Establishing an end-to-end Data Governance Program:• Designing and defining an enterprise data governance and management strategy• Creating and instituting policy and standards• Articulating and launching processes and monitoring• Establishing a strategic roadmap with core tactical deliverables• Aligning and instituting access and data classification controls• Creating alignment with key internal partners• Researching and recommending data governance tooling• Establishing oversight of the data governance program via Committees• Defining and establishing stewardship and custodianship of data• Designing and instituting metrics and reporting• Driving internal culture change (Data as an Asset)

As the Senior Director of the Data Governance Office, I Drive “Data as an Asset” through strategic planning, roadmaps, and communications with senior leaders. Over the past few years, the Data Governance Office expanded metadata gathering and coverage for critical and non-critical elements and transformed data governance and data management by prioritizing efforts towards mapped dataflows, identifying critical data stores, establishing Policy and Standards, implementing KPIs, and gaining company-wide tactical involvement.• Established and delivered a three-year strategic planning and roadmap that greatly matured enterprise data governance and data management.• Improved and expanded critical elements, metadata, and lineage processes within disparate business lines and defined data steward responsibilities.• Established Authoritative Data Stores and the approaches to identify and document.• Implemented data element analysis, prioritization, and documentation efforts throughout the enterprise.• Established first ever data standards directly support a rewritten and prioritized Data Governance Policy.• Transformed data quality efforts to test at the source and established root cause analysis.• Established first ever Data Governance and Management metrics and KPIs.• Worked closely with Risk, Compliance, and Audit with FRB requests and regulatory audits.• Identified and implemented two data management systems and a data quality system.• Communicated routinely with and received buy in from senior Executive Leaders.• Managed 3 direct reports with 25 full time employees.

While at TIAA, I led the culture change, from the ground up, for data governance and data management controls and ownership that is now part of normal business.• Implemented a data governance and data management program to cover $120+B in assets under management.• Implemented data controls over 900B+ in assets in public and private markets.• Streamlined numerous data steward and team processes to promote functional workflows and quality data.• Created and executed plans for testing and dashboarding data from multiple business units and stewards.• Stabilized a key data management team through re-staffing, streamlining processes, and automating sensitive deliverables.• Managed system implementations for automated processes to replace manual flows within operations (operations team absorbed a 20% increase without needing to increase headcount).• Coordinated data controls across 40+ systems, thousands of elements, and millions of data points.• Spoke at industry conferences on implementing and maintaining a successful data governance program.• Drove process and automation improvements for Eagle Pace entity setups (funds, sleeves, SNEUPs). This effort allowed the team to increase volume and decrease delivery times.• Collaborated and coordinated with diverse senior stakeholders across all business groups to accomplish key operations and data management initiatives.• Managed 5 direct reports / 21 full time employees.