Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy

Founder / Principal Consultant

Paul Murphy

My background crosses economics, consulting, analytics, operations, and engineering. That range helps me translate between what a business needs and what a technical system must do to support it.

My core industry experience spans consumer products, logistics, manufacturing, reverse logistics, and financial operations: environments where data drives daily decisions and efficiency directly affects margin, service, and growth.

Today I work directly with leaders to identify the decisions, workflows, and constraints that matter most, then trace those needs back to the data and systems supporting them. That can mean consolidating fragmented reporting, creating a dependable operating view, automating a recurring process, or building an AI interface that helps people reach trusted information faster. I stay close from problem definition through delivery so the result fits how the business actually runs.

Skills and experience

Analytics engineering

Python, SQL, Power BI

7+ years

Data architecture

Warehouses, lakehouses, semantic layers

5+ years

AI systems

Agents, retrieval, governed access

3+ years

Workflow automation

APIs, orchestration, business processes

5+ years

Formal education and individual certifications supporting the work.

Credentials

OpenAI

OpenAI Workflows and Agents

Databricks

Databricks Fundamentals

Education

Purdue University

B.S. Economics

Certification

Applied Data Science

Certification

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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