Over the span of the next few weeks, we will be welcoming guest blogger Michael Toon. Mike, a Senior Reporting Analyst from the Office for Sponsored Programs, has been working at Harvard for over forty years. His first twenty years was spent in various positions including a Biophysicist at the Medical School, and Manager of Research Operations at Cell Biology. His second twenty years has been spent at OSP in several positions including a Financial Analyst, a Member of the Operations Team, and he also worked on GMAS development where he focused as Functional Lead migrating data into GMAS. This last position led him into his current role which he has been in for the last ten years reporting on sponsored data. Mike’s current job focuses on data analysis, creating queries and generating reports, tailoring reports to suit individual’s needs, coordination amongst other reporting offices (both internal and external), statistical analysis, workflow support, and data mining (which requires knowledge of the business). He is known to many as the man with the answers.

Mike’s reports are used for a variety of reasons internal and external. Over the next few blog posts, Mike will discuss the types of reports he puts together, who their targeted audiences are, and what GMAS data is used in these reports. If there are any specific reports you would like to read about, or if there are any questions you would like Mike to address in his blog posts, please email contactgmas@harvard.edu with the subject line “Ask Mike”.