I'm John Curran, and I build the data function a company reports on.

Data & Reporting Manager at SmartPM, where I built the warehouse and the reporting layer from nothing. Four source systems live and two more landing, Claude skills and agents in the hands of teams across the company, and churn modeling, sales forecasting, and transcript NLP up next.

8 years in data Atlanta, GA · EST M.S. Data Science · in progress
current · smartpm

Building the data function from the ground up.

Data & Reporting Manager · SmartPM — Atlanta, GA

April 2025 – Present

Shipped
  • Data warehouse built from scratch: Airbyte → Redshift → dbt → Metabase
  • Sources unified and live: HubSpot, Maxio, Read AI, Absorb
  • Claude skills and agents built for teams across the company to use directly
  • Executive ARR and growth reporting, plus the governance and quality checks under it
In flight
  • Pendo and SmartPM product data landing next
  • Churn modeling and sales forecasting
  • NLP on Read AI meeting transcripts — speaker engagement and sentiment, surfacing asks and emerging topics

stack · Airbyte · Redshift · dbt · Metabase · Python · SQL

previous · 4 roles
2023–25
Senior Data Analyst
First American Title
Moved from building dashboards to designing data systems. Ran pilot programs, defined KPIs with cross-functional teams, and established data monitoring in Snowflake. Started asking: what do people actually need to make decisions?
Snowflake · Python · SQL · Power BI
2022–23
Senior Data Analyst
Ware2Go
Took on bigger problems as we scaled from startup to mid-size. Built notification systems for operations, led billing audits uncovering systemic issues, established data quality across 15+ concurrent projects. Learned that as teams grow, the bottleneck shifts from technical to organizational.
Python · SQL · Airflow · DOMO
2021–22
Data Analyst
Ware2Go
Second analyst in the door. Helped flesh out the warehouse from scratch — learning SQL under pressure, shipping dashboards fast, establishing the metrics operations depended on. No time for perfection, just useful. That forced pragmatism became the foundation for everything after.
SQL · Python · DOMO
2018–21
Solutions Analyst → Team Lead
APCO
Where it started. Resolved technical user issues, then moved into reporting — Excel, PowerBI, SQL — and eventually led the team. Built the receivables dashboard that guided sales decisions through the early months of Covid. First lesson in how fast a useful number beats a perfect one.
SQL · Excel · Power BI
education · in progress

M.S. Data Science & Analytics, Georgia State University.

Fall 2025 – Summer 2027 (expected) · J. Mack Robinson College of Business

Coursework in statistics, machine learning, and data systems, chosen to line up with the modeling work I'm moving into at SmartPM.

Core done
  • Programming for Business
  • Business Statistics
  • Data Management for Analytics
  • Communicating with Data
Boot Camps done
  • Introduction to R Programming
  • Software Development for Data Scientists
  • Calculus & Linear Algebra
  • Data Ethics, Admin & Governance
Machine Learning in progress
  • Machine Learning for Business
  • Deep Learning and Generative AI
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Building Generative AI Solutions
Capstone planned
  • Topic TBD

focus · Taking the ML coursework straight into the churn and forecasting work · Generative AI methods applied to meeting-transcript analysis

B.S. International Affairs, Economics concentration
Florida State University
Vice President, FSU Rowing Team
August 2014 – May 2018
Intensive Mandarin Chinese language program
East China Normal University
August 2017 – February 2018
contact
curran.john35@gmail.com · github · linkedin · resume.pdf
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