Deacon James Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Monroe, La, Us

At Data Tactical Group, we specialize in providing cutting-edge, accurate, and transparent industry and occupation data, primarily serving economic development organizations across the United States. With a deep understanding of the critical role data plays in economic growth, we are dedicated to empowering our clients with the insights they need to make informed decisions and drive development.Our Expertise:Industry and Occupation Data Analysis: Leveraging innovative methodologies, we offer detailed data on all industries and occupations, tailored to the specific needs of economic development.Historical and Forecasted Data: Our comprehensive data sets include 20 years of historical insights and 10 years of forward-looking projections, updated quarterly to ensure the utmost accuracy and relevance.Data Transparency: We adopt an approach to transparency that emphasizes accuracy and trustworthiness in every dataset provided.Data Tactical Group is striving to be the foremost provider of reliable and actionable industry and occupation data, enabling economic development organizations to chart a course towards sustainable growth and development. We are seeking to help transform the landscape of economic development through data-driven insights, fostering a more informed and prosperous future for communities across the nation.

As a project manager, I oversee all the operations for pipeline surveying on multiple projects. This involves working directly with the client's project manager, the crews in the field, and staff in the office. Collaborate with the Director of Survey Operations on a daily basis.• Manage multiple pipeline surveying projects simultaneously. • Work directly with both clients and co-workers both in the office and in the field.• Collaborating with senior leadership regularly in operations, accounting, sales, and HR.• Coaching and mentoring in the areas of management and leadership.• Regularly bidding on new projects, designing pipeline routes, and overseeing drafting operations.

Moscow, Idaho, Us

As Chief Technology Officer and member of Emsi's executive team, I had the responsibility to lead all of Emsi's product development efforts across both Engineering and Product. I managed a fantastic team of leaders that I worked with as we maintained and iterated on current software products while simultaneously seeking to create new and innovative SAAS products. My responsibilities included reviewing and coordinating projects, meeting with leaders and managers throughout the company to achieve cooperation and avoid problems, and helping to disseminate the company's goals, procedures, and vision. I had the responsibility to maintain the operational budget and control expenditures, as well as hiring and staffing decisions. I directed the daily activities of the departments, including helping to establish priorities, standards, and delivery times. I worked to minimize confusion, provide clear direction, build for the future while not sacrificing the short-term, and do everything I could to build and grow our efforts at Emsi. This included developing managers, growing leaders, and striving to cultivate highly engaged teams in every area.

Moscow, Idaho, Us

As VP of Engineering, my responsibilities expanded to all of product development. As a member of the executive team, I was responsible for overseeing the development, maintenance, and delivery of a number of multi-million dollar web-based, SAAS products, as well as supporting countless single-engagement consulting projects. I worked to implement and oversee the implementation of the Scrum software development framework in order to more efficiently and effectively develop our products, while maintaining an agile feedback loop that allowed my teams to easily react to the changing needs of our customers (both internal and external).More than anything, I strove to develop true leaders within the product verticals that were to become focused on the development of the people within their teams. I worked to identify and develop leaders that recognized the value of their team members, sought to minimize the repetition of errors, and were focused on delivering maximum value for our customers.

Moscow, Idaho, Us

Continued in the same role of Data Department Manager, while adding the additional responsibilities of providing information and influence in executive-level decisions. This was done in a time when EMSI's product offering expanded to suit the needs of those focused talent acquisition, staffing, and strategic planning in both the public and private sectors.As VP of Data Products, I developed a greater appreciation for what it means to be a leader, and not just a project manager. As part of the executive team, I worked to improve myself as an influential leader and as an effective manager. During this time I was able to redesign our data product delivery service to be more efficient and effective, while working hard to deliver real value to our customers.Also during this period, Emsi was acquired by CareerBuilder, and I worked directly with our parent company to help develop the processing requirements for real-time data based on job posting data. In addition, we expanded our global presence by apply the revolutionary data-processing methods and principles in Germany, Brazil, France, Australia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Moscow, Idaho, Us

Created and led a team of experts in labor market data. We developed a revolutionary method for consuming publicly available industry, occupation, and demographic data and combined the many disparate sources in order to create a virtually complete picture of the entire labor economy. We started with the United States, and expanded out to the United Kingdom, Canada, and multiple countries in North Africa and the Middle East.My team and I worked to create the most complete and accurate labor market data for our customers in the education and workforce development spheres. We also worked closely with staffing firms and job boards to provide custom data to help drive strategic decisions. We also created input-output (I-O) models and a social accounting matrix (SAM) to measure the impacts of pending changes in the marketplace.

Moscow, Idaho, Us

Worked primarily on the Community College Strategic Planner (CCSP), a web-based tool designed to help institutional researchers make informed decisions for their colleges. This process involved extensive work with existing customers to ensure that the product we delivered was the right tool to effectively answer their questions.

B.A., Business Administration, Management Information Systems

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