About
Method Strategy Consulting is the independent practice of Andrew Valentine, a former Business Analytics Director with over a decade of experience building the KPI frameworks, reporting systems, and pricing experiments that operationally complex businesses run on.
Over the last decade-plus in retail and operational analytics, I've built reporting systems and run experiments for businesses with thousands of physical locations, complex inventory dynamics, and tight unit economics. Most recently, I served as Director of Business Analytics at Automated Retail Technologies, where I led analytics strategy, built demand forecasting and pricing models, and developed the operational reliability systems that kept the network running.
Before that, I spent over a decade at Redbox, the national automated retail company, in progressively senior roles across inventory analytics, strategy, operational analytics, and routing optimization. That's where I learned how complex operational businesses actually behave in practice. The cannibalization dynamics, pricing sensitivities, and operational failure modes that don't tend to show up in textbook analytics work.
This consulting practice exists because the problems I find most interesting are problems most companies need solved once rather than staffed permanently. That includes building genuinely useful reporting on top of messy operational data, designing experiments rigorous enough to actually act on, and fixing KPI frameworks that have drifted into uselessness.
Clearly scoped up front. Every engagement starts with a written proposal covering what gets done, when, and for how much.
Senior delivery. I do the work myself and nothing is handed off or sub-contracted to others. Whatever I deliver is built directly by me, usually in close collaboration with teams on your side.
Documentation-first. Every project leaves behind documentation good enough for your team to extend the work without me.
Honest about uncertainty. The real world is full of shades of gray and ambiguity, and so is a lot of operational data. If there's not enough data to paint a clear picture, I'll communicate the uncertainty clearly.
Full-time focus. This is what I do. Clients get my full professional attention.
Day-to-day work runs on SQL (advanced), Tableau (Desktop and Server, including performance optimization), Postgres, AWS Redshift, Python, and increasingly AI-assisted development tooling like Claude Code for analytics automation. I'm experienced in Power BI, Power Apps, Excel, and VBA when the existing stack calls for it.
Having worked with plenty of analytics consultants from the client side, the most common failure mode I've seen is solutions that don't survive contact with the actual data infrastructure once the consultant leaves. I build against your warehouse, not around it.
The LLC is registered in Chicago, Illinois, and I'm physically based in Valencia, Spain. All work is fully remote. I take on clients in US Central, US Eastern, and UK time zones, typically based in Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, London, or Birmingham, though location is flexible as long as the meeting hours work out.
Bachelor of Science, Geography & Geographic Information Systems - Northern Illinois University, 2005-2009. The spatial analysis background ended up being more directly useful than expected for distributed network problems.