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About 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
Education + credentials
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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