How Jeremy Post Leveraged Matillion & Snowflake for Coca-Cola Consolidated

My interview last week with Jeremy Post t, the Manager of Business Intelligence at Coca-Cola Consolidated, was inspiring.

He talked about how he transitioned from being a truck driver to a Manager of Business Intelligence at Coca-Cola Consolidated. Jeremy was laid off in 2006 and turned to truck driving out of necessity. It was at the trucking company that he mastered SQL and began working with software.

He said, “I ended up doing implementation for new accounts, which somehow led to software implementation, and I found this piece of software that I got really good at, and I made a really long career out of it.”

Jeremy’s journey didn’t stop there. He recently earned his associate degree and is now pursuing an undergraduate degree in Information Systems (all thanks to a motivational push from his wife).

Partnering with Matillion and Snowflake

Jeremy said his team at Coca-Cola Consolidated partnered with Matillion and Snowflake to tackle their data and logistics challenges. Red Classic, a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Consolidated, has a small IT team, which makes it essential to have user-friendly solutions without high technical barriers.

"With Matillion, we were looking for something that was a little bit easier, that didn’t have that technical barrier to it that some other solutions have," Jeremy explained.

Like most companies, Jeremy mentioned that Coca-Cola Consolidated faces issues such as fuel costs, empty miles, and route optimization. However, their operation's complexity is heightened by their diverse fleet, which includes everything from sprinter vans to heavy-duty tractor-trailers.

Matillion’s ease of use and Snowflake’s enterprise data warehouse capabilities made them a perfect match for Coca-Cola Consolidated. These consolidations help Coca-Cola Consolidated manage its data assets, optimize its logistics, and make informed decisions.

"We wanted it to be something that we didn’t have to have that high barrier of entry. If I've only got two people on my team, I can't have a Python expert, a SQL expert, and an ETL expert," Jeremy emphasized.

Advice for Aspiring Data Professionals

For those looking to advance their skills in data and BI, Jeremy’s advice is simple: just dive in. He believes in hands-on learning and stresses that true mastery comes from doing the work repeatedly.

"I don’t think I’ve ever learned anything without just doing it. Mastery comes with repetition. You’ve got to put time in it, and you’ve got to be in it every day," Jeremy emphasized. Watching videos and reading documentation is helpful, he said, but nothing beats applying that knowledge in real-world scenarios.

Jeremy’s journey is a testament to the power of self-education and perseverance.

Matillion + Snowflake

Snowflake is optimized for speed and performance. By separating compute and storage, it gives you the flexibility to scale your cloud data warehouse to meet peak loads; then scale back down for fast and affordable data queries. Matillion makes it easy to take advantage of all that Snowflake offers.

• Leverage Snowflake best practices and features such as Zero Copy Clone and Object Tagging
• 'Alter Warehouse' directly from Matillion ETL to scale jobs up and down on a job-by-job basis
• Perform powerful transformations to prepare data for analytics
• Accumulate large stores of data for business intelligence, predictive analytics, and AI/ML
• Consolidated billing in your cloud data environment
• Deploy as a multi-tenant SaaS or as a machine image within your existing infrastructure for simplicity and scalability

You can follow Jeremy’s journey by following his LinkedIn page here. For more information about Matillion, visit Matillion's website and follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.