Associate Director, BI · Applied AI
Helping data teams talk to their data.
I’m Benny — an Associate Director of Business Intelligence at Verizon, applying LLMs to data engineering, reporting, and self-serve analytics. Lately that’s meant building tools that let leadership query their business in plain English instead of waiting in queue for an analyst.
10+
Years in BI & analytics
AI
Applied to reporting & data eng.
GCP
BigQuery, Looker, Python
EST
Based in New Jersey
By the numbers
Selected impact from a decade-plus at Verizon.
$1.3B+
Revenue & cost impact from a strategic ROI initiative.
$22M+
Year-over-year cost reduction.
40k+
Incremental gross adds from a deployed tool.
5,000+
Partner locations under the “Big 3” reporting governance.
Selected work
A peek at recent projects.
Conversational BI for leadership
shippedNatural-language interface over a governed LookML semantic layer so leadership can query BigQuery without writing SQL. Guardrails, citations, and an eval harness for accuracy.
<5 min
question → answer
#gemini#claude#rag#bigquery
Analyst Copilot in the reporting suite
shippedAI assistant embedded in our Looker workflow that drafts narratives, summarizes anomalies, and answers stakeholder follow-ups in context.
~6 hrs/wk
analyst time recovered
#gemini#looker#automation