The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Breaking down Keurig’s Supply Chain Data Stack with Jeff Skoldberg of Green Mountain Data Solutions

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

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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 going to 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 know, 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 Keurig. That's call center business analyst. I was with Keurig for about 12 years doing data, a couple of years on actually on the BI team. So kind of transitioning from business analyst who 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.

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 Keurig 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, the 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 going to 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.