Data Systems, Analytics Engineering, and Institutional Data
I’ve spent my entire career at the University of Florida — but from progressively different vantage points on the same institution.
I started at the Office of the University Registrar in 2011 as a Student Records Coordinator. The Registrar is where you learn what a student record actually is: not a row in a table, but the legal and operational representation of someone’s academic life. I managed a team of 50, oversaw the processing and maintenance of 600,000+ records, and advised students directly on registration, academic policy, and holds. It’s operational work, and it teaches you quickly where the system breaks and who absorbs the cost when it does.
In 2016, I was selected to join COMPASS — a multi-year university-wide project to migrate UF’s entire Student Information System from a legacy mainframe to Oracle PeopleSoft. I converted the full population of student records: majors, programs of study, enrollment history. I served as the liaison between functional staff and the UFIT development team, configured the new system to match university policy, and helped redesign the student-facing experience in the new environment. It was the most technically ambitious project the university had undertaken in a generation, and it gave me a view of the institution that’s hard to get any other way — I understood the operational side from the Registrar, and the architectural side from the implementation.
When I returned to the Registrar’s Office from the COMPASS project, I moved into the Business Intelligence Analyst role. Starting in the role in 2019, I could build analytics that made sense of what the system was actually doing. I built dashboards and reports used by department and executive leadership, partnered with UFIT on system enhancements, and ran campus-wide training sessions.
In 2022, I moved to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as a Data Management Analyst. CLAS is the largest college at UF, and the work shifted from reporting on data to building systems that act on it: Snowflake pipelines, Python automation, AI-powered triage, enrollment algorithms, population tracking infrastructure. The problems I’m solving now are ones I watched get handled manually — or not handled at all — earlier in my career.
I also taught First Year Florida, UF’s signature course for incoming students from 2015 to 2025. It keeps me close to what the work is actually for.
Education
Master of International Business — University of Florida, Hough Graduate School of Business
Master of Science, Management — University of Florida, Hough Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology — University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences