Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• Part of new advisory board to Mark Cuban Foundation AI bootcamps. Advise on scaling host sites, curriculum, and best practices for developing mentor and mentee relationships to ensure we empower and educate the next generation of AI workers.

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Remote

• Founding member of WLDA and advisor to start ups in WLDA Ventures

Jan 2015 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Lead author for the Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, Critical Capabilities, Data for Good, and IT Score Maturity Assessments. Introduced concept and practices to bring the Critical Capabilities to more frequent, agile publication for timely customer insights. Introduced the BI Bake Offs, Innovation panel, and women in data sessions at global summits. Symposium keynote speaker. Customer strategic advisory days focused on organizational models, modernizing data and analytics, self-service BI across a range of industries from healthcare to gaming to public sector and financial services.

Jan 2003 – Dec 2014 · 11 yrs 11 mos

Jan 2003 – Jan 2009 · 6 yrs

Jan 2001 – Dec 2014 · 13 yrs 11 mos

• Developed evaluation framework and publication to help clients compare BI and analytics tools in a side-by-side way, based on exclusive hands-on testing. Advised clients on BI and analytics tool selections, achieving bigger impact and business value from data. Taught for TDWI, wrote for Information Week, published 5 books, delivered global keynotes and consulted with top brands on analytics and business intelligence strategies, bake offs, and best practices.

Jul 1999 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Work with clients to implement and leverage BusinessObjects and Hyperion Essbase. Work with Senior Managers and building BI and analytics practice in Houston area, developing strategy and proposals. Presented at Hyperion user conference.

Apr 1996 – Jul 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Provided consulting to the company’s 15 businesses on data warehouse implementation strategies, best practices, and effective uses; developed and optimised reports.
• Major Accomplishments: Sponsored first internal user conference, wrote and presented several white papers on transaction systems (SAP) vs. data warehouses, how to promote the data warehouse, created new web site on business success stories.

Jan 1993 – Apr 1996 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Ensured client-server reporting tools met the users’ (up to 10,000) current and future needs; developed operating discipline and design principles for various reporting projects; led several OLAP tool evaluations, selecting Business Objects and Cognos PowerPlay as global standards; monitored market trends. Technical Leader for an $18 million global, data warehouse project and led global team of 5-7 people to integrate Business Objects within the new data warehouse (fed from SAP and other transaction systems). Defined reporting requirements, source system extracts, star schemas, universes and queries; worked with users, DBAs and network engineers to identify and resolve performance issues.
• Major Accomplishments: First successful implementation of a client-server reporting tool for users around the world; supported purchasing with negotiation of million-dollar global license agreement.

Oct 1988 – Jan 1993 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Develop Lotus and Focus reports for sales, asset management, supply chain. Implement first Novell Network, first Oracle database, install and repair desktop computers, office productivity tools. Design and develop integrated transaction and reporting system for Hydrocarbons business unit in the pre-SAP era.