https://www.snowflake.com/blog/authors/keith-smith/https://medium.com/@keith.smith.datahttps://www.snowflake.com/data-cloud-academy-bi-analytics/Keith Smith works as a Principal Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, focused on business intelligence, semantic modeling and geospatial partners.Unlock the potential of the AI Data Cloud with a broad array of tools and partners. Whether you’re looking for integrated technologies or certified services partners to help migrate or maximize your Snowflake deployment, the Snowflake Partner Network is the place to start. Prior to his current role, Keith worked as a Senior Solution Architect within Snowflake Professional Services. After leading several Quick Start client engagements, he worked with several large clients focusing on SQL optimization for various financial reporting workloads moving to Snowflake, where he gained a new appreciation for query profile diagrams, "most expensive nodes", micro-partitions and pruning statistics. Keith has been blending business data with cutting-edge processes and technology for the past 20 years. He is especially interested in data visualization and design approaches that drive adoption and comprehension of management performance dashboards, and one of his designs was featured in "Information Dashboard Design" by Stephen Few. Before joining Snowflake, Keith worked as a Lead Consultant and Pre-Sales Engineer for a boutique data consulting firm and one of the top BI solution providers in the world. He developed and published hundreds of customized business intelligence solutions for Fortune 500 clients across diverse industries, and worked hands-on with customers to communicate implementation best practices. He also acted as primary pre-sales & solution architect for client prospect meetings, leading software demonstrations for large audiences and developing proof-of-concept applications to help clients imagine the “art of the possible”.In addition to Snowflake he has extensive experience with several of the leading BI software vendors and is a Qlik Partner Ambassador, and former Qlik Luminary. Snowflake first caught Keith's attention in early 2018, and he is SnowPro Core certified.Keith moved from Portland, Oregon to Boise, Idaho in 2016 and loves spending time with his wife and 4 children. He has enjoyed helping coach his kids' basketball and soccer teams over the years. He loves smoking pork, ribs and brisket on his pellet grill, and has probably cooked several hundred pizzas in the last 2 years using his favorite new toy, the pizza oven.