RBC Borealis

Director, Data Platform Operations

Slalom

Leadership and oversight of Technology Implementation and Strategy Programs for key regional customers, including:
Data Strategy & Roadmap, Data Governance and Quality, Master Data Management, AI/GEN AI, Self-Service Enablement, Data Platform & Engineering, Data Migration Roadmap and Execution.
Technology Strategy and Modern Work.
CDO and CDAO Strategic Advisory

Client Partner - Strategy, Technology & Data

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL)

•	Leadership and oversight of the data operations team with the mission of efficiently managing and bringing value of our data (DG by design)
•	Led the creation and roll out of the Data Stewardship Practice (Business Case, Roadmap, Framework, Operating Model, Job Definition, Recruitment, Onboarding and Deployment across different Business Lines).
•	Led the definition of a data issues management and monitoring framework to improve data observability, accessibility & usage and reduce data related risks.
•	Led the Metadata Management strategy and roadmap, evaluating different vendor capabilities and aligning it with internal use cases and corporate strategy.

Senior Manager, Data Operations and Governance

•	Managed a cross-functional team of permanent and temporary employees in 5 different locations across Canada, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders. Areas of expertise included: Data Governance, Data Management, Robotic Process Automation and Analytics CoE.
•	Co-lead the Corporate Data Program, defining the business case and roadmap for 2023-2025 Corporate Data Initiatives, while leading the execution of the 2022 business case (Master Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Corporate Information Governance Policy, Data Stewardship)
•	Designed and started the operationalization of a new operating model for Data Governance and Stewardship.
•	Led the launched of RFPs and vendor selection process for Data Governance and Management technology and the implementation of it.

Acting Director, Corp. Data Governance and Intelligent Automation

Advisor, Data Governance and Information Management

•	Responsible for the definition and operationalization of the service offering for the data governance and quality practice, setting up roles & responsibilities, deliverables, roadmap, and partnership with business and technology teams (security, compliance, legal, architecture and data analytics).
•	 Led the implementation of the enterprise data management platform (Informatica data governance Axon, catalog EDC and quality management IDQ) including the migration of the IBM business glossary to Informatica Axon.  
•	Worked with the business units to define their requirements for compliance, accessibility and trust in data, and onboard data stewards into a federated DG framework.
•	Participated on the vendor assessment for a masking tool as part of our data privacy program implementation; and a vendor assessment for scaling up the capacity of our data governance and management team.

Manager, Data Governance and Quality

Working on the implementation of a data management framework at CN, making use of the Informatica Platform (Data Quality, Governance, Cataloging and others)

Lead Expert Data Quality and Governance

•	Responsible for the implementation and management of the data quality practice, defining processes, roles and deliverables for data quality management, using Informatica DQ, in the context of a project and enterprise.
•	Led the DQ stream in the implementation of Informatica MDM & DQ as well as participating in the SOW for Informatica data management platform, supporting the use cases definition and functional/technical integration of Inf. tools.

Manager, Data Quality Management

Deloitte Canada

Led the implementation of Informatica MDM, IDD, IDQ for the customer 360 project of a retail Canadian company, following an agile approach.
Responsible for validating the solution with the client, leading requirements workshops, demos and coordinating the integration with other project teams (Initial load and real time integration).

Senior Consultant, Analytics and Information Management

Consultant, Deloitte Digital

Manulife

Information Systems Project and Team  Lead

Digital Delivery Service & Technology Partnership (IT Strategy)

Senior IT Business Analyst

Collected and analyzed client business requirements for the design and planning phase of the new core lending system at the Development Bank of Canada (BDC Efficiency & Agility Project); and the implementation phase of Rogers Retail Customer Website

IT Business Analyst Consultant, Telecommunications and Financial Services

Momentum technologies

Analyzed and implemented changes to HR applications of the “Québec Colleges Information Resources Society” in order to ensure taxation compliance; and executed user acceptance testing for the ERP Migration at McGill University.

IT Analyst Consultant, Oracle Applications

Brink’s Inc

- Created a technology and change management strategy for the national and local courier offices integration, which included business process redesign and systems health assessment. 
- Performed vendor assessment for industry software (Courier Operations Management).
- Led the design and implementation of continous improvement initiatives on the courier applications portfolio.

Systems Analyst

Nextel del Perú S.A.

Systems Analyst, Financial and Sales Applications

Programmer Analyst, Financial Applications

Data and analytics leader with 20 + years experience in information technology, combining consulting, industry and government experience. Strong record defining the strategy and leading the execution of digital and data transformation programs.

Digital Transformation | Data Management | Data Governance and Compliance | Data Platforms | Data Engineering | Data Analytics | Data Strategy | Data Architecture | Data Warehousing | Data Integration | Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

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