Business Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Data Engineering & Agentic AI for Quality Decision Making
Interim & Project Management with a fresh perspective on IT
Services
Support with the operational and strategic elaboration of:
- information strategy
- workflow automation
- agentic AI & code assistants
- business intelligence
- data science
- data engineering incl. ETL
- data governance, and/or
- visual analytics
methodologies & skills
Agile/SCRUM · Stakeholder management · Product ownership · Leadership skills
knowledge & tools
Agile Business Intelligence · Visual Analytics · Data Engineering · Machine Learning · Data Science · Data Governance · Design Sprints · Agentic AI · Information Strategy
Who am I
As a cross-functional domain expert, skilled in best-of-breed software in a multitude of industries, I bring:
- >25 years
analytical skills, experiencing the shift from cube to cloud and spreadsheet to in-memory
- >20 years
international exposure in profit and non-profit
- >15 years
visual analytics & modern business intelligence with Tableau
- >10 years
data engineering & machine learning with Alteryx and KNIME
- >2 years
process automation & agentic AI
Strategic scope, analytical mind and operational depth.
vision
Continuous innovation means challenging the status quo over and over again to realise incremental improvements and radical changes.
approach
Analytical, data-driven and process-oriented, supported with the appropriate tools and methodologies.
What I believe
I believe in making processes and performance visible and transparent, and in creating accountability. Quick fixes and semi-permanent workarounds often unnecessarily persist, and when it comes to improving processes and performance, businesses often do not use data to their fullest. The result? They miss out on opportunities.
Therefore I will frequently challenge the status quo – fact-driven and always with the end in mind. Being positively opinionated, I rarely take 'we've always done it like this' as a definitive answer. I take pride in balancing the need for structure, governance and ownership with continuous improvement, accountability and adaptability. This means I am not your average advisor in information strategy & visual analytics. You can't have one without the other.
Here's what I recommend
I realised more than 15 years ago that cube databases and, most of all, Excel are a dead end for rapid data processing, visual analysis and ad hoc analytics. Other tools are a lot more fit-for-purpose, more visual and also easier to learn if you want to go beyond descriptive reporting and automate repetitive tasks.
This is why I recommend to first align your processes and tools with your strategic goals: data driven, rapid product development, customer intimacy, adaptability and scalability.
What I do
Any organisation can profitably grow its business, provided it makes better use of data and existing resources. This sounds like a given, and yet, more often than not, this is not the case. Lack of vision, quick fixes and semi-permanent workarounds hinder progress and speed of execution.
This is why, in my work, I support organisations to make better-informed and higher-quality decisions to grow their business, improve services and expand market share faster:
translating strategic goals into operational improvements;
achieving efficiency gains through automation and by eliminating redundant checks and rework;
improving organisational effectiveness by identifying new sales and upsell opportunities, increasing customer retention, or by reducing obsolete stock and preventing out-of-stock situations.
A short introduction
Feel free to make an appointment or get in touch via LinkedIn for an introduction over a nice cup of coffee.
“Like a kingfisher I hover over data, observe processes, integrate information, and swiftly dive deep into the flow of information.”