Troy Shimkus
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Public Sector Product & Data Leader

I lead cross‑functional teams to plan, deliver, and scale mission‑aligned products and data programs—turning policy goals into transparent systems, actionable insights, and measurable outcomes.

Open to: Public Sector Data Programs Education • Municipal • Nonprofit

About

I’m Troy Shimkus, focused on Public Sector Data Programs—leading cross‑functional teams to deliver transparent, human‑centered systems for education, local government, and nonprofits.

Recent work: PowerSchool (dashboards for 150+ districts), City Commissioner (public transparency dashboards), and Deltona Strong (community resilience initiatives, $40k+ raised).

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Mission

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Advance public sector outcomes by building transparent, human‑centered data programs that connect policy goals to measurable results. I focus on clarity, adoption, and collaboration across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Areas of emphasis include district analytics, civic transparency dashboards, and reliable data pipelines.

Resume Highlights

Leadership & Product Delivery

  • Align stakeholders, shape roadmaps, coach cross‑functional teams
  • Plan → execute → scale with standard delivery and clear outcomes
  • Bridge technical/non‑technical to ship the right thing

AI Practices & Automation

  • LLM‑assisted workflow: design, prompting, codegen, evaluation
  • Model use: Whisper, YOLOv8; data prep/labeling for ETL
  • Guardrails/privacy mindset; pragmatic, outcome‑driven adoption

Data Programs & Systems

  • Dashboards and secure data flows; integrations (APIs, ETL)
  • Cloud practices: observability, CI/CD, reliability
  • K‑12 and civic data experience; stakeholder‑ready reporting

Projects

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Contact

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