Most recently acting as senior corporate leadership for the operational implementation of global Data Governance for Cognizant across 34 corporate portfolios and 27 business units for an IT consulting company of ~350,000 associates globally. In this role, Don reported directly to Cognizant’s Chief Data Officer. Data governance responsibilities included establishing structured and unstructured data governance across the entire Cognizant Information Technology estate. The Data Governance Ops (DGO) team provided the program management services for rollout of the following global data protection and privacy programs: secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), secured data at rest (DAR), data access management (DAM), securing data in transit (DIT), system level credential key management via CyberArk, log encryption via QRadar. The DGO team was responsible for implementing various custom solutions that included a GDPR solution, Data Purge Program, DG 360 key performance metrics and compliance reporting platform, DG Automation and DG Telemetry solutions. The DGO team delivers all data lineage, data discovery & categorization (DDC), global data glossary, data quality, data retention, and data masking programs for Cognizant. Don was the primary liaison for the Data & Analytics department to the global Data Privacy Office (DPO), Infrastructure Services, Corporate Security teams, Legal Department, HR-IT, FinOps.Prior to the Data Governance role, Don had a long tenure as a Chief architect and program director delivering very large scale, multi-million-dollar customer facing commercial solutions for many of Cognizant’s largest customers across numerous industries. Don specialized in designing and building n-tiered enterprise level distributed client, server solutions on premise and/or in the cloud. Don is well suited to function in a hands-on development management or executive technical program management roles. Don has extensive current and long-term experience trouble shooting, reverse engineering and application profiling architectural problems with large cross-platform enterprise-wide IT systems. Don has relevant and current practical experience with Agile and DevOps delivery methodologies and frameworks across Automated Environment Provisioning (AEP), CI/CD, App Lifecycle Management (ALM), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Don has practical hands-on experience delivery Cloud Native cross platform mobile and web solutions to AWS/Azure environments.