GoodData

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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