Why Rhyolite?
Rhyolite is a dense volcanic rock — complex in structure, full of detail most people never stop to examine. Occasionally, the right conditions produce something rare inside it: red beryl, one of the world's scarcest gemstones. The name felt right for this kind of work. Raw ERP data looks like noise until you understand what each table is actually recording. Over time I became good at finding the pattern underneath — the one that changes a decision.
I joined my last company as a supply chain analyst during a Business Central go-live — a period that required building reporting infrastructure largely from scratch, with limited precedent and a lot of moving parts. Working independently, I taught myself the BC data model, built custom Power BI reports, and developed tools to support forecasting, inventory planning, and production visibility across the organization.
My background is in operations and manufacturing — production coordination, lean process improvement, tooling design — before moving into supply chain analytics. That operational context turned out to be directly useful when working with ERP data. Understanding what a routing line or a capacity ledger entry represents in physical terms makes the analytical work more grounded.
"Raw ERP data looks like noise until you understand what each table is actually recording. Over time I became good at finding the pattern underneath — the one that changes a decision."
