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Matt Pluster

Matt is a director with Baker Tilly’s digital solutions practice. As a director, Matt helps clients successfully deploy and use cloud technologies to achieve business objectives. He specializes in enterprise data strategy and modern data analytics solution development.

Matt is an experienced data analytics advisor, an industry thought leader and a proven solution architect. He helps organizations solve business challenges at the intersection of people, processes and technology. He specializes in translating business needs into an optimized technical solution. Prior to joining Baker Tilly, Matt led the data analytics and data platform consulting practice at full-service IT integrator and enterprise solutions provider organization.

  • ­Enterprise data platform modernization: Led a comprehensive strategic cloud data architecture design and development effort to modernize analytic capabilities for one of the world’s premier electric tool brands
  • ­Enterprise data strategy: Led evaluation and roadmap development for one of the world’s leading integrated architecture design firms
  • ­Advanced analytics at scale: Partnered with one of the world’s largest automotive parts suppliers to build an inventory stocking optimization engine
  • ­Data analytics center of excellence: Advised one of the nation’s largest insurers on analytics CoE design and implementation
  • ­Data modeling strategies: Guided one of the world’s largest industrial automation companies through complex data modeling in support of several of their most challenging use cases including global sales and marketing lead attribution and customer sales management
  • Milwaukee Azure Meetup, member
  • BAM – Big Data, Advanced Analytics, and Machine Learning, member
  • Data Driven MKE, member
  • Fox Valley Business Intelligence and Analytics, member
  • Madison Data Platform User Group, member
  • Madison Power BI User Group, member
  • Milwaukee Data Governance Meetup, member
  • Creating an Outcome-Based Modern Data Analytics Strategy, presenter
  • Business Intelligence and Data Analytics: From Data Preparation to Analysis and Insight, presenter
  • Data Warehouses vs. Data Lakes, presenter
  • IT-Managed Analytics vs. Self-Service Analytics, presenter
  • Realtime vs. Near-Realtime Analytics, presenter

Location

Milwaukee, WI

Education

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Ohio State University 

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