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London Area, United Kingdom

• Established and documented best practices, policies, and procedures for Data Governance, encompassing data stewardship, data ownership, data classification, and data lifecycle management.• Implemented global onboarding standards for data into PepsiCo environments.• Ensured alignment of data-centric activities with the Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) program and best practices.• Coordinated with various teams to ensure consistency of enterprise data usage.• Collaborated with the Data Ecosystem team to maintain and enforce standards.• Managed relationships with 2nd and 3rd party vendors to ensure adherence to standardized processes.• Cataloged data for PepsiCo procurement processes, ensuring organization and accessibility of critical procurement-related information.• · Maintained enterprise-level data standards and repository for in-scope data domains, promoting their adoption within PepsiCo.• Established and monitored key data management and governance metrics to ensure the accuracy and completeness of critical data.• Advised on projects and initiatives to identify, communicate, and managedata-related changes and dependencies in adherence to established standard

New Jersey, United States

• Served as DG Analyst and a Scrum Master for the CDQ project, overseeing progress and ensuring timely completion within budget constraints.• Led project planning sessions, coordinated tasks, and managed resources to optimize project efficiency.• Conducted regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss progress, address challenges, and provide updates on project status.• Implemented change management procedures to facilitate smooth transitions during the implementation phase.• Advocated proper scrum practices: DSU, Planning, Retro, Refinement, Review• Refined product backlogs by organizing tasks into more efficient workflows based on time constraints and technical considerations.• Serve as a mediator between team members when conflict arises, or different opinions arise on how best to complete a certain task or feature set within a timeframe allotted for a given sprint cycle or release date milestone goal-setting session.• Assisted in defining Scrum team estimations, including Capacity and Velocity/Burden, to optimize resource allocation

Reston, Virginia, United States

·Developed and implemented data governance policies, standards, and procedures to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of organizational data.· Collaborated with business and IT stakeholders to define data governance requirements and objectives, aligning them with business goals and regulatory requirements.· Implemented data governance tools and technologies to automate data governance processes, metadata management, and data quality monitoring.· Utilized Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) to create resources (e.g., Oracle database, PowerCenter, Hive) and configure permissions.· Created physical data objects and imported data files for profiling and mapping purposes.· Extracted metadata to the Catalog and configured various elements such as data domains, custom attributes, and scanners.· Designed mappings for seamless data transformation from source to target.· Developed mapplets to transform data using custom rules for standardization and cleansing and executed scorecard updates.· Created dictionaries from data profiles to standardize, validate, and enhance data quality.· Formulated rule specifications for standardized data processing.· Utilize data quality tools to assess, monitor, and improve the quality of organizational data, identifying anomalies, inconsistencies, and errors, and implementing remediation measures.· Leverage data cataloging tools to catalog and classify organizational data assets, enabling better data discovery, lineage analysis, and governance enforcemen

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Prepared comprehensive project plans, schedules, and guidelines for development, testing, and UAT coordination.• Facilitated project kickoff meetings and managed the functional aspects throughout the project lifecycle.• Analyzed requirements and conducted fit/gap analysis, leading to the creation of Business Requirement Documents (BRD).• Documented Functional Design Documents (FDD) and Use Cases, ensuring clarity and alignment with project objectives.• Responsible for developing mockups and wireframes for the screens to be developed.• Developed mockups, wireframes, and diagrams (e.g., activity, use case, swim lane) to aid in the understanding of functionality for the development team.• Created test cases, scripts, and identified test data for design and QA testing, ensuring comprehensive coverage.• Managing and leading the Integration analysis and design efforts to integrate the product with other applications such as Document Management.• Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure all requirements were met and tested effectively.• Managed and led integration analysis and design efforts, including interfacing with other applications such as Document Management.• Acted as a gatekeeper during UAT, analyzing, recreating, and triaging issues logged by testers, and identifying Change Requests.• Efficiently coordinated business and technical activities with cross-functional teams across different geographical locations and time zone

Arlington, Virginia, United States

• Facilitated JAD sessions with business and development teams to document Functional Requirements.• Conducted Fit-Gap Analysis of requirements and provided recommendations for alignment.• Analyzed key business requirements and contributed to the development of Business Requirements (BRS), Functional Requirements (FRS), and System Requirement Specification (SRS).• Collaborated with business SMEs/analysts to develop and finalize test plans, scripts, and use cases.• Participated in unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, stress testing, and code inspection reviews to ensure alignment with business requirements.• Ensured cross-system impacts were analyzed in meetings involving business and sales teams.• Generated reports using SQL queries in SQL Developer to track sales and company growth for business use.• Implemented Agile methodology for application development, including various workflows, artifacts, and activities.• Produced ad-hoc reports as requested by business stakeholders.• Worked closely with the development team to ensure enhancements and changes were built according to business requirements.