Cynthia Hoskey
President and Founder, Agile Dragon Consulting, LLC
Cindy architects, designs, and develops Birst cloud data warehouses, analytics, and dashboards as the President and Founder of Agile Dragon Consulting, LLC. As a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner she also advises companies on how to add agility into all aspects of their businesses, from data warehousing, analytics, and BI, to development, to marketing and sales projects, and beyond. Currently her projects include work for a major league sports team and for a major auto-related retail chain.
As an Adjunct Professor at SUNY - Farmingdale College, Cindy currently teaches the Senior Project course, a capstone course for the Programming and Computer Information Systems major. She teaches students how to develop projects using Agile methodology, organizes them into groups, guides them to selecting a project, and advises them on the best path to completing a fulfilling and meaningful software development project. She has previously taught other courses on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, and Project Management.
Prior to forming her own company, Cindy advised customers on architecture and developed projects as a Technical Account Manager and Sr. Cloud Warehouse Architect at Birst. Among her customers were a major league sports team, a cloud payroll company, a venue ticket-sales management company, a pharmaceutical company, and others. She was the recipient of the 2015 Birst Ninja of the Year award and 2015 Top Birst Community Contributor award when she was a Birst customer in her role as BI Development Lead at a cloud payroll and HR company. Cindy is passionate about turning data into information and excels at finding unique solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Her expertise includes Birst, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SQL Server Analysis Services (OLAP Cubes), SQL Server Integration Services (ETL), SQL Server Reporting Services, Business Objects / Crystal Reports, MS Access, Database and Data Warehouse Analysis and Design, HTML, and CSS. She also dabbles in C# when time allows. Currently an Adjunct Professor at Farmingdale College, teaching Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing and the Senior Project class.
Prior to coming to Birst she has had a nearly 20 year history in IT, including BI Development Lead at Paylocity; Sr. Principal Applications Developer in Information Management at CA Technologies; and Sr. Business Intelligence Developer Analyst at Mutual Marine Insurance, Schroders Asset Management, and American Home Mortgage. She began her IT career as an IT generalist at Strategic Workforce Solutions (formerly The Goodkind Group) & Strategic Legal Solutions, where over eight years she advanced from Tech Support to the Director of MIS. In this position she handled desktop and server support and administration; software configuration; database design, management and development; reporting; and web design and development. She has a MS in Psychology from Long Island University and an MS in MIS from Boston University.
In her spare time (ha!) Cindy loves knitting, video gaming, Netflix marathons, hanging out with her husband, sons, and daughter-in-law, and being cuddle attacked by her two dogs.
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