ACUMEN
Data Strategist · Founder · Advisor

Daryl Acumen

Translating data into strategy.decisions.growth.stories.results.strategy.

Acumen isn't just the name. It's the method. For three decades I've helped organizations translate data into strategy — simplifying complexity and delivering results where business and analytics meet.

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01 About

With a Master of Science in Data Science, an MBA, and over three decades in the technology industry, I help organizations translate data into strategy. I'm passionate about customer experience, storytelling through data, and creating things that scale.

Most people add noise. I find the signal. I've helped some of the world's most recognized brands make smarter decisions — and built platforms and data strategies behind national marketing programs, political campaigns and successful tech exits.

ac·u·men/ˈakyəmən/  noun 1.The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain. 2.A data strategist. See: Daryl.
02 How I Operate
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Data → Strategy

Analytics is only worth what it changes. I turn raw data into decisions leadership can act on.

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Simplify complexity

Go deep in the platform, then explain the value in plain language to the people who sign off.

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Build things that scale

Founder instincts. Platforms, pipelines and practices that hold up at enterprise scale.

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Story through data

Customer experience first. The numbers matter most when they tell a story people remember.

03 Track Record
  1. Adobe
    Senior Solutions Consultant / Senior Product Manager

    Solutions Consultant for High Tech and Consumer Goods — deep in Adobe Analytics, AEM, Target and Experience Platform. Accounts included Hanes Brands, Altria, Sherwin-Williams, Michael Kors, Kellogg's, Mattel, Verisign and Herbalife. Led customer outreach for Experience League and NPS analytics for the Digital Experience group.

  2. Hewlett-Packard
    Senior Manager, Digital Analytics

    Owned global analytics best practices and reporting for paid, organic and internal search, and HP's relationship with Adobe's Digital Experience Group — tagging, data quality, integrations and warehousing.

  3. Omniture → acquired by Adobe, $1.8B
    Senior Best Practices Consultant

    Employee #25 and founding member of consulting services. Led engagements with eBay, Sprint, Harrah's, Sears, Northwest Airlines and Nike. Helped engineering build Report Builder, Fallout, Channel reporting, A/B & MVT testing and Calculated Metrics. IPO 2007 (OMTR).

  4. Network Solutions → acquired by Verisign
    Manager, Business Analytics

    Forecasting, demand modeling and automated executive dashboards. Built the company's first cross-channel marketing analytics database and deployed its first e-commerce web analytics platform.

  5. Cubus Corporation
    Co-Founder, Business Development

    World's first online CAD collaboration platform. DEMO'98 Pacesetter. Received a $7MM buyout offer from Autodesk.

  6. Skunk Technologies
    Director, Business Development

    Sales and partnerships for a venture-funded startup building web-based SaaS — before it was cool.

  7. Personal Support Computers
    Corporate Sales

    The world's largest Apple Authorized retailer, serving Disney, MGM, Warner Music and Hollywood's elite. Cut service turnaround from 1–2 weeks to under 24 hours.

04 Education & Certifications
M.S.

Data Science

Loyola University

M.B.A.

Business Administration

Brigham Young University

B.S.

Economics

Utah Valley University

Adobe Certified Expert — AnalyticsSQLPythonR / RStudio / RMarkdownTableauSAS — Business Intelligence & AnalyticsData Visualization
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06 Contact

Let's
talk.

Data strategy, advisory, or the next thing worth building. Serious conversations welcome.