I am a Senior Director Analyst in the Gartner for Technical Professionals Data Management Team. I am passionate about transforming how organizations harness the power of their data through strategic data governance implementation, scalable data management and metadata management architectures, and data quality and observability initiatives that produce insight for effective use of data.
Previously, I was the Deputy Chief Data Officer at the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where I implemented strategic data policies and processes, metadata and master data management, data quality initiatives and data profiling, and the strategic creation of data products to support a business glossary, data inventory, data literacy, and data stewardship program. Before FEMA, I was a data management consultant at Dun & Bradstreet working with federal government agencies to implement structured relational databases and data quality and monitoring programs. Prior to Dun & Bradstreet I worked at small boutique consulting firms implementing machine learning and predictive analytics modeling and monitoring and evaluation in economic development government agencies and international organizations.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Deputy CDO, 4 years
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Field Analytics Branch Chief, 4 years
Dun & Bradstreet, Director, 3 years
Summit Consulting, Predictive Modeling Consultant, 3 years
ITAD , Development Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, 1 years
Data Management for Technical Professionals
Implement AI-Ready Data Management, Governance and Quality Frameworks to Enable AI Applications
Masters of Science in Development Economics, University of Sussex, Brighton England
Bachelors of Arts in Economics, Villanova University, Villanova, PA USA
Implement Data Strategy
Develop and Manage Data Quality Programs
Maintain Metadata and Data Catalog
Implement Data Governance Framework