
Joel Reale
Director, Financial Systems
Joel Reale is the Director of Financial Systems for Michael Baker International’s MER3 (Mitigation, Environmental, Response, Recovery & Resiliency) business vertical, which unites Tidal Basin Group, MLU Services, and Michael Baker’s EMR (Emergency Management & Response) team. His experience includes over 10 years of database analysis, report development, systems management, and process optimization.
Joel has played a critical role in identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends and patterns in complex datasets. He has developed financial and operational reports and regularly communicates this information to business leaders at the company. He works closely with all business and financial departments to prioritize business and information needs, identifies and defines new process improvement opportunities across the company, communicates with the financial systems software developer to incorporate new features and functionality into the software, and is integral to the rollout of these updates.
Joel has optimized the finance department’s processes by creating and implementing new procedures to consolidate data from multiple systems into a single financial software system.
Education
- B.A. Information Science and Technology, University at Albany
Firm Role
Develop data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality, acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems, work with management to prioritize business and information needs, locate and define new process improvement opportunities.
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