David Day
President at David Day Consulting
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Day is a veteran communications consultant and president of David Day Consulting with over 30 years advising C-suite leaders and prepping teams for high-stakes regulatory and public hearings. Based in Austin, he blends strategic crisis management, media and presentation coaching, and regulatory interaction expertise—particularly with FDA advisory committees and public utility commissions—for top pharmaceutical, energy, and tech clients worldwide. He also consults as a senior advisor to ECG Healthcare, helping life sciences teams communicate complex scientific data to regulators and congresses. Trained in communications (M.A., 4.0), he is certified to conduct Leadership Circle culture and leadership profiles and has counseled multinational teams across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. An unexpected technical facet: he contributes database-focused fixes and DDL work to the popular oltpbench benchmarking project on GitHub, showing hands-on aptitude with SQL Server and database schema design. Known for clear situational assessment and pragmatic remediation, he combines intellectual rigor with practical coaching to navigate high-pressure issues.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication, 4.0, Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication, 4.0 at Texas State UniversityBachelor's degree, Major - Communication, Bachelor's degree, Major - Communication at St.Edward's University
Github Skills (12)
sql-server10
schema-design10
database-administration10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
sql9
benchmark8
benchmarking8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
oltpbenchmark/oltpbench
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Database Benchmarking Framework
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:10 commits, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on database-related tasks, as evidenced by their commits. They fixed unclosed statements in database procedures and addressed errors specific to SQL Server, indicating expertise in database interaction and troubleshooting. Moreover, the user added and corrected DDL (Data Definition Language) for SQL Server across multiple benchmark datasets, including auctionmark, chbenchmark, voter, and wikipedia. Furthermore, the user added DDL for a new benchmark, sibench, demonstrating knowledge of database schema design and implementation.
benchmarkingbenchmarkbenchmarksdatabasebenchmarking-framework
languagetool-language-server/languagetool-languageserver
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
LanguageTool language server to add grammar checking support to editors and other tools that use the Language Server Protocol (LSP)
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 8 months
grammarcheckinglanguagetoolserver-protocollsp
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