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Tampa, Florida, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Established a data management program from the ground up, defining strategy, roadmaps, and a scalable operational framework. • Created a ‘hybrid’ data stewardship model with a centralized enterprise data stewardship team partnering across a stewardship community of domain stewards across the organization.• On boarded and managed a team of enterprise data stewards dedicated to driving ownership and accountability of data throughout the enterprise.• Defined a structured engagement model for prioritizing and managing multiple simultaneous enterprise business and technology transformation initiatives.• Collaborate across business and engineering functions and domains to ensure data management strategy supports key initiatives across analytics, AI, finance, including migration to a new travel platform and data lake (AWS). • Created a data literacy program and drove adoption of data management processes, and practices through training, documentation, and mentorship.• Designed and implemented the business glossary (Collibra) and data cataloging (Alation) providing an integrated solution for search and discovery of business and technical metadata, data lineage, and privacy classifications. • Designed data ‘verification’ processes to manage ‘technical debt’ and to monitor compliance to data management practices.• Established executive and mid-level councils and committees to ensure active cross-domain stakeholder collaboration and decision making on key issues and topics.• Drove strategy to create a single source of truth to with imbedded data quality to ensure data is available, accurate and is consistently consumed across downstream applications.• Integrate data management practices into a global change management framework. • Partnered with cross-functional leaders to define a reference data management strategy.• Cataloged data classifications and critical data elements to manage compliance to privacy policies and data quality standards.

• Responsibility for defining finance transformation strategy for master data consolidation into a single SAP global instance and integrated SaaS solutions. • Defined an enterprise data governance operational framework to warrant data quality, consistency, compliance, and protection across enterprise systems.• Developed standardized operating procedures and implemented technologies for effective data management and enforcing integrity of source systems of record across RTR, PTP, OTC, and HCM.• Created a roadmap and phased architecture to enable scalable technology solutions and maintain continuity with legacy applications.• Formalized a Data Governance Council to drive collaboration across business units to align on key business and architectural decisions and enable data sharing platforms.• Drove organizational agility by maintaining end-to-end transparency and traceability through maintaining process maps, data cataloging, and end-to-end data flows.• Defined strategy to enable consolidated KPI reporting in Snowflake: data pipelines, data blending, and reference data management.• Architected model to harmonize Partner data sourced from diverse technology platforms into consolidated SAP system.• Partnered with risk, security, legal, privacy stakeholders to ensure data and processes are in compliance with standards, policies, and guidelines.• Created plan to integrate data governance operation into global change control model and promote a culture of continuous improvement.• Began recruiting for key roles to execute product roadmap and maintain data governance deliverables.• Implemented SAP MDG to workflow finance code block into SAP and downstream systems.• Identified business use cases for the evaluation of MDM, data lineage, and integration tooling.• Partnered with change management to ensure transition of operations, skills readiness and training.• Provide oversight to master data migration process and practices to ensure operation auditability.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Provided guidance and a structured approach to implementing a Data Governance program including policies, processes, and best practices.• Drafted and evangelized business proposal for MDM leveraging Profisee to enable a centralized data hub for Physician data and hierarchies.• Designed data quality process model with data stewardship responsibilities.• Led implementation of business glossary using MetaCenter.• Provided guidance for migration of master data from legacy system to Snowflake and Tableau.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Served as liaison between Finance team and IT to enable SAP HANA for financial analytics.• Designed proof of concept to consolidate metadata from SAP and other systems into Informatica EDC and integrate with Informatica Axon Business Glossary. • Role concluded when Covid impacted the travel industry and caused a reprioritization of IT initiatives.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Warranted reliable transition of technology services after Canada Bottler business divestiture.• Facilitated transition to new help desk and support providers.• Ensured post-implementation support and steady state data quality processes across ERP, BI and SaaS applications.• Drove complex root cause analysis, trouble shooting and issue resolution across distributed functions. • Streamlined service management processes to improve incident handling.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Canada Bottler leadership to drive transition of the entire IT portfolio to a new modernized SAP technology suite and integrated SaaS solutions.• Managed team responsible for delivery of multiple simultaneous projects with immoveable deadlines.• Drove application rationalization, provided input to decommissioning strategy, conducted tool evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, and facilitated new software agreements,.• Created strategy plan to leverage customer and product data hubs for master data migration.• Gathered SAP localization requirements specific to Canadian business needs.• Defined architecture for integration of SAP and non-SAP data sources into analytics platforms.• Led tactical delivery of custom developed Oracle .NET application which integrated EDI transactions received from distributors into SAP, financial and business intelligence platforms.• Managed design and implementation of SaaS sales reporting tool deployed to 1000 customer-facing account managers and merchandisers for mobile in-store service.• Conducted sessions for business requirements, solution design, testing strategy, business impact assessment, deployment and change management planning, and user training.• Inspired, motivated, mentored, and provided career development opportunities for the team.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Partnered with Finance team to manage IT spend, considering strategic business priorities. • Defined annual IT capital budget saving millions from initial plan through prioritization and elimination of waste and redundancy.• Collaborated with PMO to define and manage project intake pipeline and delivery partner resourcing.• Monitored project spend, SDLC compliance, and managed project roadblocks across the IT portfolio.• Provided incremental program management support for initiatives at risk.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Bottler C-level to drive transition to a modernized digital framework.• Recruited and supervised new Master Data Management core team of 20+ functional and technical SME’s dedicated to end-to-end delivery of the Informatica MDM solution.• Managed across extended matrixed teams of 75+ business and IT stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment on timelines and deliverables.• Defined strategy and roadmap for data consolidation across multiple lines of business and transition to a single source of truth for customer and product across enterprise applications and analytics platforms. • Organized a Data Governance Council comprised of cross-functional leaders dedicated to maintaining alignment with strategic objectives, driving the data transformation roadmap, ensuring data quality, and protecting enterprise data.• Conducted analysis of data management tools; organized an evaluation team, created score-carding criteria, and facilitated vendor demos. • Drove end-to-end tactical design and delivery of a consolidated customer and product data hub and hierarchies across lines of business.• Implemented processes to monitor and control data quality across the enterprise landscape.• Assigned data stewardship responsibility to drive remediation of data issues.• Quickly adapted to changing business drivers, customer demands, and new discoveries.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Direct accountability to The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Bottler C-level to drive operational synergy and efficiency after business merger.• Created new Master Data Management Center of Excellence team as a centralized shared IT service provider function to drive consistency of master data solutions across enterprise platforms.• Implemented structured approach for stakeholder engagement within a highly matrixed environment. • Drove end-to-end tactical design and delivery of master data across multiple simultaneous projects.• Managed core team of 20+ with responsibility for delivering SAP and non-ERP master data solutions across customer, product, vendor, employee domains.• Managed across extended matrixed teams of 75+ business and IT stakeholders to ensure cross-functional alignment on timelines and deliverables.• Maintained an enterprise architecture repository of process maps and data flows. • Defined standards, implemented data quality monitoring and remediation processes.• Mentored team members, monitored progress, provided oversight and hands-on assistance.• Maintained strong on-going partnership and communication with all business and IT stakeholders.• Implemented business process improvements, standardization and operational synergies.• Conducted sessions to capture business requirements, alignment on solution design, testing strategy, business impact assessment, change management planning, and user training.• Resolved complex data and integration challenges.• Created sales territory hierarchy used for the calculation/payout of incentives to sales associates.• Implemented global customer and product hierarchies to support pricing, promotions, rebates.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Cloned enterprise systems and migrated all Teradata applications to SAP BW platform to spin off European Bottler business.Stood up new SAP BW Data Warehouse implement SAP Vistex as new customer rebate solution: o Designed and delivered operational data source, data cubes, ETL, interfaces.o Created methodology to resolve master data inconsistencies across legacy and SAP systems through data quality reporting and business process improvements for migration to SAP Vistex.Defined and executed technology plan that enabled 150+ Business Services users to support multiple organizations after system clone, ensuring connectivity, security, application availability.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Created data warehouse for cross bottler and route to market analytics. Lead end-to-end design and delivery of solutions in Teradata: o Data collection, ETL, SQL, self-service reporting.o Customer segmentation capability for promotions, supply chain, and JDA planograms.o Demand forecast algorithms as input for inventory planning.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Created CCE bottler data warehouse and customer rebate solution.Lead the end-to-end implementation of multi-phased Customer Rebate solution:o VB / Oracle front-end captured complex customer agreements.o Unix and Teradata database SQL back-end calculation of accruals from sales transactions.o Integrated with AP for payments and GL for financial posting. • Designed and delivered cost-to-serve metrics and gross profit reporting.

Masters Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology And Computer Science