Orchestrated the Data Quality development process, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and the agile team while maximizing the value delivered by the product. Championed the product vision, prioritize tasks, and continuously adapt to customer needs. • Led cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and delivering product increments on time.• Performed role of agile product owner and Scrum Master, managing all scrum events and reports.• Prioritized backlogs and user stories, defined sprint objectives/goals, and removed impediments/blockers, ensuring sprint success.• Engaged stakeholders and senior leadership to ensure product vision requirements were maintained and minimal viable products were delivered consistently.• Mentored and trained team in Agile principles and metrics, promoting continuous improvement.• Improved data accuracy by 10% through quality assessments.• Managed data quality tool implementation and training

Leveraged expertise and strategic insights in Data Governance to continue to implement improvements and new robust data strategies and technologies to optimize data-driven decisions. • Spearheaded and managed the Agile Transformation for the Data Governance Program, resulting in a formal communication plan and reports, reduced silo-development, and the formation of self-directed cross-functional teams.• Developed and delivered training on agile roles, responsibilities and tools to 8 team members.• Managed scrum events and product increments as the Data Governance Product Owner and Scrum Master.• Managed comprehensive Data Governance program, ensuring regulatory compliance and adherence to data governance policies and standards.• Devised and presented the strategy and roadmap for the Data Governance program and process improvements. • Strengthened vendor contracts, resulting in reduced cost and on-time deliverables.

Developed and maintained data policies and standards. Specialized in maintaining data stewardship, metadata management, data security and compliance, and the facilitation of effective data management and decision making across the enterprise.• Developed and implemented Data Governance Policies and Standards.• Developed the Data Governance Framework, ensuring 100% compliance.• Assisted in formulating and executing the Data Governance Charter and establishing the Data Governance Council, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while fostering a culture of data stewardship.• Technical Data Steward for sensitive data identification, classification and access management support• Data Governance lead for Teradata to AWS-Snowflake data migration effort, ensuring proper data classification and data protection in the AWS environment, extended data lineage for Snowflake environment, and applied Data Quality dimensions.• Designed and implemented data lineage process for over 350 critical attributes to meet regulatory requirement.• Established KPIs and KRIs and other metrics for reporting data governance effectiveness.• Developed, implemented, and managed the Data Architecture Review Board, ensuring data security and governance compliance.• Enhanced metadata accuracy, reducing duplicate records and incorrect data tags by 15%.• Presenter at the 2013 IBM IOD Conference on the topic of Sensitive Data Governance.• Implemented multiple Data Governance tools/technology to support data governance disciplines.

Spearheaded the exploration and integration of new technologies into data management practices, driving innovation and providing strategic guidance and leadership to teams to ensure successful adoption of emerging tools and methodologies. • Manage research of data management tools and technology, delivering results and influencing strategic decisions.• Reduced server allocation for SQL Server DBMS by 64% through hardware/software optimization.• Integrated SQL Server DBMS and MySQL into the Database Management landscape.

• Optimized DB2 and SQL Server systems, ensuring high performance.• Improved team’s technical skills by 25% through training development and knowledge sharing.• Developed scalable database solutions, meeting business requirements. • Increased system availability with robust backup strategy, meeting SLAs and reducing downtime by 15%.• Implemented DB2 Disaster Recovery solution that reduced recovery time from 4 weeks to 23 hours.

• Managed end-to-end operations for key processes.• Designed IT solutions for Disaster Recovery, reducing recovery time by 20%.• Optimized support ticket handling, reducing resolution time by 30%.• Developed and delivered database training for DB2 and IMS DBMS.• Developed process to reduce system recovery time by 66%.Roles included:Computer OperatorOperations Technical SpecialistDatabase Analyst - IMS and DB2Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Lead