Qualifications
- Supply-chain analytics since 2015 in footwear, chemicals, healthcare, beer, retail, and many other industries.
- Consulted with 15+ companies for sale; focused on supply chain, operations, procurement, and logistics efficiencies
- Planned inventories and safety stock for Nike; understanding of inventory and stocking practices, including planning
- Data Governance and Quality for Nike for 4 years: built auditing systems/dashboards, moved the needle on data structure
- Worked with Nike Sustainability integrating metrics from the Sustainability planning system to the Merchandising system.
- Hands-on understanding of the various levels of the energy efficiency market, including utilities, state, federal, and regional players
- A personal commitment for over 20 years of learning, implementing, and incorporating sustainability into his own life
- Master of International Management with a focus on global business and sustainability
- Bachelor’s in Applied Linguistics with a focus on computer science, phonetics, and syntax
Our Story
Cedric began his career stuffing envelopes with rebate checks for Conservation Services Group; within three months at CSG he was their sole data and reporting lead. A visionary for the future state of the world, he is the first graduate of Portland State’s Master of International program to specialise in Global Business and Sustainability, and his thesis examined everything from green power to architecture to city planning in the Chinese marketplace.
Critical in his career was his start in energy efficiency and utility work, his introduction to Tableau upon starting Colourless Green, and his introduction to Alteryx. These three events have allowed him to abstract data, visualise your stories, investigate efficiencies, and understand the data.
Since starting Colourless Green, this company has had clients in energy, venture capital, M&V, logistics/supply-chain, retail, and a huge variety of industries and data. Data is the fungible commodity—it doesn’t matter what you do, data is critical to reporting, managing, and success.
We make sure your data is accessible, clear, and at the appropriate level for viewing.
I am your guide taking you on a journey of discovery, resulting in a new relationship and pathway to understanding they mysteries housed in the catacombs of your data.
Colourless Green builds functional dashboards that will tell a CFO, COO, or portfolio manager what is happening in the business. We show the logistics manager or a sales team where their customers are. We provide insights into top vendors, procurement practice changes, and perform SKU rationalisation. We find opportunities in inventory management, including delineating what is sitting around in your warehouse collecting dust and costing you money.
Colourless Green is focused on providing fractional data analysis for these top-level executives or managers. Even if you have business analysts embedded within your organisation, they are not trained to look outside their silo. Integration of that data is key, and that is the function and role Colourless Green can provide. Going across those silos is what we do well.
Since 2015, we’ve tackled the challenges of data management, data visualisation, and business intelligence in a consulting role for a variety of customers in nearly every industry. What we’ve learnt is that data challenges are not unique to one industry, but the solutions to those challenges are common across industries.
Our newest focus is combining our long history to help startups and renewable energy innovators get the capital they need. With our data services, we can show your potential investors how the business is faring, what needs improvement, and what is going well. These top-level dashboards are the perfect way to get the bird’s eye view they need to evaluate and project the health of your business.