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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead enterprise-wide Master Data Management program, with C-Suite sponsorship, driving strategic alignment. -Translate strategic objectives into data priorities: ingestion of key data assets into Snowflake, Power Bi report dev, improved data quality. -Drive Master Data Strategy & Governance: Leverage the governance framework to ensure seamless rollout of new SaaS portfolio and Offering Catalog, aligning cross-functional teams and requirements before launch. -Promote operational excellence, employing tools to establish robust program documentation: Jira roadmap planning with Kanban task management, Power BI scorecard goal monitoring, Confluence project/technical documentation and workflow instructions, internal SharePoint data dictionary/catalog and wikis. -Deliver value to the business accelerating movement on the change curve: internal MDM road shows at team all hands, lunch & learns, tailored training/onboarding.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Built successful Master Data Governance framework organizing people, processes and tools. Drove launch of Google Cloud Looker data analytics platform and later transitioned to Power BI. Established and continuously improved team processes. Created library of documentation informing technical processes, company workflows and data dictionary. Conceptualized and rolled out permissions methodology to manage data access. Translated and prioritized business needs to deliver BI insights to the organization. Leveraged master data assets and drove consensus across the organization to align on a single source of truth for the company’s first system-based offering catalog. Implemented data quality optimization initiatives.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Facilitated relationships between Google and vendors handling project tasks, quality control and highly sensitive data management. Designed optimized processes including bug systems, and created/restructured program documentation to minimize waste and prepare for scaling. Provided analysis of overlap in SQL scripts, dashboards and raw data; made metric-based recommendations to address challenges. Advocated for pragmatic improvements across vendors, pricing structures, functions, roles, and geographies. Prepared capacity model for improved planning. Identified and implemented best practices across global teams.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Managed several international teams with a span of +-50 technical product analysts, language specialists, and leads. Drove end to end workflows involving a hybrid of machine learning, technical content writing and human labeling. Collaborated with Google engineers and program managers to design, deploy and test new tools for human validated machine learning applications. Innovated to refine existing tools and processes to improve data/label quality and team efficiency. Defined KPIs and developed dashboards to manage performance. Designed and implemented web portals for international vendor teams. Hired staff, maintained optimum capacity to support deliverables. Drove consensus and motivated individuals.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Used bilingual French skills and European expertise to facilitate the internationalization of the Google Shopping UI. Quickly learned proprietary software and programming language. Ensured code quality and consistent user experience across six geographical regions. Performed final code reviews and provided result driven feedback. Participated in a select QA team focusing on the quality of the Google Shopping UI. Selected to Beta test internal tools. Wrote and edited 30+ internal wikis about Google tools and processes for internal training.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Developed relationships with stakeholders, key members, students and the community to redefine offerings/programs. Increased number of memberships by 40% within two years. Doubled number of adult enrollments within two years, quadrupled number of elementary student enrollments within four years. Wrote three successful grant requests yielding funds to completely renew infrastructure and facilities. Launched interactive web site and new marketing collateral with unified branding. Produced and hosted local television show to increase awareness. Led collaborative Board of Directors meetings to create new vision, strategies and goals.

Sophia Antipolis, France

Coordinated the integration of an acquired French company into the GE global infrastructure involving bilingual internal broadcasts to cascade information, transition procedures, electronic document repository creation, database merges.

Sophia Antipolis, France

Provided consistent training program management from the start up phase (Wellfleet Communications) through a merger (Bay Networks), and later an acquisition (Nortel Networks). Managed the project to outsource technical training: partner selection, contract negotiation, process mapping, quality metric definition. Defined targeted communication strategies for vendors, partners, customers and employees. Traveled extensively for vendor relationship management. Participated in worldwide management group to analyze corporate vision, strategy and goals.

Bachelor’S Degree, International/Global Studies, Literature

Activities and Societies: Oxford Honors Scholarship Program, Editor in Chief of Ramapo News Campus Newspaper, Writing Tutor, Girls Softball

English Cultural Studies