Gabriel Baird

About Gabriel Baird

I own the enterprise analytics and decision infrastructure for a $1B+ real estate…

Experience

1. IRG Realty Advisors, LLC

   Jan 2020 — Present · Richfield, OH, US

   Own data and analytics strategy and execution.• Lead and mentor cross-functional teams of data analysts, engineers, and developers—mirroring Atlassian’s structure—to deliver enterprise-wide sales, success, and finance analytics solutions.• Designed multi-platform, enterprise scale data architecture using Snowflake cloud data warehouse, MS SQL Server Management Studio, SSIS, and Tableau Prep to enable a hybrid analytics infrastructure.• Establish data strategy, governance and quality frameworks, including automated alerting and anomaly detection. • Collaborate cross-functionally with C-suite and other leaders to translate business needs into scalable analytics solutions that improve business outcomes. • Owned data architecture and infrastructure design including data warehouses and data lakes, cross-departmental data definitions and reporting practices.• Centralized insights by building a WordPress-based portal to improve navigation of self-service BI / Tableau dashboards.• Implemented tools using SQL and Tableau Prep to ensure ERP data integrity, saving departments 100+ hours annually.• Streamlined hourly / daily complex ETL workflows moving enterprise data and ensuring data integrity and governance.• Launched AI research, development and strategy initiative focused on enterprise adoption strategies.• Leveraged Python libraries for AI integration (OpenAI), vector search (FAISS), data handling (pandas, numpy), cloud access (googlecloud-bigquery), web UI (gradio), and scalable infrastructure (pydantic).• Developed chat-to-SQL bot that translates natural language queries into SQL using OpenAI APIs, bridging conversational UX with enterprise data for self-service analytics.• Delivered end-to-end data pipeline using the Google Cloud Platform, automating data flows from Google Sheets to BigQuery with scheduled transformation jobs.

Education

• University of Maryland

  M.A., Journalism

  2002 — 2003

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.A., Communications

  1993 — 1999

Skills

• Interviews
• Sem
• Web Content
• Investigative Reporting
• Analytics
• Marketing Strategy
• Business Intelligence
• News Writing
• Salesforce.com
• Copywriting
• Sales Enablement
• Journalism
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Microsoft Excel
• Blogging
• Tableau
• Project Management
• Google Analytics
• Data Analysis
• Access
• Web Analytics
• SEO
• Storytelling
• Marketing Communications
• Google Adwords Professional
• Arcgis
• Marketing
• Market Research
• Editing
• Writing