Describe your career to date
I started my career as an IBM Fellowship recipient on staff at Virginia Tech. At that time, I was researching the optimization of aircraft design. I left academia for a 26-year career at Ford with roles that included designing vehicles to marketing and sales to building new companies leveraging data and analytics. My last role at Ford was helping every area of the company to better use data to drive better outcomes.
I am now on the next leg of my career journey at Alteryx as the Chief Data and Analytics Officer, helping organizations to use data to deliver incredible results, both in financial terms, but even more importantly in human outcomes.
Whether seeing an organization working to cure cancer leverage data or seeing a logistics analyst begin automating processes and using advanced modeling methods improve to change her career trajectory, the impact of analytics on people is what excites me still today. Throughout my career, in every role, what likely separated me from so many phenomenal professionals was an ability to make data dance. Having learned to code at a very young age, the ability to drive results with analytics has been a key aspect throughout my journey and is still something I get great joy out of doing. And the analytic space continues to innovate at an increasing velocity, keeping me on a never-ending quest to learn more.
