dodom
A.01 · PublicExcel · Training · Automation
dodom

Expert Excel consulting and training for teams who need systems that last.

Dodom improves how businesses work in Excel and adjacent data workflows—then teaches the reasoning so capability stays with your team.

B · Experience

Inside the numbers—and the business around them.

Doug brings spreadsheet depth together with accounting and controller experience, so the work stays practical under real pressure.

B.01

Technical

15+

years Excel

Professional Excel depth across modeling, automation, analysis, and operational workbooks.

B.02

Accounting

Graduate

degree

Graduate accounting education that keeps the work grounded in how businesses actually report and decide.

B.03

Public practice

Practice

experience

Public accounting experience with real clients, deadlines, review pressure, and scrutiny.

B.04

Controller

7+

years

Corporate controller experience, including public-company exposure, where systems have to hold up.

C · Work

Three operating modes. One problem-first practice.

Consulting, training, VBA, Power Query, Power Pivot, structuring, analysis, reporting—organized around the need, not a catalog.

01C.01

Train

your team

Teach the fundamentals and reasoning people need to solve their own Excel and Power Query problems—so capability stays with the team.

02C.02

Improve

the system

Restructure inefficient workbooks, queries, reporting processes, and data flows into something cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain.

03C.03

Solve

the hard problem

Step in when the issue needs deeper Excel, Power Query, VBA, automation, or data-model expertise—and leave documentation behind.

D · Approach

The goal is not dependency. It is a team that understands the system.

Every engagement follows the same operating model.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Start with the real business problem—not just the spreadsheet symptom.

  2. 02

    Simplify

    Remove unnecessary complexity so the solution fits the work, not the other way around.

  3. 03

    Build

    Design and implement the right Excel, Power Query, automation, or reporting solution.

  4. 04

    Teach

    Explain how it works so your team can operate, adjust, and extend it with confidence.

E · Difference

Not just a working workbook. A system your team can keep.

Solutions should remain useful after the meeting ends.

E.01

Efficient

Built for the work you actually do—not for features you will never use.

E.02

Maintainable

Structured so updates do not require reverse-engineering someone else's logic.

E.03

Appropriately complex

As sophisticated as the problem requires, and no more.

E.04

Documented

Decisions, structure, and usage are recorded where your team can find them.

E.05

Understandable

A solution only counts if your people can reason about it after the engagement.

F · Continuity

The work should not disappear into an email thread.

Engagements leave lasting value: organized documentation, training, files, and project knowledge your team can return to.

Lib · Org recordLiving index

Projects, documentation, training, and files stay organized where the team can return to them—not lost in an inbox.

G · ContactEnd of system

Tell me about the workbook, the process, or the training need.

Messy reporting, a brittle model, a team that needs stronger foundations, or a problem that has outgrown the current spreadsheet—start a conversation. We will figure out whether training, restructuring, or deeper problem-solving is next.