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Hi, I'm Joe.

I am Data Nerd...Develeoper & so much more.

Data Matters

Data is how organizations go from average to excellent. It matters a ton. Organizations that use data increase revenues and lower expenses generating more profits. It doesn't happen by accident. It takes intentionality.

Increase Revenue

Data helps you to understand your customers so you know what they want to buy, what causes churn, recommend products and build websites that encourage them to take action.

Lower Expenses

Expenses are lowered when your organization can streamline operations. You automate manual tasks, remove data silos and integrate systems together to remove redundancy and have a cohesive view of the entire business.

Background

I was formally educated in Urban Planning and quickly transitioned into technology with a focus on data and got some data certifications along the way. I use this background to blend the strategic with the technology.

20 Years Experience

I have been working with data for 20 years. About 15 years ago I adding coding as well.

80 + Projects

Involving Urban Planning, GIS, Web and Cloud App Development, Database Design and Data Engineering.

100K+ People Helped

Technology I have developed has been used in excess of 100k times. It has helped a lot of people in a variety of ways.

Team Effort

Data is like a team sport. Many people have to be involved and everyone has there role. If anyone doesn't do their part, it can mess up the entire operation.

Winning with data takes lots of intentionality. You don't just show up on game day and hope you win. Teams that win have a strategy, consistently train, watch film, don't cut corners and do the little things that cause them to have success.

Focus Area

I focus on blending the strategic with technology. My primary are of expertise is on Databases and Data Quality.

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Web Development

Hand-coded websites that are secure, fast and attract an audience to take action.

  • Mobile friendly design. Looks great on any device.
  • SEO. Increase traffic and conversions.
  • Secure and Privacy focused.
  • Performance. Hand-coded websites are fast and don't have unused bloated code to load.
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Data Apps

Custom applications to streamline business operations and increase productivity.

  • Examples include CRM, GIS, Work Order and Messaging.
  • Custom functionality built specifically how your organizations runs.
  • User authentication and authorization with multiple roles.
  • User friendly search and filtering to quickly find what you are looking for.
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Data Management

Starting with a good strategy enables robust engineering and delivers technology products.

  • Blending of business strategy with technical implementation.
  • Considers data for the entire organization and how it all works together.
  • Standards for governance, privacy and data quality.
  • Determines how an organization is going to extract value from their data.
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Data Architecture

Considers an Enterprise view of data that crosses departmental boundaries.

  • Database design to ensure performance and scalability for the end product.
  • Data integration to remove silos and get systems to talk to each other.
  • Data modeling to see how business processes determine data storage.
  • Master Data to manage how the most used data is stored and managed.
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Data Engineering

How data flows through the organization from upstream sources to downstream delivery.

  • The right data gets to the right destination at the right time in the right format.
  • Data pipelines with ETL and automated processing.
  • Data cleaning to ensure data quality.
  • Data enrichment to provide a more complete picture.
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Analytics

Data analysis, reporting and automation to understand what data is saying.

  • Interactive business intelligence dashboards that give a comprehensive view of the data from multiple systems.
  • Data analysis to understand distributions, ranges, outliers and find patterns.
  • Detect customer churn, segmentation and offer recommendations.
  • Automated reporting that reduces error-prone manual entry.

My Story

I've always been drawn to data because it tells the story of how we got here and where we want to go.

Formally education in Urban Planning, I think strategically ever since. I have also done work involving Geographic Information Systems, Software Engineering and Data Engineering.

Sum total, I have worked with data for 20 years and written code for 12 years completing more than 80 projects along the way in a variety of roles and capacities for organizations ranging from the small family business to large enterprises with thousands of team members.

I am a Certified Data Management Professional which gives me a comprehensive understanding of data best practices regardless of technology.

I am very much like a utility player in baseball that plays multiple positions. In a given week I could easily work on web development, database design, data engineering, app development and more.

Ultimately, I view my most effective role as a hybrid between a that of a Data Engineer and Software Engineer as these mix both the strategic planning found in Urban Planning and the technical aspects.