Dave Holmes-Kinsella

Summary

After over two decades of building beloved products and high-performing Analytics & Data teams in Silicon Valley, I believe effective leaders need to be willing and able to do two things: - Roll up one’s sleeves and deliver great code - Develop a culture where the team’s work directly transforms business outcomes That second element is key to creating great teams that have an impact disproportionate to their size. This depends on the critical and challenging evolution from a stellar individual contributor to an influential and impactful leader. My approach to this evolution (I believe we’re always learning) weaves together science, pragmatism, and empathy developed through extensive experience in Product Management, Data, and Engineering. WHAT SETS ME APART Companies that work with me can expect their analytics & data teams to deliver world-class, people-focused work that builds champions across teams and radically improves business performance. MY LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES: - Meet the needs of the business - Be accountable for and to the team - Lead from a foundation of trust based on shared experiences - Act with appropriate urgency - Create inter-team alignment to foster empathy - Build a culture of learning - Distribute ownership - Develop the team. Understand my people’s needs & aspirations.Give them the opportunity and support to shine and the tools needed for success MY TEAMS HAVE: - Engineered 6x operational efficiency improvement through a to-the-penny reconciliation analytics workbench for a $100B ledger - Built a best-in-class multi-tenant, multi-audience analytics workbench for the BaaS industry - Created Wall Street and regulatory reporting platforms - Developed an ML-based investment engine outperforming DJIA and S&P 500 - Built an Author Recommendation Engine revolutionizing book discovery - Created the US telecom industry's most comprehensive cell tower location database AS AN INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR, I HAVE LAUNCHED: - Business Intelligence tooling at three cloud-native companies - A forensic data auditing framework for PostgreSQL - A BaaS billing & invoicing platform - A data warehouse roadmap & migration plan for a social network company - CPG market research products - A precursor to Uber's H3 geospatial indexing system - A company providing web-based GIS analytics at 1/100th the cost of existing tools - A Re-engineered Strategic capital investment decision process: 7x time reduction, 10x Engineering effort reduction I love to help good people find one another, connect and thrive. Let’s chat: https://bit.ly/dhk-30-mins