David Kowalski Email & Phone Number

As the driving force behind MIDAS Advisory Services, I provide consulting services to senior management at companies that are looking to design, extend and/or implement Data Management and Data Governance programs. I am a certified Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) & Cloud Data Management Capability (CDMC) Assessor and also certified as a trainer in both frameworks. I work with C-Suite and other senior executives to guide them in the creation of new Enterprise Data Management strategies, policies, and programs as well as leveraging the DCAM and CDMC frameworks to assess the efficacy of their existing strategies and programs.I am a long-time contributing member to the Enterprise Data Management Council where I currently sit on the steering committee to direct ongoing development of the DCAM framework. I have also been part of the working groups for CDMC, FIBO (the Financial Industry Business Ontology) and the EDMCouncil Business Glossary.

London, Gb

As Principal Consultant with a focus on DCAM & CDMC Subject Matter Expertise, I worked with C-Suite and other senior executives at banks and other financial institutions to guide them in the creation of new Enterprise Data Management strategies, policies, and programs as well as leveraging the Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) and Cloud Data Management Capability (CDMC) frameworks to assess the efficacy of their existing strategies and programs. In this capacity, I provided oversight for all of Ortecha's Data Management and DCAM/CDMC projects globally. Additionally, I developed much of Ortecha's key Intellectual Property with respect to Enterprise Data Management Strategy, Policies and Standards.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

As a senior member of the Enterprise Information Architecture Team reporting to the Chief Data Officer (CDO), I worked closely with executive management in both business and technology. I was responsible for defining Architectural Strategy, Standards, Specifications, Policies and Frameworks for metadata, data provisioning and data quality. I also worked as part of our Data Governance team where I acted as an Enterprise Data Management Subject Matter Expert (SME), authoring many of our standard requirements and providing oversight both in the execution of our policies and standards and in ensuring compliance with federal regulatory mandates. I was particularly focused on the ongoing development of practices which aim to ensure the effective and accurate gathering of a robust and comprehensive set of enterprise-level metadata and data lineage. In addition to specifying strategic direction and reference architectures for such endeavors, I provided guidance to an internal team which was building a flexible, federated metadata repository tool. I established and chaired the FIBO, Ontology & Semantics Center of Interest which co-ordinates groups across the corporation who are interested and/or actively involved in leveraging semantic technologies to facilitate their data management and application development needs.I also represented Bank of America on the Enterprise Data Management Council, a financial industry group working to define standards for the effective management of enterprise data in large financial institutions. See the Organizations section below for more details of my participation on the Council.

New York, Ny, Us

Having moved from a consulting position to a permanent position, I continued my role as an Information Architect within the Global Wealth Investment Management (GWIM) group where I was responsible for specifying the various ways in which data is utilized within the organization. I started and ran the GWIM Data Governance Council and was an active member on several data governance and advisory committees both within GWIM and at the Enterprise level. I worked closely with the Senior Vice President in our line of business to specify strategic direction and to define roadmaps for the near-to-mid-term future of Data Management Technology within GWIM.

New York, Ny, Us

A consulting position at Merrill Lynch through TekMark Global Services. I played a key role in preparing specifications and recommendations for the integration of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America's various data warehouses and systems, including the preparation of standards and controls. My focus was within the Global Wealth Management line of business.

London, United Kingdom , Gb

I started in this position as an employee of a small, privately held company called Cylogix. Cylogix was acquired by Keane, Inc. in October, 2002 and I continued in the same position. I was the principal designer and technical manager for the development of a globally deployed, web-based facilities management system used by Morgan Stanley to manage construction and maintenance work at all their properties (owned and leased) throughout the world. The system provided a highly configurable workflow engine, budget preparation and tracking, document management, management of vendor agreements (bids, contracts, change orders, etc.), submission, approval and payment of invoices and extensive executive reporting facilities. Implementation of this system decreased average time-to-pay on invoices from as long as 6 months to 15-30 days. Tedious and time-consuming data entry was eliminated by allowing vendors to submit electronic invoices via the internet and the unified project tracking system has allowed for unprecedented control over cost overruns.

New York, Ny, Us

Morgan Stanley was my sole client during my tenure with CyLogix/Keane. Please see my Keane description above for a summary of my accomplishments on this highly successful account.

Us

As SELP Head Coach, Landmark Introduction Leader and coach to members of various leadership bodies in the organization, I provided ongoing coaching and training to a wide range of individuals from people who were looking at participating in Landmark Education's programs to people who trained the coaches for the Self Expression and Leadership Program, a program which supports participants who are looking to create life-altering community projects in various areas of their life. This was an unpaid volunteer position which I took on for most of the indicated time period.

CyLogix was acquired by Keane in October, 2002. See my Keane listing above for information on what I accomplished there.

Boston, Ma, Us

DTI was the vendor of a comprehensive Enterprise Management software package targetted at the medical malpractice insurance industry. Usually, our customers requested extensive modifications to the software. I managed the configuration and development effort for these modifications for a number of our customers. Two other Project Managers and I shared management responsibility for a pool of approximately 120 business analysts, programmers and quality assurance staff. Individual projects typically lasted from 6-months to 2 or more years with budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to nearly $3,000,000.

Ewing, New Jersey, Us

Working with senior management, I designed and supervised the implementation of and then managed the ongoing maintenance and helpdesk for a data warehouse and an Executive Information System which accessed that warehouse. The EIS was used by A&H financial officers to ongoingly track, analyze and project sales, profitability, etc. Also while at C&D, I worked on a team that was customizing SAP R3 with which we were replacing all our then-current mainframe ordering, inventory and invoice tracking systems. The EIS proved to be such an effective tool for profitability analysis that, although C&D's stock had been falling steadily and had, indeed lost about 50% of its value in the preceding two years, once my system was in place, profitability began to turn around within a matter of months and within 5 years, the stock had increased nearly 300%.I started at C&D in March of 1994 as a free-lance consultant and then became a permanent employee in September of 1994.

While a consultant with this small company, I headed up a number of high-efficiency teams which specialized in automation of manual tasks within telecommunications companies (principally AT&T). I wore many hats and, on most projects, served simultaneously as data architect, database manager, project manager, system designer, business analyst and, when needed, programmer. Our innovations over the years typically resulted in a minimum of 2 orders of magnitude increase in both accuracy and efficiency (measured in orders processed, invoices paid, commissions paid, etc. as was appropriate for the work being done).

Ph.D., Music Composition & Theory

B.A., Music/Psychoacoustics

M.M., Music Composition