Backporch
Decision sciences for anyone with data

More porch time.

Better decisions wherever you are, fewer late nights at the screen. I take the data work off your plate — turning what you already have into calls you can stand behind — so you get your time and headspace back. Not just dollars: compliance, modern tech adoption, and the judgment around them. Any industry, any pace. No jargon, no pressure.

Backporch is just getting started — I'm building it in the open. What's here is real and available now; more will follow as it grows. If it fits what you need, let's talk — no company, contract, or commitment required to begin. How I think →

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Mathematics & data-science tutoring

Teaching is the work I want to do for a lifetime — patient, concept-first, and paced to you. From a single tough problem set to the whole path into data science. Any student welcome; future data scientists especially.

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What I can help with — now, and as it grows

Build & run
Infrastructure optimization & refactor
Make the warehouse, pipelines, and reports you already paid for faster, cheaper, and trustworthy.
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Supply-chain & demand analytics
Forecasting, inventory, and cost-to-serve models that have moved real money.
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Network & operations optimization
Where to make it, hold it, and move it — turned into a defensible, repeatable call.
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Analytics that get used
Dashboards people actually open and act on — tied to a decision, not a vanity metric.
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Decide
Operations research & optimization
Beyond statistics and dashboards: linear/integer programming, scheduling, routing, network flows, queueing, and simulation — the algorithms for allocating scarce resources and deciding under hard constraints.
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Pricing strategy for new products
Price launches and changes with evidence — elasticity, margin, and scenarios.
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Decide
The decision hub
One analytical point of truth for your cross-functional calls — numbers, assumptions, trade-offs.
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Decide
What-if & scenario modeling
Size the payback before a dollar is spent — elasticity, margin, and scenarios you can defend in the room.
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Govern & enable
Data governance & one source of truth
Beyond Excel and silos — capture the tribal knowledge before it walks out the door.
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Govern & enable
Compliance & modern tech adoption
Adopt new tools and meet requirements without the overwhelm — the data plumbing, documentation, and judgment to do it soundly. Not everything is about dollars.
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Govern & enable
Documentation & enablement
Guides, training, and a calm handoff so the work stays with your team, not me.
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Govern & enable
Higher education — governance & decisions
Move colleges from reporting → improving → proving: governance + data/AI literacy, no big-firm overhead.
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Tutoring — mathematics & data science
One-on-one, for any student — with a deliberate track for future data scientists. Patient, concept-first, paced to you. The work I want to do for a lifetime.
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Research collaboration
The statistics and modeling side of an honest question — epidemiology, policy, psychology, neuroscience, astrostatistics, and more.
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Workforce training & AI literacy
Hands-on courses — using AI and data well, and the thinking underneath the tools.
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The decision platform — a preview
A preview of a decision platform I'm building, on synthetic sandbox data. Sign in (viewer / viewer) to see the layout; the live charts I'll walk you through directly.
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Any industry with data
Manufacturing to hospitality to public sector to compliance-heavy work — if it runs on data and decisions, it fits. Tell me yours.
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Start small — no commitment

Learn with me
Mathematics & data-science tutoring, one-on-one — for any student, and future data scientists especially.
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Hire me on Upwork
The easy first step — a scoped project through Upwork's protections, no company or contract of my own needed yet.
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Just say hello
No funnel, no deck. Tell me your data and your decision, and I'll find the fit — honestly.
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However we work together, the goal is the same: less time wrestling data, more time on the porch.