Ken Black
@3danim8
Senior Analytics Researcher

Ken supports data-driven decisions at his company.

Ken Black is a Senior Analytics Researcher, and uses Alteryx to strategically extract demographic and business data, prepare data for more advanced analytical modeling, and output data for visualization in Tableau.

Alteryx in Ken's own words:
"I plan on expanding my usage of Alteryx by connecting to the extensive number of Teradata Aster files that reside in my company's electronic data warehouse. When I develop specialized techniques and approaches that require some time to research and implement, I plan on documenting these methods in my blog."

Dan Compton
Integration Analyst

Dan has helped Alteryx take off at Boeing.

Dan Compton is an Integration Analyst at The Boeing Company, and uses Alteryx for high-speed, automated connectivity to data. He values the data blending and custom analytics capabilities in Alteryx, plus the visualization capabilities of Tableau, to generate business insight in 2.5 seconds or less.

Alteryx in Dan's own words:
"Alteryx enables analytics across formerly insurmountable boundaries. Competing analytic approaches can be modeled and simulated side-by-side within Alteryx workflows, thus providing multiple concurrent perspectives. Learning is accelerated through understanding the differences in the results from alternative perspectives."

Mandy Gray
Manager of GeoAnalytics

Mandy helps to set the retail grocery site location strategy at Delhaize America.

Mandy Gray is Manager of GeoAnalytics with Delhaize America. She uses Alteryx to support retail site location research, including map & trade area creation, building custom models to predict store performance, blending varied data sources from transaction data, customer behavior, demographics and competitive intelligence. Her analysis supports diverse business functions, including M&A analysis, marketing, supply chain, real estate, strategy and more.

Alteryx in Mandy's own words:
"Alteryx is fun. I love how Alteryx allows me to merge the worlds of Big Data and GIS to make the impossible possible."

John Hollingsworth
GIS Manager

John uses Alteryx in almost every facet of his job at Clear Channel Outdoor.

John Hollingsworth is a GIS Manager at Clear Channel Outdoor, and has been using Alteryx for over 10 years as his go-to tool for data manipulation. He uses Alteryx to process spatial data to create market-level extracts, scrape online data, and schedule automated nightly reports in a variety of different spatial data formats and executive reports.

Alteryx in John's own words:
"As data becomes less constrained by the box in which it is stored, Alteryx will continue its integration into the online world. Currently, there are innumerable examples of online ‘mashups' that take data from multiple sources and create a new product, analysis, or visualization. Alteryx has recently expanded its capabilities to handle these online data sources – enabling data analysts to create their own mashups."

Joe Lipski
@Joe_Lipski
Consulting Manager

Joe locates deeper business insight at Javelin Group.

Joe Lipski is a Consulting Manager in the Locations & Analytics practice at Javelin Group, Europe's leading retail and ecommerce consultancy. Joe specializes in business insight, location planning, data solutions and customer analytics using a combination of Alteryx and Tableau to help clients understand and maximize the value of their data assets. Specific consulting engagements using Alteryx include location planning, space optimization, gravity modeling, predictive modeling, customer segmentation, market analysis, customer insight, business analysis, and developing a single customer view.

Alteryx in Joe's own words:
"I have been using Alteryx for just over three years and use it for a varied range of use cases both for my day job and in in my personal life. As a consultant I have the privilege to use Alteryx both internally to improve the analytics and consultancy work that we do at Javelin Group, but more satisfyingly I empower our clients to become self-sufficient to join and blend an endless list of disparate datasets, and develop advanced spatial and predictive analytics that lead to greater business insights in hours not weeks that they can share across their organization."

Chris Love
@ChrisLuv
Alteryx & Tableau Consultant

Chris makes data make sense at The Information Lab.

Chris Love has an extensive background in data analysis spanning over 10 years. Prior to joining The Information Lab in January 2014 he worked at Experian Marketing Services as a Global Development Team Lead, managing three groups of data analysts using Alteryx and MS SQL Server and helping manage the groups transition from SAS. The pinnacle of his career so far came at the Alteryx Inspire Conference in 2013 where, pitted against nine other Alteryx super-users, he totaled the best time overall to become the first Grand Prix winner outside North America. He won the championship again in 2014.

Alteryx in Chris' own words:
"My favorite thing about Alteryx is that it makes my job fun. No one enjoys spending hours in Excel or wants to spend time writing programs when they are looking for data insight. Alteryx allows me to get to the crux of any problem quickly, and means I spend less time on the mundane and more time on the analysis, where I believe I can add real value. I want to share my passion for Alteryx with as many people as possible. While I consider myself a technical expert who is happy to engage with advanced use cases, my real passion is engaging with new users and helping them find the same power in Alteryx as I first did."

Joe Mako
@joemako
Director of Visual Analytics

Joe brings data to life at Rosenblatt Securities.

Joe Mako is Director of Visual Analytics at Rosenblatt Securities and part of the Execution Analytics & Consulting group, which works with some of the largest institutional investors in the world. Joe helps translate data to communicate insights that drive decisions, enabling answers to complex questions. He is a contributor to the Tableau community where he has helped thousands of people worldwide, and recognized as a Tableau Zen master two years running.

Alteryx in Joe's own words:
"It is really important that data analysts can do their own data blending and advanced analytics. This reduces the time-to-insight with faster self-iteration. It takes more time to put together a spec request and iterate with another team. I love the fact that in Alteryx I can create a workflow that solves a specific data or analytics challenge, and then package it up as a reusable macros that just becomes another tool I can use in the next analysis I do."

Andy Moncla
@AndyMoncla
Chief Operating Officer

Andy is one of the longest tenured users of Alteryx, and is constantly finding new uses for it at B. I. Spatial.

Andy Moncla is Chief Operating Officer of B. I. Spatial. Andy has worked with many of the largest retailers and banks over the past 30 years and specializes in Business Intelligence, Spatial Modeling and Customer Segmentation. Since 2005, Andy has focused on solving business questions through the use of Alteryx. With his pioneering spirit Andy is the only 5-time Alteryx award winner, including "Best Use of Alteryx for Spatial Analytics" and being designated an Alteryx ACE.

Alteryx in Andy's own words:
"My advocacy of Alteryx led me to being an active contributor to the local Alteryx Users Group, where I am a resource to those considering, or already using, Alteryx."

Michael Renwick
Analyst Developer

Michael develops a 360° view of clients for Schroders Investment Management.

Michael Renwick is an Analyst Developer at Schroders Investment Management where he is responsible for data provisioning and data cleansing for distribution insights, predictive and spatial analytics, and any general data wrangling goodness.

Alteryx in Michael's own words:
"Alteryx can make any data manipulation exercise incredibly efficient, agile and yet creative and fun. Alteryx goes well beyond established tools for typical enterprise concerns – agility, testability and repeatability."

Jarrod Thuener
@JarrodThuener
Chief Analytics Officer

Jarrod uses Alteryx for "almost everything" at Kristalytics.

Jarrod Thuener is a Data Artisan at Kristalytics, where he uses over seven years of Alteryx experience to clean clients' unstructured and inaccurate databases, perform geospatial site selection, analyze marketing techniques and channel optimization, and develop apps for clients to use as a service.

Alteryx in Jarrod's own words:
"Alteryx can be utilized in many unique ways, including app/macro creation. Plus, I'm always looking for opportunities to use existing tools in innovative, new ways."

Tom Montpool
VP, Quality Assurance

Tom Montpool is a Vice President of Quality Assurance at Environics Analytics and is known for helping colleagues solve bigger business problems with Alteryx.

What contribution(s) has Alteryx made for you as a business user?
"Alteryx is great (and ridiculously fast) at doing things like transposing large tables, solving spatial problems, joining data from different sources, and creating new data. But this is only part of it. Alteryx is the fun of training new colleagues and seeing them appreciate the possibilities that open up (and wondering how they ever lived without it). Alteryx is also a great supportive online community where new users are encouraged and experienced user's present challenges."

Tom Sturgeon
Director, Business Analytics

Tom Sturgeon is the Director of Business Analytics at Schneider Electric and has led the way in his company to bring more self-service analytics to their business.

What contribution(s) has Alteryx made for you as a business user?
"Alteryx has made work fun. It enables me to think of a concept and then quickly sketch that on the designer white space by 'drawing some boxes and lines' - it doesn't even look like work. The volume of data our team is able to blend together allows us to answer questions we never thought possible, and every time we deliver a solution we get 10 more ideas on what to do next."

Mark Frisch
CEO & Founder

Mark Frisch is the CEO and Founder of Marquee Crew and leverages analytics to grow his business.

What contribution do you want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I plan on actively assisting users in the Alteryx online community and growing the Michigan user group. Alteryx has had a positive influence on my professional growth, and I welcome the opportunity to mentor other community members in the same way."

Adrian Loong
Manager of Process Analytics

Adrian Loong is the Manager of Process Analytics at his company.

What do you do with Alteryx as part of your job?
"I particularly love the fact that the Alteryx visual workflow enhances an analysts' capabilities. It has enabled me to focus on driving business outcomes and superior financial performance by getting insight in the shortest time instead of cutting code. It's also a great way to showcase to senior executives and get buy-in across the different functional areas."

Micheal Barone
Data Scientist, Data Science & Predictive Analytics

Michael Barone is a Data Scientist focused on Data Science and Predictive Analytics at Paychex and uses Alteryx to blend a variety of data and derive business decisions.

What contribution(s) has Alteryx made to Paychex?
"Alteryx provides the ability to easily and efficiently blend massive amounts of data (in all shapes and sizes from many different sources), and transform that data into useful, actionable knowledge that I can use in my day-to-day work at Paychex."

Alberto Guisande
Services Director

Alberto Guisande is the Services Director at Seanem and uses Alteryx to help lead users to deeper insights.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"For me it is all about deeper insights - deeper insights by using Alteryx, on the tools, on the data preparation and on the analysis process. My dedication and help at an ACE will help lead users to deeper insights for their businesses and hopefully, for their lives."

Jason Mack
CCB Marketing Analytics
JPMorgan Chase & Co

Jason Mack is Manager, CCB Market Analytics for JPMorgan Chase & Co. He is empowered by Alteryx as an analytics leader because he now has more time to analyze insights that deliver results

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"The biggest impact Alteryx has made for me as a both a user and manager of analytics team is time. Alteryx gives me the flexibility to handle any kind of data to answer any business question, and does so with 'speed to result' better than traditional tools and approaches. The speed and time savings helps me build a scalable analytics team that enables a data-driven organization."

Cathy Bridges
@thizviz
Tableau Developer, BI Realization Department

Cathy helps internal customers and partners make better decisions and prepare for market trends.

Using Tableau as a platform, and leveraging skills in requirements gathering, problem-solving and design, Cathy creates advanced Business Intelligence solutions. She enables business users to gain access to information and insight to key business drivers through visually-based analytics.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I love helping as many people as I can, and I especially enjoy working with newcomers to Alteryx. I have a personal goal to get more ‘correct answer' badges!"

Jack Morgan
@JackOfAllTr8s
Business Intelligence Manager

Jack is on the lookout for those ‘impossible' tasks that he solves for with Alteryx.

Jack Morgan is Business Intelligence Manager at Charles Schwab and uses Alteryx to optimize data driven processes from across the organization by transforming weeks of work into minutes, and days of work into seconds. Alteryx allows Jack to keep up with the demands of the business and operate in a truly agile state 24/7.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I want everyone who has ever seen Alteryx Designer to know that they need it... whether they know it or not. I want analysts, data scientists, people managers, technologists and strategists to know that Alteryx is a real game-changer, it isn't going away any time soon, and it will soon be in every facet of their business. I want anyone that uses Alteryx to know that they are on the front lines to change their business for the better and that we, as ACEs, are here to help them make that happen. As long as those that are empowering, feel empowered themselves, I'll know that I've done my job as an ACE."

Patrick McAuliffe
Drug Diversion Analyst

With the use of Alteryx, Patrick has been able to more quickly detect and resolve issues of theft, fraud, and other means of drug diversion.

Patrick McAuliffe is a Drug Diversion Analyst with Meijer, and uses Alteryx for almost everything: web scraping, data blending, data mining, spatial analysis, data cleansing, and more. Patrick is constantly looking for new ways to use Alteryx, even for problems he's already solved.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I want to help new users understand that, with Alteryx, you can expect to get more from your data. We're not in Microsoft Excel anymore. If you have a set of data and know what insight you want to gain from it; you will get there with Alteryx. Sometimes all it takes is creativity."

John Schneider
Data Architect

John uses Alteryx to develop custom solutions to otherwise intractable problems.

John Schneider is a Data Architect, and acts as the Alteryx resident expert at Sentry Insurance by posting internal blogs, conducting internal training, evaluate new versions and features and organize internal Alteryx/Sentry user advisory group.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"In addition to helping answer straight-forward questions, I'm looking to share what I know about SDK development in order to develop custom solutions to otherwise intractable problems and by sharing the interesting ways to utilize the predictive capabilities of Alteryx."

Michael Treadwell
@mike_treadwell
Analytics Consultant

Michael Treadwell is a Analytics Consultant with InterWorks, and works with clients to deliver Alteryx training, implementation, and workflow development.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"As an extension of my role at InterWorks, I aim to empower the community to solve real-world business questions with Alteryx. I focus on creating workflows and macros that facilitate better access to data and writing blogs that go in-depth on common stumbling blocks for new users. My goal is to help users spend less time on the ‘how' to answer a question and more time actually solving the problem with Alteryx."

Alex Huang
Sr. Development Engineer, Product Improvement

Alex Huang is Sr. Development Engineer, Product Improvement with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. He uses Alteryx as his playground for exploring data, fast prototyping, and generating insight.

Alteryx in Alex's own words:
"Alteryx is a true 'easy to use' enabler of efficiency, automation, and analytics at scale."

Brandon Sharbo
Sr. Business Intelligence Data Analyst

Brandon Sharbo is Sr. Business Intelligence Data Analyst with Clayton Fixed Income Services, and works on process automation and application development for the Alteryx Gallery. Most of the applications / processes he works on involve ETL work to get data files into databases.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I would like to help people learn how to use Alteryx as an ETL tool for database writing, as I feel it is a very useful ETL tool in the analytics process. Users can also benefit by knowing how to build very re-usable macros used across multiple workflows and help process efficiency. Some examples would include 'Compare macros' that compare two flows and return all differences found as an example. As a ‘client' of Alteryx, I can't wait to submit product enhancements to the Idea Center based upon our user experience with Alteryx."

James Dunkerley
Technical Architect

James Dunkerley is Technical Architect with Scott Logic, and loves finding a new challenge or interesting data project to explore and test the boundaries of what Alteryx can do.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"Encourage other people to discover the capabilities of the Alteryx SDK and continue to learn and teach all about it. Hopefully, building a great set of open source additional tools and functions anyone can benefit from along the way. And of course, answering fun and challenging questions from the community."

Daniel Brun
Alteryx Consultant

Daniel Brun is the Alteryx Consultant with Inviso ApS, and works on creating value by not programming stuff. He uses Alteryx for various tasks but his favorite is to connect to new API's or do webscraping.

What contribution(s) do I want to make to the Alteryx community of users during your term?
"I find it quite amazing how much value the community creates and how it makes the life easier for both new and experienced users. My contribution will be a continued presence in the community as well as many more and improved macros. So if someone are missing an API app, don't hesitate to ping me — I bet more people can use it. I would also like to participate in more public events in order to spread the word and help newcomers get started."

Patrick Digan
Actuary

Patrick is an Actuary with MedPro Group. He loves answering questions on Alteryx Community. He believes users come with unique challenges never thought of before online, and he likes helping them solve their issue no matter how many back and forth responses it takes. Patrick enjoys seeing the impact that answering a question can have for users. With thousands of solutions on the Alteryx Community, Patrick believes that anybody else can also use it as a space to learn.

Alteryx in Patrick's own words:
"Alteryx is an incredible platform that has allowed me to have greater insights into my data and build repeatable processes no matter the complexity."

Treyson Marks
Manager of Consulting Services

Treyson is active in his local Alteryx User Group. He also writes a blog regarding how he is impacting the organization with the platform as a way of inspiring others to follow suit. His favorite interactions are the one-on-one moments he gets with people he can motivate to be brave and take control of their own careers with a platform like Alteryx. Treyson likes to talk possibilities.

Alteryx in Treyson's own words:
"Alteryx has changed the way we approach data. What used to be considered intensely laborious is now within reach. Those that utilize the platform are intensely excited around doing this work."

Andrew Kim
Senior Alteryx Developer

Andrew would like to continue serving as a user group leader, creating API macros to help others access more data, sharing best practices for different complex data types with fellow Alteryx Users, and giving back to his local community. One of his other primary focuses is to work with local colleges and universities on instilling the importance of knowing how to work with data. The Alteryx platform has made sharing data and process collaboration fun for Andrew. He is now able get back to creating solutions and analyzing instead of putting out fires and constantly validating.

Alteryx in Andrew's own words:
"Alteryx is the new data processing standard for Analysts because it combines the ease of manipulation, process transparency and more of the fun that comes with analyzing."

Paul Catterson
Business Analyst

Paul wants to help people by empowering them to use the whole breadth of the Alteryx platform so that they can see the full versatility of what Alteryx can do. With Alteryx, Paul can aggregate and process data from a wide variety of sources without needing a heavy development background.

Alteryx in Paul's own words:
"Alteryx is a platform that allows you to work with all of your data in a fast and easy-to-use interface and can accomplish whatever changes you need to make from simple to elaborate."

Carlos Amaral
Data Analyst

Joining the Dublin User Group as a leader offered Carlos a different view into how other users bring Alteryx into their day to day. As an ACE he will continue to support and unite people partaking in the community. Carlos believes that Alteryx empowers analysts, by allowing them to achieve precise and efficient analysis. Tasks that used to take several days were automated and run as apps in only a few seconds. With Alteryx Server, his team enables fellow colleagues to run reports with just a few clicks, freeing resources for other tasks. The learning experience is refreshing and ever-growing for Carlos, and he would love to serve as a reference point for you in the community!

Alteryx in Carlos' own words:
"It makes data manipulation extremely easy, solving a problem is almost like playing with Legos: you start with a vision or an idea, gather the pieces you need and put them together tweaking the blocks as necessary. Only difference is you won't be hurting your toes!"

Irina Mihai
Digital Analytics Manager

Irina is a Digital Analytics Manager at adidas. Alteryx has allowed Irina and the team to transform analytics processes from the core and significantly increase the business value the analytics team can bring. The automation capabilities of Alteryx, coupled with the server, were game changing for Irina and the team as the platform enabled more efficient time allocation on high-value activities rather than blending data from disparate sources. As an ACE and avid user of Alteryx, Irina shares the power of the platform with new team members and in her local Alteryx User Group.

Alteryx in Irina's own words:
"I'm an analyst, therefore I Alteryx."

Gavin Attard
Digital Analytics Manager

Gavin is a Digital Analytics Manager at Essentra. Initially Alteryx equipped Gavin and his team to bring in massive reporting efficiencies, semi-automating process that normally took weeks to days. The speed and complexity that the team can now operate in allows Gavin to work data from multiple sources in a transparent manner, leading to deeper insights into customers and activities. As an ACE, Gavin has a passion for helping in the community and leading a user group to work on Digital Analytics and Customer Journey Insight sharing ideas, solutions and tools.

Alteryx in Gavin's own words:
"The platform allows me to focus on the data and its meaning. I can create solutions that scale easily across the organisation, working with multiple properties and sources effortlessly. I have access to tools and algorithms that I would otherwise not have access to, making the sort of insight we want possible. I wouldn't be able to do the level and breadth of work I do without Alteryx. Alteryx is what the brush was to Picasso."

Sean Adams
Vice President

As a VP, Sean uses Alteryx to significantly reduce the time to insight, and enable teams to derive insights from deeper analysis than would have been possible previously. As an ACE, Sean champions the community supporting community by assisting others with achieving their own personal data-ha moments through the Alteryx Community.

Alteryx in Sean's own words:
"Alteryx brings the power of data analysis at scale to line of business users, and frees technologists to focus on large-scale reengineering rather than data prep and reporting."