Paige Cleary

Resume

Resume

Building clarity from chaos.

I build the data systems organizations use to understand themselves.

That includes the technical infrastructure, but also the definitions, workflows, governance, and human judgment around it. My best work begins when the problem is larger than one dashboard and messier than the original request suggests.

70,000 reporting views over 90 days
~50% reduction in weekly reporting tickets
370 employees supported by the reporting ecosystem

What I do

Data platforms and architecture

I design the infrastructure behind trusted information: data platforms, pipelines, semantic models, integrations, and documentation that can scale beyond one-off fixes.

Reporting and decision systems

I turn recurring questions into durable reporting products, shared metrics, and decision tools. The goal is not more dashboards. It is better information at the moment someone needs to act.

Governance and operating models

I establish ownership, validation, quality controls, documentation, and delivery practices so data work remains trustworthy after the first launch.

Adoption and human-centered technology

Technical systems do not succeed on implementation alone. I use stakeholder interviews, usage patterns, feedback, training, and observation to understand how people interpret new tools and where adoption begins to fracture.

Career experience

December 2024 to Present NEI Electric Power Engineering

Data Platform Manager

Lead the data platform and its operating model for an engineering organization, spanning architecture, reporting, governance, automation, quality, and stakeholder enablement.

  • Lead data platform strategy and a small technical team through a period of organizational and systems integration.
  • Support a reporting ecosystem generating approximately 70,000 views over 90 days across a company of about 370 employees.
  • Helped reduce weekly reporting tickets by nearly half through infrastructure improvements, user education, clearer planning, and upstream issue resolution.
  • Authored an 18-month Microsoft Fabric migration plan centered on governance, validation, lineage, reusable business objects, and long-term sustainability.
  • Partner with leaders and users across finance, operations, sales, project management, people services, engineering operations, and IT to turn ambiguous needs into durable data products.
Additional leadership

Ladies of NEI Committee, 2025 to Present

Support professional-development programming and community-building for women across the organization. Coordinate topics, speakers, and discussion formats around leadership, career growth, and workplace effectiveness.

November 2023 to November 2024 Irby Utilities

Strategic Insights Manager

Managed a three-person analytics team supporting executive reporting, commercial strategy, operational visibility, and internal data products.

  • Led team intake, prioritization, agile planning, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional delivery.
  • Built and supported governed reporting solutions using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Snowflake, and Eclipse ERP data.
  • Combined stakeholder interviews, usage patterns, user feedback, and technical implementation to strengthen analytics adoption.
  • Developed geospatial market intelligence using isochrones, census data, ERP data, and sales history to evaluate branch expansion opportunities.
Employee resource group leadership

Women Advocating Today for Tomorrow Board, 2024

Planned professional-development and networking programs for a 400+ member employee resource group. Organized an annual event for more than 150 members and executive guests, and trained local leaders to host programming across the organization.

April 2022 to November 2023 Irby Utilities

Strategic Insights Analyst

Built analytics products and reporting workflows for cross-functional users, balancing technical implementation with usability, adoption, and business context.

  • Built and maintained Power BI reports serving more than 200 monthly active users across sales, operations, finance, and leadership.
  • Turned recurring business questions into reusable reports, governed data models, and self-service tools.
  • Executed analytics and visualization projects using R, Python, Snowflake SQL, Power BI, and Microsoft Power Platform.
  • Partnered with users to improve data access, clarify reporting needs, and strengthen adoption of internal tools.
April 2022 to December 2023 Self-Employed

Reporting Automation Consultant

Built reporting automation and research deliverables for a former employer, transforming raw survey data into repeatable reports and planning materials.

  • Built a pipeline that cleaned raw survey data and generated more than 100 reports.
  • Conducted and supported research using surveys, focus groups, and interviews.
  • Translated research findings into reports, proposals, presentations, and long-term improvement plans.
April 2021 to April 2022 ProMatura Group

Director of Data Science

Led data systems, polling software, research tooling, and proposal development for market research and consumer-insight projects in the senior-living industry.

  • Managed polling software, research workflows, and reporting pipelines for on-site focus groups and remotely distributed surveys.
  • Translated client goals into research plans, data-collection workflows, proposals, and reporting deliverables.
  • Supported survey, focus group, and interview-based research from planning through delivery.
  • Identified security, workflow, and tooling needs and established a long-term plan for stronger internal data practices.
August 2018 to April 2021 Cotality (formerly CoreLogic)

Professional, Business Systems Analysis

Supported the enterprise billing platform for CoreLogic’s FNC division, translating application behavior and logged usage into auditable invoices, reporting, and operational metrics.

  • Gathered and documented requirements for billing, reporting, workflow, and system enhancements across interconnected applications.
  • Designed SQL-based reporting, validation, and reconciliation processes for billing, accounts receivable, adoption tracking, and operational visibility.
  • Defined metrics, data mappings, QA rules, acceptance criteria, and workflow logic for business-critical enhancements.
  • Helped transform a manual, single-owner billing operation into a documented and team-supported process.
  • Served as interim Scrum Master and coordinated planning, backlog refinement, stakeholder communication, and delivery.
Internship highlight

Intern, Business Systems Analysis, May 2018 to August 2018

  • Built weekly analysis and reporting to track adoption during a new product rollout.
  • Generated mock data throughout the summer to support QA and application testing.
  • Placed second in the annual intern hackathon after helping plan and build an internal application that streamlined production deployments.
Spring 2019 and Spring 2020 University of Mississippi

Teaching Assistant, Political Science Research Methods

Served for two semesters as the Political Science department’s only undergraduate teaching assistant.

  • Taught and supported research design, quantitative and qualitative analysis, R, Tidyverse, and data visualization for more than 60 students.
  • Helped students develop research questions, analyze data, interpret findings, and communicate results.
  • Adapted lessons, assignments, and student support to an online format during the abrupt transition in spring 2020.

Skills and tools

Data platforms and architecture

Microsoft Fabric Azure Synapse Snowflake SQL Data modeling Semantic modeling Medallion architecture Pipeline design Source-system integration

Reporting and analysis

Power BI R Python Applied statistics Data visualization KPI governance Market analysis Geospatial analysis

Governance and operations

Data governance Data quality QA standards Documentation UAT Lifecycle management Source-of-truth definition Release readiness

Research and adoption

Survey research Focus groups Interviews Research design Stakeholder interviews User feedback Adoption analysis Usage analysis

Business systems and automation

HubSpot Deltek Vantagepoint Paycom Smartsheet Eclipse ERP SSIS Power Platform Workflow automation

Leadership and collaboration

People management Stakeholder facilitation Executive communication Requirements translation Agile facilitation Azure DevOps Roadmap planning Training

Academic background

University of Mississippi

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Minor in Computer Science
2020 · GPA: 3.35

Coursework combined political institutions, research methods, computing, and applied data analysis.

Independent research

Nobody Stays: Brain Drain and Political Partisanship in Mississippi

Developed through independent Readings and Research coursework in Political Science.

Selected coursework

Research in Politics, Introduction to Political Science Methods, Readings and Research in Political Science, Introduction to Computational Media, Systems of Programming, and Computer Science I-III.

Honors

Provost Scholar, Who’s Who Class of 2020, Rho Lambda, Order of Omega, and Dean’s Honor Roll.

Leadership and service

Campus sustainability

Served as Deputy Director of Sustainability for the University of Mississippi Associated Student Body. Oversaw the Student Sustainability Committee, supported campus environmental initiatives, and selected student members for the Ole Miss Green Fund voting body.

Fraternity and sorority leadership

Served as a Head Recruitment Counselor, Greek Ambassador, and Delta Gamma Director of Rituals and Director of Social Awareness. Mentored student leaders, represented the community at prospective-student events, and coordinated programming for more than 400 attendees.

Ongoing community leadership

Continue to support professional development, alumni engagement, scholarship review, student mentorship, and community-building through workplace, university, and Delta Gamma programs.