Jeffrey Nitz

About Jeffrey Nitz

As a seasoned Director of Data Services, I bring a wealth of experience in strategic planning, problem resolution, and team leadership to the table. My track record includes successfully guiding cross-functional teams in the development of comprehensive data strategies, overseeing enterprise data systems, and propelling the growth of data environments. My expertise lies in orchestrating the strategy, architecture, and implementation of business information systems. I excel in collaborating with diverse business and technology stakeholders to define crucial KPIs and deliver innovative technology solutions, such as business reports, self-service research tools, and dashboards across the organization. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a keen ability to ensure operational efficiency in areas such as performance, uptime, release management, storage, and data security for all supported data systems. My proficiency in utilizing business data to analyze performance and link analytics to corresponding system and business events has been pivotal in driving growth. As a creative problem-solver with a penchant for out-of-the-box thinking, I have honed my skills in Alteryx, SQL, and Tableau. In my most recent role as Sr Director of Data Services at JLL, I spearheaded innovative solutions for the larger business intelligence team, streamlined slow data processes into robust pipelines, and implemented initiatives for governance administration, support, and documentation. Adept at relationship-building and analytical thinking, I have excelled as a Solutions Architect at Premier, Inc. My work in data modeling, ETL development, and data visualization empowered the data governance team to monitor rules and analyze data quality. My ability to gather requirements and create technical design documents and software design specifications for supply chain systems\' architecture proved essential to my success. As a Director of Data Services, I am eager to contribute my extensive strategic planning and team leadership expertise to an organization that values innovation and results-driven solutions. Feel free to reach out to me at j••••••@nitzfamily.com with any thoughts, comments, or opportunities — I\'m always excited to connect with new professionals or embrace new challenges.

Experience

1. Sr Director of Data Services

   JLL

   Apr 2018 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Lead the Data Services department in managing and supporting enterprise-wide data systems and business intelligence platforms. Managed Alteryx, SharePoint, SSRS, and on-premise and cloud databases. Pioneered enterprise solutions for the larger business intelligence team of 30 developers including tools and processes to provide a better development environment with 70% increase in efficiency, transformed slow data processes into complex data pipelines, optimized data objects around performance and reusability and launched initiatives of procedures for governance administration, support, and documentation. Spearheaded the development to systematically create source to target lineage and meta data documentation from Alteryx ETL’s, stored procedures, and views/tables to Tableau dashboards into a data catalog. Added search tools into the catalog to cut down developer’s research time by 85% for resolving bugs, rapidly accelerating development time and allowing for easy reusability. Pioneered a new data strategy for the entire BI team around governance, architecture, system monitoring, issue management, training, security, licensing, and automation. In addition, championed the creation of a master data management guide for Alteryx, Tableau and the database environment. Innovated an alert reporting mechanism in Alteryx Server to send a succession of escalated alarms to the right support team of 30 BI developers spread over 5 team managers. Combined lineage with an indicator of critical objects in the alert to reduce research time and drive an annual save of Implemented a data staging framework as a viable solution for exporting optimal objects by verifying and staging data with failover methods, logging, and reporting. This reduced risk by 83% and decreased load time by 65% resulting in a lower load to minimize cost and provide more reliable data.

Education

• Strayer University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  2002 — 2004

• Southeastern Oklahoma State University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2020 — 2023

• Dunwoody College of Technology

  Associate of Science (AS)

  1999 — 2000