G Todd Comer Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

North Kansas City, Mo

Power BI Product Owner, Microsoft Power BI Administrator, SharePoint Administrator, Data Manager, Application and Dashboard DeveloperLeading enterprise implementation, development, automation, and training of Power BI, enabling data-driven intelligence for executive management, while continually inspiring innovation among supporting staff. General responsibilities include data acquisition, management, and design through efficient ETL and accompanying visualization of internal data and external SaaS data services and APIs to provide actionable insights towards improvement of processes, leveraging Power BI, Teams, SharePoint, RPA in Power Automate, and Power Platform, while maintaining effective security and data loss prevention rules and policies to protect and safeguard organizational and individual data.Accomplishments - - - Leading adoption, implementation, integration, and education of all things Microsoft; in particular, SharePoint, Teams, and Power Automate facilitating greater efficiency in operations across the organization.- - Leading integration of disparate and disconnected organizational systems and applications, ensuring greater continuity.- - Established a centralized data lake, modeled and served through Power BI, continually updated with new offerings of dynamic temporal and spatial reporting and trend analysis, saving the organization substantial money and resources, identifying inaccurately billed services.- - Developed standards for all Power BI application development and reporting ensuring a streamlined reporting process.- - Implemented data governance policies, enabling greater flexibility in data consumption.Currently, developing long-term data and development strategies for the organization, while continuously educating and supporting staff on technology standards and best practice, enabling wider adoption of future technology implementations.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Missouri Certified Elementary Education Teacher, shaping the dreams and ambitions of 4th Graders, and • Crestview Elementary Building Leadership Team.• Developing daily lesson plans, and adapting to individual academic needs for a class of 20 students• Implementing effective classroom management techniques to encourage positive behavior• Individually evaluating student reading and spelling levels• Administering and evaluating Cumulative Formative Assessments (CFAs) on all subjects• Weekly collaboration with teams to ensure all classes remained on track and working towards the same timeline goals• Administering tests through Illuminate and FastBridge• Connecting with parents for "Good News" calls, as well as those behavior related.• Updated parents using SeeSaw• Attended school hosted Professional Development sessions related to managing Lockdown and Intruder situations, Suicide Prevention, and behavior managements topics• Participated in weekly Principles of Teaching & Learning (PLT) meetings• Participated in weekly Planning Meetings

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Sharing geo-spatial and technology expertise in usability design, architecture, systems, staffing and management. Services include thoughtful analysis of web or any other user interface design, evaluation of existing or proposed software solutions, identifying inefficiencies, defining data collection opportunities, assisting in defining staffing needs and recruiting, event coordination and management, as well as reviewing, editing and writing documentation.Client Projects included:- Acting Director of Research & Development for a local mapping firm, guiding and implementing organizational policy, objectives, and initiatives towards maintaining competitive position and profitability while creating functional strategies and procedural enhancements across departments to support existing and future infrastructure. Other responsibilities included Evaluation and documentation of existing business processes, ArcGIS system and data management implementations, development of Quick-Base Solutions, bid proposals, and crafting social media content.- Lead GIS Analyst, collaborating with a distributed GIS development team providing data management, analysis, and cartographic support, leveraging ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Story Maps identifying potential client resources

Kansas City, Mo

Providing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) expertise and decision-making towards user interface design and usability experience for client data visualization in Web Mapping products and applications, leveraging the latest Cartographic concepts and Material Design standards in the following roles: GIS Subject Matter Expert US Department of Agriculture / Farm Services Agency Operations and Maintenance of an SAP-integrated .Net GIS solution Senior GIS Systems/Software Architect (Nov 2014 through Nov 2015) US Department of Homeland Security / Science & Technology / First Responder Group Architectural design of a cloud solution to support State and Local First Responder CommunityGeneral responsibilities involve collaborating with client staff to deliver effective project design solutions, presenting new concepts for continuous and cost effective technical improvements, defining system architecture to ensure continued system integrity and security, while ensuring a consistent service design and viable customer experience, and discovering root cause and defining solutions to known issues. Also responsible for coordinating resources to meet established objectives, through effective leadership by developing, coaching, training, and challenging a cohesive and knowledgeable team of senior analysts and developers in Agile development practices.

Platte City, Mo

Responsible for supervising, planning, implementing, maintaining, and managing the County GIS systems, applications, and data to respond to the immediate and future needs of the Assessor and the County, with consideration towards the needs of local, State, and Federal agencies, as well as private industry and the public. Day to day responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Access, collect, interpret, and maintain County-related data from internal and external clients. Prepare and update procedures for data creation and maintenance. Prepare digital and printed maps, reports and summaries for client and management review, planning, and forecasting. Provide technical support and troubleshooting for all GIS related software and hardware, through clear, concise, and professional communication. Lead the development of GIS and non-GIS databases, data structures, web and software applications using accepted design and development techniques, ensuring quality data through established processes and procedures. Maintain the County GIS / Real Estate web presence, utilize latest geospatial technology to provide for immediate solutions to short and long term GIS needs, and manage all GIS data and software capabilities to ensure best use and practice. Advise the County Assessor on immediate and future technology needs for the Office, through comprehensive evaluation of processes and procedures. Request and review bids from vendors and other clients providing services to the Assessor to ensure full compliance, best practice, best use, and streamlining of processes. Represent the County Assessor at local, state, and federal GIS and Information Technology functions. Supervise GIS personnel, distribute GIS project responsibilities, review and direct professional growth for GIS personal, and train or recommend off-site training for skill enhancement of GIS personnel.

Kansas City, Mo

Responsible for gathering and documenting customer requirements, and documenting and delivering various forms of project communications, and contributing to the development of training/support materials, through direct client communications. As well, act as a support resource to clients and project teams, researching and collecting material information required for basic analysis and problem solving, throughout the life cycle of a project.● Special Projects:○ Gap Project UNDA (Undeliverable Address): Acted as liaison between Putnam Investments and internal programming to provide for an software option to identify returned and undeliverable mailings, through requirements gathering, documentation, current process evaluation, verification testing of functionality, and final implementation.○ 529 Plans Conversion: Coordinated with John Hancock Investments to convert their existing 529 Educational Plan account holder data from a legacy system held by another client, through requirements gathering, data field mapping, conversion verification, as well as coordinating with DST Output solutions ensure accurate post implementation of account statements.

Kansas City, Mo

Management of business resources for a pre-social media, private marketing group providing scalable services in event production and promotion, web site design, photography, graphics, services, and copy writing, for small and medium night life oriented business.● Coordinated a team of 5 Photographers, 2 Graphics Designers, Copy Writer, Event Coordinator, and multiple part-time production employees to attend client needs and requirements.● Designed and maintained web presence and respective databases through seamless integration of MySQL, PHP, CSS, Javascript, and HTML.● Targeted both offline and online consumers by designing a multi-pronged and comprehensive marketing strategy, increasing web site traffic to an average ½ million viewers per month, globally● Cultivated and managed relationships with key clients, vendors and community partners, and worked closely with them to identify their needs and challenges and provide solutions-oriented campaign themes.● Managed project deadlines and monitored milestones through completion stage.● Developed partnerships with local businesses to secure third party promotions, ● Reviewed and edited blog posts to guarantee high content quality.● Collaborated with designers and the editorial team on marketing materials● Proofed and approved production and printing drafts of promotional materials.

Kansas City, Mo

Deutsche Bank acquired this business from Scudder-Kemper Investments, who acquired the business from Zurich Financial, who acquired business from Kemper Service Company.● Managed call flow to respond efficiently to provide hardware, software, and IBM DB2 mainframe support to technical and non-technical users across 20 offices around the world.● Implemented database, network, and application-specific security policies.● Provided PC and IBM DB2 Mainframe software testing, evaluation, training and support.● Conducted research, identified and solved technical issues with a variety of diagnostic tools.● Special Projects○ Facilitated and coordinated efforts for office consolidation through multiple acquisitions and mergers; first, with Boston to New York, then from Kansas City to New York.○ Developed and managed databases essential to the integration of network and security processes during the initial re-alignment to Scudder-Kemper Investments from Boston to Kansas City, and again during transition from Kansas City to the New York offices of Deutsche Bank.○ Coordinated transfer of office systems and documentation from Kansas City to New York after acquisition by Deutsche Bank○ Designed and implemented production and standards processes, tracking databases and reporting for multiple departments at Kemper Service Company ○ Developed manuals and support procedures for Kemper Retirement Plan Accounting software.

Bachelor Of Science, Physical Geography

Activities and Societies: 3rd Annual Research & Creative Arts Symposium GIS Risk Analysis and Cartographic DesignMagna Cum Laude History.

Associate In Arts, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: German Language Club