Freelance, contract-based consultation and advisory servicesNoteworthy projects:Aerospace & Defense advisory firm: - Built Data & Analytics strategy and roadmap spanning foundational capabilities and necessary infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Tableau)- Enabled migration from bespoke spreadsheet-based approach to modern cloud technology stack that improved time to manage data and deliver analytics to clients- Advised on technical and analytical talent needs for permanent work- Provided vision and path for potential commercial offerings leveraging data & analyticsAdvertising Media Buying firm:- Advised on data & analytics technology and process offerings to improve operational efficiency (e.g. Tableau)- Interviewed and negotiated services terms with candidate data & analytics and technology vendors, resulting in improved capabilities offered to clients

Collibra has a $5B market valuation as of 2023, and is a Data Intelligence B2B software provider. In my tenure with Collibra I contributed to doubling of valuation, 35% customer count growth, and 71% ARR growth.Established and matured a modern, collaborative Data & Analytics program that embraces the Data Mesh design principles. Represent the voice of the customer through adoption of Collibra’s products.Enabled self-service for 25+ distributed Analysts across 5 departments to successfully drive business insights via cloud-based data technology stack, including Collibra CDIC, with ongoing training• Drove trust in the key strategic enterprise KPIs, sponsoring Collibra’s first internal Data Governance program• Delighted dozens of customers by sponsoring development and publishing of custom solutions using Collibra’s products• Improved Collibra’s brand reputation and established its thought leadership by creating and hosting the MarCom award-winning The Data Download podcast, as well as conference and webinar speaker, and author of numerous articles• Educated and connected hundreds of customer D&A leaders as Data Mesh Community co-lead

Our Data Office leads Collibra's data strategy, manages our data governance framework, sets data policies and standards, fosters data literacy, provides data infrastructure, and produces data products.

FactSet (NYSE: FDS), as of 2021, $12B financial B2B software and data provider. In my tenure at FactSet I contributed to 20 years of hyper-growth, from $135M in sales with under 300 employees to $1.6B and over 10k employees.In my ultimate role as SVP, I established the Data & Analytics program. Enabled leaders at all levels to build strategy, make informed decisions, and execute by surfacing insight from information. Oversaw $4M budget and mentored 4 teams of Analysts, Engineers, and Governance comprising 45 staff in the US & India.• Actualized company restructuring into 4 Business Units by spearheading business operating model design decisions with BU Operations Heads, and by refactoring ETL/ELT processes, data warehouse structures, and creating actionable analytics solutions for Executive and BU leadership, yielding 12% growth in subscription value (+$168M) and 46% growth in user count (+42K) over 3 fiscal years• Fostered enterprise data literacy and trust by creating the Data Governance program with Data Stewards across all major functional areas and implementation of glossary system's 500+ definitions• Informed customer journey mapping for product design and embedded actionable insights for sales via usage analytics that profiled 20 user workflows, returning 90% retention rate of over 5000 clients• Provided predictability, transparency, and quality for stakeholders by implementing robust agile test-driven development best practices, reliable release procedures, and automation, which successfully yielded thousands of changes to code, data pipelines, analyses, reports, and dashboards

Transformed the QA function to a data-driven, automated, and efficient value-added function. Formalized and led the global Emergency Response program to maximize product stability. Managed $6M budget, with 250 QA Analysts and Engineers in the US, UK, and India.• Improved end-user experience by reducing the client-reported defect rate by 50%, establishing this KPI as the fundamental objective of the department and throughout the development community• Decreased product time to market by automating and reducing 25% of 20k test inventory across web, windows, and api platforms, by creating QA test engineering function and inventory efficiency protocol• Improved MTBF of emergency incidents by 50%, trained thousands of developers, led all response activities, and authored all RFO reports for clients as part of the global Emergency Response Program• Assured stability and reliability for hundreds of thousands of code changes by overseeing, advising, and providing approvals to regular release cycle standard operating procedures

Built the security program from scratch and manage all security and Internet infrastructure, fueling FactSet’s transformation to modern, web-based technologies for its service offering. This program met its primary goal to prevent data and service-delivery security breaches.
• Achieved executive embracement of security as a business enabler by creating the Security Committee to contribute to annual Corporate Security Policy and support for key initiatives• Identified and addressed hundreds of security bugs with application development teams by creating application security department tasked with ethical hacking, vulnerability & risk management• Created key security infrastructure and services that were integral to product capabilities for Identity & Access Management, encryption, service routing, and secure file transfer

Responsible for east coast regional infrastructure: firewalls, Internet and WAN/LAN, Novell and Windows server management, corporate and Internet e-mail systems, and more. Served as third tier support escalation for internal help desk issues. Certified Novell Netware Engineer.

Established the Helpdesk for North America HQ operations, serving 100 employees. Provided all first level support for PC, email, LAN/WAN help desk issues. Created custom support ticket management system in. Novell Server administration.