
Brian M
BI Engineering Manager AI Product Manager
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Senior Product Manager
Disney • Full time
Mar 2024 - Jan 2026 • 1 yr 10 mos
For nearly 4 years I was a Senior Data Product Manager at The Walt Disney Company (Studio Technologies). I led a 12-person team of BI, backend, and QA engineers building an analytics platform that pulled 40+ data sources into Databricks and Power BI. Results at Disney: • 80%+ adoption of self-service reporting, retiring hundreds of manual Excel reports • Forecasting analytics credited with $5M+ in yearly savings • Storage analysis that cut infrastructure costs by nearly $500K per quarter • Demos, office hours, training videos, and playbooks that got users on board What I can do for you: • Plan your data or BI roadmap: what to build and what to buy • Write clear user stories and requirements your developers can build from • Set up data quality, access, and release standards • Get users to adopt your new dashboards, not ignore them • Power BI, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric guidance
Power BI Expert Trainer
Earthquake • Full time
Mar 2014 - Mar 2022 • 8 yrs
Need Power BI reports your team will actually use? I'll build them, fix them, or teach your team to build their own. For nearly 9 years I was the Power BI expert and trainer at the California Earthquake Authority, one of the largest residential earthquake insurers in the U.S. I founded its BI team, ran its Power BI Center of Excellence, and trained everyone from analysts to executives. Results at CEA: • 17+ data models and 400+ Power BI reports delivered in six months • 80%+ adoption of self-service reporting, replacing hundreds of manual Excel reports • Demos, office hours, training videos, and playbooks that got non-technical staff building their own reports • 60% fewer ad hoc report requests to IT What I can do for you: • Power BI training for 1 person or a whole team, beginner to advanced DAX • Fix slow or broken reports and DAX measures • Data model design and cleanup (star schema) • New dashboards built from Excel, SQL, and other sources • Row-level security and Power BI Service setup Trained in advanced DAX and data modeling at SQLBI