Alex Tenenbaum
Technical Product & Data Leader | AI, Analytics & Data Platforms
I build data products and analytical systems that turn complicated customer and operational problems into usable decisions, workflows, and product capabilities. My work has crossed B2B real-estate technology, enterprise analytics, rural economic development, energy, geospatial data, and early-stage product development.
Across those settings, the pattern has been consistent: learn the domain quickly, work directly with customers and subject-matter experts, build reliable data foundations, translate needs into technical requirements, prototype solutions, and help move them into products that nontechnical users can actually use.
Simplex3D: U.S. Data & Product Platform
At Simplex3D, I worked across customer discovery, data infrastructure, spatial analytics, and product development for a 3D real-estate information platform. I built reusable U.S. data workflows, evaluated public and commercial property data, translated real-estate workflows into product requirements, and later worked on AI-assisted zoning and development-potential prototypes.
NYC Zoning Intelligence & Development Potential
A beta product and data initiative focused on turning difficult NYC zoning questions into structured, testable rules and parcel-level development analysis. The work combined expert-informed test cases, AI-assisted rule interpretation, spatial data, FAR/TDR logic, and 3D development workflows.
Vermont Squeeze
An animated, scroll-driven data story tracing Vermont's property-tax, health-premium, and school-funding squeeze to one shared cause — sourced, built, and designed end-to-end from public data.
Tech Talent Tracker
Originated and product-managed an interactive county-level decision tool combining data engineering, SQL/R/Python, ETL, visualization, and location analytics. The project connected analytical rigor with product design to help users compare places, understand workforce conditions, and make location decisions.
Deaths of Despair
A six part data-driven article series written in collaboration with the American Communities Project and supported by The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation. This series was based on a 30-month study of deaths of despair across the country. The study includes data analysis as well as on-the-ground reporting in Georgia and Montana examining death statistics resulting from drugs, alcohol and/or suicide. Participants are: Dante Chinni, director; Ari Pinkus, senior editor; Lee Banville, professor at the University of Montana; Andy Miller, CEO and editor of Georgia Health News; and Ray Suarez, on-the-ground reporter. Data analysis, mapping and graphics by the Center on Rural Innovation.
COVID-19 County Preparedness Index
Awarded Fast Company Innovation by Design Finalist in Social Good and Honorable Mention in Health
Featured Carto.com article and webinar: Assessing Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Communities
Partnered with Applied XL and health publication STAT to develop a global COVID-19 tracker and U.S. county preparedness index as a diagnostic response to the pandemic. This platform aggregated data on COVID-19 cases while also assessing pandemic preparedness in all counties country-wide. This tool was used by health journalists like STAT news, Business Insider, and experts world-wide to better understand the crisis.
The Rural Opportunity Map was born out of the need for a new framework to understand opportunities in small town America in the 21st century – a framework that takes into account the way industry and employment are changing, and the demographic trends that have defined small towns for the past decade. The tool is meant to allow anyone - from nonprofit leaders to academics, Opportunity Zone investors to journalists - to find insight and opportunity in small town America.
The Rural Opportunity Map
Maps and other tools
Contact
Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Email
alexander.tenenbaum@gmail.com