Web app · data pipeline
Forever Twink
A gear finder for WoW Forever twink players. Pick a class and spec, get the best items, every one backed by a cited source with a two-source verification rule.
- Data QA
- Source discipline
- Shipping
Lawrence, KS · San Antonio, TX · Remote
Orion WillsI'm an analyst, operator, and builder.
I turn messy numbers into decisions, run the teams that act on them, and ship my own products on the side.
Things I built
Real products with real users. Swipe, use the arrows, or press the left and right keys.
WoW addons · CurseForge
WoW Addons
Free addons for WoW Forever players, published on CurseForge as mediocre_pwnage. Leyword is a daily five-letter word puzzle, Guild Bench shows who in your guild has a profession, recipe, or shared quest, and Afterpull is an opt-in rating log for the end of a run. I built and run their Discord communities.
- Product sense
- Releases
- Community ops
Published on Amazon
Folio Desk puzzle books
Large print word search books under my name. I wrote code that generated the 150 puzzles in each book, then took them through to a published listing.
- Automation
- End-to-end ownership
Web app · brand site
The Folio Desk
A desk for a printed book. Write poems, stories, recipes, or journal pieces, arrange them by mood, and leave with print-ready files for a Kindle Direct Publishing paperback. It is also the publisher label on my puzzle books.
- Product design
- Building for a real user
- Shipping
Web studio
Brevitas
A small studio building websites for Lawrence trades businesses. Demo sites show owners their own business online before they pay a thing.
- Sales
- Client delivery
- Outreach
~$7M / yr
Analytics · Conn's HomePlus
Collections analytics
Forecasting, KPIs, ranking and scoring, and pre-collection handoff analysis, plus dashboards senior leadership used. One collections channel grew about $7M a year.
- Revenue impact
- Dashboards
- Forecasting
Results I can point to
~$7M
a year added to a collections channel from analysis I led at Conn's HomePlus
~50
people trained and led on the Dillons front end, plus manager-on-duty nights
#1
sales team in the company for 18 months at Yodle (Yodle Star 2013)
~50%
year-over-year volume as Mattress Firm Mega Center store manager
Experience
Maze Operations & Drone Pilot
- Design and run seasonal corn-maze operations against a 2026 target of 90 mazes.
- Pilot drone capture and manage video and asset workflows for client delivery.
- Build and QA farm datasets and design files for next season's work.
Front End Manager
- Led daily front-end operations and trained a team of about 50 on service, cash, and labor standards.
- Manager on duty 1 to 2 nights a week: store flow, customer issues, close.
- Tightened inventory and shrink routines so the front end stayed staffed and accurate.
Business Analyst
- Analyzed contact-center and collections performance: forecasting, KPIs, ranking and scoring, pre-collection handoff.
- Built dashboards that gave senior leadership a clear view of pipeline and productivity.
- Led analysis that grew a collections channel by about $7M a year.
Data Engineer
- Python and AWS data engineering on a confidential financial-services engagement, under NDA.
- Pipelines, architecture, and model support the business could run.
Earlier leadership
- Codeup, Data Science certificate (2019): 600+ hours of Python, SQL, statistics, machine learning.
- Oak Creek Homes, Marketing Specialist: web, SEO, vendors, local ads.
- Mattress Firm, Store Manager: top-decile KPIs, about 50% YoY volume.
- Yodle, Area Sales Manager: #1 team for 18 months, VBA pipeline dashboard used daily.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Excel
- Dashboards
- Reporting
- Collections analysis
- Forecasting & KPIs
- AWS
- Team leadership
- Inventory & shrink
- Process design
- Drone operations
Let's talk
Hiring for analyst, reporting, billing and collections ops, or operations management? I'm in Lawrence, KS, open to San Antonio, TX, or remote.