During my work with the Technical Assistance Center, for the first time I had access to real performance data about my team and the impact they were having on the organization.  The only problem was, I was the only one who could see it, and then only after custom SQL queries and a lot of Excel work.  After automating much of my metrics collection and dissemination using a combination of Excel PowerQuery and macros, I discovered Tableau.

Since then I have taken every opportunity to learn more about data visualization and enabling insights with tools like Tableau and Power BI, and to that end I moved over to Harris Space & Intelligence Systems segment to be a Business Intelligence Analyst.

Create visual dashboards that deliver insights to viewers, enabling, decision makers at all levels of the organization.

• Work with end users to understand systems that are being replaced (Discovery).
• Iterate on visual designs to find optimum ways of communicating information.
• Work with ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools and team to automate the gathering and preparation of data for dashboard consumption.

Process Improvement, Automation & Documentation.

• Use existing corporate tools (Microsoft SharePoint & Tableau Server) to provide fused environment for training, informing and engaging the user community.
• Perform user training sessions on toolsets and dashboards, as well as write FAQs and How-To articles for developers.
• Create visual standards for dashboards to maintain and enforce brand internally.

Here is a visualization I created as part of an international team during Tableau Public’s #HackingOpenData event in March of 2017, when I was just starting this journey.