Joseph Lang, MBA

Senior Data Analyst — Performance Analytics & Reporting, Renewable Energy

Summary

Data analyst with nearly four years of hands-on experience monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on a 42-site, ~250 MW solar portfolio for internal and external stakeholders. Builds custom analysis tooling when off-the-shelf methods fall short — including a sun-position-adjusted shortfall analysis that separates true underperformance from expected daily variation, and an ops-reporting dashboard that cut administrative staffing for work-order tracking by 66%. Owns the full reporting lifecycle: exploratory analysis, KPI design, and standardized customer-facing deliverables. Holds an MBA in Quantitative Methods of Business, deepening the link between analysis and business decision-making.

Core Skills

Analysis & Reporting Exploratory data analysis, KPI design, performance/shortfall analysis, monthly & quarterly customer reporting, standardized data visualization templates Domain Expertise Utility-scale solar performance monitoring, weather-adjusted production analysis, O&M operations support Tools & Languages Python (pandas, astral, scikit-learn), SQL, Excel (Advanced), Google Sheets, R / RStudio, VBA Data & Databases SQL Server / SSMS, Microsoft Access, Google Sheets API, Gmail API, REST API data sources Communication Stakeholder-facing deliverables, standardized reporting templates for internal and external audiences

Experience

National Renewable Energy Corporation (NARENCO) September 2022 — Present
PV Performance Analyst Charlotte, NC
  • Monitor solar farm production from the Control Center, identifying and escalating performance anomalies across a portfolio of 42 sites (~250 MW, anchored by one 70 MW site alongside 41 smaller 1–2 MW community sites).
  • Analyze near real-time solar production data from a Python-integrated Also Energy monitoring platform (SQL Server backend), cutting daily Control Center analysis labor from 6 hours to 1 hour, an ~83% reduction.
  • Designed the reporting logic behind an ops-management dashboard covering the company's ~10,000 annual work orders, giving administration and middle managers a searchable, chart-based view of work-order status without manual compilation — cut the administrative headcount needed for WO tracking from 3 people to 1, a 66% reduction.
  • Built a sun-position-adjusted production shortfall analysis tool (Python, pandas, astral) that calculates expected sunrise/sunset and solar position per site coordinates to isolate genuine underperformance from normal daily variation.
  • Author a recurring lineup of 7 combined performance/work-order reports and 25 work-order-only reports delivered to customers and internal stakeholders, translating raw production data into standardized, decision-ready deliverables.
  • Migrated the legacy Excel/VBA performance analysis workflow to Python, improving analytical consistency and cutting the full multi-site reporting cycle from 8–16 hours to 30–60 minutes.
  • Built a real-time wind-conditions monitoring tool, later extended into a weather-aware daily scheduling planner for 6 field technicians — cut scheduling-check time from about an hour to under 5 minutes and eliminated weather-related mis-scheduling entirely over 3 months of use.
  • Designed standardized data visualization templates for O&M deliverables used by both internal teams and external customers.
CapRock Investments March 2022 — July 2022
General Laborer (promoted to Project Lead) Charlotte, NC
  • Promoted to lead a warehouse decommissioning project, coordinating work completion and punch-list management; role ended when the company dissolved and sister company NARENCO made a direct hire offer.

Selected Projects (github.com/jlang99)

Solar-Performance-Analysis

Analysis and reporting scripts behind monthly/quarterly customer performance reports, including sun-position-adjusted shortfall analysis and PVsyst expected-production comparisons.

Wind-Monitoring-App

Desktop tool tracking site-specific wind conditions for the O&M team, supporting rapid operational decisions during weather events.

EPC-Vegetation-Analysis

Exploratory pixel-color classification approach to detecting vegetation coverage on construction sites from drone imagery.

eMaint Ops-Reporting Dashboard (internal tool — not public)

Reporting logic and analysis behind a searchable, chart-based work-order dashboard used by administration and middle managers; reduced required admin staffing for WO tracking from 3 people to 1.

Education

Queen’s University of Charlotte

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Quantitative Methods of Business

Aug 2024 — May 2026

Completed

Wingate University

Bachelor of Science — Psychology

Aug 2018 — May 2021