Meet the Executive Team

  • Gina Mulligan (Bremer)

    Founder

  • John F Bremer Jr

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Stephanie Drazic

    Chief Operations Officer

OUR VISION

We provide data visualization education and services to organizations that are seeking to better understand and leverage their data.

We help organizations evolve their business reporting by migrating from overwhelming spreadsheets to dashboards with reusable templates and development processes.

We don't just do; we teach. We focus on delivering a solid foundation for data visualization programs by providing the training and reusable resources to enable all teams to tell impactful stories with their data and branding.

OUR FOUNDER

Gina Mulligan (Bremer) is a leader in the field of data visualization and storytelling. She specializes in data visualization, data storytelling, visual design and business intelligence strategy. Gina is an expert in data visualization development infrastructure, process and project management and is the inventor of the LV5D data viz development methodology.

Gina teaches data visualization for the University of Washington Data Visualization Certificate Program and is on the board of the Technology Alliance Group NW (TAGNW). She has been a leader of both the Seattle and Bellingham Tableau User Groups. She has spoken at both the Tableau and Tapestry conferences and was recognized by Tableau as one of the first 20 international Tableau Public Ambassadors.

Gina has produced data visualizations for 15 companies including Fortune 500 and non-profits working in Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Google Data Studio. Her career in data began shortly after she earned her degree in mathematics from the University of Washington. Gina joined PayScale, Inc., where she focused on analysis and visualization for digital content marketing campaigns quickly earning the distinction of producing multiple Tableau “Viz of the Day” winners. Developing this journalistic content from an analytics perspective helped her hone her ability to uncover and effectively communicate data insights beyond the numbers. This ability and passion to tell stories with data has been the differentiating factor in her career ever since.

Gina was interviewed for a Medium article on how to succeed as a female business founder and featured as Geekwire's "Geek of the Week," where you can read more about just how much she geeks out over data viz!

OUR cto

John began his high-tech career working for 10 years as linguist in the US Air Force and reserve. After earning a BA in Applied Linguistics John joined Boeing Computer Services Artificial Intelligence Center working as a computational linguist helping to develop a computer program that could read and understand tens of thousands of pages of Boeing aircraft maintenance manuals.

John enjoyed a 32 year career at Boeing working as a computer researcher, software architect and developer, and product manager. He shares many inventions and 5 patent applications for his work on production applications including the Boeing Simplified English Checker (Boeing: Simplified English Checker), the Boeing Collaborative Document Reviewer, and the Boeing ATOM Augmented Reality application for MS HoloLens (RAAF uses HoloLens mixed-reality device for C-17A maintenance (airforce-technology.com). John has a Masters degree in Information Technology with a focus on cloud computing.

Outside of work John has done lots of fun stuff over the years. He loves to ski on both the water and the snow with his wife and kids, grandson and extended family spending the summer on Lake Samish, Fall in Sicily and Winter at Mt. Baker. John enjoys travel, salsa dancing, yoga, rock and roll guitar, great food and studying Italian.

Patents:

  • US8032544B2 - Methods and apparatus for generating dynamic program files based on input queries that facilitate use of persistent query services - Google Patents

  • US8601001B2 - Selectively structuring a table of contents for accessing a database - Google Patents

  • US20100131614A1 - System and method for scalable architecture for web-based collaborative annotation of page-based documents - Google Patents

  • US8719216B2 - Caching of web form post-query requests - Google Patents

OUR PARTNERS