Month: July 2019

Categories
Analytics Troubleshooting

Improving Our Data Collection

(Decorist : 6/19-6/19)

Challenge

Anytime instrumentation changes were made, different engineers applied different standards of implementation, causing discrepencies in data collection.

Action

Created templatized checklist in Jira (in conjunction with Dir of Data Sci) to improve analytics instrumentation.

Results

  • Introduced checklist leading to consistent data analytics collection, growing trust with non-technical stakeholders.
Categories
Budgeting Process

Understanding Costs

(Decorist : 9/18-6/19)

Challenge

Inherited an engineering budget without a clear inventory of costs and corporate parent wanted company’s Engineering Cap/OpEx (which had never been formulated.)

Action

For whatever reason, prior to my arrival, no one paid attention to engineering costs (AWS, subscriptions, etc.)

I worked with Accounting to create and maintain a budget, revising and reviewing on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis, while also determining Cap/OpEx, and in so doing, found an allocation on P and L leading to $45K/yr savings.

Results

  • Created monthly budget giving company ability to forecast engineering costs for first time in its history.