Analytics Engineering · West Michigan
Senior analytics engineering expertise — without the full-time hire. I embed in your Microsoft data environment on retainer, fix what's broken, and keep things running.
The situation
Most growing businesses have someone — maybe you — spending a meaningful chunk of their time on reporting and data work they were never hired to do. They're capable. But they're not specialized. And today, the gap between a generalist and someone who does this full-time has never been wider.
AI has widened that gap further. The right expertise paired with AI tooling does the work that used to take a small team. You're not paying for hours. You're paying for leverage.
of a generalist's time spent on data work costs more than it should — and delivers less than it could.
What I do
I work embedded in your Microsoft environment on an ongoing basis — not parachuting in for a project and disappearing.
Ongoing stewardship of your Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Azure environment — monitoring, governance, capacity optimization, and cost management.
Power BI reports and dashboards that are accurate, fast, and actually used. Built with proper data models and semantic layers — not just pretty charts on bad data.
Pipelines, lakehouses, and data integrations across your systems — designed to be reliable, maintainable, and understandable, not just technically impressive.
Practical AI features — Copilot integration, intelligent automation, natural-language reporting — applied where they genuinely help, not as a buzzword.
Why this works
01
I build reusable templates and patterns across every client I work with. A 6-hour-a-month plan often delivers work that took far longer to build — because I've likely solved a similar problem before.
02
Years of pattern-matching across real implementations means I know which features have genuine ROI and which ones are just noise. You don't pay me to learn on your environment.
03
Scheduling Fabric and Azure capacity to scale down when nobody's using it. Right-sizing your licensing. Catching runaway pipelines before they run up a bill. The savings often offset the retainer.
04
I learn your business fast — that's always been my edge. A long-term relationship compounds. I'm not just maintaining what exists, I'm understanding where you're going and building toward it.
Work with me
Every engagement is a flat monthly retainer. The tier reflects how much active work you need — and can step up or down as your situation changes.
Foundation
$1,200
/ month
Getting your environment stable and understood.
Growth
$8,000
/ month
Active builds, ongoing management, real momentum.
Embedded
$14,000
/ month
Near-dedicated involvement for a serious deployment.
All tiers billed monthly, no minimum commitment. Overage at $250/hr. Tiers adjust with 30 days notice.
About
I have a biochemistry degree and started my career at a lab bench. I found my knack for data almost by accident — in Excel, solving the problem in front of me. That led to a Continuous Improvement Specialist role, where I paired data with Lean Six Sigma to find waste and fix real processes.
Five years ago I moved into analytics engineering full-time. I started as a scrappy problem-solver and became a true analytics engineering professional — but never lost the instinct to ask what a number is actually for.
I'm based in West Michigan and work primarily with businesses in the Microsoft data ecosystem. I lean on AI heavily in my own work — which is exactly how one person covers what used to take a team.
Get in touch
I'll tell you straight whether this makes sense for your business — and if it doesn't, I'll tell you that too.