SabbaticalAfter more than 10 years without a vacation, I decided the best thing I could do for my clients was take a break from serving them.

Led company's Data Architecture function. Established standards for data architecture and data modeling. Contributed hands-on to key strategic projects, including an upgrade in core business-critical applications from 40-year-old IBM mainframe COBOL to modern distributed cloud software. Mentored peers, data modelers, and business partners.

Primary caregiver for parent during terminal illness.

DATA ARCHITECTURE: o Designed numerous cross-platform data integrations, orchestrations, and publishing systemso Designed architecture for moving data between on-premise systems and multiple cloud instanceso Designed reference architectures for multiple business unitso Maintained detailed knowledge of numerous company platforms, processes, & architectures (from mainframe to cloud), as well as broad knowledge of new technologiesDATA MANAGEMENT: o Designed enterprise-wide computable vocabulary by developing standards for object naming, logical and physical data modeling, data documentation (dictionaries), and data lineageo Created enterprise data-governance framework defining governance scope, roles, processes, and templates o Crafted data-security approach enabling consistent access control and auditing across all platformso Modeled enterprise-class data entities to produce Enterprise Data Model and interface patterns showing operational and analytical data in logical and physical versions; worked with project teams to ensure new applications and features leveraged enterprise data designso Directed the design efforts of less-experienced data professionalsPresented “Lunch and Learn” and similar workshops to educate other personnel about new products, systems, & standardsGathered business requirements and translated them into high-level and detailed technical designs

CenturyLink is America’s third-largest provider of telecommunications services, including corporate cloud hosting. They purchased Cognilytics, a well-known consulting firm specializing in Big Data and Data Science Analytics solutions. My position started at Cognilytics and continued at CenturyLink:• Led Enterprise Data Warehousing consulting practice• Defined standardized processes for data management, data governance, data integration, data architecture, and data modeling, as well as pre/post-sales client engagementNotable Projects:• CHEVRON (October 2014 - March 2015) o Lead Architect o Technical PM o BA developing Data Warehouse requirements o Modeled all DW data objects• CAPITAL ONE BANK (April 2015 - March 2016) o Architect o BA developing Executive Dashboard requirements o Modeled all data objects

USC is the largest private employer in Los Angeles. • Led team of academic technologists to create the University’s first enterprise data architecture, controlled vocabulary, and data governance, which were founded on documented, repeatable design principles• Automated data collection, cross-source matching, standardization to enterprise business vocabulary, quality assessment, enrichment, and distribution via batch and messaging technology• Guided logic used for matching in Master Data Management application (built using IBM MDM platform)• Designed and put into production the Enterprise Data Model for numerous corporate shared data objects such as PARTY (PERSON [Applicant, Student, Alumnus, Employee, etc.] and ORGANIZATION [School, Department, Vendor, etc.]), APPLICATION, and EVENT, collected from multiple heterogenous authoritative source systems• Facilitated workshops identifying business’s key operational and strategic information concepts• Developed conceptual, logical, and physical enterprise data models approved by business and IT stakeholders• Harmonized existing business vocabularies and taxonomies when available; extracted new vocabularies when not• Developed Data Governance framework, roles, processes, and artifacts• Evangelized business benefits of consistent, ongoing data governance

Amgen is the world’s largest biotech company.• Founded and led the Enterprise Data Architecture organization; managed five direct and 40+ dotted-line staff• Eliminated annual $2.24MM in data-reconciliation labor, $1MM in development costs, and 32 days of close-of-trials to submit-to-FDA time by replacing hundreds of redundant department data "sources of truth" with ~70 governed single-source master, reference, and transactional data domains at enterprise and business-unit levels, comprising more than 1,500 data elements, distributed to over 500 consuming systems• Reduced annual data governance costs by $160K (30%) by developing automated processes with aligned enterprise-wide scope, roles, templates, and IT points of contact • Devised metadata-management system simplifying practice and demonstration of regulatory compliance • Eliminated regulatory compliance risk around controlling access to research informatics and clinical systems and data by automating external data acquisition and centralizing / standardizing internal regulatory metadata• Designed and oversaw construction of big-data warehouse containing millions of clinical study lab results• Designed and deployed enterprise reference data architectures & company-wide data governance• Designed automated data-quality assessment system to alert data Owners and Consumers to data issues ASAP• Maximized Data Architecture organization’s business impact by creating, evangelizing, and executing an annual Data Strategy and Roadmap, based on corporate and department goals, vetted by business and IT leaders, and approved by C-level executives• Reduced by 45% the time needed to assess software products’ architectural compliance

Edmunds.com is Kelley Blue Book’s foremost competitor for providing automotive data to businesses and consumers. Edmunds’s data quality is so highly respected that major auto manufacturers like Ford and GMC regularly send Edmunds data from their own internal systems – in whatever condition it is in. Edmunds runs the manufacturers’ data through their proprietary data-production processes, then the manufacturers buy their own data back – cleaned, corrected, and organized to a degree the manufactures themselves cannot match.• Created, hired, & led Data Architecture group • Established and implemented standards for database designs, governance, and information integration• Designed and built flexible (attribute/value) database giving the data-syndication group more control over what they could store• Reduced operational costs by $1MM/year by designing central database for all automobile data, which enabled automated generation of website• Saved company $250K by designing new data-syndication application to use existing technology during off hours