Introduction

Data is music to my ears. Are you listening?

Your data has soul. And it wants to be heard. Are your headphones on?
I proactively listen to hear the opera in your operational practice, interpret that into data needs, and then find the songs and stories present in your data. Everything from swan-song ballads to inspirational pick-me-ups are embedded in the music hall of your data repository.
Nike, Johnson Controls, Energy Trust of Oregon, Bonneville Power Administration, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Maine Pointe, and multiple other national and international companies have worked with me to discover what awaits in their data.

  • Logistics dashboard
  • Global viz on immigration
  • Unoptimised supply chain
  • Optimised supply chain using Alteryx

Results and past accomplishments

  • Streamlined and automated data collection, analysis, and load processes shortening this playlist from 7:00:00 to 00:00:17 (a measure of life)
  • Created data stories in less than two weeks for 15+ company engagements across multiple business lines, identifying opportunities for efficiency and savings
  • Optimised critical financial KPIs by developing customer location mapping, network optimisation models, logistics saving strategies, and inventory control procedures to increase profitability by 15–21%
  • Created taxonomy around 15+ client’s supplier spend, resulting in improved understanding and consolidation of spend, usually resulting in renegotiation and bulk-purchase (a savings of about 15%)
  • Identified opportunities to reduce unnecessary inventories by up to 80%
  • Reduced trucking miles up to 20% for over 10 companies
  • Kept over 3000 products in stock at an 80–95% service level threshold
  • Empowered sales departments to understand their geographic reach and customer reach; upended commonly held beliefs about where customers were, resulting in consolidation of warehousing and a reduction of logistics costs
  • IoT temperature array analysis
  • Finding the average temperatures for a hot-water heater
  • Winter outdoor temperatures versus energy used for a heat pump
  • Average temperatures by room

Why Me?

I have been remixing data for a long time. But importantly, I love what I do. I’m passionate about making life easier. I am driven to clean up data, visualise it, understand it, and make it actionable.

Over my career, I’ve worked with the following artists:

  • Nike
  • Johnson Controls
  • Bonneville Power Administration
  • Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
  • Southern California Edison
  • Intel
  • Energy Trust of Oregon
  • Hammer and Hand: A sustainability-focused design-build firm in Portland, OR

At Maine Pointe, I consulted for the following types of clients:

  1. An auto-parts online retailer who competes against Pep Boys, headquartered in California
  2. A US-based furniture importer who imports and assembles parts manufactured in SE Asia
  3. A large, international rug-maker headquartered in New Jersey who is carried in Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Wayfair
  4. A large oil-sands extractor in Alberta, Canada
  5. A paper-products manufacturer headquartered in Northern Italy
  6. A French biodiesel manufacturer
  7. A German/British surgical instruments supplier
  8. A solar panel manufacturer and site-builder based in California
  9. A manufacturer of healthcare equipment and furniture based in Columbus, OH
  10. Two global wire and electronics parts manufacturers
  11. A plumbing and hose manufacturer headquartered in New York
  12. A cabinet maker headquartered in Colorado
  13. The largest global maker and recycler of OEM batteries in the world
  14. A supplier of shampoo products and food additives
  15. An Israeli-based chemicals manufacturer focused on fire retardants across the globe

Get your Walkman ready. Let’s tune into your story!