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LucidDataMind
Data Modernization

Enterprise data modernization.
Without the enterprise overhead.

20 years building production data pipelines for retail, logistics, and enterprise operations. The same rigor and methodology — without the Big 4 overhead or the 18-month timeline.

The problems I get called about

200 SSIS packages that nobody wants to touch

Power BI reports that run for 10 minutes

Data scientists waiting 3 days for a data extract

No lineage, no documentation, no confidence in the numbers

A Fabric license you’re not using

Excel spreadsheets as the “source of truth”

I migrate in layers

I don't rip and replace. Each layer delivers value independently. You're never left mid-migration.

01

Bronze — Land everything

Raw, immutable, auditable. Every source system lands here with ingestion metadata, schema tracking, and append-only Delta tables.

02

Silver — Clean and conform

Deduplication, type enforcement, business-rule application, incremental processing. Schema contracts reject malformed data.

03

Gold — Analytics-ready

Dimensional models, semantic layer alignment, business logic centralization. Power BI Direct Lake for sub-second reporting.

The stack

Microsoft Fabric (preferred for Power BI shops)
Neon PostgreSQL (serverless, scales to zero)
Azure Synapse (legacy migration path)
Azure SQL / SQL Server (operational sources and migration)
SQL Server → Delta Lake migration patterns

What I've built

Loyalty points engine

Rewards accrual from raw POS across millions of customer interactions

Customer Master Profile

Identity resolution across CRM, ecommerce, POS, WMS into a single unified record

Ecommerce pipeline

Catalog, inventory, orders, allocations, receipts — JSON/XML to warehouse dimensions

GL reconciliation

POS/ecommerce/WMS financial events to general ledger posting and variance reporting

RFM segmentation

Behavioral scoring feeding marketing automation audience builds

Fabric modernization

Loop automation → Bronze, Materialized Lake Views → Silver, pipeline → Gold on Microsoft Fabric

Engagement types

Assessment

2 weeks

Current-state audit + technology roadmap

Medallion Build

8–16 weeks

Full Bronze/Silver/Gold implementation

AI Layer Add-on

4–6 weeks

NL query on your new lakehouse

Advisory Retainer

Ongoing

Fractional data engineering

Questions

Before you write.

Do I have to replace SSIS all at once?

No. I treat the estate as a set of obligations and move it in layers. A source can land in Bronze, be conformed in Silver, and feed a report from Gold while the package it replaces is still running.

What do you look at before a move to Microsoft Fabric?

Which packages land a source, which ones feed a report or a close, and which ones nothing reads. A Fabric license is not a sequence. The load-bearing feeds decide the order, especially where Power BI is what the business already trusts.

What does the first assessment cover?

About two weeks: the current state, the feeds that have to keep running, and a roadmap for where the medallion should sit. A full Bronze, Silver, and Gold build is a later scope, agreed after that picture exists.

Can the existing reports stay?

Yes, when people rely on them. The migration keeps those models fed. Direct Lake is useful once the grain and the refresh are understood. It is not a reason to start with the least-documented package.

How do I start?

Name the estate in ordinary language: where the packages live, which reports people use, and which source systems are in bounds. I do not need a connection string or an export to answer. I read the note and reply inside a business day.

How engagements are structured

Every engagement starts with a conversation.

No pressure, no pitch — just clarity on what's possible.

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