Joseph Wolowski Email & Phone Number

Naperville, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

HMP is a leading healthcare event and education company, with a dominant position in several therapeutic areas including Oncology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Cardiovascular, Wound Care and Public Safety. With a mission to improve patient care, we deliver information and education to healthcare professionals through 400+ global, regional, and local events and reach over 4 million users monthly through digital networks and social channels.Responsible for collaborating with senior stakeholders across multiple departments to set strategic direction and establish best practices for data. Implementation of data governance platform strategy and roadmap. Design and implementation of data standards, policies, and compliance including data privacy and security. Assess, recommend, and implement new capabilities related to business metadata, data lineage, data profiling, data asset curation, and data quality improvement.

Greater Chicago Area

Reported to Vice President, Business Performance. Built and led important new data governance capability at Crown Castle. Hired, trained, and managed team of 15 data governance leads, data stewards, and program managers. Established strategy, operating model, and framework. Oversaw project roadmap to address data governance, quality, mastering, and literacy.• Established and trained cross-functional team of data stewards, improving process efficiency, customer satisfaction, and reducing costly rework and revisions to customer orders by keeping data sustainably clean.• Incorporated data assessment for improvement projects 100%, ensuring representation on all Data Governance-impacted improvement projects.• Implemented tower site certification process, achieving goal of 8K sites certified for data accuracy and quality, assessing and executing permissions and data attribute controls.• Served as project champion on multiple digital transformational programs, implementing data quality and system enhancements with new capabilities delivering 15x positive NPV exit multiples in revenue and cost savings, utilizing Agile, AWS S3 Cloud, Snowflake, and Power BI frameworks and technologies.

Greater Chicago Area

Reported to Vice President Enterprise Infrastructure and Security. Led team of 13 senior managers, data governance, and BI leads, senior engineers, and developers to design and execute upon DG and BI strategies. Served as Data Governance Council Chair. Provided direction and approval for all cloud data modernization projects, including Azure, AWS, and GCP to optimize infrastructure costs and scalability. Partnered with consultants from Deloitte, Slalom, and Accenture.• Developed, published, and executed enterprise data governance strategy and framework, including comprehensive people, process, and technology, documented components certified and prioritized by data governance council and internal audit.• Brought stability and structure to team, hiring new people with right skills and commitment to meet IT organizational goals, reducing turnover to zero.• Delivered $170K savings, and met committed delivery milestones by leading difficult vendor renegotiation process with new parent of preferred platform vendor, keeping program on track.• Invited to speak at Quest / Erwin data governance client conference within 6 months of taking position, expanding roster of USCC DG vendor partners, adding optionality (Deloitte, Collibra, Informatica), and building awareness of USCC as desirable employer.

Greater Chicago Area

Reported to Senior Director Shared Analytics and Data Services. Led 15 senior managers, BI leads, and senior analysts to develop and implement BI strategies.• Oversaw team of professional technical Cognos developers and analysts to deliver critical executive and frontline-sales reporting suites, exceeding daily SLA of 99.3% and 96.1% respectively.• Developed strategy and gained executive support from sales and operations to automate manual-based frontline sales quota attainment scorecards for all lines of business, improving reliability and distribution speed of reports, while adhering to quality, budget, timeline, and service level agreement (SLA).• Supported new and growing B2B organization by developing and delivering major Tableau self-service business-to-business (B2B) dataset BI tool and eliminated 70 B2B request backlog.• Earned extremely high culture associate engagement survey scores through approachable leadership style and regular individual and skip-level meetings, demonstrating value of team’s work to the business.

Greater Chicago Area

Reported to Senior Director Shared Analytics and Data Services, with team of 15 senior managers, BI and DG leads, and senior analysts to develop and execute BI and DG strategies.• Authored, developed, and executed BI Strategy, including Cognos Analytics for enterprise data curated reporting with full organizational self-service capabilities as well as Tableau server for data discovery, deep dive analysis, and visualization, improving organization’s data-driven decision-making. • Led cross-functional team to stand up brand-new Tableau server environment, including definition of roles, full configuration, and implementation to business users across organization, delivering 20 key business self-service and dashboard visualization BI tools on new platform.• Completed 13 enterprise strategic BI projects successfully, in addition to marketing, sales, and audit deliverables, resulting in $60M in stakeholder-claimed benefits to organization.

Greater Chicago Area

Reported to Senior Director Shared Analytics and Data Services. Built and oversaw team of 15 senior managers, BI and Campaign leads, and senior analysts to create and deliver BI and campaign analytics strategies.• Implemented new BI self-service technologies, increasing speed to market for trusted enterprise data, reporting, analysis to drive insights and fact-based decision making.• Developed new cross-functional member teams to curate and align enterprise-wide standard definitions and calculations of key performance indicators, increasing efficiencies and eliminating time-consuming reconciliations.• Promoted to add Data Governance function to area of responsibility.

Greater Chicago Area

Strategic Operational Program - Cross functional, Program Management Office (PMO)• Participated in overall organizational design and led Finance portion for new shared analytical and data services function. Moved resources from distributed functional units to a hybrid centralized shared services model.

Greater Chicago Area

Financial Systems Development

Greater Chicago Area

Software, Database, and Business Application Development

Greater Seattle Area

Information Technology (IT) Merchandising - Application Development

Greater Seattle Area

Information Technology (IT) Finance and Accounting - Application Development

Greater Seattle Area

Information Technology (IT) Finance and Accounting - Application Development

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Analytics Concentration, 3.9

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Major - Computer Systems

Minor - Economics Graduated Cum Laude