Dean Trester
Business Intelligence

Dean Trester

Building BI systems to transform data into confident decisions through models, pipelines, and dashboards, and the conversations around them.

Based inUnited States Open toRemote FocusBI Leadership
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Clean data.
Clear decisions.

I didn't choose Business Intelligence.

I began my path solving exception errors in accounts payable, then transitioned to quality assurance auditing the same exceptions I used to solve. Eventually, the path illuminated when my friend described his new job in Analytics.

"That's a job you can have?"

So, I began studying SQL for an open position at my company. That was more than 10 years ago.

On the work itself: I care about clean queries, well-structured models, and not overengineering things. I've inherited enough messy setups to know how much that stuff compounds. I try to leave things in a state I'd want to find them.

Let's analyze.

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