How I work
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Get the data
Pull it from the source — REST APIs, vendor endpoints, or a scraper when there's no API at all.
02
Model the data
Warehouse and semantic layer first, so every number has one definition.
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Put it in reach
Power BI, Streamlit, or a Flask app — whatever the user will actually open.
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Make it prescriptive
Not just the gap — the stage of the pipeline that closes it.
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Say it in words
An agentic layer that tells someone what to do next instead of a chart to read.
About
I'm at Plan Advisors, where I rebuilt the commissions data process and the database the reporting runs on. Alongside that, I work with Apple Roofing on their data infrastructure and the internal applications sitting on top of it — a Flask app sales and operations use daily, plus the reporting behind it.
Outside work I build the same way for myself. Life Dashboard is the ongoing one: predictions, flight history, and fantasy sports tracked alongside recovery and training data. Before any of it, basketball — analytics for Iowa and SMU women's basketball, the Nigerian National Team through Olympic qualifying, and a student analytics group at Iowa.
Education
Southern Methodist University
M.S. Business Analytics · Dec 2022
University of Iowa
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Statistics · May 2021
Skills
Data & BI: Python, SQL, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Streamlit, Tableau, DuckDB, Snowflake
Engineering: ETL architecture, data warehousing, Flask
AI: Claude Code, agentic workflow design
Governance: SOX compliance, separation-of-duties controls
Next up
A clickable walkthrough of all five Life Dashboard tabs, plus work samples once the screenshots are off my other machines.
Business Intelligence & AI Contractor
- Contracted to build a business intelligence platform on top of the company's Microsoft Fabric data model, developing a Flask application with Claude Code that delivers goal setting, pacing, and prescriptive performance analytics to sales leadership and roofing consultants.
- Designed a goal-setting framework that derives approved, completed, and closed dollar targets from each consultant's historical performance and rolls them up into a holistic, company-wide goal.
- Built pacing analytics that identify who is tracking ahead of or behind goal and quantify the gap, then trace each shortfall back through the pipeline to the stage the consultant needs to work next.
- Developing an agentic layer that converts model output into direct, natural-language guidance, so consultants get exactly what to do next instead of a dashboard to interpret.
Director of Commissions
- Built and led a team of 4 analysts to redesign and migrate the end-to-end commissions payment process, reducing processing time by approximately 50%.
- Architected and implemented an enterprise-scale commissions data warehouse using Python and DuckDB, transitioning the organization from request-based reporting to proactive, on-demand analytics.
- Designed and operationalized a commissions control framework that passed SOX audit requirements, reducing audit inquiries by 75% and improving response turnaround from ~15 days to within 48 hours.
- Lead financial operations supporting a business unit consistently delivering 70%+ EBITDA margins.
Financial Analyst, Department of Finance → Business Intelligence Analyst
- Built tabular and semantic models for operational and financial reporting, establishing a single source of truth for business performance metrics.
- Leveraged Microsoft Fabric to develop dataflows, semantic models, and reporting pipelines enabling data-driven operational decision-making.
- Automated invoicing for the largest parts vendor using Python and built ETL workflows in RapidMiner delivering fleet account data updates twice daily.
- Engineered a staffing optimization model for Caliber Auto Care that improved labor efficiency and supported positive EBITDA performance.
Four years of basketball staff work before analytics became the day job — practice data, scouting automation, recruiting databases, and one Olympic qualifying run.
Southern Methodist University — Women's Basketball
May 2021 – Dec 2022
Director of Analytics & Graduate Assistant
- Data engineered a recruiting database providing vital information for coaches to build their recruitment plan.
- Created a system that automatically generates scouting reports from Synergy using R, assisting the Director of Scouting.
Nigerian National Team — Women's Olympic Basketball
Feb 2021 – May 2021
Data Analyst · Remote
- Tracked games from the Afrobasket League and Olympic Qualifying Tournament to collect and analyze data.
- Performed exploratory data analysis that confirmed the Head Coach's assumptions about the effectiveness of their press defense.
University of Iowa — Women's Basketball
May 2020 – May 2021
Head Manager
- Revamped practice statistics with an efficient system and visually engaging reports for Iowa's coaching staff.
- Integrated technology on the bench for Coach Bluder, boosting Iowa's journey to National Championship contention.
Sports Analytics Special Interest Group — Leader
Oct 2018 – May 2021
University of Iowa
- Hosted weekly talks on current analytics trends and recruited over 20 members through outreach and academic advisors.
- Taught students R and Python for importing, analyzing, and visualizing professional football, basketball, baseball, and hockey data.
