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Come say “hey” to Jacob Stey (@SteyJ) because he’s our November Member Spotlight! 👋🏻 You may have seen this Community Champion at ENGAGE Seattle or helping others around the platform - now’s your chance to hear his “Smartsheet Story” straight from the source.

Jacob is a System Administrator at Patriot Group International and lives in Texas. Once upon a time, his work at a datacenter included using dashboards as an easy way to manage links from several different locations. A coworker suggested to Jacob that he should help with the dashboard design, and that’s what prompted him to start looking into Smartsheet automation, analytics and other core features. 

“In the two years since helping design that dashboard, I have been ecstatic to join the Million Row Club, and I’m now managing data and analytics between several clusters of data centers and tens of thousands of rows per month,” he says. “Smartsheet really is a tool that anyone in an organization can use to make an impact.”

One of Jacob’s favorite projects involves visitor intake processing. He is responsible for aggregating and cleaning user profile data between multiple sources, and then syncing updates to the profiles with DataMesh. “To archive and manage the aggregate, I am using Bridge to delete rows when they become inactive, while also simultaneously updating drop-downs,” he explains. “When a visitor is processed, all required information is URL-queried into a form to simplify the visitor intake process.”

In the future, Jacob plans to use Smartsheet to create an external application utilizing OAuth 2, providing an all-in-one event logging system that can be used for many types of security contracts. It will also utilize features such as dashboards and reports. (Alison Note: We can’t wait for Jacob to post a status update on this in Community once it’s done!)

In true Community Champion style, Jacob had a few shoutouts to those in the Community and in the Champion program that have inspired him, including @Paul Newcome, @Andrée Starå, and Smartsheet’s own @Genevieve P.. He also had great things to say about the people he met IRL at ENGAGE Seattle. “There was so much energy and positivity,” he says. “Over the past two years, I have met so many people through the platform, but finally had the opportunity to assign faces to names!”

In his personal life, Jacob is all about the lake life. He enjoys waterskiing, wakeboarding, and wake surfing. Overall, he says he’s most passionate about creating things, and making the work lives of others easier and more efficient. And for that, we in the Community are so grateful!

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