Craig Simmons
Principal Advisor
What inspires me
Lightbulb Moments: the moment when my stakeholder or end user arrives at an actionable decision making point from the data or visualizations I've created for them from their data.
In Demand Skills
Data Modeling, Data Cleansing and Wrangling, Impactful Data Insights and Visualizations.
Memorable Moment @ Frontier
The first internal all-hands meeting I participated in. I was blown away by the portion of the meeting where teammates get to recognize their peers and say why they appreciate them. This was amazing to see, and at that moment, I knew Frontier was the place for me.
Bio
Craig is a Senior Business Intelligence Developer with a background in analytics with both backend and frontend development. After spending 4 years in the US Marine Corps, Craig gained his PMP from George Washington University and began his professional career as a Process Improvement Specialist. He also worked as a data analyst focused on reporting, a backend developer creating and modeling databases from multiple sources, and a Data Officer (Contractor) at the Administration for Children and Families. Craig’s passion has always been creating insights and providing end users with reports and information that will help make decisions. This has led to him taking certified courses in Data Information Technology and Data Engineering and learning frontend applications such as PowerBI and Tableau. With these skills, Craig is able to tackle the full data life cycle to support clients from beginning to end of a project.
During Craig’s career, he has developed skills in the ETL process (Extract, Transform, and Load) that have allowed him to provide support in designing data corralling efforts that are part of data automation projects.
Craig attended Long Island University and holds 4 Data Certifications, from Microsoft and other companies.
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Craig’s Clifton Strengths
Learner: Driven by a strong desire to continuously learn and improve. Values knowledge acquisition, formal and informal education, and sees every experience as a learning opportunity.
Responsibility: Takes psychological ownership of commitments. Follows through reliably, is conscientious about obligations, and feels personally bound to deliver on promises made.
Ideation: Fascinated by ideas and connections between concepts. Enjoys finding fresh perspectives, identifying patterns, and approaching challenges from novel angles.
Restorative: Excels at identifying problems and finding solutions. Energized by diagnosing issues, determining causes, and implementing fixes.
Strategic: Quickly spots relevant patterns and issues when facing scenarios. Creates alternative paths forward and naturally sorts through options to find the best route.