Data Governance Manager

Vaishnavi Rao

*** ** *** ** *** ***, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301 • 919-***-**** • ****************@*****.***

» Professional Summary: Data management professional with 11+ years of experience in the federal and commercial sectors with a proven track record of successfully developing and implementing comprehensive data governance frameworks for clients. Skilled in collaborating with cross functional teams to define and document data governance requirements, resulting in increased privacy compliance and data quality. Experienced in large scale data management platform implementation (i.e. Collibra) through the creation of data and risk management strategies, and stakeholder engagement. Experienced in establishing training programs and metrics to drive transparency and accountability in enterprise-wide data management practices.

» Education

The George Washington University – Master of Public Health (MPH), Prevention and Community Health 2011-2013 East Carolina University – Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology 2007-2011

» Skills

Data Governance/Data Management: Collibra Data Governance & Management, Business Glossary/Data Catalog Management, Informatica MDM, SharePoint, Operating Model Implementation, Data Maturity Assessment, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Framework, Databricks Lakehouse Project Management: JIRA Project Management, Agile Framework, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Office 365 (MS Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Access)

» Certifications/Clearance(s)

Certification(s): Collibra Expert Level I & II (2020), Collibra Data Steward (2022), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Clearance: Public Trust (Active)

» Professional Experience

Data Governance Manager- Intellibridge November 2022-Present

Develop a data strategy for the Office of Chief Data Officer based on federal data policies and guidelines to identify business drivers, current data challenges, and establish harmonized privacy and regulatory compliance.

Engage data owners and stewards in conducting an enterprise-wide data maturity assessment through the identification of KPIs such as data quality metrics, data literacy, and data security to baseline current data capabilities and identify gaps.

Collaborate with IT teams to implement the Collibra data governance tool by documenting business and technical requirements to maintain metadata assets in the Collibra business glossary and data dictionary.

Work with data stewards and SMEs to create RACI matrices to identify governance stewardship roles and establish ownership and accountability of data and metadata assets within the Collibra ecosystem.

Assist business users in the creation of domain and community hierarchies within Collibra to support platform adoption, and identify data quality and privacy measures to reduce unauthorized data access.

Design an end-to-end operating model to define key data management priorities, create data workflows to track data quality and lineage, and identify key data governance leads and stakeholders.

Communicate data governance requirements such as access control policies and regulatory compliance with data privacy leads to ensure the proper handling of sensitive client data. Data Management Lead- Guidehouse December 2020 - November 2022

Established the setup and configuration of a central data management tool (Collibra) to define and capture metadata, track data lineage, and identify business rules, and transformation logic as part of the data strategy for the firm’s Enterprise Data Management Initiative.

Setup Collibra communities, domains, attributes, custom dashboards, and charted workflow initiations for each Collibra domain specific requirement.

Led key stakeholder engagement sessions with SME’s and data owners to standardize metadata attributes and metrics through establishing clear stewardship of data assets within Collibra.

Maintained the business glossary and data dictionary in Collibra containing over 3,500+ metadata assets by standardizing definitions as part of a common business ontology, to maintain data consistency across the firm.

Documented an end-to-end operating model outlining stewardship roles, hierarchies within Collibra, and defined policies for maintaining the data catalog and business glossary in Collibra. Senior Consultant- KPMG US July 2019 - December 2020

Assisted Bayer Pharmaceutical clients with conducting a global oncology data needs assessment through the identification of cross-functional data needs to leverage data in the development, marketing, and sales of oncology drugs.

Conducted data gathering sessions with Bayer stakeholders to document their market strategies to analyze how data assets can be leveraged to improve data competency, literacy, and operational data offerings.

Created a data strategy recommendations report detailing industry benchmarks and best practices to inform data management and marketing strategies required to compete in the global oncology marketplace.

Assisted National Science Foundation (NSF) clients with conducting an enterprise-wide data maturity assessment to baseline existing practices and gaps in data capabilities to inform data governance, privacy, and resourcing decision-making within the organization. Data Curator- ICF Consulting Group November 2016- July 2019

Collaborated with NIH clients to develop a common data elements (CDE) repository housing standardized questionnaire forms used across different NIH sites, studies, and clinical trials that ensure consistent data collection practices across the agency.

Developed user implementation guides for the submission of common data elements to the CDE repository including documented evidence of reliable, accessible, and standardized vocabularies across all NIH divisions.

Utilized project management tools such as JIRA, MS Project, and Scrum methodology to manage project plans, and performed root cause analysis to identify gaps and recommended solutions for data standardization across NIH agencies.

Healthcare IT Analyst – Enterprise Science and Computing (ESAC), Inc. June 2013- November 2016

Collaborated with clients to document policies and identify HL7 FHIR standards for the adoption of the CMS Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD) interoperability system to help clients establish implementation processes.

Assisted clients on the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative through the optimization of portal development resources & content management systems to create dynamic research tools for the NIH biomedical community (i.e., NIH data sharing policy guidelines, widely used standards use cases).

Identified 850+ healthcare standards widely used by the biomedical research community based on NIH research requirements and protocols.

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