I help education and mission-oriented organizations transform scattered, underused data into clear insights, automated systems, and tools your team will actually rely on week after week.
Built by someone who's worked inside organizations like yours.
You already have data. What's missing is:
It's hard to see what's actually happening across programs or participants.
Your tools don't talk to each other, so nothing updates automatically.
The reports that exist are too complex, too manual, or built for someone who no longer works there.
The result: your team makes decisions based on gut instinct, outdated spreadsheets, or reports that take hours to produce. That's the gap I close.
Before starting Portis Data Consulting, I worked inside education organizations and nonprofits as a data analyst. I know what it's like to be the only person who understands the data — and to watch valuable insights get ignored because the dashboards were too complicated, the reports took too long, or there was no one to explain what the numbers meant.
That experience shapes every project I take on. I don't just build polished outputs. I build systems designed for the real teams who will use them — often small, often stretched thin, and almost never with a dedicated data department.
I don't just build polished outputs. I build systems designed for the real teams who will use them.
Starting with decisions, not data.
Diagnosing the real bottleneck — it's often not what you think.
Designing for adoption, not just delivery.
I design interactive dashboards and visual reports that surface what matters: trends, gaps, progress toward goals, and red flags worth acting on.
I build automated systems that generate reports, track progress, and move data — so your team spends less time on logistics and more time on the work that matters.
If your data is fragmented, inconsistent, or hard to trust — the answer isn't a better dashboard. It's a better system underneath. I audit your workflows and redesign for clarity and scale.
A system is only as good as the people using it. Every project includes adoption support — and I offer standalone training for teams who want to build their internal data skills.
Alumni data existed across multiple sources but wasn't being used to inform regional engagement strategy.
Built a Power BI dashboard integrating alumni data across systems, enabling staff to analyze engagement patterns and career pathways by region, cohort, and demographic.
Improved data accuracy and gave regional teams a clear, actionable view of their alumni landscape — informing how they prioritized outreach and relationship-building.
Generating individualized 360° feedback reports for program participants was a time-intensive manual process that didn't scale.
Designed and built a semi-automated reporting system using Google Sheets and Apps Script that pulled from complex datasets and produced formatted, individualized reports automatically.
What once required hours of manual work became a scalable, repeatable process — freeing staff to focus on using the feedback rather than producing it.
Fragmented data systems made it difficult for staff to monitor student progress, and students had limited visibility into their own status.
Designed system enhancements to the program's data workflows and built student-facing tracking tools that made progress visible in real time.
Reduced administrative workload for staff and increased student ownership and engagement with their own progress data.
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Organizations doing important work — in schools, in fellowships, in nonprofits — were sitting on data they couldn't use. Not because they didn't care, or didn't have the right tools. But because no one had built the systems, the workflows, or the shared understanding that turns raw data into real decisions.
I spent years working inside organizations like yours as a data analyst, which means I know what these problems look like from the inside. I know how small teams actually work. I know what happens to dashboards that are built for the requester, not the user. And I know that the best solution is usually the one that doesn't require a data expert to maintain.
That's what I build: practical, powerful data systems designed for the organizations doing the hardest work — and the teams doing it with limited resources.
Let's start with a conversation about what's slowing your team down — and what it would look like to fix it.