SUMMARY:
* Accomplished transformative thought leader and advisory consultant for executive/senior leaders of global organizations in IT, data, digital, AI, & analytics.
* Extensive consulting expertise in varying leadership capacities in standing-up these capabilities with strategy, enablement, architecture & governance, identifying growth opportunities and resolving pain-points while reducing data & technology debt.
STRATEGY:
* Masterful in understanding the business strategy, its competitive marketplace, and customer & product lifecycles to formulate a value-aligned strategic data vision to provide intelligent products, smarter services, and monetization.
* Further skilled in leveraging data to evolve from a business-informed data strategy to a data-driven business strategy with competitive market advantage.
ARCHITECTURE:
* Well-versed with enterprise architecture & governance across business, data, application, integration, and technology. Deep expertise across the breadth of data & information architecture, design & integration and governing through Architecture Review Boards.
BUSINESS EFFICIENCY:
* Effective with business capabilities & component model, data domains & products/insights, BPM vs process intelligence, automation (RPA/IA/APA), business controls & accountabilities, and decision intelligence & outcomes for holistic optimization & efficiency.
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS:
* Experienced in taxonomies, ontologies, semantics, knowledge graphs for contextualization & decision-engineering. Also, in managing glossaries/vocabularies mapped to persisted data, processes, policies etc., and data & AI literacy across roles & maturity levels.
DATA, DIGITAL, AI & ANALYTICS GOVERNANCE:
* Deep expertise in active meta/data cataloging & intelligence, data lineage & impact analysis, integration & interoperability, data quality & assurance, data policies, privacy & security compliance, data risk management, data stewardship and data governance councils.
* Further expertise in implementing both top-down steward-driven operational and bottom-up crowd-sourced analytical data governance in centralized or federated approaches. Recent experience in responsible/ethical AI governance of models & agents.
DATA, DIGITAL, AI & ANALYTICS ENABLEMENT:
* Deep expertise in master (all core global Master models – party, product, place, & concepts), transactional (Industry standardized), and derived (BI, Analytics, & Regulatory) data domains, data acquisition, storage, & provisioning strategy, and stewardship in provisioning governed, trusted, fit-for-purpose data, products and insights.
* Data unification expertise of structured & unstructured data, internal & external data, and knowledge products enabling data, digital, analytics & AI use cases.
DATA PLATFORM:
* Expertise in architecting & engineering enterprise-wide operational data stores & hubs, data warehouses & dimensional marts, data lakes with raw, discovery, & consumption zones, and respective near/real-time & micro/batch pipelines & observability across platforms.
* Strong experience in applications database design, modeling, query optimization and performance management across all modalities. Also experienced in building multi-tier service-oriented (SOA), micro-services, message & event-driven and API enabled architectures.
AI & AUTOMATION:
* Experience with process automation tools increasing speed & efficiency while reducing human efforts & errors.
* Recently leveraging GenAI for (multi) agentic use cases with evolving functionalities of: Action, Reason, Memory, self-learning and digital-twins.
INFORMATION SECURITY:
* Good knowledge of the older 7-tier data security and modern Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) fabric including identity governance (IAM/PAM), data protection & loss prevention (DP/DLP), security classification/tagging & posture management (DSPM), audit & log management (SIEM), and threat response (SOAR) support.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:
* Experienced in leading team of teams of all sizes/types (matrix/off-shore) with clearly defined accountabilities & deliverables.
