>> Well, my name is well
Ryan Swan [assumed spelling].
I'm currently working at the Department of
Treasury where we do business intelligence.
I lead a team where we take information from
really all different aspects of business.
And we help make strategic
decisions on a variety of things --
everything on operation efficiency,
to what to do with funding
from a variety of sources of that nature.
My day kind of starts with working in
teams -- people with different backgrounds,
people with different specialties
that allow us to formulate an opinion
or recommendation to solve an issue.
My day is filled with technology, and
using that technology to take processes
that were once manual -- they
maybe took months or years to do
in the past and do it in hours and minutes.
It also includes a number of data -- pulling
data from different data points that allow you
to really take a data centric
look of what's happening
in our organization and then respond to it.
One of the things that you'll hear if you go to
data dot gov or transparency dot gov it's all
about what's measured, and how do you measure
those things so that we know what's happening
with our taxpayer money with efficiencies of the
government [inaudible] in general [inaudible].