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(upbeat music) - Welcome to The Data Stack Show Prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're gonna cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We are here with Jeff Skolberg from Green Mountain Data. Jeff, welcome to The Data Stack Show. We're super excited to have you. Thanks so much for having me, excited to be here. - All right, well, you are calling in from the Green Mountains. So, you come by the name of your consulting practice, honestly, but give us a little background. How'd you get into data? - Sure, so I first started in data in 2008 when I was working at Kerig, as call center business analyst. I was with Kerig for about 12 years doing data, a couple of years actually on the BI team. So kind of transitioning from a business analyst to is just knee-deep in data all the time to, it's actually now it's my job title, even though I've been doing it the whole time. - Yeah. - And then about five years ago, I said, "Hey, let me try and do this on my own, "see what happens." So about five years ago, I left Kerig to become an independent consultant. And since then, I've been helping companies kind of on their analytics journey, doing end-to-end stuff. So business analyst, the data pipeline, architect solution architecture, as well as the last mile, which is analytics to dashboard. So that's what I've been doing for the last five years. - So Jeff, one of the topics I'm really excited to dive into is cost optimization. That's one that's near and dear to my heart previously being in a CTO role. So I'm really excited to dive into that one. Any topics you're excited to cover? - Cost optimization sounds awesome. We can talk about some frameworks that I use with my clients as I'm walking them through their business problems and we're thinking about how we're gonna solve the problems that they come to me with. That's another one. And we can also talk about maybe how the data landscape has evolved over time. - Yeah, okay, that sounds great. - All right, let's dig in. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it. (upbeat music) [MUSIC PLAYING] You
