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Austin, Texas, Us

Mentored and organized a team of cross functional data professionals in the creation and evolution of the enterprise’s data ecosystem guiding a multi million dollar data organization to: • Improved deliverability for the organization by fifty-seven points, year over year, ensuring that estimation of work could be counted on when time is of the essence.• Improved overall productivity of the data team by 37% through strong process definition and governance. Removing ambiguity while empowering technologists.

Austin, Texas, Us

Championed a team of data engineers, architects, analysts and data governance professionals in an enterprise migration to the cloud with a focus on process improvement and strong governance at its core. • Implemented a cogent data strategy and led an aligned vision that allowed the team to drive a three-million-dollar cloud infrastructure investment towards completion• Directed and managed vendor relationships to improve data outcomes and drive initiatives forward

Austin, Texas, Us

Championed a team of data engineers, architects, analysts and data governance professionals in an enterprise migration to the cloud with a focus on process improvement and strong governance at its core. • Stood up broader corporate governance concepts including a Change Advisory Board and Architectural Review Board to promote best practice and facilitate enterprise communication and change management.• Provided frameworks for data governance tailored to the companies specific need.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Worked to create both internal and external marketing and educational opportunities to help meet the needs of clients while empowering diverse consultants to recognize and elevate data management and data governance opportunities.Fostered partnership with external technical partners to enable consultants to build skills and facilitate implementations with clients.Created policy and process standards and supporting collateral to speed delivery and meet customer needs in multiple industries.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Worked in multiple sectors of the economy from State Government, Hospitality, and Tech to deliver data governance program development, ideate, socialize, and implement data architectures to span systems and deliver reporting value, as well as serve as a coach and mentor to individuals and teams both within CapTech as well as with the client.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Worked to envision, design, and develop cohesive solutions to tackle challenging client problems across data, analytics, and management disciplines. He also works to mentor and motivate teams within client organizations as well as across projects in order to further client value. Worked with a fortune 10 company in the energy sector to create a system spanning source of relationship for all of their operational data. He created a marketing platform that helped decode complex relationships between disparate systems in order to give business users a full picture of how their efforts were tracking against plan . Built integrated production reporting systems that helped the business drive efficiency and identify issues before they interrupted operations. Throughout this work, has created relationships within the client as a mentor and trusted advisor, which has motivated the client to extend his contract multiple times to take on more complex and challenging projects.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Deliver growth-oriented solutions focused on driving the business by motivating teams, providing vision, and balancing needs of business initiatives across multiple disciplines. Enhance the Data Governance and Data Science footprint by guiding technical projects through collaborative efforts with technical and business partners. Provide thought leadership by identifying innovative solutions that align with company vision. Manage team of internal professionals and oversee project vendors and contractors. • Established Data Science and Data Governance as a “Center of Excellence” to act as an in-house consultancy arm for the enterprise.• Successfully expand Data Governance capabilities by working to increase operational budget to $125K in order to embark on an RFP for a Data Governance platform; presented to executive team and received go-ahead to start planning implementation. • Requested by senior management to oversee Campaign Management team of 5 people; created development plans and invigorated team credibility within organization; served in dual roles as the Senior Manager of Campaign Management and the Senior Manager of Data Science and Data Governance.• Reduced data quality errors and improved processes for guest facing initiatives with defined accountability and structure.• Spearheaded SAFE concept to alleviate workflow complexity through adoption of Jira and enhanced agile ceremonies; developed strong proof of concept and preparing for program expansion.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Directed team in extending Analytics and CRM capabilities by executing a cohesive, enterprise-wide data governance strategy. Created a variety of data products to provide insights and assets to marketing campaigns with complete oversight over quality. Forged relationships with Business Intelligence (BI) teams to help improve workflow and related to technical issues and emergency work prioritizations. • Spearheaded project to reduce go to market time time from over one year to months for newly acquired resort data by developing and marketing an innovative system as well as architected a data driven product that allowed for integrated reporting following acquisition of large North American resort. • Led the enhancement of data governance capabilities by including processes for QA, testing, training, and quality checks to enforce a high-level of rigor on key data products. • Designed and managed the development of executive-level Tableau dashboards with prioritized reporting functions which allowed executives to better comprehend the value of their data assets. • Championed $700K stabilization and improvement project for the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to ensure a trusted resource detailing all reporting and guest behaviors.

Broomfield, Co, Us

Led efforts to implement and support a data model as product owner of the Enterprise Data Warehouse supporting Marketing Analytics and CRM. Utilized data blending tools to manage data acquisition and enrichment requirements. Supported cross-functional teams by providing troubleshooting and mentoring to technical and business professionals. • Directed efforts by leading all prioritization decisions within Enterprise Data Warehouse to bolster business value.• Catalyzed organizational growth by creating a Data Governance framework; created processes and policies to facilitate communication, solve data issues, and mature the data ecosystem.• Integral in decreasing incidence and data crises, including outages and reporting issues, by developing relationships across diverse teams and providing coaching on how to resolve technical issues.

Bridged the gap between technical and business customers by providing analytical insights and reporting solutions to create open and effective lines of communication. Improved and standardized data collection efforts to improve delivery of product offerings. • Recognized for outstanding performance and won award for identifying a solution to segment a set of data key to the integration of a new project.

Boulder, Co, Us

• Progressive career with promotion from Data Analyst to Senior Data Analyst based on outstanding success.• Oversaw data collection for 56 schools within district consisting of over 30K students, 4K employees, and nearly $300M in annual resources.• Provided complete district reporting of student data to comply with state regulations; delivered information to stakeholders and customers utilizing custom reports and solutions to maximize accuracy.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer And Information Systems