Troy Shimkus
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Public Sector Product & Data Leader

I lead cross‑functional teams to plan, deliver, and scale mission‑aligned products and data programs—turning policy goals into transparent systems, actionable insights, and measurable outcomes.

About

I’m Troy Shimkus, a team‑first leader focused on Public Sector Data Programs—aligning stakeholders, shaping roadmaps, and coaching teams to deliver useful, human‑centered solutions.

Recent work: leading services delivery at PowerSchool (dashboards for 150+ districts), building a membership platform for a civic organization, and serving as City Commissioner to advance transparency and trust.

Troy Shimkus seated, hands together

Resume Highlights

Leadership & Product Delivery

  • Align stakeholders, shape roadmaps, coach cross‑functional teams
  • Plan → execute → scale with standard delivery and clear outcomes
  • Bridge technical/non‑technical to ship the right thing

AI Practices & Automation

  • LLM‑assisted workflow: design, prompting, codegen, evaluation
  • Model use: Whisper, YOLOv8; data prep/labeling for ETL
  • Guardrails/privacy mindset; pragmatic, outcome‑driven adoption

Data Programs & Systems

  • Dashboards and secure data flows; integrations (APIs, ETL)
  • Cloud practices: observability, CI/CD, reliability
  • K‑12 and civic data experience; stakeholder‑ready reporting

Membership Database & Engagement Platform

Comprehensive membership platform: registration, profiles, households, volunteer hours, events, payments, admin tools, and email list sync.

React/TSSupabase (RLS)APIsTailwind

Voter (Spring Boot)

Online voting system with multiple methods, anonymous voting, real-time results, and Bootstrap UI.

JavaSpring BootMySQL

District Analytics Dashboards

Custom dashboards for 150+ K‑12 districts to improve insight and renewals; standardized delivery accelerated onboarding.

SaaSSQLETLAWS

VideoTranscribe

Automated video/audio transcription and summarization using Whisper; batching, timestamp handling, and PDF/JSON output.

PythonWhisperFFmpeg

Crowd Counter

Computer vision tool using YOLOv8 to estimate crowd sizes from photos/videos; annotated outputs and CSV reports.

PythonYOLOv8OpenCV

Voter Mapping Utility

Radius-based voter lookup and mapping; Leaflet.js UI with MySQL spatial indexing.

PHPMySQL SpatialLeaflet

Embroidery Design Tools

Python utilities for PES/DST embroidery patterns, patch borders, and geometric designs.

PythonPES/DST

Concierge Site

Directus-based headless CMS deployed with Docker for service-oriented content management.

DirectusDockerCMS

Email Management

Automation and list management; campaign tooling and ESP integrations.

AutomationESPData

Contact

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