Why Rhyolite?
Rhyolite is a volcanic rock with a deceptively narrow composition but an unusually wide range of forms — it can cool into obsidian, glass-smooth and almost black, or into pumice so light it floats on water. Glassy, banded, speckled, crystal-rich, or nearly porcelain-smooth depending on how it cooled. Most people walk past it without noticing how much variation is hidden inside a single rock type. Occasionally, the right conditions produce something rare inside it: red beryl, one of the world's scarcest gemstones. That felt right for this kind of work. Raw ERP data looks the same way: dense, noisy, and repetitive until you understand what each table is actually recording. Over time I became good at finding the underlying structure — the pattern 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."
