Built From The Inside
Dan's path to data started in a classroom. Before leading data strategy at KIPP St. Louis Public Schools — one of the largest charter networks in Missouri — he was a teacher, a social worker, and an elementary school operations administrator. He has sat in the IEP meeting, managed the front office, run the compliance calendar, and built the PowerSchool infrastructure that held it all together. That sequence is not incidental. It is the foundation of every engagement.
A Rare Combination
Most data consultants come to education from the data side. They learn the systems and do good work — but they have never stood in front of a class or managed a building's operations calendar. Dan came the other way. Years in the classroom and the front office built a specific instinct: knowing what information a teacher, a dean, or a principal actually needs to make a decision — not just what is technically possible to pull from a database. That instinct does not come from a certification. It comes from having been in the room.
I've sat in every seat in the building. I know what data you actually need.
Launched To Serve More
Next One Analytics was founded to bring that full-spectrum understanding to more organizations. Not as a vendor with a product to license, but as a consulting partner who understands your systems because he has lived in them — on every side of them — and who can execute from day one without a lengthy onboarding process.
Partnership, Not Parachuting
Every engagement starts with listening. The presenting problem — "we need a dashboard" or "our state reporting is broken" — is rarely the whole story. Having worked as a teacher, a social worker, and an operations leader before ever touching a data warehouse, Dan approaches every problem by first asking: who is using this, and what decision are they trying to make? Then he builds the cleanest, most maintainable solution that actually answers it. No unnecessary complexity. No dependency on proprietary tools.
