School district technology directors are inundated with demands for data at every turn. New software, services, and devices to integrate. New reports and dashboards to build.New challenges pour in from every department, but where are the database and programming staff to engineer solutions to meet them?Cascadian Data listens to the needs of tech directors and understands their data challenges. Its mission is to make their lives easier and more impactful by offering automated processes that tame the torrent of school district data into calm, steady streams.
Solutions
When school districts partner with Cascadian Data, tech directors gain direct access to a trusted advisor with deep technical experience and substantial school district experience. This approach promotes timely results. It also eliminates layers of bureaucracy, such as sales staff and separate vendor-side project managers, who may lack technical knowledge, but may add greatly to the costs that some vendors impose.Cascadian Data's lead data engineer has developed a range of solutions for school districts and education organizations, including:
- Creation and management of scheduled inbound and outbound data feeds, including import/export and upload/download
- Development of reports and dashboards
- Automation and scheduling of repetitive manual tasks
- Automation of email notifications to monitor conditions in district data sources and inform staff
- Automation of email communication with parents and guardians
- Integration of Google Sheets with data from district sources to enable collaboration among district leaders and staff
- Automated production of PDFs based on data from district databases
- Support for analysis and forecasting, including automated generation and distribution of graphs for district leadersThis list is just a sample of Cascadian Data's capabilities. Please contact Cascadian Data to learn more about any of the items above or to explore your own ideas to address your district's challenges. With the approach and experience that Cascadian Data brings, technology directors can find fast and effective resolution to many longstanding data-related frustrations.
About
As Cascadian Data's founder and lead data engineer, Evan Frisch brings a distinctive background and approach to taming data challenges. The son of an educator and an engineer, Evan finds that designing solutions to the unique set of data challenges facing school districts is where his strengths and passions converge. He has two decades of experience solving problems from diverse perspectives as a database specialist, web application developer, technology manager, and data analyst.Evan served as the database administrator for Ankeny Schools for about four years and has provided data solutions as a consultant to other school districts, supporting technology directors such as Jason Kurth in Southeast Polk and Brian Abeling in West Des Moines. He has also served the Seattle Public Schools. In addition to technology directors, he has supported curriculum, nutrition, transportation, and other directors, as well as associate superintendents and principals, among other district leaders and staff.Evan earned his master's degree in information systems management from Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in strategic information processing. He also received degrees from Yale and Cornell. In 2017, he completed additional training at the NYC Data Science Academy.
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As a district technology director, what are your top three data challenges? Cascadian Data looks forward to hearing from you and starting a productive conversation.