David Cross

Background

About David Cross

Policy and data analyst, Excel coach and VBA programmer, program evaluator, entrepreneur. Designs, improves, automates and/or leverages MS Excel workbooks to address diverse data management challenges and support varied workflows. Used SharePoint and xOverTime to create data systems comprised of multiple Excel workbooks supporting workflows with many collaborators. Automated complex Excel models to estimate and report environmental impacts, air emissions, health risks, remediation options, and program costs. Built tools to automatically reformat results for electronic submission to government agencies. Also conducted market and survey research, designed performance tracking systems and calculated greenhouse gas emissions for Fortune 500 companies, and served as Principal Evaluator for energy subsidy and energy conservation programs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Founded BackyardMusic.com to manufacture the inexpensive banjos and dulcimers he designed for beginning players and music educators. Welcomes new analysis challenges, or opportunities to mentor less experienced Excel users. Specialties include: Excel coaching, training, VBA programming, QA testing, technical writing, Monte Carlo simulation using @Risk, input-output analysis, group facilitation, project planning, proposal writing, program evaluation, social research, greenhouse gas inventories. Skilled implementer of xOverTime, a flexible cloud-based SaaS database optimized for easy access via MS Excel, providing security and data governance for data that might otherwise be scattered in multiple data silos and unsecured single-user Excel workbooks.