- "Evidence-based decision making should be easier these days!"
- And so it can and should be.
But maybe you struggle today because...
- You must consolidate data every month in manual processes which are tedious and error-prone.
- You've done a lot already but it now requires much time and focus you'd rather spend elsewhere.
- You must request data repeatedly from someone whose availability is irregular.
- Your existing/built-in reporting tool feels like an afterthought and it can't be easily extended.
- You receive alike metrics from various reports but they don't match and you're not sure which to trust.
- You receive high-level metrics but you can't easily drill down into the detail to check their composition.
- You have a system for each process and analysing the whole chain of business events is tricky.
- Your systems appear to force the invention of workarounds and you're concerned it's causing bad data.
- You want to provide your people with tools to find/prevent bad data but you lack stable checks and controls.
- You want to ensure your Intellectual Property may provide for internal reporting needs BUT that it cannot leak out.
- You sometimes have the feeling pen and paper wasn't that bad after all!
- I've solved these problems and I can solve them for you:
- You probably don't have the time, money or power to produce exhaustive, written specifications which will possibly soon be out-of-date.
- You do need to see results quickly and have the frequent and regular opportunity to check progress and make sure that things are going in the desired direction.
- I work with your people and your data to provide the information you need for today's decisions.
- For each task I expect requirements of two or three sentences from you in common language and/or the work you've already done on the subject.
- I provide Draft One within days not weeks so you can be sure I am on the right track.
- We repeat until we're both happy.
- I can form part of your Application Development Team:
- Your developers need data tools, too! Good applications and good reporting provide a positive feedback loop.
- A dedicated reporting function is useful throughout the application build and test process.
- Training: healthy schemas; constrained data; indexing; database norms; SQL; performance tuning; ETL; self-serve reports; expectation management, User Acceptance Testing.
- Making systems which create healthy data is easier with the assistance of a person who understands the challenges of transforming the data of individual events into actionable management information.
- I help to ensure the business remains the master of the technology. The business defines the solution, and the tech is made to provide it!
- I make the machines do the things they are built for, leaving you with more time to do the entrepreneurial, imaginative work which machines (in my honest opinion) will never, ever... ever be able to do.
- Tools, Platforms and Environments with which I work:
- Employers, Clients and Collaborators:
- I wrote my first sketchy website at fourteen years old, in 1995, at school, after hours. Nerd Central.
- Since 2011, I have been working full-time permanently as a software developer focussing on building Business Intelligence and Decision Support software.
- I have broad and varied professional experience to call upon, especially that obtained from multiple roles outside of Information Technology.
- I am excited to live with my family in the French Pyrenees at the foot of Mount Canigo. Together we enjoy the majestic outdoors as much as is humanly possible.
- I am a firm advocate of courteous free speech and I believe it to be the bedrock upon which our freedom rests.
Liberty dies in silence.
- I like making useful things and solving problems - simple!
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
From "Wind, Sand and Stars", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
