SUMMARY

• Expert advisor on strategic, innovative approaches to leverage key information assets, improve organizational data fundamentals and propose vision and investment strategies to deliver next - gen solutions that support operations, planning, more authoritative and valuable analytics, and support for regulatory compliance. In practical terms, that means putting personnel, policies, procedures, and organizational structures in place to make information accurate, consistent, secure, and available to accomplish target organization’s mission.
• Over 20 years Data Integration, Data Governance and Data Security strategy and implementation practice. Extensive progressive experience in informatics, information management, data mining, data management, data stewardship, data quality management, data privacy, data cataloguing and access, metadata management, master data management, data architecture, business analysis, business intelligence, business process management, continuous improvement, Six Sigma, Program/ Project Management.
• Hands on leadership, deployment and operations of big data initiatives leveraging emerging technologies and concepts such as data lakes and cloud computing; and various data management and governance technologies.
• Experience leading and driving the Strategy, Design, Architecture and adoption of structured and unstructured data through a set of product-centric system development initiatives.
• Expertise in product-based engineering strategy and information systems investment Governance Interact with business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements, business process, challenges and expectations
• Working exposure to implementation compliance of various legislative and regulatory frameworks including Sarbanes Oxley Act, Basel II and III, Insurance Solvency, Dodd Frank, AML (Anti Money Laundering), HITECH Ac, HIPPA and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) various European and international standards
• Extensive experience building highly capable and dynamic IT teams. Budget/resource definition, management and team empowerment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Major Data Management Systems, SAP EIM, SAP MDG, Collibra, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft, IBM Info sphere, CA Clarity Erwin, Advanced. Microsoft DW/Business Intelligence platform tools (SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS including MDX Scripts), Teradata, Informatica, Informatica TDM, Data and apps Integration Technologies, ETL/ELT, data visualization solutions: Tableau, MicroStrategy, Big Data Management - Hadoop: Hortonworks, MapR and Cloudera (Hive)., Hands-on expertise in various technologies like Map reduce, Ambari/Yarn/Zookeeper, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Scala, Flume, Sqoop, HBase HCatalog, NoSQL, HiveQL, Windows, UNIX, Linux, CISCO, Java, C, C++, Perl, Python, shell, SQL, Information Rights Movement (IRM encryption), Data Loss Prevention, cryptography, mobile data device security, network and application architecture. SAP EIM, S/4HANA solutions, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG, MDM), Data integration to cloud based applications, Data integration for analytics or Big Data applications, Understanding of SAP HEC, Good foundation in Data Science.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Principal Information Management and Data Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Key advisor on strategic, innovative approaches to leverage key data assets, improve organizational data fundamentals and propose vision and investment strategies to deliver next-gen solutions that support more authoritative and valuable analytics, and support for regulatory compliance.,
• Currently managing a portfolio of enterprise projects and teams responsible for Strategic Information and Data Management initiatives; Data Governance, Data Privacy, Data Quality Enterprise data cataloguing, business glossary generation and accessibility, Master Data Management (MDM), Big Data (for Business Intelligence, Analytics and Predictive Modelling) and cloud migration strategy, leveraging Collibra, Informatica SAP/IBM/Oracle/Microsoft Data Management Stack, Hadoop: Hortonworks, MapR and Cloudera (Hive).
• Spearhead multiple enterprise information technology projects and lead teams driving enterprise strategies and plans that define how information technology should be utilized to support their overall business strategy. Applying knowledge of standards and best practices to define governance, organization structure and staffing, architecture and processes for managing portfolios of projects at the Corporate and Business Unit/Divisional levels. By developing and applying evolving trends in technology (e.g., Cloud, Mobility, Big Data, Analytics, Social Media, Cyber Security), to define opportunities to deliver new business capabilities, profitable business growth and competitive cost efficiencies. Monitored and report progress on implementation of GDPR readiness and compliance standards across various UN Agencies globally.
• Helping the organisations keep abreast of contemporary concepts in Digital / Data Management strategy and applying them to develop innovative business transformation plans and roadmaps.

Confidential, New York

Chief Data Security/Architecture and Governance Officer

Responsibilities:

• The Confidential has an extensive collection of billions of historical records created since its inception over 50 years ago. The records have been digitized, indexed and put online over the past 40 years. These digital records and documents, combined with proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled the organisation to incrementally create and organise billions of raw, geographic, economic, health, nutrition, population and social data daily in both structured and unstructured formats to facilitate meaningful discoveries and provide reasonable preparedness to combat emergencies such political instability, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, diseases etc
• The Confidential Headquarters" in New York is an exciting, fast-paced organization whose business intelligence and data service needs extend across a best-in-class application portfolio fuelled by organic and inorganic growth across the globe mostly dictated by economic, socio-political, humanitarian, health and nutrition imperatives.
• Responsible for Designing and Implementing Global Data Management Capabilities: Quality, Governance, End to End Data management tooling, Records Management and Data Strategy across the Enterprise. Direct and Matrix staff in Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and South America. Developing the program through focused Business value and associated measurable business outcomes. Global implementation of Data Policy (including SDLC). Build out of Business level Data Quality assessments/measurements on a Critical Business process feeding an Enterprise level construct. Additional supporting components include GDPR compliance, Regulatory Compliance program support, Data Management Tooling and Data Issues Management practices, and oversight. 6 direct reports 22 FTEs, 20 offshore contractors and vendors approximately $15 million annually.
• Shephard the establishment of the UN Data Management Centre from ground up. The DMC was established with the following 3 pillars:
• Participated in and supported the Data Governance Council, its vision and direction. Developed data governance policies and standards Translating strategy and vision around data and Data Governance into organization wide target data architecture and creating a long-term roadmap for implementation. Providing expert advice for Data Owners in defining and establishing data definitions and data quality rules in line with policies and standards.
• Set the framework for developing and formalizing the "know your data” culture including formal governance forums, data certification and attestation processes. The team also captures, challenges, and tests the control framework of the UN globally in particular through a risk-based data trace program.
• Determined the data strategy for the platform with the objective of identifying and adopting golden sources, capturing and maintaining data glossaries and dictionaries, business and functional lineage from source to output as well as managing referential data
• Successfully built a decision support platform which integrates data from within the Confidential, member states and many external sources in support of the UN General Assembly, Security Council and various UN programmes, enabling fast and accurate complex multidimensional reporting, population analysis, simulations and forecasting for health, nutrition, humanitarian, security, peacekeeping/peacebuilding, emergency preparedness,
• Established a framework to assess and report on the quality of the data used for reporting purposes and an effective remediation team
• Established and instituted organization's first enterprise/global, data governance and Metadata management program including a fully effective; executive, domain and regional stewardship structure global structure
• Established global enterprise data governance maturity program for parliamentary debates, resolutions and outcomes of conferences and related budgetary implications, financial, logistics and human resources management processes and performance. Significantly elevated data governance and management capability and maturity via implementation of industry recognized maturity models. Resulted in measurable data governance maturity enhancement and greater reliability of the analytics that underscore the Secretary General’s reports and understanding of the value of the United Nation’s internal data assets and best practices supporting them.
• Significantly enhanced data stewardship organizational maturity and engagement model within business and IT, ensuring stewards lead where needed, are involved in projects at the right times, in the right places and produce the needed artefacts.
• Formalised processes for certification of the Secretary Generals Reports including business traceability and data linage across the UN and with external providers.
• Built from ground up corporate and substantive program data catalogs to facilitate effective data access and analytics including new approaches for big data ingestion and governance.
• Championed implementation of the Confidential ’ Data Management program for defining the business taxonomy, capturing the landscape of data assets, relationships, dependencies, RACIs and implementation of standardized data governance workflows.
• Established cross-functional collaboration with other enterprise control functions to ensure data is properly managed across the entire data eco-system (Risk, Compliance; Information Security Services, Privacy)
• Oversaw the initial development and improvement of the UN pensions Funds Master data and integration with the UN s Financial Managements System, and the interrelated data governance mechanism and artefacts
• Oversaw the implementations of data privacy policy and compliance for the Confidential generally, specific to location (country) and international regulations.
• Enhanced middle office data quality reporting and metrics program
• Successfully reengineered the global data infrastructure. Enhanced reliability and availability of data across the organization
• Built an MDM architecture that helped transition the organisation to a regionally branded, locally executed, mandate -centric operational model for over 90 different counties. A multi domain, coexistent operational and analytical MDM.
• Obtained key data sources previously unattainable from Member States, NGOs and UN Agencies and subsidiaries to support a comprehensive global risk management program in the wake of various global security and humanitarian crises specifically in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
• Provided hands on technical leadership as architect, lead data modeller and integrator utilising various platforms.

Confidential

Chief Information and Communications Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• The Confidential Office at Nairobi (UNON) is the UN headquarters in Africa and the representative office of the Secretary-General.
• I directed over 110-person cross-functional global team located in 40 countries with $35MM annual opex, budget. Created and implemented the information and communications technology strategy, policies, and standards, oversaw governance bodies, and implemented multi-year global information management and access control strategy for staff and member states. Drove platform excellence, global finance, HR and logistics system improvement, and data governance, data quality and data management strategy, with broad responsibilities for:
• ERP- for global Administrative and logistics operations and general corporate support systems. Improved on time delivery of the ERP system unblocking the growth of the substantive operations and programs. Developed and launched 33 workflow applications to establish offices.
• Enterprise Data Warehousing team - manage the largest Geo-Spatial Data Warehouse on the continent and own over 60 tier one databases in support of the Confidential environment, sustainability, climate change and human settlements programs globally. Advanced and implemented multimillion dollar environmental and human settlements data acquisition, integration and analytics initiative to support global climate change and human settlements policy initiatives.
• The Information Technology and platform excellence teams - own areas such as personal computing, connectivity, unified communications, collaboration, and security. Upgraded/launched/retrofitted the UN Campus LAN with a brand-new network based on CISCO and two live data centres the extended its WAN to over 20 countries including the highly complex connectivity in Africa and Middle East.

Confidential, New York

Senior Information Systems Officer (Database Management Systems)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development, implementation and maintenance of the Confidential enterprise database management systems located in various sites around the world, plan and configure the database environments, perform installation and maintenance of database management systems, perform problem diagnosis and determine resolution for application and system software;
• Measure DB system performance and tune where applicable; Coordinate and provide support to application programmers, system programmers, users and operation staff; Develop and maintain standards and procedures for the DB environments;
• Maintain consistency across all DB environments; Manage replication of database applications between locations and ensure consistency between locations;
• Ensure user access data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, space requirements for the physical databases are met;
• Consult with application developers in designing security methodologies. Various database systems including oracle, MS SQL, IBM dBase and Sybase; running on UNIX, Linux and Windows.
• Participated as a senior coordinator in the subject areas of Budget and Finance, Human Resources Management and Support Services, and management analytics recording software and procedural problems and enhancement requests, breaking them down into distinct and measurable steps, articulating their eventual solution, determining availability of resources, proposing schedule of solution, performing testing procedures and adjusting corresponding documentation.
• Responsibilities include analysing computer systems to determine the effectiveness of their processing methods and procedures, recommending implementation, enhancements, and operational policy guidelines, as well as establishing and maintaining data security, including data backup/recovery, and disaster planning. Project management and scope consulting, resource coordination, capacity planning and supervision of technical staff.

Confidential

Database Management Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Scope consulting and advanced technology planning. Systematic modelling, development, operation, maintenance and retirement of corporate software and databases. Identifying and defining business and IT solutions to achieve strategic goals, and continuous business process improvement.
• Successfully delivering full cycle management reporting systems projects. Coordinated all actions required for the maintenance and development of various reporting systems and databases. Identification of functional problems and recommendation of changes; analysing business processes and preparing technical design enhancements.
• Developed and streamlined automated transactional and regular batch processes. Built heterogeneous data retrieval for strategic and operations management reporting, ensuring consistency of data, and initiating corrective actions where necessary.
• Was also responsible for the integration of ERP reporting modules with other legacy information systems, as well as training senior staff in ERP utilization, and preparation of related desk procedures.
• Continuously called upon to act as consultant to Architects, developers, designers and end users of large enterprise databases. Consulting varied from developing training curriculum and teaching the curriculum. Building ad hoc SQL as well as packaged queries for decision support systems. Applications programming, software and data modelling, database design, Metadata development and repository implementation for data warehousing, capacity planning and drafting service and operations level agreements. Integration (and migration) of Oracle, Sybase and MS SQL databases. Systems/Business process analysis and design, hardware and software evaluation. And analysis and resolution of complex database management systems issues.
• Project manager for the creation, development and successful launch of the Australian Property Councils Inaugural Metadata and business glossary to support and enable standardized property and real estate valuations.