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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Partner with leadership and key stakeholders to implement scalable data governance frameworks, ensuring compliance and data protection across the enterprise in 7 geographies. ★ Data Governance Platform Implementation• Leading Collibra Implementation: Planning and implementing Collibra as a comprehensive data governance platform across multiple enterprise environments, focusing on streamlining data cataloging, master data management, and metadata solutions. Enabled organizations to centralize and enhance data accessibility while ensuring governance and quality.• Data Catalog Management: Spearheading development of a robust data catalog, optimizing data discoverability and accessibility for business and technical users. Created workflows for cataloging and asset certification, which is projected to reduce time spent on data discovery by over 50%.• Master Data Governance: Design and implement master data management frameworks, ensuring data consistency and accuracy across systems. Develop standards and processes for defining, managing, and integrating master data entities in alignment with business objectives.• Metadata Strategy and Compliance: Establish comprehensive metadata management practices, enabling traceability and transparency of data assets. Ensure regulatory compliance that supports GDPR, CCPA, and other industry-specific data privacy regulations.• Stakeholder Engagement and Training: Collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders to conduct knowledge transfer sessions on various data governance needs, deliver tailored training sessions and explainer videos, and drive user adoption of best practices. • Continuous Improvement: Actively apply feedback to iteratively improve governance workflows, implementing enhancements that increase platform usage and compliance adherence.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Boots-on-the-ground strategist partnering with leadership and frontline teams to curate and implement a scalable data governance framework that ensures compliance, data protection, and operational efficiency across the enterprise.• Framework Implementation: Delivered comprehensive data governance frameworks in diverse and silo enterprise settings, streamlining processes for data cataloging, master data management, and metadata solutions, enhancing accessibility and ensuring data quality.• Data Catalog Management: Developed a robust data catalog, creating workflows and usage matrices to optimize data discoverability and usability for both business and technical teams.• Metadata Strategy and Compliance: Designed metadata management practices, supporting data traceability and transparency while achieving compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CRPA, and HIPAA for PHI.• Stakeholder Engagement and Training: Partnered with business and technical stakeholders to assess governance needs and delivered tailored workshop sessions, including video content, to promote the adoption of best practices.• Continuous Improvement: Encouraged iterative feedback to refine governance workflows and align implementation efforts with changing business and regulatory landscapes using agile methodologies.Collaborated with executive leadership to design and implement a comprehensive plan for interviewing key stakeholders and curating a strategic 2030 Vision Execution Plan. Leveraged historical organizational experiences and insights from external industry leaders to craft a forward-looking strategy focused on enhancing efficiencies, driving innovation, and aligning with long-term business objectives. Delivered a succinct and actionable summary to guide decision-making and execution.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Optimize existing enterprise platforms, enhancing their efficiency, scalability, and performance to ensure maximum return on investment (ROI). Establish an effective plan to integrate disparate systems and data sources seamlessly, harmonizing real-time information exchange.• Led Enterprise Data Governance Programs: Spearheaded the end-to-end implementation of data governance platform across multiple business units, aligning with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and data governance best practices to ensure consistent data quality and accessibility.• Developed Data Catalog, Lineage, and AI-Readiness Capabilities: Designed data catalogs and lineage mapping to support data discovery and set the foundation for AI-powered insights and in support of upcoming AI and machine learning (ML) integrations by embedding robust data lineage, allowing traceability crucial for model training and bias detection.• Strengthened Data Quality, Compliance, and AI Preparedness: Drafted data quality rules, metrics, enhancing data accuracy and ensuring readiness for AI use cases that depend on high-quality, reliable data. Collaborated closely with compliance teams to embed frameworks for adhering to evolving AI regulations, such as the EU’s AI Act and impending laws in CA, CO, prioritizing data ethics and transparency.• Streamlined Metadata Management and Compliance Workflows: Established metadata governance processes to capture business terms, definitions, classifications, and usage matrices. Customized workflows to document data readiness.• Created Data Compliance Training Videos: Developed targeted training for data stewards, analysts, and business users to support data literacy, ethical AI practices, and regulatory adherence. Prepared teams on the implications of upcoming AI laws, embedding a compliance mindset and facilitating responsible data use and governance in AI-driven projects.

San Francisco Bay Area

As an enterprise leader, I led initiatives that transformed digitally, utilizing technology to enhance data-driven decisions, safety, innovation, operational efficiencies and technical growth. I built and sponsored custom application development that leverages emerging technologies and prioritized supporting sustainability through global corporate social responsibility.★ Strategic Leadership & Digital Transformation• Supported a team that grew from 11 to 80 talented technology professionals and consulting partners supporting over 8k business users. Additionally, supported international $20B parent company North America entities, acquisitions and integrations. • Managed a budget of $55M, delivering 30% overhead cost savings YoY. Successfully demonstrated strategic cost-cutting measures and reinvested those savings into technology initiatives. • Spearheaded data governance initiatives and platform implementations using Snowflake, Matillion, Boomi, and DataRobot, achieving optimized data integration and streamlined data management processes across enterprise systems.• Led designing and deploying a comprehensive data catalog, enhancing data discovery, access, and literacy for business users and analysts, ultimately boosting data-driven decision-making across the organization.• Drove master data and metadata management strategies, ensuring data consistency, quality, and integrity across multiple business units, leading to improved operational efficiency and reduced data silos.• Established and maintained robust data compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry standards, minimizing risks, and fostering trust in organizational data assets.• Built and guided cross-functional teams focused on implementing best practices for data stewardship, data governance, and data quality control, resulting in increased collaboration and accountability across departments.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide leadership to internal and external partners to meet data-informed decisions through Webcor's construction operational business units and infrastructure support teams. Using over 20 years of industry insight to facilitate organizational data strategies for governance, design, implementation, integration and usage. Direct and oversee high level strategic and tactical decisions for business intelligence tools and applications. Identify, research, and resolve technical problems. Ensures that the use of business intelligence applications enhances decision-making capabilities and informs the business of industry trends, performance and outcomes. Provide input to strategic plans that affect the functional area of Webcor IT business processes. Resolve escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination through resolution.Key attributes: • Construction technology Partner with senior management to understand and deliver performance insights and key analytics solutions. • Advocate for data-informed decisions, strong data governance, around people, revenue and profitability. • Define standards and processes in the form of project SOWs for visual analytics, ad-hoc reporting and data quality and governance. • Lead technical implementations with business intelligence solutions in construction technology, data analytics and engineering, and predictions. • Build, mentor, and guide business intelligence team to provide BI technical solutions as well as actionable key indicators in the data discovery process.

San Francisco Bay Area

Manage interoperability of company-wide systems and processes. Liaising business groups and assist in defining, interpreting and implementing new and existing technologies. Team with internal and external clients to ensure consistency in system interfaces, data integrity and fluidity within the organization. Continuous improvement of internal departmental policies and procedures. Evaluate ineffective issues and identify unique approach to resolution. Resolve conflicts in cross functional environmentExplore and improve existing processes, integrations and implementations with on-going and new installations. Effectively interpret system requirements and oversee project life-cycle from inception thru deployment.

San Francisco Bay Area

A pioneer in the "Information Age" and the introduction of the internet, I bridged technology (change management) embedment with frontline worker workshop facilitation, training and collaboration for over 30 general contractors across North America. I worked alongside executive leaders and individual contributors to convert paper-based solutions to online relational and integrated networks. ★ Data Governance Best Practices Implementations• Microsoft Access: Successfully implemented a comprehensive data workflow across multiple enterprise environments, focusing on streamlining data cataloging, master data management, and metadata solutions. Enabled organizations to centralize and enhance data accessibility while ensuring governance and quality.• Data Catalog Management: Developed and maintained a robust data catalog, optimizing data discoverability and accessibility for business and technical users.• Master Data Governance: Designed and implemented master data management frameworks, ensuring data consistency and accuracy across systems. Developed standards and processes for defining, managing, and integrating master data entities in alignment with business objectives.• Stakeholder Engagement and Training: Collaborated closely with business and technical stakeholders to deliver tailored training sessions and drive user adoption of enterprise applications' best practices. • Continuous Improvement: iteratively improved workflows, implementing enhancements that increased platform usage and compliance adherence.Skills: Data Governance · Oracle Database · CMiC Platform · Microsoft · Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) · Compliance · Strategic Planning · Business Intelligence · Lotus Notes · Viewpoint

Lead technology strategy in partnership with leadership and operations teams. Managed Application Development, Programmers, Enterprise Vendors and Outside Consultants. Business Analysis, Application integrations, Budgeting, Scheduling, and Technical resources.