Meet the principal consultant
Founder & Principal Consultant, Innovata
When you hire Innovata, you get Jason — a senior practitioner who has spent 25+ years helping organizations modernize their data, strengthen their platforms, and put AI to work. Not a pitch team that hands you off. The person in the room stays with you every step of the way.
Jason is the kind of consultant leaders bring in when the situation is complex and the stakes are high — a post-acquisition integration, a legacy platform that has to be modernized without breaking, an analytics environment that needs to scale, or a governance model that has to be redesigned and adopted. He pairs strategic guidance with execution: he has set up and run servers and analytics environments, untangled patches, integrations, and disaster recovery, and built foundations that are reliable, scalable, and supportable.
He has also designed and shipped real applications and decision-support solutions — for fraud detection, issue tracking, client retention analysis, and oil-and-gas land lease management. As Innovata's principal consultant, he works directly with executives, IT, and business leaders to define roadmaps, modernize platforms, enable AI-assisted workflows, and drive adoption through governance and change leadership. The throughline is business outcomes: stronger efficiency, more trusted information, more reliable platforms, and a better return on technology investment.
Selected engagements
A sample of the organizations Jason has partnered with, and what the work delivered.
Migrated 300+ legacy upstream analytics applications into a governed Databricks ecosystem, applying AI-enabled automation to convert and remediate code — accelerating modernization and reducing manual effort on aggressive timelines.
Made a 1,000+ well portfolio decision-ready for sale with trusted well-level cost and margin analytics on Azure and Power BI — work the CEO cited as a key contributor to a successful sale exceeding $4 billion.
Owned an analytics environment serving 1,000+ users across a 15-node server cluster — leading upgrades, disaster-recovery failover, capacity planning, and performance tuning to keep business-critical reporting reliable at scale.
Modernized sales reporting on Azure and Power BI, introduced natural-language query for self-service, and applied decision-tree modeling to surface the real drivers behind sales performance.
Partnered with the CAO and CIO to redesign the data governance operating model — securing executive approval and helping operationalize it with the incoming Director of Data Governance.
Led an analytics platform upgrade (Spotfire v11→v14) in a validated environment, built a GPT solution to automate post-upgrade code conversion, and coached Power BI teams to use Copilot to lift productivity and quality.
Earlier, as VP of Data & Analytics at Pontoon Solutions, Jason built a client-facing analytics function from the ground up — serving 200+ global clients including Google, Cisco, and Bank of America.
Bring Jason your hardest data and AI problem and let's map the next step. He stays personally involved in every engagement, from first conversation through delivery.
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