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Kevin J. Magnan
Role: Principal Consultant & Technology Lead
Organization: Slalom
Description: I design AI‑powered analytics, secure cloud architectures, and data strategies that modernize justice and public‑safety services.
Contact: kevinjmagnan@slalom.com
External Profiles:
About & Background
Overview: I'm a Principal Consultant and Technology Lead at Slalom, where I co-lead our Justice and Public Safety (JPS) industry. My work is focused on modernizing public sector services through data strategy, analytics, and AI, helping agencies navigate complex challenges with clarity, innovation, and purpose.
Background: Before joining Slalom, I built my career at the intersection of public service and analytics. I began as a police officer, gaining first-hand experience in the operational, structural, and human challenges faced by law enforcement and justice agencies. That real-world perspective shaped my transition into data strategy and technology consulting.
Skills & Expertise
Core Skills: Public Safety Technology, CJIS Compliance, AI Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Data Analytics, Government Modernization
Professional Experience
Slalom Consulting, LLC
Location: Detroit, MI
Senior Solution Architect
Period: June 2022 - Current
Key Achievements:
- Strengthened Slalom's Justice and Public Safety operations, leading to a robust 80% year-over-year growth across 45 global locations, securing over 10 new high-profile clients
- Led seven diverse project teams managing project delivery focused on data strategy and analytics across a range of clients, including local, county, and state agencies
- Cultivated a critical emerging client relationship, transforming it into a flagship account. Successfully grew the account to over $5 million in three years
Data and Analytics Consultant
Period: April 2021 – June 2022
University of Chicago Urban Labs
Location: Chicago, IL
Research Manager
Period: June 2019 – February 2021
Key Achievements:
- Led the design and release of the groundbreaking Violence Reduction Dashboard, a public-facing, near-real-time tool developed in partnership with the City of Chicago
- Integrated complex, siloed public safety data and engaged in exploratory data analysis, delivering nine scalable, data-driven Tableau solutions
Embedded Research Analyst
Period: July 2017 – May 2019
Education
University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Degree: Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences
Southeast Missouri State University
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Degree: Master of Science, Criminal Justice Administration
Honors: Graduate Masters High Honors
Southeast Missouri State University
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Degree: Bachelor of Science, Criminal Justice
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Certifications
Work Portfolio
Statewide POST Modernization
Type: Public Safety Modernization
Summary: CJIS-compliant cloud migration for Peace Officer Standards and Training agency
Tags: CJIS, AWS GovCloud, Data Migration, Compliance
Configurable Platforms for Public Safety
Type: Platform Implementation
Summary: Salesforce-based case management and certification tracking systems
Tags: Salesforce, Case Management, Low-Code, Public Safety
All Publications & Blog Posts
Total Posts: 24
Date Range: 2017 - 2026
Claude Pilled 💊: How to Build a Dashboard from Your Claude Code Usage Data
Date: 2026-01-21
Categories: AI, Development, Tutorial
Summary: Claude Code tracks everything. Here's how to extract that data, prompt Claude to visualize it, and what patterns you might discover about your own AI collaboration habits.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/portfolio/claude_code_dashboard.png
PackLlama: Building a B2B AI Product in Two Weeks
Date: 2025-12-29
Categories: AI, Development, Startups
Summary: How I built PackLlama:a conversational AI moving inventory assistant:and deployed it as an embeddable B2B SaaS product. From frustrating forms to natural conversation, powered by Claude and Gemini.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/packllama.png
From Idea to App Store: Building a Full-Stack App with AI in Three Months
Date: 2025-12-09
Categories: AI, Development, Personal
Summary: How I built and shipped AIppliance Manager:a full-stack mobile app with RAG, subscriptions, and push notifications:using Claude as my co-developer. No traditional dev team. Just persistence and a frontier model.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/aippliance_logo.jpeg
It’s Time to Place a Pascal’s Wager on AI
Date: 2025-10-24
Categories: AI, Strategy, Future of Work
Summary: Reframing Pascal’s Wager for the age of agentic AI and the exponential climb in uninterrupted runtime.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/pascalswager.png
From Brevity Bias to Context Intelligence
Date: 2025-10-13
Categories: AI, Public Safety
Summary: Stanford's ACE framework shows how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can evolve their own context instead of collapsing it. That capability is a critical shift for public safety systems that demand institutional memory.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-10-13-from-brevity-bias-to-context-intelligence/ACE.png
The Age of Cheap Intelligence
Date: 2025-10-13
Categories: AI, Strategy
Summary: The cost of intelligence is collapsing, and the winners in 2026 will be the teams that know how to route work across a mesh of specialized models rather than worship the single frontier model.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-10-13-age-of-cheap-intelligence/cheap_intel.png
Standing at the Cliff: AI at the Edge of 2026
Date: 2025-09-29
Categories: ai, future, technology, business, strategy
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/cliff_with_rocket.png
Two Webs, One Future: Humans, Robots, and the Internet's Split Personality
Date: 2025-09-07
Categories: AI, Web Design, Future of Internet, Human-Computer Interaction
Summary: Exploring the emerging dual Internet: one version built for people, another built for machines, and why both matter for the future of web design.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/duality-of-web-thumbnail.png
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Why AI Context Engineering Has Brought Us Full Circle in the Public Sector
Date: 2025-09-05
Categories: AI, Public Sector, Data Management, Context Engineering
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-09-05-the-more-things-change-ai-context-engineering/foundation.png
Frontier Models Are Just the Beginning
Date: 2025-09-05
Categories: AI, Frontier Models, Specialized AI, Industry Applications
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-09-05-frontier-models-just-beginning/b11545ee-d618-43b3-8036-b3b5a8a3d304.png
The Power of Configurable Platforms in Public Safety Modernization
Date: 2025-09-03
Categories: Public Safety, Salesforce, Technology Modernization, Case Management, CJIS Compliance
External URL: https://medium.com/slalom-blog/the-power-of-configurable-platforms-in-public-safety-modernization-a824d4b677d5
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-09-03-power-configurable-platforms-public-safety-modernization/configurable_platforms_publicsafety.png
Stop Calling It an 'AI Pilot': We're Wasting PhD-Level Intelligence on Intern-Level Tasks
Date: 2025-08-22
Categories: AI, Technology, Organizational Change, Digital Transformation
Summary: The real scandal isn't whether the latest AI model feels revolutionary. It's that we're still calling advanced AI deployment a 'pilot' while treating PhD-level intelligence like unpaid interns.
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/Gemini_Generated_Image_l1xl6rl1xl6rl1xl.png
Building the Foundation for Statewide Public Safety Modernization
Date: 2025-07-23
Categories: Public, Safety,, AWS, GovCloud,, Data, Migration,, CJIS, Compliance,, Technology
External URL: https://medium.com/slalom-blog/building-the-foundation-for-statewide-public-safety-modernization-8e0178985a5e
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/buildingfoundationpublicsafety_slalom.webp
From Zero to Deployed: An AI's Log of Building Kevin Magnan's Website
Date: 2025-04-21
Categories: Jekyll,, AI, 'vibe, coding'
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2025-04-21-pair-programming-website-build-ai-perspective/thumbnail.png
Chicago Summer Violence Analysis
Date: 2024-05-31
Categories: Data Analysis, Chicago, Violence
Summary: Analysis of Chicago summer violence patterns
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2024-05-31-Chicago-Summer-Violence-Analysis/thumbnail.png
Tableau Conference 2021 Blog in Partnership with Slalom
Date: 2022-01-01
Summary: Check out this blog I wrote in partnership with Slalom Consulting and a colleague of mine at the company. Hopefully TC22 will return to in person so we can truly experience a TC event! https://www.slalom.com/insight/data-viz-trends-2022
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2022-01-02-TC21-blog-slalom/thumbnail.png
Lessons learned from Tufte: Sparklines and datawords
Date: 2021-04-05
Summary: This mini-blog series will explore real-world examples of my interpretation and inclusion of design theories and examples from Edward Tufte. In this post, I explore a familiar topic of combining text, numbers, and data lines into large-scale visualization
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2021-03-31-Tufte -mini-blog-1/thumbnail.webp
Interactive Resume in Tableau
Date: 2021-03-11
Categories: Tableau, Data Visualization, Portfolio
Summary: Interactive resume visualization in Tableau
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2021-03-11-tableau-interactive-resume/thumbnail.png
Google Takeout Data Analysis
Date: 2020-11-13
Categories: Data Analysis, Personal
Summary: Analysis of personal Google Takeout data
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2020-11-13-google-takeout/thumbnail.png
World of Warcraft Buzz Analysis
Date: 2020-10-28
Categories: Data Analysis, Gaming
Summary: Analysis of World of Warcraft community buzz
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2020-10-28-wow-buzz-analysis/thumbnail.jpg
Your Mom's House Podcast Analysis - Part 2
Date: 2020-10-16
Categories: Data Analysis, Entertainment
Summary: Second part of Your Mom's House podcast analysis
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2020-10-16-ymh-analysis-p2/thumbnail.png
Your Mom's House Podcast Analysis - Part 1
Date: 2020-10-11
Categories: Data Analysis, Entertainment
Summary: First part of Your Mom's House podcast analysis
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2020-10-11-ymh-analysis-p1/thumbnail.png
Chicago SSL Scores Analysis
Date: 2017-06-14
Summary: Analysis of Chicago SSL scores
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2017-06-14-chicago-ssl-scores/thumbnail.jpeg
Mapping with GeoDa
Date: 2017-06-05
Summary: Tutorial on mapping with GeoDa
Thumbnail: https://kevinjmagnan.com/assets/images/blog/2017-06-05-mapping-with-geoda/thumbnail.png
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