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Work Experience

Professional Background

2024 - Present

Strategic Operations Consultant

Pharutech

San Francisco, CA

  • Established an intuitive, executive dashboard using Tableau to monitor pipeline health in a fast-paced startup environment; recommendations resulted in 37% increase in domestic market penetration.

  • Developed investor-ready presentations for medical device startups, crafting compelling narratives from scientific and market data; aligned executive vision with investor expectations to secure $1M+ in seed funding.

  • Audited and restructured device ID and part ID systems to support product recall readiness, regulatory compliance, and future longitudinal studies on cancer detection rates by clinic.

  • Designed a scalable, forward-thinking data model and schema to enable device-level analytics, including traceability for FDA-approved components and correlation of clinical outcomes across clinical sites.

2020 - 2023

Analytics Engineering Lead, Business Planning and Operations Lead

Meta

San Francisco, CA

  • Delivered strategic insights and executive-level reporting support as the primary POC for Global VP of $100B+ ad revenue portfolio; achieved alignment across regional leadership on revenue goals and resource planning.

  • Served as Tableau site admin, publishing and maintaining a suite of workbooks with row-level security; managed dashboards ranging from company-wide resources to sensitive reports for executive stakeholders.

  • Leveraged deep systems knowledge and diagnostic skills to proactively identify and close critical gaps in core infrastructure; collaborated with Engineering and Data Science teams to eliminate high-impact campaign shutdowns from false-positive policy violations.

  • Optimized data pipelines processing millions of rows of product ad signals data with complex aggregation logic and dynamic fields; reduced query run time 70% and increased reliability by slashing crash rates.
    Reengineered and streamlined a relational data model to support a centralized reporting framework, producing high-quality, reliable data sources that improved dashboard accuracy, ensured data integrity, reduced maintenance effort, and scaled with evolving business needs.

  • Defined, documented, and governed KPI libraries and internal wikis to standardize partner-enabled revenue business metrics and multi-touch attribution measurement methodologies across functional and business teams.

  • Translated complex processes and systems into accessible content that increased XFN data literacy and alignment; tailored and delivered org-wide training to educate 500+ on obligations under FTC settlement.

2018 - 2020

Business Planning and Operations Analyst

Meta

San Francisco, CA

  • Developed a comprehensive suite of Tableau-based dashboards and data pipelines using advanced SQL and Python to measure business metrics and KPIs; reduced time-to-insight by 70%.

  • Managed a suite of Tableau workbooks and implemented internal reporting standards for metric definitions, naming conventions, and visual design; reducing stakeholder misunderstandings, improving consistency, and streamlining cross-team decision-making.

  • Drove strategic planning initiatives for a $64B managed portfolio, optimizing territory alignment, identifying growth opportunities, and setting revenue goals aligned to business team objectives and partner qualifications.

  • Established ETL process for MobileWorks program by streamlining upstream workflows, training ops data entry staff, redesigning templates, and defining requirements for data cleaning script; cutting program measurement costs by 80% and significantly reducing downstream data cleaning efforts.

  • Authored SOPs and Playbooks to streamline root-cause revenue discrepancy analysis, reducing time-to-resolution from hours to minutes and enabling self-serve diagnostics.

  • Led cross-functional alignment efforts to define and document KPIs across Meta’s Partner Management team; collaborated with Data Science to validate metric definitions, aggregation methodologies, and ensure revenue signals were both accurate and interpretable for business teams.

2016 -2018

Co-Founder

Metrica

Washington, D.C.

Co-Founded a consulting firm advising federal partners on process design, organizational assessments, and internal systems improvement; first contract awarded within 3 months of launch.

2015 - 2018

Principal Consultant

Net ESolutions Corp.

Rockville, MD

  • Owned Tableau deployment at OCICB; leading dash development, permissions, site admin, and user onboarding to establish a scalable, org-wide reporting infrastructure for $100M budget and $1B grant portfolio oversight.​

  • Created an engagement style guide to establish standards and best practices for dashboard development, usability, and management to ensure brand integrity on client deliverables.

  • Leveraged strong communication skills and ability to connect with a diverse range of technical and business stakeholders to pitch prospective clients and conduct product demos; played a key role in winning new business by clearly articulating product value and aligning solutions to client needs.

Management Consultant

  • Launched a Tableau-based budgeting platform with intuitive, user-friendly interfaces, interactive filtering, parameter-based calculated fields, and color coded data points to identify insights at-a-glance; enabled non-technical stakeholders to forecast contract labor costs and reallocate funds with speed and confidence.

  • Informed strategic funding decisions at NIAID by delivering timely, data-backed insights on budget utilization, projected shortfalls, and high-impact reallocation opportunities; enabled leadership to optimize funding levels across a $80M annual portfolio and absorb unexpected funding late in the fiscal cycle.

  • Owned end-to-end deployment of invoice data ETL logic; ensured data quality and usability in forecasts.

Net ESolutions Corp.

Budget Analyst

  • Served as the primary point of contact for the CIO of NIAID, establishing source-of-truth reporting and analytics framework for managing a $69M federal operating budget and responding to inter-agency RFIs and Data Calls.

  • Uncovered discrepancies and outliers in labor spend and other invoices, avoiding the return of 17% of the budget to the Treasury for expired funds.

  • Implemented standardized vendor invoice process at OCICB, reducing data processing time by 90% and improving accuracy and oversight of the budget’s largest line-item

Net ESolutions Corp.

Skills

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Technical Tools

  • Tableau (admin, RLS, dashboard design, usability)

  • SQL Queries

  • Python

  • Excel

  • ​CRM Systems

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Business Intelligence

  • Executive level reporting

  • KPI Design

  • Forecasting

  • Strategic Reporting

  • XFN Project Leadership

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Data Analytics Engineering

  • ETL Development

  • Data Modeling

  • Data Quality Audits

  • Dashboard Automation

  • Performance Optimization

  • Reporting Accuracy

  • Schema Design

  • Partitioning

  • Error Handling

  • Data Pipelines

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Governance & Communication

  • Process Mapping

  • SOP Development

  • Process Improvement

  • Process Design

  • Documentation

  • Nomenclature

  • KPI Definition

  • Training

  • Education

Education

2005 - 2009

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science in Marketing

Gainesville, Florida

Dustin Sigward pursued his Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of Florida, where he gained a strong foundation in data analysis and strategic decision-making.

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