About

Twenty years of taking problems apart.

POW Advisory is my independent practice. I'm magicpete: strategist, data builder and solo XBT miner. I do the work myself, and bring in trusted people from my network when a project needs more hands.

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In my words

Bring me an interesting problem.

I'm a problem solver. The work I love most is taking something complicated, distilling it to what actually matters, breaking it into steps and mapping the path to getting it done. Then building it, fast and lean.

I've done that for more than twenty years: corporate strategy at an online marketplace, analytics leadership at media and e-commerce companies, principal consultant at a global consulting firm, customer-experience engineering at an enterprise software company, and most recently founding an algorithmic-trading software company. I started out on Wall Street financing desks, which still shapes how I think about money and risk.

Today I also solo mine XBT on my own node. I trade my time and effort for XBT because that's how a circular economy gets built: you earn it, and you spend it. If it's an interesting problem, I want to hear about it.

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How I work

Four principles I don't bend on.

Big picture, then data

Start from the whole system, then let the numbers make the call.

Smallest version first

Build the smallest thing that teaches you something, then improve it with real use.

Straight answers

Clear scope, clear prices, and an honest view even when it isn't what you hoped to hear.

Do the work

I work alongside your team and build things myself, not just hand over a slide deck.

Experience

Where the experience comes from.

Most recent first. Employers stay private.

FounderAlgorithmic-trading software company
Senior solution engineer, customer experienceEnterprise software company
Principal consultant, analyticsGlobal consulting firm
Director of business intelligenceMedia company
Senior business analytics architectE-commerce company
Senior manager, corporate strategyOnline marketplace
Equity financing analytics, up to vice presidentWall Street investment banks
On-chain
  • Solo mining XBT on my own Knots node and DATUM gateway
  • Monitoring, alerts and automatic safety shutdown for the rigs
  • Pool-concentration tracking from raw block data
  • Blocks found solo, without a pool
Tools
  • SQL, Snowflake and AWS
  • Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy and Alteryx
  • Salesforce and other CRMs, marketing automation
  • Google and Adobe Analytics, Tealium, Google Tag Manager
  • A/B testing and predictive modeling
Credentials
  • Degree in accounting and finance
  • Formerly Series 7 and 63 licensed
  • Speaker and panelist on analytics adoption and digital transformation

Let's talk about your problem.

Fifteen minutes is enough to know whether I can help.

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