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BIG Consulting is a team of business intelligence, data analytics, finance, and agriculture professionals with offices located throughout the mid-west and south-central United States. We serve a broad customer base within the agriculture industry, addressing needs through business intelligence visualizations and dashboards and advanced reporting. We are eager to partner with you to understand your needs and challenges, and present your data in ways that enable and empower your team to make critical business decisions that return immediate value back to your organization.
Leadership Team
Kent Schultz
Chief Executive Officer
Kent is an experienced professional who has held roles in sales, sales management, business development, business consulting and management with several companies including: Farm Credit, First National Bank, Syngenta, Purina/Land O’ Lakes, Cargill and Central Valley Ag Cooperative.
Kent has demonstrated proficiency in designing creative and strategic solutions that provide actionable insights to achieve desired business objectives. He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Agricultural Education and received his Executive MBA degree from Washington University – St. Louis.
Donald Schlising
President
Don has extensive experience in organizational leadership and enterprise information technology business consulting, including over eight years focused within agriculture. He’s held executive and senior leadership, CIO consulting, enterprise project management, marketing and communications, sales, and technical management roles – all focused on customer success and satisfaction, business growth, goal alignment, strategic innovation, and team building.
He’s held numerous positions on strategic councils, board of directors, and advisory committees to provide leadership and technology innovation input and guidance.
Don has a business and psychology degree from the University of WI – Stevens Point. He is a published author and award-winning landscape and urban photographer.
Mike Mensing
Director of Sales
Mike is a highly engaged business leader with extensive experience in the areas of sales leadership, sales operations, marketing, pricing and programs, general management, leading in person and remote teams, and leading cross functional projects. He spent 16 years with Land O’ Lakes in various sales and sales operations leadership roles, including leading the commercialization of a novel feed and forage digestibility measurement service, which included online tools to better capture the full value of digestibility data insights for dairy operations. Prior to Land O’ Lakes, Mike ran a grain-based food ingredient manufacturer selling to Fortune 100 food companies.
Mike has a BSBA with a double major in Finance and Marketing from Creighton University and an MBA from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota.
Innovation Team Leads
Kameron Braaten
Director of Analytics/Sr. Analyst
Kameron is a data analytics professional, having developed a high degree of expertise with the Tableau platform since 2013.
Prior to joining BIG Consulting, he performed marketing analytics and GIS mapping for Central Valley Ag. Kameron is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and holds a degree in Geospatial Information Sciences with a focus on mathematics.
Kameron leads our internal data analyst communication and collaboration, which is strongly focused on continuous improvement and strategic innovation.
Jeremy Mohr
Director of Operations/Sr. Analyst
Jeremy has been developing on the Tableau platform since 2017, and he focuses on creating simple to use and effective solutions that drive results for BIG’s customers.
Jeremy has worked for agricultural cooperatives for many years as a Data and Process Manager as well as part of the information technology team. He has deep experience with multiple agricultural ERP and line-of-business systems, and his extensive knowledge allows him to provide significant value to his customers.
To ensure the application of effective and efficient processes, Jeremy works closely with the BIG data analyst team to maximize BI dashboard and visualization output while minimizing load times and resource consumption.
Victor Osemwegie
Data Engineer/Sr. Analyst
Victor is a data analytics professional who has utilized Tableau since 2014 to provide leaders from companies such as Lifetime Products, Adobe, and Compass Bank with visual analytics that generate unique insights and drive effective decisions.
He obtained his Computer Science degree from Ambrose Alli University in Nigeria and is a self-described lifetime learner.
Victor has extensive experience with relational database management systems, cloud services, and numerous data-related solutions and tools. He leads our datacenter, data warehouse, and SaaS initiatives focused on securely transporting, storing, processing, analyzing, and presenting customer data.
Andrew Yamriska
Sr. Analyst
Andrew has worked as a Military Intelligence Analyst since 2013 as a member of the Wisconsin Air Force National Guard. He has strong experience building and presenting intelligence solutions to military leadership.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. Before BIG Consulting, he worked as a Police Officer for the City of Madison, Wisconsin.
Andrew’s exceptional creativity, determination, and commitment to the creation of visually engaging dashboards has spawned innovative approaches that have greatly benefited the internal BIG data analyst team and our clients.
BIG Consulting: Your Trusted Experts in Agriculture
WHAT WE STAND FOR
We believe in empowering organizations with visualized data, that is relevant and actionable, to fuel innovation and growth. By harnessing the collective intelligence of our team and our clients, we transform data into decisions by creating new and innovative approaches that enhance your decision making, increase revenues, reduce costs and risk, introduce operational efficiencies, provide detailed insights, and create a competitive advantage.
BIG Consulting was founded on the values of collective intelligence, excellence, innovation, integrity, and being partners in success with our clients. We live our values every day, and they guide is us in all we do. Our success is fueled by your success.
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