James Dales

Co-Founder & CEO @ Icon Map from Tekantis Ltd

About

I'm the co-founder and CEO of Tekantis - a Geospatial Data and AI company, We're developing products to bring geospatial analytics and expertise to the low-code environment via Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2018. Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect since 2020. Co-organiser of London Power BI user group. Contributor to the code base of Power BI. #PowerBI #PowerPlatform #MSAzure #MicrosoftFabric #IconMap #IconMapPro

Country

United Kingdom

City

Liphook

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Icon Map Pro, Real-time Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Geospatial Information Systems, Geospatial Intelligence, Data Visualization, Geospatial Data, Analytical Skills, Management, Leadership, Microsoft Power BI, Azure maps, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatial Analysis, Relationship Building, Team Management, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Icon Map from Tekantis Ltd

2024-4 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

United Kingdom

Co-Leader

London Fabric User Group

2019-7 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

London, United Kingdom

Global Lead, Analytics Experience (Power BI)

Avanade

2021-8 - 2024-4 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Director, Technology Leadership at Avanade

Avanade

2021-1 - 2024-4 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Director - Microsoft Data Platform Practice Lead

Altius (now Avanade)

2011-10 - 2021-1 · 9 yrs 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

Prior to Avanade Acquiring Altius, I was the Microsoft Data Platform Practice Lead, taking the journey from on-premises, traditional data warehousing architectures through the cloud revolution of IaaS to the PaaS modern data warehouse I grew the team from 6 to over 150 consultants across UK, India and Netherlands and in the process established ourselves as the leading Microsoft data consultancy in the UK.