[PLEASE READ: If you'd like to connect with me, please include a personal note to remind me how I know you or why you think we should connect.]It's almost a cliché to say that a company's data is one of its most valuable assets and yet, it all-too-often remains the case that the gap between data and knowledge remains unbridged because weak data management strategies hinder the ability of key decision makers to put their hands on the data they need when they need it. Even more problematic is a lack of consistency in a company's data landscape wherein data is unnecessarily and inaccurately replicated, resulting in a sea of misinformation which makes it impossible to be certain that executive decision-making is truly based on the most pertinent factors. Moreover, in heavily regulated industries such as financial services, insurance and pharmaceuticals, inefficiencies such as these turn the myriad demands of regulatory reporting into a massive drain on both technology and business resources. I have spent my entire professional life showing organizations how to manage, govern, leverage and protect their data in ways that translate directly into an increased bottom line.I have excellent people skills and am able to broker accord among competing groups. I work to forge partnerships and erase lines between business and technology groups to produce highly effective teams which are empowered to do stellar work and have fun while they're doing it. I bring real-world experience to your Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance or Metadata Management programs and help you develop effective strategies, policies, standards and deployment roadmaps which will make the most of these efforts.I am an industry thought-leader who speaks regularly at conferences online and around the country and who participates in the formulation and establishment of Data Management standards and best practices through my work with the Enterprise Data Management Council.Specialties: Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM), Cloud Data Management Capability Model (CDMC), Enterprise Data Management, Data & Data Management Strategy, Data Governance, Metadata, Data Lineage, Data Architecture, Data Modeling, classical music theory and composition (you might be surprised at the degree to which that leads to out-of-the-box thinking about data and data management!). I also love to make people laugh and to enjoy themselves...whatever they are doing.
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