Congratulations Lorelei Samuelson at SME Solutions Group & leader in the NTC BI & Analytics Peer Group!

Receiving the Young Professional of the Year Award was Lorelei Samuelson, director of business intelligence for SME Solutions Group, an analytics consultancy company based in Nashville and in Tampa, Florida. This award recognizes someone who, at a relatively young age, has already been a role model whose accomplishments are outstanding and an inspiration to others — but who also has the potential to rise to even greater heights in personal and professional life.

An MTSU alumna, Samuelson was instrumental in founding and serves as an adjunct professor in the Business Intelligence and Analytics concentration at Jones College. She has worked at organizations ranging in size from publicly traded to private equity-owned to early startups.She served in analytics roles at the VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Sony ATV Music Publishing, and HCA. Her expertise includes project management, process improvement, executive dashboard development, data architecture, data warehousing, master data management, analytic reporting and predictive analytics. She works with the nonprofit Women in Technology of Tennessee; chaired the 2016 Nashville Technology Council Analytics Peer Group, organizing the Nashville Analytics Summit; and is developing a STEM and coding program at Bellevue Middle School.

Source: MTSU’s Jones College honors five with business awards (Photo: Eric Sutton/MTSU)