Who
David Patnode is the owner/founder of Legend Tech Consulting. He has over two decades of experience in IT, running the entire gamut from end-user support to website design to building & managing an IT team with an annual budget of $1+ million. You can find him & the history of his professional experience on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidpatnode/
Why
In his Technical Director role at Bluetree Network (now a part of Tegria), David helped to build a sophisticated solution across multiple IT systems for sales, recruiting, services delivery, and finance, all backed with a powerful data warehouse and advanced reports utilizing Microsoft PowerBI to give leaders across the company daily updates on key business metrics, such as sales pipeline forecasting and contracted revenue.
Since leaving Bluetree, David has learned that many organizations aspire to the level of data transparency & availability that Bluetree had. He now leverages his experience and expertise to consult with businesses that want to improve their sales forecasting ability, track changes to their sales pipeline, and reconcile sales against revenue.