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Leading a cross functional team to support Disney Entertainment, Disney Streaming, ESPN, and Disney Experiences:Data Engineering - Lead a team of Data Science Engineers who handle ETL, Data Quality Analysis, and Automation for a broad spectrum of data sets including Event Log Data (Adobe Clickstream, ACR Viewership, etc), Content and Promotional Metadata, and multiple sources of Identity merging. This also includes code refactors and automations of partner teams code and managing merge requests to create a core source of truth for all measurement, activation, and production feeds for dashboards.Business Intelligence and Dashboarding - Lead a team that delivered Dashboards ranging from Executive Oversight to Producer and CRM focused Dashboards designed to provide quick insights with data investigation drill downs to allow business partners to have a clear understanding of their business with quick insights to disruptions. Product Management - Ownership and prioritization of the road map for data science analytic features built on a large scale data privacy compliant consumer content consumption platform including a fully integrated identity spine bridging linear, dtc, and digital events, demographic and psychographic data, audience propensity modeling, and reporting platform architecture bridging all verticals of the enterprise.Data Privacy and Governance - Handling all Data Privacy and Governance needs for peer teams including representing data requests, designing Privacy compliant solutions relating to VPPA, CCPA, and COPA.

Manager of a small team of data scientist/analysts supporting advanced media measurement strategies development. Responsibilities included working with new vendors regarding data onboarding including data schema definition, drafting Statement of Work and Data Service Agreements in conjunction with Legal Counsel. Working with Engineering to intake and prioritize work to support analytic functions. Providing mentorship and development for direct reports in the teams unique engineering and business hybrid role.

Providing analytics, data, and vendor management support for Advanced Analytics operations.Responsible for onboarding of new Vendors data assets, defining schema's and working with Engineering to finalize data pipelines. Supporting Advanced Analytic functions by code analysis/optimization, data quality issue triage, and data preparation. Provided representation in Agile ceremonies handling prioritization, assisting in requirement gathering, road map reviews, and final sign off on deliverables.

Leadership of a team of Product Managers and Configuration Analysts for Internal Search product across all eCommerce properties delivering 1.3B in Revenue in Fiscal 2018.Defining Product Strategy and defining requirements ranging from UX design, Machine Learning data models, to implementation strategy.Coordinating efforts between multiple business areas including Data Science, Online Merchandising, and UX.

Responsible for hiring, developing, and performance management of a team of search & taxonomy analysts. Teaching a team of analyst’s technical skills including SQL, Python, and Alteryx. Additionally, coaching analysts on best practices in taxonomy theory and search theory (Natural Language Processing, indexing, query matching, and relevancy.) Creation and maintenance of Search & Navigation road maps, providing inputs to Product Road maps including defining requirements, measurement strategy, validation, and success criteria for new Search Engine deployment.

Development of site Taxonomy, and support of daily operations for Search functionality. Developing a strategy and leading a team of analysts through item attribute clean up and normalization. Designing and executing an analytic product database to support automated processes, leverage for analytic reporting, and support data cleanup efforts.

Collaborated with Business Partners to create Omnichannel Customer data sets in Hadoop, Teradata, and Aster. Lead planning, development, and execution of Lowe's Customer Analytic Profile. Performed data quality and issue documentation on newly ingested data sources. Thought leader on best way to blend multiple customer data sources to create a single view of the customer.

Managed Product and Spatial data in coordination with Merchandising and Visual Space Planning providing optimal stocking with high visual impact in line with Lowe's brand. Worked on process improvement including refinement of JDA reporting leveraging SQL and development of automated VBA macros for common team tasks including the Item to Planogram Assignment Stocking Matrix.

Business Support for the PeopleSoft 9.1, 8.9 and 8.4 SRM Modules• Process Development – Identifying opportunities where time and cost savings can be achieved such as standardizing call logging in Remedy to feed an Excel template that parses data to extract usable metrics around call activity.• Analytic's development in SQL and the PeopleSoft Query Manager – Responsible for report development including; Spend Analysis, eProcurement Workflow, and System Metrics like Catalog/Item Master synchronization, and Dispatch Health monitoring. • EDI On-boarding – Streamlined the process were 4 Vendors could be tested in parallel while decreasing over all end to end testing duration by over 50%. Coordinated with Internal EDI IT, Business Partners, PeopleSoft IT, and Vendor IT throughout the entire process.• Administration of the Catalog Management and Item Master modules – Maintenance of the Catalog/Item Master Import Systems and working with PeopleSoft IT and DBA’s to increase functionality. Benefits of this included a reduction in process duration by 75%.• System Administrative tasks and maintenance – Recognizes and Analyzes problems then makes recommendations to IT for possible solutions. In addition, acts as point of contact for PeopleSoft IT surrounding System issues and User Acceptance Testing of proposed solutions.PeopleSoft 9.1 Implementation duties:• EDI Map Changes and Testing – Worked with the Implementation Team to set up the new Business Rules and Vendor expectations surrounding the changes to EDI in the 9.1 System and in validating Vendor completion of testing stages.• User Acceptance Testing – Assisted the Implementation Team to perform daily tasks and validate system configuration in the 9.1 system. Additional follow up testing and recommendations were required for defects found.