Nearly 20 years of turning broken data processes into reliable infrastructure. SQL pipelines, Tableau dashboards, automated reporting systems — built from scratch, built to last.
I'm a math major turned data professional with nearly 20 years of experience across higher education, healthcare, and financial services. My career has been defined by one consistent pattern: walking into a broken or inefficient process and building something to fix it.
At Northeastern University's Advancement division, I spent 10 years building SQL pipelines, production data models, Tableau dashboards, and automation tools that the whole team relied on. Before that, healthcare cost accounting at Partners Healthcare. Before that, financial analysis, trade settlement, and teaching middle school math.
I don't just deliver reports. I design data infrastructure that makes reporting automatic, accurate, and trustworthy — the kind of foundation that keeps working long after the project ends.
Every engagement starts with understanding your actual problem — not just the technical request. I scope carefully, build precisely, and deliver work that keeps working.
Every project below solved a real business problem for a real team. No mock projects, no hypotheticals.
She built 14 Tableau dashboards that put our alumni data on the map — literally. These geographic visualizations gave us exactly the insight we needed to build smarter, more targeted engagement strategies.
Working with Trina was a pleasure from start to finish.
What made Trina especially easy to work with was her ability to translate my vision into actionable data insights without requiring me to speak the language of data analysis. She just got it.
Trina filled a data gap my team had been unable to solve on our own. What started as a single dashboard to better understand our community members in South East Asia grew into a full suite of nine regional dashboards spanning East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, Europe, and beyond. We went from basic contact information to a holistic view of constituents’ industries, event attendance, awards, and affinity data — which allowed my team to engage people based on who they are and what they’ve accomplished, not just where they live.
Every skill below has been used on real projects — not just listed. Confidence tiers are honest.
Every project follows the same six-phase framework — so nothing falls through the cracks and you always know where things stand.
I know Trina to be diligent, a good communicator, very bright, and able to push quickly into new areas of knowledge when the requirements of a project call for it. I recommend her highly for any process improvement or creative visualization you may require.
Trina Watson handled many projects as a Senior Data Analyst at Northeastern University. Highlights include automating the ongoing consolidation of numerous datasets — staff performance evaluation reports, donor engagement scores, a donor propensity score (RFM), prospect research prioritization, and the segmentation of alumni outreach for marketing.
Tell me about your data challenge. I'll respond within 24 hours with honest thoughts on whether and how I can help.