Leverage years of operations and engineering experience into meaningful work that challenges me, and benefits future generations.
Design enterprise-scale data pipelines and unified reporting systems that drive operational insights.
Deliver analytics solutions with measurable impact, including dashboards serving thousands of monthly views.
Translate business needs into technical solutions while driving cost optimization and innovation initiatives.
Partner with executives and cross-functional teams to align technical delivery with business objectives.
• Manage team of 3 analysts while providing analytics leadership for cross-functional organization of 100+ users. • Define success metrics through deep-dive analysis, partnering with operations to create novel KPIs for tracking business health. • Present insights to senior leadership (Finance, Operations, People Managers) and client executives in QBRs and strategic reviews.
• Achieved $400K cost avoidance in one month through Health of the Business analytics initiative. • Author internal research whitepapers on pricing elasticity, customer purchasing behavior, queueing theory optimization, and Voice of Customer correlation analysis. • Design and track pilot programs to validate strategies before full-scale rollouts across multiple client companies.
• Architected 24 dashboards serving 75 users monthly (2,400+ views), unifying reporting across POS, VOC, Attendance, and operational metrics. • Led procurement pipeline overhaul (Axiom) and built financial models enabling real-time decision-making. • Secured 2 first-place and 1 second-place finishes in enterprise hackathons; built PowerApps tooling for workforce optimization.
• Lead technical product development for E15 Group's data engineering team. Including: service design, technical implementation, and risk mitigation.
• Supported clients to ensure that technical solutions met business needs, while maintaining realistic product delivery deadlines. • Documentation and presentation of these technical solutions to provide product life-cycle transparency and accountability.
• Performed deep dives into client data to develop understanding of data structures and relationships, enabling more knowledgeable approach to business questions. • Rapid prototyping of sophisticated SQL queries to provide clients with proof of concept for business needs, with focus on scalability and delegation.
• Designed and developed multi-platform ETL pipelines for Analytics and Data Science use with python and SQL
• Maintained legacy AWS infrastructure while developing scalable infrastructure-as-code cloud deployments using a modern data lake approach with DBT and Snowflake • Documentation and presentation of architecture and software to executive committees for financing and security
• Lead data governance implementation for external FAANG clients • Developed scalable Business Intelligence dashboards utilizing Tableau and PowerBI
• Product owner for intra-compay 24hr hackathon to target industry sustanibility problems • competed against 5 US and 3 International teams • Won the US and presented project proposal to global business leader summit on hour 28
• Financial reporting and analysis • Optimizing workplace inefficiencies • Utilizing Python, JS, SQL, and c++ for automation • Logistics consulting and long term planning/ forecasting • Introducing technology initiatives (Led the deployment of the first Amazon GO 3rd party installation @ United Center)
• Managed 2 managers, 8 supervisors, and 500+ hourly team members across 15 food locations and 8 bars • Built purchasing automation and shrinkage tracking tools, reducing manual processes • Labor forecasting and preparation planning for high-volume events
Previous roles: Concessions Manager @ Ravinia, Traveling Operations Supervisor (Wrigley Field, Notre Dame, Churchill Downs, PGA Championship 2013-17)
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Brendon Wood — Brendon.A.Wood@gmail.com — (815) - 919-0214