Kirk is the Chief Analytics Officer & Founding Partner at Paint with Data, the author of "Data Modeling with Tableau," and a Tableau DataDev Ambassador. Kirk has a passion for business analytics, an industry where he has been working since 2001. Kirk has had roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success at Cognos, IBM, and Tableau. He has helped executives to front-line decisive makers in Fortune 500 companies. Kirk believes—no, he knows!—that business people can answer their own questions with data as long as they have the right supporting processes and enablement community behind them. Kirk currently has Tableau Certified Desktop Professional, Tableau Certified Associate Consultant, and Tableau Certified Associate Architect certifications.