Ryan Tavakolfar

Background

About Ryan Tavakolfar

Highly analytical Solutions Engineer with 7+ years of experience driving data and analytics adoption across Fortune 500 and public-sector organizations in North America, Europe, and Japan. Expert in running discovery workshops, POCs, and storytelling-driven demos that connect technical solutions to business outcomes. Proven record of closing high-value enterprise deals through consultative, value-based selling. Ryan has a rare blend of both functional and technical skills, allowing him to effectively explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. His work experiences have exposed him to business problems across multiple industries such as Transportation, Retail, Health Care & Life Sciences, and Oil and Gas. In his engagements, he has demonstrated ability in structuring ambiguous problems, identifying client requirements, creating Proof of Concept solutions, and effectively communicating value-based recommendations to both executive-level and non-executive-level stakeholders. Ryan has an entrepreneurial spirit. While studying MIS and Business Analytics at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Ryan co-created Coursediggers.com, a non-profit web application that to this day helps thousands of students make more informed, data-driven enrolment decisions each semester. He has also worked with Beedie School of Business Professors to develop a next iteration of a customer analytics textbook used in 400 level business courses at SFU.