Olivia Butler is the Data Management Liaison for the Department of Health Services, and also serves as the Tableau site administrator at DHS. Olivia received her Masters from the La Follette School of Public Affairs prior to starting work for the State of Wisconsin, where she was able to apply her background in policy and econometrics and discover her love of Tableau. Olivia is a leader for the State of Wisconsin Tableau User Group and serves on the leadership team of the first Women in Technology group at DHS. Olivia enjoys supporting her data community and is always looking for new ways to improve data strategies to support modern analytics.

Chris Huard is the Tableau Project Manager at Department of Health Services. He holds his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from UW-Madison with an emphasis on data collection methodology. Before joining the State Chris oversaw various data-related projects with a focus on longitudinal research and mixed mode techniques. Currently Chris coordinates a data visualization community where he optimizes data display design to best educate and inform audiences. In his spare time, Chris likes to spin vinyl, run outside, and conquer dimensions and parameters with his colleagues.

Kate Rifken has worked in a variety of different fields from mental health and substance use, brain and body interaction, mindfulness, as well as public health. While she enjoys analytics and visualization, her passion is translating data to consumable forms for decision making and exciting stakeholders around data. Kate received her Master of Science degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Population Health Sciences. Kate currently works for the Department of Health Services, where she helped spearhead the initial rollout of Tableau at the Department. Over the last three years she has helped guide a dedicated group of Tableau users and build an organizational structure for Tableau. She understands that traditional metrics do not always tell the full story and enjoys the challenge of translating and visualizing tough data stories.

Robert Salas is currently the Business Intelligence Reporting and Data Visualization Lead at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF). He has a Master’s in Computer Resource and Information Management and has been involved with DCF for nearly 20 years, half of which has been in BI and, prior to that, with the child welfare system application design and development. In 2016 Robert was tasked with evaluating products for DCF’s new and future data visualization needs. Tableau emerged as the clear winner and, following the rollout and implementation, Robert has been an avid Tableau developer ever since. He feels thankful to work on projects across all of DCF’s program areas, experiencing a lot of variety in user needs, knowledge, and program reporting quirks. He strives to find solutions which deliver data to people when they need it, where they can easily access it, and in a way they can understand and use.

Jen Shepherd has been into data viz since 2014, applying visualization best practices as well as creativity in the non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors.  She has a PhD in Social Psychology and enjoys helping organizations collect, analyze, understand, and especially use their data.  She’s currently a contractor at the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) as a Tableau Specialist - building data visualizations and interactive data dashboards for internal and external audiences.  DCF uses the dashboards to regularly monitor key performance indicators across all of its divisions, including metrics related to: human resources, business intelligence, finance, child welfare, child care, child support, and early childhood education, among others.  Jen is on the leadership team for the Madison TUG where she motivates others to volunteer and #dogoodwithdata.

Sarah Weber is the lead Tableau support resource in the Data Enablement team at American Family Insurance. Sarah provides COE leadership, defines standardized processes & governance, environment support, and user development & engagement activities. Sarah also spent nearly 15 years in various data analyst roles - giving her real world experience and an understanding of the daily life of an analyst, and the opportunities that Tableau provides. American Family’s Tableau environment includes 350+ Tableau creators & approx 20k end users, spread across two production server environments. She has been a member of the #MadisonTUG Leadership team for 5+ years and has spoken 3 times at Tableau Conference.