Principal Engineer, Architect, CTO, & Data Scientist / Data, Analytics, & AI
Dave Wentzel
Others have KNOW HOW. Dave has KNOW WHAT and KNOW WHY too.
Philadelphia, PA
My mission
About
I strive to understand a business problem before throwing a bunch of tech at it. I work with executives and business and IT leaders to bring ideas to market. As a former CTO doing data projects for 25 years, I know the patterns to deliver successful data projects.
Dave’s concentration is in analytic solutions involving data, data science, and AI. I have implemented successful projects and know what works.
Where I've worked
Experience
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Technical Evangelist/Decision Architect · Microsoft Technology Center
- Work with Frontier Firms on their Data, Analytics, AI journey using Modern Data Ethos and Vibe Analytics approaches.
- Creator/champion of the Vibe Analytics movement: using conversational AI solve business problems using data
- Regular conference speaker and author
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Chief Technology Officer · 10th Magnitude
- Managed analytics teams delivering data consulting engagements for customers.
- Designed the Modern Data Ethos approach to businss problem solving.
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Chief Technology Officer · Capax Global
- Developed and delivered products and solutions for customers
- Built repeated solutions for Customer 360, demand signal repositories, and Retail Optimization.
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Data Consultant · David Wentzel LLC
- Consultant for customers with tricky, non-traditional data problems.
- Project management, consultative, and technical roles.
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Lead Data Architect · Siemens Medical Solutions
- Modernized data architecture for Soarian Financials (now Oracle Cerner)
- Built Zero Downtime Database Upgrade and Declarative Database Deployments software
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Data Architect · Deloitte & Touche
- Led database teams throughout client engagements, increasing both business and technical agility.
- Helped teams with performance management.
Some results
Impact
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Winner (with CSL Behring) of the 2019 Forrester Innovation Award. Announcement. Blog Post.
10+
Industry Certifications, including PMP, OCP, and MCP
43
Number of Fortune 400 companies I've worked with on consulting engagements.
Videos, Interviews, and thoughts on Data and Analytics
Insights
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- An interview on Modern Data Ethos, Vibe Analytics, and the methods I use to show value for customers, quickly.
- Microsoft created Microsoft Frontier Company to build out this program throughout all of our customers.
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- I was the Keynote Speaker for Datacamp's Agentic AI Conference.
- I made this into a Code Along event for attendees. If attendees had vscode/github copilot, or Claude Code available, they could follow along with the examples.
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- I was the Season 5 Premier guest on the Data Driven Podcast, where I discussed modern analytics architectures and processes that are business problem-first driven solutions.
- I focused on using the techniques in Modern Data Ethos to accelerate business value for data professionals.
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- I livestreamed a talk on prescriptive analytics for Philly.Net.
- I discussed business problem solving using data and how practitioners could get started with Prescriptive Analytics.
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- I livestreamed a talk to 1400+ Datacamp attendees on building a data mindset. including how to use Modern Data Ethos techniques to solve business problems with data.
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- This was my first appearance on the Data Driven Podcast.
- I talked about the benefits of Design Thinking. This includes as an alternative to scrum/agile, and how to leverage the principles to show value faster.
Get in touch
Let's talk
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