, etc..) after extensive market research and talent development opportunities such as college credit.

Data Science Instructor, Head Teaching Assistant and Strategic Program Advisor

Receive Top Teaching Assistant recognition across 50 Teaching Assistants!
Provides mentorship and support for 50+ fellows across 7 projects. Rated in top 5% among Teaching Assistant by fellow reviews.
Curates custom curriculum for the Data Science for All Product, tailored specifically for Product Analytics, Tableau and professional development workshops and lectures. Provides instruction to 750+ fellows for Tableau, Algorithmic Bias and Product tracks on Saturday's.

Data Science Instructor, Teaching Assistant and Strategic Program Advisor

Partners with product, curriculum and program leaders to achieve learning objectives of 4+ programs and optimal functionality of tools/technology in the proprietary LMS, such as Grading/Attendance, Insights, Jupyter Notebooks, Workspaces, Forums, and lesson outlines/content.

Serves as a change agent, championing new and innovational customer- and industry-focused data informed products, driving inclusive and equitable data science, AI/ML education strategies across 6+ cohorts,  aligning to industry and partner talent objective and metrics.

Strategic Program Advisor

Samsung Innovation Campus

Artificial Intelligence Coach

Uplimit

Designed and instructed Visualization with Tableau 4-week course.

Analytics Coach (Tableau)

Codecademy

Senior Curriculum Developer (Product and Project Management)

SkillUp

Provided data science expertise and career prep guidance and videos for several IBM Coursera courses.

Data Science SME (IBM Coursera Courses)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Partnered with ABG to provide strategy and key recommendations for an organization wide analytics enablement, cloud deployment initiative. Delivered tailored workshops to help the organization reach a common data model supporting mission driven insights, KPIs and roadmaps to Bill and Melinda Gates funded non-profits in the South Africa region.
Tools: Microsoft 365, Azure, Power BI, Oracle

Analytics Consultant

Mozilla

Teneika developed the global People Analytics function from ideation, providing delivery of self-service analytics tools, insight-driven solutions and advisory services for Mozilla’s workforce. She specializes in applying storytelling and analytics to aid the SVP, Steering Committee, HRBPs and leadership in data driven decision-making of talent-related questions. Tools: Workday, Greenhouse, Power BI, Tableau, BigQuery, SQL, M Language, DAX, AWS Redshift, Tableau Server, CultureAmp
• Quickly developed relationship as trusted advisor to Executive Leadership team and served as Product Owner for an implementation; identified key risks in ETL processes, resulting in savings within 60 days of hire
• Designed and developed a comprehensive analytics modernization roadmap and interactive dashboards for critical executive-level meetings, allowing visibility into trends, headcount, attrition, culture surveys, vacancy, hires, and market insights
• Partnered with SVPs of Talent Acquisition, People, Diversity & Inclusion and business leaders to drive data-driven decisions and influence program and policy changes for Racial Justice Commitments, within 90 days of hire; 5% increase in Black/Latinx talent
• Managed multiple global projects and stakeholders involving delivery self-service analytics solutions in Tableau / Tableau Server with disparate data sources such as a Talent Acquisition Dashboard and D&I Scorecard
• Created a workforce reduction and planning model leveraging PowerQuery as a strategic tool for reduction in force decisions and talent related concerns that lead to business impact – resulted in 31% reduction in planning hours
• Led future of work effort to reclassify job families into new “Tech/Non-Tech” definition, resulting in 14% change across company
• Fully launched the global People Analytics function, frameworks for identifying business problems, the governance model for data, product and people roadmaps and 5 work products, within 6 months of hire

Head of People Analytics

Analytics Product Manager | AI/ML | Social Entrepreneur | Data Scientist | Mentor | Big 4 | DS4A | Spartan Racer

Teneika Askew is an Analytics Leader with more than 10 years of experience providing analytics, business process improvement and consulting services. She specializes in data analyses around financial, talent and operational data and driving workforce strategies for Fortune 500 companies.

Teneika uses Power BI, Tableau, SQL and Python to create 100% data-driven, innovative insights using organizational data. She also trains colleagues and the communities she serves with open data made available through the DATA Act.

Teneika also has extensive experience with business analysis for commercial, not for profit, and governmental entities. Her strengths are in performing complex analyses to identify and understand processes, gaps and transactions to answer difficult to solve problems.

Awards: Globant US Digital Leader. Women of Color in STEM - Technology All Star Award. Values in Practice. Applaud Awards (3X). Performance and Team Awards (6X). She Rocks the World, Fearless Leader. Diversity & Inclusion Driver Award. Grace Hopper Women of Color in Tech Scholar. People Analytics World Speaker. Society of Women Engineers Speaker. Distinguished Scholar and Honors level in Data Science for All fellowship(s). Top Teaching Assistant.

Certifications: Microsoft Data Analyst, Certified Scrum Master, Tableau Desktop Specialist, AWS Solution Architect. COBIT 5, ITIL, Agile Certified Practitioner and Microsoft Certified Trainer

Fellowships: Data Science for All - Empowerment and Data Science for All - Women's Summit

Recognized as US Digital Leader by Globant in the annual edition of the Globant Awards - Women that Build,  a global recognition that seeks to change the reality of the industry and reduce the gender gap, highlighting professionals who inspire, who build, who lead and help create change. 
http://womenawards.globant.com/3335/Teneika-Askew
This award recognizes innovative women who are leaders in their organizations and who have been impacting change in the IT industry for at least 10 years.

Featured in Business Insider, Tech Crunch and eFinancial.

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Group Product Director - Data Science & Analytics Enablement

GoodData

- Revamped product process to dramatically increase ICP alignment and feature velocity
- Designed complete product marketing overhaul with clickable demos, PM lead video enablement
- Lead two major product new launches; GoodData AI, GoodData Analytics Lake
- Authored and delivered Gartner MQ submission leading to 3rd largest vendor improvement in 2025
- Represented product onsite in enterprise sales including 1M+ USD won opportunities
- Major conference speaker; Gartner D&A, Big Data London, Data Council, Coalesce, etc.

Vice President of Product Strategy

AIDAUG

Founding board member of the AI and Data Analytics User Group, a global user community for IBM technology users including Cognos Analytics, Planning Analytics, all things Watson and Cloud Paks.

Board Member

Count

We're solving a longstanding problem in the data world - how do you know you are answering the right questions, not just the obvious ones. So what do I do as Head of Data? I spend my days talking with smart data teams and analysts about exactly that, and I love every minute of it.

Head of Data

PMsquare

I oversee the PMsquare technology and vendor selection to ensure a tech and partner portfolio that delivers and maintains modern, cloud first data and analytics solutions. Cloud and emerging technologies and the teams that deliver them roll up to me.

Vice President Of Technology

Director of Technology

As product manager I am responsible for the overall direction and delivery of PMsquare's Thrive software, including:
- Creating and maintaining product roadmap
- Identifying new features and enhancements
- Working with development leadership to prioritize tasks for sprints
- Working with marketing to develop marketing materials
- Developing and delivering product demos

Product Manager

As a Senior Solutions Architect with a dual focus on pre-sales and strategic consulting I guide clients through the entire analytics lifecycle, including requirements gathering, POC, system architecture and installation,  and project design and delivery. 

- Software & services pre-sales technical consulting at all phases of sales cycle - from discovery to delivery
- Software Proof of Concept creation
- Services project design and scoping
- Solution architecture for large scale IBM Cognos Analytics deployments
- Strategic consulting for enterprise analytics, including data warehouse, big data, business intelligence and advanced analytics
- Custom content creation for demos, presentations and conferences

Senior Solutions Architect

Oracle

Senior Sales consultant focused on Business Intelligence and analytics. Through my unique background in both BI implementation and theater/creative writing, I quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of client needs while positioning Oracle SaaS and PaaS solutions with targeted, clear and compelling content.

- Rapidly comprehend diverse client needs
- Utilize complex or fragmented data in tailored demo or PoC content
- Develop creative, attention grabbing messaging
- Continuously integrate newest technology, methodology into product positioning
- Work with team to develop and execute unified sales strategy
- Respond to RFIs/RFPs


Expertise in Oracle BI Cloud Service, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service,OBIEE, Oracle BI Apps, Oracle Data Visualization, Essbase.

Senior Sales Consultant

Cognos Consultant for fast-growing IBM Premier Analytics Partner, working to develop and expand enterprise BI deployments while providing pre-sales consulting as well as original written content for newsletter.

- Pre-sales demo and Proof-of-Concept
- High level executive dashboard development with Active Reports
- Cognos multi-node installation, configuration and security
- Content creation for PMSquare monthly journal

Consultant

Alliant Energy

Comprehensive end-to-end enterprise BI development with IBM Cognos, with a particular focus on strategically leveraging Cognos 10 functionality to create a self-service BI culture. I touch nearly every tool in the Cognos ecosystem, including:

- Metadata modeling in Cognos Framework Manager.
- OLAP modeling in Cognos Transformer.
- Standard Report and Dashboard development in Cognos Report Studio.
- Report by Exception development with Cognos Event Studio.
- Cognos 8.4.1 to Cognos 10.2 upgrade
- GIS analytic integration with Esri Maps for Cognos.

IBM Cognos Developer

Northwestern University

IBM Cognos BI, Peoplesoft ERP and Blackboard CMS support

Technical Support Specialist

Various and Sundry Performing Arts Positions

Founded nonprofit theater company, had a play staged off broadway, wrote reviews for a major publication in Chicago, and generally had a riotous good time.

Playwright, Director, Actor, Managing Director, Literary Manager, Published Theater Critic

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Assisted with and managed all literary office tasks, including 2007 National Playwright's Conference open submission, selection and production. Dramaturg for 2007 NPF selection Ballad of Emmett Till. Organized Young Playwright's Festival for k-12 students modeled on NPF.

Drank whiskey on the beach at 3AM with the guy who plays Snuffleupagus.

Assistant Literary Manager

Experienced data leader focused on the art and science of business intelligence and data engineering at scale. I'm particularly fascinated by the cultural and socio-technical aspects of transforming numbers into something real people care about. 

I offer consulting services for businesses looking to level up their data practice as well as data software vendors seeking to better align sales, marketing and product to grow their enterprise presence. Through my YouTube channel and blog, I educate data professionals on how to build long lasting and meaningful data products that have a real-world impact.

Really, I've loved analytics since I was about 7 years old, when I would key the attributes of Marvel superheros into Excel to build line charts proving the Sliver Surfer could beat Hulk. I've moved on from Excel but the line charts never left me.

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