I support and empower Yahoo's big data team in data governance, privacy, data strategy, multi-cloud, tech solutions, vendor interactions, and organization-wide communication and partnerships.

Project management, change management, ERP, relational databases, SQL, SQL Server, IBM SPSS Statistics, data analysis, data governance and integrity, strategy, cross-functional stakeholder engagement, transformationsNotable Engagements:Project Manager for ERP Cloud Implementations. Managed remote and geographically dispersed team to ensure timely delivery of project milestones, client readiness, managed third party vendor relationships, and ensured that projects stayed within timeline, scope, and budget. Data Profiling and Analysis of Sales Data for Leading Digital Marketplace ProviderExtracted, cleansed, profiled, and used decision tree statistical analysis to take the sales dataset of a digital marketplace provider and produce actionable insights that demonstrated what attributes of the sales process were driving revenue. Data Migration Lead for SuccessFactors Implementation Drove activities for implementing SAP’s Success Factors from PeopleSoft HCBM. Engaged stakeholders for data transformations and business process changes, led data cleansing and mapping, built strategy documentation, and ensured organizational readiness.

Examples of engagement experience: Assessment and Transformation of leading Academic and Research Institution• Developed strategic vision and roadmap for business process improvements, systems optimizations, and organizational restructuring, resulting in a $1m growth in client partnership and sustainable cost savings for the client• Improved client’s customer relationships and administrative functions by delivering a portfolio of solutions to address systems, reporting, and business process concerns• Grew client’s positive cash flows by identifying millions in unbilled transactions and led plan to prioritize billing activityPeopleSoft Grants Implementation at a major Research and Academic Medical Center• Developed implementation strategy to drive innovation and transformation of research administration by collaborating with a cross-functional team to assess project dependencies, risks, and measures of success• Mitigated client’s data integrity risks by developing a conversion strategy defining data migrations from systems and databasesOther Notable Projects• Managed a project team of 10 client and consulting resources that resulted in $2m of customer collections for the client and $400,000 of client partnership growth• Reconciled client’s cash accounting by analyzing millions of dollars between numerous financial systems • Developed a framework for student solutions after a current state assessment that reviewed systems and operations in financial aid, undergraduate admissions, billing, and accounts receivables• Ensured federal compliance of Uniform Guidance for sponsored awards through an assessment of administrative operations and review of award financials

Oversaw the operations of a unit consisting of over 40 faculty, PhD students, post-docs, visiting scholars, and student workers. Utilized business software solutions to manage course planning, financial oversight, faculty and PhD recruiting, and cross functional unit needs