About Us
With expert-level Birst architecture, development, and mentoring experience, plus decades of traditional data warehousing and business intelligence, our expertise lifts your Birst analytics implementation out of the doldrums and into the lead.
Meet the Agile Dragon Team
BILL PAYNE CEO
BIRST SOLUTION ARCHITECT WITH OVER 20 YEARS OF BROAD CRM AND ANALYTICAL CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Bill architects, builds, and manages Birst cloud data analytical solutions, and dashboards as CEO of Agile Dragon Group, LLC.
Bill is passionate about building and embedding analytical solutions into larger cloud CRM or ERP solutions such as Cloud Suite and Salesforce. He believes in efficient, secure systems that are easy to access and scale.
Greg Syme CTO
Software Solutions
Software Architect with over 9 years experience delivering production applications in a number of technologies. Greg builds software products to solve customer problems identified by Agile Dragon Group.
Craig Vigor - Head of Customer Success
First Head of Birst Services 20 years of experience in BI, Analytics, and SaaS
As the first director of services for Birst, Craig was instrumental in developing, architecting, and leading hundreds of Birst implementations across various industries. His experience ranges from hands-on implementation work to executive-level strategy and vision.
During his seven years with Birst Services, Craig ensured the delivery of complex analytic solutions and represented the voice of the customer in the ongoing evolution of the Birst product. This included expanding and improving the product to meet customer needs and drive success.
As a customer success executive for information management companies, Craig advises Fortune 500 and manufacturing companies, among others, on their data management and analytics roadmaps and strategies. His focus is on ensuring that organizations of all sizes succeed in transforming their data and systems into actionable insights for the business.
Ching Cooper - Director of M3 Business Intelligence Solutions
Agile Dragon Group, a leading data and analytics solutions provider, is thrilled to welcome Ching Cooper as their new Director of M3 Business Intelligence Solutions. With over 25 years of experience in business analysis, data management, business intelligence and solution architecture, including leading business analytics and inteligence teams at various fortune 500 companies, Ching brings a wealth of expertise to the role.
During her eight years with Infor/Birst, Ching ensured the successfull delivery of over 100 Birst projects across 75 customers. This included implementing M3A standard content, with extensions and custom solutions
Bob Larson - Principal Solution Architect
BIRST SOLUTION ARCHITECT WITH OVER 9 YEARS OF EXCLUSIVE BIRST DEVELOPMENT.
With over 9 years of Birst experience, focusing on high complexity data Birst Date Models, Bob has worked in about every permutation and combination of Birst Solution Architecture. Whether it is a good old-fashioned ADR to Live Access or implementing new data access functionality connecting Birst to the Data Lake Bob has been there and done that.
Most recently, Bob served as a lead consultant with Koch Industries where he designed the Birst data security solution for a global HR application implementation. Prior to Koch Industries, Bob spent two years at Pandora Media. At Pandora, Bob served as the Birst Lead in designing, building, deploying, and supporting a Birst solution for the advertising sales group, integrating data between a customized Salesforce environment and an in-house order management platform. Bob has worked on Birst integrations with 3rd party applications, specifically Salesforce.com, Infor HCM, and Tableau. He resides in Boston with his dog, Manny.
Victoria Christiansen - Account Manager/Dragon Librarian
DOCUMENTATION SOLUTION SPECIALIST WITH OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Agile Dragon Group, a leading data and analytics solutions provider, is thrilled to welcome Victoria Christiansen as their new Dragon Librarian. With over 20 years of experience standardization and documentation of business requirements. She also brings experience as a Cloudsuite Distribution Admin where she created, leveraged, and managed stakeholders’ analytic requirements.
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"Agile Dragon has been an invaluable partner in both our current Birst implementation and our "next generation" environment on Snowflake. Bill and company have supported Judge in all aspects of our implementation from data structures to UI design."
-Mike Flicker
Vice President of Information Technology, The Judge Group
