Zack Gregory

Experience

From pipelines to platform leadership.

Sixteen years across engineering, consulting and enterprise analytics. My work has grown from building data pipelines to leading the teams that depend on them.

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  1. Oct 2025 – Aug 2026

    Vantage Specialty Chemicals

    Head of Data Analytics & Reporting

    Owned enterprise architecture and platform direction for a global manufacturer, leading a three-person data engineering and BI team.

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    Architecture
    Designed and delivered a Databricks lakehouse integrating 10+ ERP systems, with 18 conformed Silver Delta tables and historical dimension tracking.
    Delivery
    Defined a phased Databricks and Microsoft Fabric modernization roadmap. Governed data products reduced manual reconciliation, saving approximately $40K annually.
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  2. 2022 – 2025

    Affirma Consulting

    Principal Consultant, Data, Analytics, Engineering & AI

    Led enterprise consulting engagements that delivered $12M+ in measurable value across client programs. Owned technical discovery and statements of work for Amazon, Microsoft and Meta.

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    Meta Reality Labs
    Managed a 21-person data pipeline engineering team supporting Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart-glasses programs.
    Microsoft & Amazon
    Led Azure BI platform design and rollout for Microsoft sales and marketing. Directed data infrastructure and reporting delivery for Amazon supply chain and vendor management.
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  3. 2021 – 2022

    ClubCorp

    Director, Data Analytics & BI

    Led a Tableau-to-Power BI migration across 140+ country clubs. Consolidated club-level extracts in Azure and rebuilt the semantic and reporting layer for operations and marketing.

  4. 2020 – 2021

    ARCHER Systems

    Senior Manager & Project Manager, Data Management & BI

    Directed analytics for legal claims and treasury data. Established modeling and management standards for compliance and internal reporting.

  5. 2019 – 2020

    TMX Finance

    Data Analytics Manager

    Architected a centralized marketing and finance data platform spanning Azure, Salesforce and Power BI.

  6. 2016 – 2019

    Lonestar Solutions, LLC

    Freelance Consultant, Data & BI Strategy

    Designed ingestion, SQL Server dimensional warehouses, Power BI reporting and Python reporting for small and mid-market clients.

  7. 2015 – 2016

    Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

    Analytics & BI Manager

  8. 2012 – 2015

    American Consolidated Media

    Data Engineer

  9. 2010 – 2012

    Snelling

    Junior Data Engineer