David Boone

Founder, Chief Builder

Summary

Accomplished Data Scientist and Software Engineer turned CEO looking to bring great paying jobs back to the heartland through entreprenuership in Technology. I am building a platform that helps college professors save time, earn more and teach better.

Skills

Leadership

I've worked as a founder of a Tech comapany and as a team lead within large organizations. I'm the guy that doesn't drop the ball and keeps everyone motivated through the final seconds of the game, no matter how it ends.

Software Engineering

I've become an expert in bringing ideas to life as quickly as possible and then iterating on the first version to make it better. I've built a number of products from the ground up.

Data Mining, Analysis, Reporting

I specialize in finding, organizing, analyzing and translating data into simple reports to support key business decisions.

Experience

BlendEd

Founder, CEO

2020-Present

Launching a course development platform that simplifies teaching great courses in online, in-person, and blended formats and provides professors the opportunity to monetize their best learning materials.

Likewise Inc.

BI Analyst

2019-2020

Moved the company from an excel based analytics stack to a fully automated reporting environment that democratized insight discovery and decision making. Developed real-time reports that enable spend tracking. The stack is still in use by the company without the need for any developer resources.

Microsoft

Data & Analytics Manager

2019

Managing a team of 5 data professionals delivering insights to drive marketing positioning and messaging for the Software Developer audience. We also build the data platform that drives marketing automation for the organization. We leverage both product and marketing telemetry to develop deep insights on the customers and drive business investments. Lastly, we push the team to deliver higher impact by championing performance metrics and reporting.

Microsoft

Data Analyst

2017-2019

Drove Windows consumer marketing and business planning decisions with data analytics by building data tools used across the company. I specialized in turning telemetry data on large scale products (1B+ users) into actionable insights for the business. Several strategies for business and product development were derived from my work.

Education

Harvard College - Cambridge, Ma

A.B. Computer Science

Technical Skills

  • Firebase
  • Node.js
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Fivetran
  • Snowflake
  • Sisense Cloud Data
  • SQL Server
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • PowerBI