For this episode, Black Belt Analytics, The Gateway is happy to welcome Will Johnson, a Specialist Director in Microsoft's Cloud Analytics Global Black Belt team. Will helps Microsoft Azure customers build Big Data processing, machine learning, and MLOPs solutions. In addition, he focuses on providing industry thought leadership for Retail CPG customers having worked with some of the largest retailers in the USA. He has a master’s degree in Predictive Analytics from DePaul University, an undergraduate degree in Marketing from Northern Illinois University, and taught Marketing Analytics at NIU. Prior to working at Microsoft, Will was an Analytics Manager leading a team of analysts and data scientists in customer analytics.